CURRICULUM VITAE

Mahasweta Sarkar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182-1308 (619) 594-7797

msarkar2@sdsu.edu http://jason.sdsu.edu/~sarkar

EDUCATION

Institution Years Attended Degree Major Field UC, San Diego 2000-2005 Ph.D. Computer Engineering SDSU 1998-2000 B.S (Summa Cum Laude) Computer Science

RANKS

Institution Rank Department Date

Center for Neurotechnology

Education Co-Director Engineering Research Center (ERC) 5/2017 - Present

SDSU Graduate Advisor Electrical and Computer Engineering 07/2019 - Present

SDSU Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering 08/2019 - Present SDSU Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering 08/ 2011 – 07/2019 SDSU Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering 08/ 2006 – 07/2011

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

Inventions/Patents:

1. U.S. Patent No. 9973269, “Electronic Devices, Systems and Methods for Passive Automated Local Wireless Exchange of Personal and/or Business Information”

Inventors: Mahasweta Sarkar, Christopher Paolini, Santosh Nagaraj Granted on 5/15/2018

2. “Electronic Devices, Systems, and Methods for Real-Time, Location-based Customer-Tailored Remote Advertising”

WO2013096428 A1. Invention disclosure filed on 6/27/2013 Inventors: Christopher Paolini, Mahasweta Sarkar and Santosh Nagaraj

Refereed Journal Articles: I have marked my student’s names in the author list in purple

1. Fall paper in IJITN, to be published in 2020

2. “DIAMOND: A Distributed Algorithm for Vertex Coloring Problems and Resource Allocation”, M. Miri, M.Sarkar, In the Journal of IET Networks, 2019 (accepted) (Impact Factor:2.3)

3. “An Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm based on Vertex Coloring to Mitigate Interference among Coexisting WBANs”, M. Miri, K. Mohamedpour, Y. Darmani, M.Sarkar and L. Tummala in Journal of Computer Networks, Elsevier Publications, vol. 151, pp 132-146, March 2019 (Impact Factor: 2.58)

4. “A Strategy for Live Migration of Virtual Machines In A Cloud Federation”, Sourav Kanti Addya, Anurag

Satpathy, Ashok Kumar Turuk, Bibhudatta Sahoo and Mahasweta Sarkar, IEEE Systems Journal, July 2018, (Impact Factor: 4.337)

5. “Bi-Directional Channel Modeling for Implantable UHF-RFID Transceivers in BCI Applications”, Shams Al Ajrawi, Hayden Bialek, Mahasweta Sarkar, Ramesh Rao, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, volme 88, pgs 683-692, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.03.036, 2018 (Impact Factor: 4.968)

6. “Wireless Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Radio Signals for Implantable Biomedical Devices”, Pragnesh Patel, Mahasweta Sarkar and Santosh Nagaraj, Journal of Health and Technology, Springer Publications, vol.8, issue1-2, pp 97-110, May 2018 (Impact Factor: 1.05)

7. “Artificial Immune System (AIS)-based Location Management Scheme in Mobile Cellular Networks”, Sanjay Biswash, Mahasweta Sarkar, and Dhirendra Kumar Sharma, Iran Journal of Computer Science, Springer Publication (in press), Preprints 2018, 2018050346 (doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0346.v1) (180 downloads till 12/2018)

8. “A Game Theoretic Approach to Estimate Fair Cost of VM Placement in Cloud Data Center” Sourav Kanti Addya, Ashok Kumar Turuk, Bibhudatta Sahoo, Anurag Satpathy, Mahasweta Sarkar, IEEE Systems Journal, volume 99, pp: 1-10, DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2017.2776117, December 2017 (Impact Factor: 4.337)

9. “Simmulated Annealing Based VM Placement Strategy to Maximize the Profit for Cloud Service Providers” Sourav Kanti Addya, Ashok Kumar Turuk, Bibhudatta Sahoo, Mahasweta Sarkar and Sanjay Kumar Biswash, in Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, Elsevier Publications, vol 20, issue 4, pp 1249-1259, doi:10.1109/JSYST.2017.2776117, August 2017 (Impact Factor: 4.04)

10. “Bee System Based Base Station Cooperation Technique for Mobile Cellular Networks”, Sanjay Bishwash, Santosh Nagaraj, Mahasweta Sarkar and Naga Rajesh Narra, Journal of Wireless Personal Communication, Springer, Feb 2017, vol. 92, no. 3, pp 1193-1220 (Impact Factor: 1.2)

11. “A Survey on Ultra-Wideband and Ultrasonic communication for Body Area Networks”, Sandipan Basu, Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj and Suchismita Chinara, International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems, Inderscience Publishers, Volume 3, Issue 3, DOI: 10.1504/IJUWBCS.2016.080171, August 2016 (Impact Factor: 0.75)

12. "Dynamic Cell Reconfiguration Framework for Energy Conservation in Cellular Wireless Networks", Kyuho Son, Ranjini Guruprasad, S. Nagaraj, M. Sarkar, S. Dey, IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol.18, Issue 4, Pgs: 567-579, August 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.93)

13. “BEST-MAC: Bitmap-assisted Efficient and Scalable TDMA based WSN MAC protocol for Smart Cities”, A. N.

