Edge-Enabled 6G Networking Foundations, Technologies, and Applications

Tamoghna Ojha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computing, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad where he leads the Computing for Secure and Intelligent Networks (COSINE) lab. He received MS (2014) and PhD (2021) in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur. During 2021-2023, he was an ERCIM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the National Research Council (CNR), Italy and a research consultant at Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Md Muzakkir Hussain is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, AP, India. His research interests include resource allocation in IoT networks and Vehicular fog computing.

Samaresh Bera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Jammu. Before that, he was a C.V. Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India. He obtained my PhD and MS degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. His research interests include software-defined networks, network function virtualization, network security, and 5G network slicing. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Nurzaman Ahmed is an Engineering Research Scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Before joining Danforth, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Dartmouth College. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University, India, in 2020. His current research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networks (SDN), and WiFi-based long-distance networks. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Sudip Misra is the INAE Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things. Professor Misra has published over 550 scholarly research papers and 12 books. Formerly, he was the INAE Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellow. He was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, California, USA. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur), Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the Doctoral level at Carleton University, the National Academy of Sciences, India – Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award), Samsung Innovation Awards-2014 at IIT Kharagpur, IETE-Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award-2014, and the Careers360 Outstanding Faculty Award in Computer Science for the year 2018 from the Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) of India. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, British Computer Society (BCS), UK, Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), UK, and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (IETE), India. Professor Misra was the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society.