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• Call for IEEE Edge, July 7 - 13, 2024, Shenzhen, China, paper submission deadline: March 17, 2024. See here for more details. 

• Call for CCGRID 2024 workshop proposals is out, proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2024. Click here to download. 

• Call for CCGRID 2024 main conference papers is out, abstracts due: November 27, 2024, full papers due: December 4, 2024. Click here to download. 

• [June, 2023]: Amanjot Kaur joined as post-doc at Cardiff University, UK. 

• [July, 2023]: Anil Singh joined as post-doc at Umea University, Sweden. 

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Hello and welcome to my web page. I obtained my B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Poojya Dodappa Appa College of Engineering Gulbarga in 1998 and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati USA in 2005. From 2015, I have been working as an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. From 2010 - 2015, I was an Assistant Professor in the same Department. From 2004 - 2010, I was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Quincy University, USA.  

Research Interests

I work in distributed systems. Currently, our group is exploring scheduling and resource allocation algorithms for fog/edge Computing. We are also investigating real-life applications that can benefit from fog/edge computing. For more details, please visit my research page.

Teaching

Generally, I teach systems courses. Please visit my teaching page for more details on the courses that I am teaching or have taught. 

Service

I am currently serving as an Editor for Wiley's journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE). In 2022, I have served on committees of IEEE CCGriD, IEEE CCNC, IEEE Cloud, IEEE ICCCN, and other conferences, in various roles.  For more details, please visit my service page. 

Administrative positions held at IIT Ropar

• Head, CSE, 2012 - 2015.

• Head, IT, 2012 - 2021.

• Head, CSE, November 2020 - June 2022. 

Academic Visits

• Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2023. 

• Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK, 2011. 

• School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, UK: 2016, 2017, 2022. 

• Department of Computer Science, Binghamton University, USA, 2017. 

Prospective M. Tech., M. S. (Research) & PhD Students

Admission to the graduate program at CSE, IIT Ropar is quite competitive. It is our expectation that a graduate student will produce high quality research and publications in top tier journals and conferences. Emphasis is placed on the quality of the research rather than its quantity or the time duration. Graduate students receive a monthly stipend and have access to hostel, mess and lab facilities. Admission is ONLY though an entrance exam and interview that is usually conducted twice a year - in May and December. Please watch the institute website for further details and application procedure.  

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