Alvi, S. H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, Mahasweta Sarkar, and Houbing Song, IEEE Access Journal, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2515096, electronic ISSN: 2169-3536, pp 312-322, January 2016 (Impact Factor: 3.557)

14. “A Novel Scheme for Energy Efficient Internet of Things based on Wireless Sensor Networks”, Shalli Rani, Rajneesh Talwar, Jyoteesh Malhotra, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Mahasweta Sarkar and Houbing Song, MDPI Journal on Sensors, (ISSN 1424-8220), November 2015 (Impact Factor 3.014)

15. “An Application of Wireless Brain Computer Interface for Drowsiness Detection”, Asis Tripathy, Suchismita Chinara

and Mahasweta Sarkar, Journal of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Elsevier Inc, vol 36, issue 4, pp 276-284, September 2015 (Impact Factor: 1.432)

16. “A Device Centric Communication System for 5G Networks”, Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Santosh Nagaraj, Mahasweta

Sarkar, International Journal of Handheld Computing Research, IGI Global Publications, vol 6, Pg 60-72, September 2015 (Impact Factor: 0.5)

17. “A QoS guaranteeing MAC layer protocol for the "underdog" traffic”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Christopher Paolini,

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking vol 2011, issue 1, October 2011, doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2011-131, (Impact Factor : 2.407)

18. “A Bidding Based Resource Allocation Scheme for WiMAX”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Padmasini Chadramouli, International Journal of Computer and Network Security, Volume 2, Issue No.6, pp 30-40, June 30, 2010 (Impact Factor: 1.5)

19. “Power Management in Wireless AdHoc Networks with Directional Antennas” Mahasweta Sarkar and Ankur Gupta, International Journal of Computer and Network Security, Volume 2, Issue No.6, pp 20-29, June 30, 2010 (Impact Factor: 1.5)

20. “A Packet Scheduling Scheme for enhanced QoS in WiMAX”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Harpreet Sachdeva, IAENG

Transactions on Engineering Technologies, Volume 4, Published by American Institute of Physics, ISBN 978-0-7354-0794-7, pp 13-25, June 2010 (51K downloads)

21. “Enhancing QoS in IEEE 802.16”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Chriayu Nagaraj, IAENG Transactions on Engineering

Technologies, Volume 4, Published by American Institute of Physics, ISBN 978-0-7354-0794-7, pp 56-70, June 2010

22. “Dynamic Management of Quality of Service with Priority for Multimedia Multicasting”, Sunil Kumar, Mehul Vora and Mahasweta Sarkar, International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Inderscience Publishers, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 87-105, 2009 (Impact Factor: 0.39)

23. “A QoS and Power Aware MAC Layer Protocol for Wireless AdHoc Networks”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Sahitya

Borra, Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering - IAENG Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008, (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3555-5), pp 94-104, 2008

24. “An Algorithm to Enhance QoS for Streaming Video over WLANS”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Ramesh Goel, Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering - IAENG Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008, (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3555-5), pp 76-85, 2008

25. “MMMP:A MAC Protocol to Ensure QoS for Multimedia Traffic over Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks”, Sunil Kumar,

Mahasweta Sarkar, Supraja Gurajala and John Matyjas, Journal of Information Processing Systems, Korea Information Processing Society, Volume 4, Number 2, pp 41-52, May 2008

26. “Study of a Power Management Technique and its Impact on the Energy-Delay Tradeoff in a WLAN” Mahasweta Sarkar and Rene. L Cruz. In Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier North Holland Inc., vol. 51, issue 14, pp 4005-4031, October 2007 (Impact Factor: 2.589)

Refereed Book Chapters:

1. “Co-operative Human Centric Sensing Connectivity”, Albena Mihovska and Mahasweta Sarkar, Book chapter in “Internet of Things -Technology, Applications and Standardization”, InTech Open Access Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-78923-549-4, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.70907, Chapter 4, August 2018 (Externally reviewed beyond book editor)

2. “Smart Connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications”, Albena Mikhovska and Mahasweta Sarkar, Book Chapter in New Advances in the Internet of Things, Springer Publication, ISBN 978-3-319-58189-7, Chapter 7, June 2018 (Externally reviewed beyond book editor)

3. “Cyber Physical Systems in Vehicular Communications”, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Amjad Mehmood and Mahasweta Sarkar, Book Chapter in Handbook of Research on Advanced Trends in Microwave and Communication Engineering, Published by IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0773-4.ch015, Chapter 15, May 2016 (Externally reviewed beyond book editor)

4. “Cyber Physical Systems: Basics and Fundamentals”, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Dongkyun Kim and Mahasweta Sarkar, Book Chapter in Cyber-Physical System Design with Sensor Networking Technologies, Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology, ISBN: 9781849198240, DOI: 10.1049/PBCE096E, Chapter 2, November 2015 (Externally reviewed beyond book editor)

5. Cloud Computing : An Overview”, Abhishek Kalapatapu and Mahasweta Sarkar, Book Chapter in “Cloud Computing : Methodology, Systems and Applications”, ISBN# 9781439856419, pp 3-31, Published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, October 2011 (Externally reviewed beyond book editor)

Refereed Proceedings: ALL my conference proceedings are peer reviewed and are published in venues where the acceptance rate is between 15% to 50%.

1. Las Vegas conference, Jan 2020 2. “Optimal Location for Fall Detection Edge Inferencing”, C. Paolini, D. Soselia, H. Baweja and M.Sarkar in IEEE

Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, December 9-12, 2019

3. “Quasi-coherent demodulation of ambient FM signal backscatter”, S. Nagaraj, N.Namala and M.Sarkar in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, December 9-12, 2019

4. “Real-Time Indoor Geolocation Tracking for Assisted Healthcare Facilities”, Paul Bryden, Kinjal Gala, Matthew

Wang, Chris Paolini, Mahasweta Sarkar, Albena Mihovska in IEEE 18th Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS), New York, USA, March 2019

5. “An Experimental Study of a novel MAC protocol using UHF- RFID Passive Backscatter Modulation for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Applications” Harshini Harikrishnan, Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj, Albena Mihovska in IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Sochi, Russia, June 2019

6. “Orthogonal Channelization of Backscattering Tags using Golay Complementary Sequences”, Santosh Nagaraj and Mahasweta Sarkar, in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Kolkata, India, December 2018

7. “Drowsiness detection by analysis of EEG signal with the help of Machine Learning”, Venkata Phanikrishna B, Suchismita Chinara and Mahasweta Sarkar, in 24th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2018), Bangalore, India, September 2018.

8. “A Real Time Power Update Scheme for the Smart Grid Using TVWS”, A. Deshpande, M. Sarkar, H. Adigal, R.

Sabzehgar and M.Rasouli, Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Networking and Cybersecurity for Smart Cities, Los Angeles, California, June 2018

9. “User throughput-based quality of experience evaluation for in flight video streaming”, Bhavesh Hiranandani, Mahasweta Sarkar, Albena Mihovska, Aniruddha Das, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2018

10. “Investigating feasibility of multiple UHF Passive RFID transmitters using backscatter modulation scheme in BCI

applications”, Shams Al Ajrawi, Sidhant Mohanty, Mahasweta Sarkar, Albena Mihovski, Ramesh Rao, Harsimran Baweja, IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Seattle, USA, July 2017

11. “A Comparative Study of MAC Protocols in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Applications”, Jinendar Lalwani Ashok Kumar, Mahasweta Sarkar, Sidhant Mohanty and Syed Hassan Ahmed in 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, Spain, June 2017

12. “Design of 4G LTE Testbed for Implementing Green Cellular Algorithm”, Gaurav Kulkarni, Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj and Syed Hassan Ahmed in 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, Spain, June 2017

13. “Quality of Experience for video streaming: A Contemporary Survey”, Md. Faisal Murad Hossain, Mahasweta Sarkar and Syed Hassan Ahmed in 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, Spain, June 2017

14. “Investigating the feasibility of Multiple UWB Transmitters in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Applications”, Rutul Patel, Pragnesh Patel, J. Lalwani, M.Sarkar, S. Nagaraj in IEEE 13th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), San Francisco, USA, June 2016.

15. “Tracking the Behavior of UWB Transmissions in Invasive BCI Applications”, Pragnesh Patel, Mahasweta Sarkar

and Santosh Nagaraj, IEEE 13th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), San Francisco, California, USA, June 2016

16. “Ultra Wideband channel characterization for invasive biomedical applications”, Pragnesh Patel, Mahasweta Sarkar and Santosh Nagaraj in IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Clearwater Beach, Florida, April 2016

17. “Channel Modelling Based on Statistical Analysis for Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) Applications”, Pragnesh Patel, Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj and Kiran Kushalad, in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS): Student Activities, San Francisco, USA, April 2016

18. “Asynchronous Device Discovery and Rendezvous Protocol for D2D Communication”, Kiran Kushalad, M.Sarkar and P.Patel in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS): Student Activities, San Francisco, USA, April 2016

19. “Design of Sensor Network to Optimize Healthcare Resources”, Manasa Chagantipati, R.Tummala and M.Sarkar, in International Conference on Computers and their Applications, Las Vegas, USA, April 2016

20. “A Hybrid Queuing Model for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Center”, S.K.Addya, Ashok Turuk, B.Sahoo and M.Sarkar, in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Kolkata, India, December 2015

21. “A grouping based radio resource allocation algorithm for multi-carrier LTE-A systems”, Qing Huang, Jianmei Zhou

and M.Sarkar, in IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia (ICWMMN), Beijing, China, November 2015

22. “A Heterogeneous Cellular Communication System for Moving Users: A 5G Prospective”, Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Santosh Nagaraj and Mahasweta Sarkar, Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Wireless Communications Technologies and Software defined Radios (WInnComm),San Diego, March 2015

23. “Bee System-based Energy Efficient Base Station Operation in Mobile Cellular Networks”, Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Santosh Nagaraj and Mahasweta Sarkar, in IEEE ICNC, held in San Diego, February 2015

24. “A Novel Power Allocation Technique for 4G Cellular Networks”, S.Nagaraj and M.Sarkar in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2014

25. "Ultra Wideband Transceiver Design for Compact and Implantable Medical Devices", Faris Rassam, Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj and Kee Moon in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications Systems and Technologies, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, Volume II, pp 759-763, San Francisco, USA, 23-25 October 2013 (Best Paper Award)

26. “An Ad Hoc Broadcast Scheme using the Radio Data System (RDS) in the FM Band”, C.Paolini, C.Aguirre, M. Sarkar, and S. Nagaraj, International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2013 (WCECS 2013), San Francisco, USA, 23-25 October, 2013, (Best Paper Award)

27. “Minimizing Computing Core Costs in Cloud Infrastructures that Host Location Based Advertising Services”, V. K. Ramanna, C. Paolini, M. Sarkar and S.Nagaraj, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2013 (WCECS 2013), San Francisco, USA, 23-25 October, 2013.

28. “A Novel Spectrum Assignment Technique for Interference Mitigation in 4G Heterogeneous Networks”, V. Santhanam, M. Sarkar, S. Nagaraj and C. Paolini, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2013 (WCECS 2013), San Francisco, USA, 23-25 October, 2013. (Best Paper Award)

29. “QoS Aware Dynamic Cell Reconfiguration for Energy Conservation in Cellular Networks”, Kyuho Son, Santosh Nagaraj, Mahasweta Sarkar and Sujit Dey, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC), Shanghai, China, April 2013

30. “Auction Based Resource Allocation in WiMAX”, Sahana Pillappaiah, Mahasweta Sarkar, S.Nagaraj and C.Paolini, Proceedings of 9th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Cagliari, Sardina, Italy, July 2013

31. “Cell Zooming for Power Efficient Base Station Operation”, R.Balasubramaniam, S.Nagaraj, M.Sarkar, P.Khaitan and C.Paolini, Proceedings of 9th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Cagliari, Sardina, Italy, July 2013

32. “A Smart Transmission Scheme for Emergency Data from a network of Bio-Sensors on the Human Body”, AliAbbas Vohra, Mahasweta Sarkar and Gordon Lee, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration (MFI), Hamburg, Germany, September, 2012

33. “Modeling Throughput and Delay in 802.11 Infrastructure Mode Networks with QoS Support from the Point Coordination Function”, Mahasweta Sarkar, Chris Paolini and Santosh Nagaraj, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS), San Francisco, USA, October 2012

34. “On Detecting CTS Duration Attacks using K-means Clustering in WLANS”, V.Rajyaguru, B.R.Tamma, B.S. Manoj

and Mahasweta Sarkar, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, Bangalore, India, December 2012

35. “A SINR Based MAC Layer Protocol for Multi-Channel Ad-Hoc Networks” Mahasweta Sarkar, Santosh Nagaraj and Imran Balsania, Proceedings of the 7th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011

36. “A MAC Layer Protocol for Sensor Networks using Directional Antennas”, Sultan Budhwani, Mahasweta Sarkar and Santosh Nagaraj. IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, Newport Beach, California, USA, June 2010

37. “Channel Selection using Asynchronous Multichannel MAC Protocol for AdHoc Networks”, Jeemil Shah and Mahasweta Sarkar, Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference, Caen, France, July 2010

38. “Adaptive Modulation for Limited Diversity Fading Channels”, Santosh Nagaraj and Mahasweta Sarkar. Proceedings of IEEE VTC-Fall, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2009

39. “A QoS Aware Packet Scheduling Scheme For WIMAX”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Harpreet Sachdeva, Proceedings of IAENG Conference on World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS), Berkeley, California, October 2009

40. “A Packet Scheduling Algorithm To Enhance Quality Of Service in IEEE 802.16”, Chirayu Nagaraj and Mahasweta Sarkar, Proceedings of IAENG Conference on World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS), Berkeley, California, October 2009

41. “A Power Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad hoc Networks that uses Directional Antennas”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Chandrasekhar Poduri, Proceedings of IAENG Conference on World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS), Berkeley, California, October 2009

42. “Evaluating a QoS-supportive MAC layer protocol for WLANs”, Mahasweta Sarkar, Moumita Ray and Pavan Nuggehalli. Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM, San Diego, November 2008

43. “Enhancing QoS of streaming Videos over WLANs”, Ramesh Goel and Mahasweta Sarkar, Proceedings of IAENG WCECS, Berkeley, California, October 2008

44. “A QoS Enabled MAC Protocol for Wireless Adhoc Networks with Power Management”, Mahasweta Sarkar and Sahitya Bora. Proceedings of IAENG WCECS, Berkely, California, October 2008

45. "A Game-theoretic Analysis of QoS in Wireless MAC”, Pavan Nuggehalli, Mahasweta Sarkar, Kishor Kulkarni and Ramesh Rao. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008

46. “MAC Layer Power Efficiency Analysis in a WLAN”, Mahasweta Sarkar, Proceedings of Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS), Pomona, California, April 2008

47. “Dynamic Management of QoS for Multimedia Multicasting” Mahasweta Sarkar, Sunil Kumar and Mehul Vohra Proceedings of IEEE IWCMC, Crete Island Greece, August 2008

48. “A MAC Layer Dynamic Power Management Scheme For Multiple Users in a WLAN,” Mahasweta Sarkar. Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Hong Kong, March 2007

49. “A MAC Protocol to Support QoS for Multimedia Traffic Transmission over AdHoc networks” Mahasweta Sarkar, S. Gurajala and Sunil Kumar. Proceedings of International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2007

50. “A QoS Aware Medium Access Control Protocol for Real Time Traffic in AdHoc Networks”, Mahasweta Sarkar, S. Gurajala and Sunil Kumar. Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Athens, Greece, September 2007

51. “QoS and Selfish Users: A MAC Layer Perspective”, Pavan Nuggehalli, Mahasweta Sarkar, Ramesh Rao. In the Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington D.C, U.S.A, November, 2007

52. "An Adaptive Sleep Algorithm for Efficient Power Management in WLAN,” Mahasweta Sarkar and Rene. L. Cruz. Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Spring, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005

53. "Analysis of Power Management for Energy and Delay Tradeoff in a WLAN," Mahasweta Sarkar and Rene. L Cruz. Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 2004.

Book Reviews:

1. “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach” by Le Lin, Published by McGraw Hills, ISBN-13: 978-0073376240, 2011

2. “Classic Data Structures in C++” by Timothy A. Budd, Published by Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., ISBN-13: 978-0201508895, 2008

Scholarly Awards:

1. Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award, 2014 2. Recipient of the Zahn competition award, March 2012 3. Best Paper Award of International Conference on Communications Systems and Technologies, World

Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013 4. Best Paper Award in IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies, World

Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013 5. Best Paper Award in IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies, World

Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013 6. Recipient of the Lavin competition Award, November 2011 7. Winner at the Student Research Symposium, CSU-SDSU, for research work presented by student Mr. Archit

Bhutani on Low Power Communication protocol for short range broadcast based communication, 2011 8. Recipient of “President’s Leadership Award for Faculty Excellence”, 2010 9. Inclusion in “Who’s Who in America” 2008 - 2018 10. Research assistantship at UCSD: 2001 – 2005. 11. Teaching assistantship at UCSD: 2000 - 2001. 12. Summa Cum Laude – in graduating class with B.S degree in Computer Science, 2000 13. National Dean's List in USA 1998-99. 14. National Scholarship in India: 1991, 1993.

Participation in Professional Associations

1. Member IEEE, 2007-Present 2. Adjunct Faculty, Vellore Institute of Technology, India, 2015-Present 3. Faculty Expert at CalSys Group at CAL(IT)2, UCSD, La Jolla, 2014-Present 4. Domain Expert at CONNECT – a technology and innovation support group of San Diego, 2011-Present

5. Member Zahn Center, SDSU, 2013-Present 6. Adjunct Faculty in Computational Sciences Research Center, SDSU, 2011-Present 7. Member/Researcher, Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, 2012-Present

STUDENT MENTORING:

A. Students Supervised (2006-2018):

Ph.D. student advising:

1. Ms. Shams Al Ajrawi: researching MAC protocols for Brain Computer Interface applications.

Expected date of graduation: 2021

Post-Doctoral Researchers Mentored and Funded:

1. Dr. Kyuho Son (2012-2014) – worked on Cell Zooming Techniques in Cellular Networks

2. Dr. Sanjay Biswas (2013-2015) – working on Energy Efficiency in Cellular Networks

3. Dr. Ramkumar Venkatala (2014) – worked on Brain Computer Interface

International Visiting Ph.D. Students – Jointly Advised these students on their Dissertation

1. Asis Tripathy:

Home University: National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India,

Visiting scholar at SDSU: 2014

Ph.D. Dissertation Area: Development of Application Specific Clustering Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, April

2016

Current Status: Currently Assistant Professor in Vellore Institute of Technology, India

2. Sourav Kanti Addya:

Home University: National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India,

Visiting scholar at SDSU: 2015

Ph.D. Dissertation Area: Cloud Computing, 2018

Current Status: Post-doctoral researcher at IIT, Kharagpur, India

3. Hasan Miri:

Home University: K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Visiting scholar at SDSU: 2016

Ph.D. Dissertation Area: Wireless Body Area Networks/Wireless Health, (in-progress)

Current Status: Ph.D. student at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran. Expected Graduation: 2019

4. Syed Hassan:

Home University: Kyungpook National University, South Korea

Visiting scholar at SDSU: 2016/2017

Ph.D. Dissertation Area: energy efficiency in Cellular Networks, Vehicular Technology, Cloud Computing and BCI, 2018

Current Status: Assistant Professor in the CSE Department at Georgia Southern University)

Note: The years represent their time of visit to my lab at SDSU.

M.S Theses Chaired at SDSU (Students Graduated):

1. Mr. Sandeep Arugonda , “Comparative Study of Neighbor Discovery Scheme using Directional Antennas in an Ad-Hoc Network”, Spring 2008

2. Ms. Sahitya Bora, “A QoS Enabled MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Power Control”, Summer

2008

3. Mr. Chandu Poduri, “An adaptive Power Control Scheme in a Wireless AdHoc Network using Directional Antenna”, October 2008

4. Ms. Moumita Ray, “QoS in 802.11e”, November 2008

5. Mr. Sunil Lakamsani, “A Reservation Based MAC Protocol for Adhoc Networks”, Nov 2008

6. Mr. Harpreet Sachdeva, “A Hybrid Scheduling Scheme for Maximizing Throughput in IEEE 802.16”, April 2009

7. Mr. Jeemil Shah, “A Channel Selection Scheme in a Multi-Channel MAC Protocol in 802.11 Architecture” (February 2010)

8. Ms. Padmasini Chandramouli, “A Bidding based Resource Allocation Scheme in WiMAX” (March 2010)

9. Mr. Chirayu Nagaraj, “A Packet Scheduling Algorithm to Enhance QoS in IEEE 802.16” (March 2010)

10. Ms. Rohitha Vakamudi, “A MAC Layer protocol for the “Underdog” Traffic” (March 2010)

11. Mr. Imran Haider Balsania, “A SINR Based MAC Layer protocol for Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Networks” (4/1/10)

12. Mr. Ankur Gupta, “Power Management in Wireless AdHoc Networks with Directional Antennas” (May 2010)

13. Mr. Sultan Budhwani, “A MAC Layer protocol for Sensor Networks using Directional Antenna” (May 2010)

14. Mr. Vishal Rajyaguru, “Studying Traffic Characteristics in a university wide Ad-Hoc Network Test-bed” April 2010

15. Ms. Darshana Garach: “A Cross Layer Optimization for Power Management in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”,

October, 2010

16. Ms. Dharshana Vijayraghavan: “Performance Analysis for IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Body Area Networks” October, 2010

17. Mr. Abhiram Devineni, “Performance Evaluation of Body Area Network Using Zigbee Protocol” November 2010

18. Mr. Ali Abbas Vohra, “A Priority Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) , March, 2011

19. Mr. Sultan Budhwani, “A MAC Layer protocol for Sensor Networks using Directional Antenna” (March 2011)

20. Mr. Archit Kapoor - “An Efficient Network Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Devices”, April 2012

21. Ms. Swati Kode – “A Relational Interval Tree for Efficient Insertion and Searching of Mobile Transient Data”, May 2012

22. Ms. Ramapriya – “Cell Zooming for Power Efficient Base Station Operation”, May 2012

23. Ms. Chithra Shanmugan – “QoS Fairness for Low Priority Traffic”, May 2012

24. Mr. Abhishek Kalapatapu – “Matching Algorithm And Data Mining Process For Mobile Social Networking

Device”, June 2012

25. Mr. Vikram Santhanam – “Interference Mitigation Techniques in Heterogeneous Networks”, July 2012

26. Ms. Sahana Pillappaiah, “Auction based Resource Allocation in WiMAX”, October 2012

27. Mr. Vikram Ramanna, “Minimizing Computing Core Costs in Cloud Infrastructures that Host Location-Based Advertising Services”, March 2013

28. Mr.Chris Aguirre, “An Ad Hoc Broadcast Scheme using the Radio Data System (RDS) in the FM Band”, May

2013

29. Mr. Faris Rasam: "Ultra Wideband Transceiver Design for Compact and Implantable Medical Devices", 2013

30. Ms. Sangeetha Mani: “Medium access control protocol for FM transceivers in a Local Area Wireless adhoc network”, Fall 2013

31. Ms. Niharika Verma: “Proximity Mapping Sensor application (PMSApp) for Android framework” , Fall 2013

32. Ms. Shobhana Kanakaraj: “Analyzing a novel mobile-to-mobile social networking communication paradigm”,

Fall 2014

33. Mr. Sandipan Basu: “A Comparitive Study on Ultra-Wideband and Ultra-Sonic Technologies for Wireless Body Area Networks and Healthcare”, Graduated in Fall 2015

34. Ms. Manasa Chagantipati: “Technological Challenges in Healthcare”, Graduated in Spring 2016

35. Mr. Kiran Kushalad: “Asynchronous Device Discovery and Rendezvous Protocol for D2D communication in Mobile AdHoc Network”, Graduated in Spring 2016

36. Mr. Pragnesh Patel: “Wireless Channel Modeling of Ultra-Wideband Signals for Brain Computer Interface Applications”, Graduated in December 2016

37. Mr. Gaurav Kulkarni: “Designing a 4G LTE Test bed for implementing and validating Green Cellular Algorithm”, Graduated in April 2017

38. Mr. Sidhant Mohanty: “Ultra-Wide band RFID for Low Power Wireless Signal Transmission in BCI Applications using Back scatter Signaling”, Graduated in June 2017

39. Ms. Apoorva Deshpande, “Efficient power saving channel access mechanism using IEEE 802.11af TV white space (TVWS) spectrum”, Graduated in February 2018

40. Mr. Rutul Patel, “Investigating the Feasibility of Multiple UWB Transmitters in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Applications”, Graduated in May 2018

41. Mr. Bhavesh Hiranandani, “Analyzing and Improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) of an Airborne WiFi

Network”, Graduated in June 2018

M.S Theses Chair at SDSU (Current Students):

42. Mr. Faisal Hossain researching airborne wifi networks with satellite backend

43. Ms. Harshini Harikrishnan researching multiple channel access schemes in implantable BCI

44. Ms. Kinjal Gala researching fall detection and prevention in elderly patient population

45. Mr. Hrishikesh Adigal researching smart grid systems for efficient power usage

46. Mr. Kishore Bharatkumar researching machine learning techniques to predict falls in elderly patients

47. Mr. Scott Spenser using artificial intelligence to shaping time sensitive video traffic over a satellite backhaul

48. Mr. Ved Sharma

49. Mr. Sangram Gaikwad

50. Ms. Aarti Gehani

Special Studies and Master’s Degree Projects Supervised at SDSU (Students Graduated):

1. Ms. Rizwana Anjum, “Sensor Networks”, Spring 2007.

2. Ms. Manjukiran Vishwanath, “MAC Layer Challenges Associated with Directional Antennas”, Spring 2007.

3. Master Degree Project on “Wireless Remote Obesity Management”, (Qualcomm Program), Spring 2012-2013

4. Master Degree Project on “Automated Wireless Medical Reminder Protocol”, (Qualcomm Program) 2014-2015

5. X-Team – a multi-disciplinary team comprising of graduate and undergraduate students of SDSU from different disciplines (Science, Engineering, Business, Arts and Letters) competed in the Qualcomm’s Tricorder XPRIZE challenge. I mentored this team that ranked as one of the top 10 finalists worldwide. (2012 – 2015)

6. Mr. Paul Bryden, “Indoor Geolocation and Fall detection in Elderly Patients”, 2017-2018

Undergraduate/K-12 Research Projects Chaired:

1. Mr. David Martin, “Configuring Spectrum Analyzer for the 4G Heterogeneous Network Lab”, Spring 2009

2. Mr.Rohit Jain, “Reducing Handover in Femto cells”, Summer 2010 (Summer Research Intern from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India)

3. Undergraduate Senior Design Project: “Aquamizer: A Wireless Water Monitoring System”, Fall 2009

4. Undergraduate Senior Design Project: “Wireless Healthcare Integrated Monitoring System”, Fall 2011

5. Mr. Parag Khaitan, “Cell Zooming for Power Efficient Base Station Operation”, Summer 2012 (Summer Research Intern from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India)

6. Mr. Caio Gagliano Vieira, “Simultaneous Wireless Charging of Multiple Electric Vehicles”, Summer 2015 (Brazil

Scientific Mobility Program)

7. Mr. Humberto Machado, “Implantable transceivers to Capture Human ECog Signals”, Summer 2015 (Brazil Scientific Mobility Program)

8. Mr. Hayden Bialek , “ Channel Models for UHF-RFID in BCI Applications, Oregon State University, Summer 2017

9. Young Scholars Program in Neuroengineering in Summer of 2017, Summer 2018.

10. Ms. Sonia, “Indoor Geolocation and Fall detection in Elderly Patients”, Spring 2018

11. Mr. Raffy, “Indoor Geolocation and Fall detection in Elderly Patients”, Spring 2018

12. Mr. Matthew Wang, “Software Application for Smart Phones for Location Tracking”, University of California, Los Angeles, Summer 2018

13. Mr. David Janelidze, “Strategic Placement of LoRa Gateways for the Smart Grid”, SDSU-Georgia, Summer 2018

14. Mr. Davit Soselia, “Machine Learning Techniques for Fall Prediction in Elderly Patient Population”, SDSU-Georgia, Summer 2018

B. Teaching Award: 1. Outstanding Faculty Award, 2014

C. Textbooks and Teaching Aids:

1. Use of Learning Glass Studio to video record my lecture and post them on Blackboard 2. Analytical data on video views by students to detect concepts that need better explanation in class 3. Use of recent journal and conference publications to complement/substitute conventional textbooks

(CompE560/EE660) 4. Extensive use of Black Board to post lecture slides, syllabus, assignments, grades and to collect homework online

through Black Board 5. Use of overhead projector and Power point slides in all classes 6. Created a study-guide of Power point slides that I freely post online for students to use 7. Use of laboratory experiments and projects based on network simulation platforms like OPNET in CompE560

and EE660

D. Curriculum Development/Teaching Innovation

1. Spearheaded the Wireless Multimedia, Communication and Networks lab in the department 2. Designed the course CompE260 : Data Structures and OOP in C++ 3. Introduced relevant everyday problems as programming assignments in CompE260 to perk student interest in an

otherwise theoretical subject area 4. Introduced research-based group projects in CompE560 (Computer Networks) 5. Prepared slide-based study guide in CompE560 6. Restructured the graduate course EE660 by incorporating study of recent technical journal and conference articles 7. Introduced extensive use of Black Board software in class for networking, communication, assignment submission

and grade posting (including displaying highest-lowest-mean-standard deviation in EVERY exam and assignment) for all my courses

8. Established the Wireless Multimedia, Communication and Networks lab in the department SERVICE Service for the Department:

1. 2018-2019, Chair, ECE faculty search committee in area of Artificial Intelligence 2. 2017-2018, Member, ECE faculty search committee in area of Cyber Physical Systems 3. 2016-2017, Member, ECE faculty search committee in area of Internet Of Things 4. 2015-2016, Member, ECE faculty search committee in the area of Smart Health 5. 2015-2016, Member, ECE faculty search committee in the area of Embedded Systems 6. 2015-2016, Member, ECE faculty search committee in the area of Wireless Communications 7. 2014-2015, Member, search committee for ECE Chair position 8. 2013-2014, Member, ECE faculty search committee in the area of power electronics 9. 2013-2014, Member, ECE department Retention, Tenure and Promotion (RTP) committee 10. 2012-2013, Member, ECE department Retention, Tenure and Promotion (RTP) committee 11. 2010-2011, Member, ECE graduate curriculum committee 12. 2008-2009, Member, ECE Faculty search committee in the area of VLSI/Circuits 13. 2007-2008, Member, ECE faculty search committee in the area of Digital Signal Processing 14. 2008 – Present, Member, Computer Engineering Undergrad Curriculum Committee 15. 2006-2007, ECE Faculty Secretary

Service for the College:

1. 2018-2019, Member, search committee for the Dean of College of Engineering 2. 2015-2018, Member, College of Engineering, Scholarship and Awards Committee 3. 2014-2017, Member, College of Engineering, Joint Doctoral Program Steering Committee 4. 2014-2015, Member, College of Engineering, University Grant Program (UGP) Review Committee 5. 2013-2014, Member, search committee for the Dean of College of Engineering 6. 2014, Member, COE search committee for Engineering Research Center (ERC) faculty 7. 2013, Member, COE search committee for Engineering Research Center (ERC) faculty 8. 2012, Member, COE search committee for Engineering Research Center (ERC) faculty 9. 2011-2012, Member, COE, University Grant Program (UGP) Review Committee 10. 2008-2018, Committee member on over 30 Master’s thesis dissertations from the departments of Civil

Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Service for the University:

1. 2019 – Present, Member of DISCO (Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Advisory Committee) 2. 2019-, College Liaison for Diversity and Inclusion Committee 3. 2019-2020, LMS Campus Advisory Board for launching “Canvas” over BlackBoard 4. 2017-2020, Member, University Senate Instructional and Information Technology Committee 5. 2008-2018, Committee member on over 20 Master’s thesis dissertations in the departments of Computer Science 6. 2012 – 2015, Member, SDSU Graduate Studies Council, 2012 – 2015 7. 2014-2015, Member, Department of Computer Science faculty search committee, 2014 8. 2013-2014, Member, SDSU Faculty Hearing Panel, 2013 9. 2010-2012, Representative of College of Engineering at SDSU Senate , 2010-2012 10. 2012-Present, Member (Adjunct Professor), Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), since 2012 11. 2008-2010, Member of Student Affairs Committee (2008-2010) 12. 2008-2010, 2018, Judge at CSU Student Research Symposium (2008, 2009, 2010, 2018)

Service for the Profession:

a) Journal Editor:

Guest Editor of International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2014 (Science Publishing Group, USA) b) International Ph.D. Thesis Reviewer:

IISc (Bangalore, India), 2015, 2017 COMSTAT (Islamabad, Pakistan), 2016, 2017 Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (Bangalore, India) 2017, 2018

c) Conference Organization:

Technical Program Committee, Co-Chair, 8th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth 2018), June 25, 2018, Los Angeles, USA

Co-Chair on the Track, “Networking solutions for Games, Multimedia, Social Good, and P2P apps”, in 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), October 2016

Track Chair, ACM MobiMWare HM, July 2016 (held in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc) Vice Chair of TPC at IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015 Co-Chair on the Track “Internet of Things” for the IEEE conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent

Computational Systems (RAICS), held in Kerala India on December 19-21, 2013 Co-Chair (Student Volunteers) for the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS

2013), held on May 20-24, in San Diego, CA, USA Chair, Session at IWCMC, 2013 Chair, Session at IEEE WCNC, Shanghai, China 2013 Chair, Session at IWCMC, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011 Chair, Session at IEEE PIMRC, Athens, Greece, 2007 Chair, Session at IEEE INFOCOM, Arizona, USA, 2008

d) Conference Technical Program Committee:

IEE ICCT Conference Technical Committee member, 2018 8th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Healthcare, June 2018, Los Angeles, Workshop Co-Chair Workshop Co-Chair (Suchismita Conference), 2018 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, IAENG, San Francisco, CA, USA 2007 2007 - 2010 IEEE Industrial Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Chengdu, China, 2008 IEEE Sensor networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing, SUTC 2009, 2010 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, (PIMRC), Tokyo,

Japan, 2009 IEEE Sensor networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), Newport Beach, CA, USA, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena, Italy, 2010 IEANG World Congress on Engineering, 2009-2012; IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems, Kerala, India, 2013, Cloud Security Alliance Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA, 2013,

e) Reviewer:

Book Reviews:

(i) “An Active Learning Approach to Data Structures using C” by Timothy A. Budd (ii) “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach” by Le Lin, Published by McGraw Hills, March 2011

NSF Review Panels:

Computer Networks System – NeTS Medium, February 2018 Computer Networks System – CAREER Panel 2011 Computer Networks System – CAREER Panel 2012 Cyber Physical Systems (Medium) 2011 Computing and Computation Foundations (CCF) - Networks Operation Center (NOC) -2011 Computer Networks System – EARS – 2012 Computer Networks System – CRI – 2012 Computer Networks System – Small - 2012

California State University (CSU) Degree Program Proposal Review:

On the CSU review panel to evaluate proposals from CSU Northbridge and CSU Fullerton for a MS program in Computer Engineering (March 2013)

Journal Review:

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks

Conference Review:

ICIT 2008, SUTC 2009, PIMRC 2009; ISWPC 2010; WCECS 2007, 2008,2009,2010; IEEE SUTC 2010, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, 2010, 2012; IEEE WCNC 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; IEEE MSWiM 2014; MILCOM 2008-2014, IWCMC 2008-2014; IEANG 2009-2012; RAICS 2013, CSA 2013, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, 2015,

Service for the Community:

a) Invited Talks/Keynote Speeches:

1. “Brain Computer Interface – Challenges and Future Work”, Vellore Institute of Technology, India, Invited Guest Lecture, 1st April 2019

2. “The Future of Neuro-Engineering”, La Costa Canyon Career Compass Event, Carlsbad, USA, March 2018

3. “Quality of Experience vs Quality of Service on Airborne Wi-Fi Services”, Viasat Inc, 2017

4. “Brain Computer Interface”, Discovery Slam, San Diego State University, 2017

5. “Future of Wireless Health”, San Diego Super Computer Center, 2016

6. “Transceiver Choices for Implanatable Bio Medical Devices”, 2014 Delivered at the BioEngineering meet organized by organization “Wireless Health”, LaJolla, CA 7. “Impact of Wireless Technology in Medical and Social Life”, 2013

Delivered at the PI Lecture Series organized by the SDSU Research Foundation 8. “Women in Engineering – Technology Drivers in the 21st Century”

Delivered keynote speech at Lockheed Martin, Women in Engineering Day, San Diego, 2013 9. “Health Management through Wireless Technology”, 2011

Delivered at the inauguration of the Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) project at CAL(IT)2 headed by Dr. Kevin Patrick

10. “Future Data Networks”, 2011

Delivered at the CalSysNet research group, CAL(IT)2, UC-San Diego, La Jolla, headed by Dr. B.S Manoj

11. “Impact of Wireless Technology on Life Sciences and Social Sciences”, 2010 Delivered keynote speech at Encuentro Regional Academico (ERA), CITEDI, Mexico

12. “Impact of Wireless Technologies on Health, Life and Social Sciences” 2010 Delivered at the Cyber Infrastructure Group at Supercomputer Center, CA headed by Dr. A.Gupta 13. “WiMAX: Today and Tomorrow”, 2008

Delivered at the Departmental meet at SPAWAR System Center, Point Loma, California

Interviews/Media Coverage of my Research Work:

1. Interviewed by EEWeb: “Spotlight on Mahasweta Sarkar”, March 2012 http://www.eeweb.com/profiles/mahasweta_sarkar

2. Interviewed by Union Tribune: “Female Scientists Blazing New Trails” – San Diego based local newspaper that has been in circulation for over 150 years with the largest print number in San Diego featured me amongst seven women scientists in the San Diego county: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/08/women-science/ July, 2012

3. “The Right Connections” – an article published about Dr. Sarkar’s software App Proximity Careers by San Diego State University News Center (link provided below), October 2013

http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=74524 4. “Generating Changes” - an article published about Dr. Sarkar’s research work by San Diego State University News

Center (link provided below) in the series of “Exploring Women in Engineering”, October 2013 http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=74529

K-12 STEM Development:

1. Tutorial on “How Wireless Works” at Morning Creek Elementary School for 5th grade students, San Diego, 2013

2. Event Captain/Coordinator for the “Simple Machines” track in Science Olympiad San Diego County Regional Competition (Division B) February, 2014

3. Neuro-Engineering Workshop for High School students from various San Diego school district, Summer 2017, 2018,

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