Vinayak S. Naik

#B301 IIIT – Delhi, Mobile Available on requestOkhla Phase III, Office +91-11-26907455New Delhi - 110020, email naik@iiitd.ac.inINDIA. Homepage http://www.iiitd.edu.in/˜naik

EducationPhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2006The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science and Technology, 1999Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, India

Experience in AcademiaAssociate Professor and Chair WebsiteCommittee

Indraprastha Institute of InformationTechnology (IIIT – Delhi)

New Delhi, India Jan 2015 onwardsWas tenured and promoted after five years of service as an Assistant Professor at the sameinstitutePursued R&D in using ML techniques for sensory data coming from smartphones for ap-plications in smart city and healthcareDeveloped courses in System Administration, Network Administration, Internet of Things(IoT), and Software Defined Networking (SDN) to create manpower to handle large datacentersServed as a Chair of IT Committee for five years and as a Chair of Post-Graduate Committee(PGC) for one year

Visiting Associate Professor IIT BombayMumbai, India Nov 2017 onwardsTeaching a course on Mobile Computing + Machine Learning and researching on EdgeComputing for IoT + Machine Learning

Assistant Professor Indraprastha Institute of InformationTechnology (IIIT – Delhi)

New Delhi, India Jan 2010 - Dec 2015Pursued R&D in for providing localization in feature phones and learning their mobilitypatterns from the calculated locationsDeveloped Mobile Computing course for Mobile Computing stream in BTech CSE and forMobile Computing specialization in MTech CSETaught Mobile Computing course three times and had an enrollment of 180+ students,maximum for any graduate course in IIIT-DelhiDesigned curriculum of Mobile Computing specialization in MTech CSE with the help frompeers from academia and industry working in Mobile Computing

Visiting Faculty Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bangalore, India 2008 - 2009

Sole investigator of the project working on providing location-based services via SMS onmobile phones for Indian populationDesign and taught a course titled Programming Mobile Phones to graduate students

Research Assistant for Prof. Anish Arora Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH 2002 - 2006Designed, implemented, and operated a fault-tolerant and secure distributed wireless sys-tems for 1250 embedded devices, the largest in the world then, for intrusion detection andtracking application, funded by DARPA’s

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Anish Arora Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH, USA 2004 — 2006Designed and graded homework assignments and projects for a graduate-level course ti-tled Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks Designed and graded lab assignments forgraduate-level course titled Introduction to Network Security

Teaching Assistant Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH, USA 2000 – 2002Designed coursework and taught courses undergraduate courses titled Elementary ComputerProgramming with Java and Computer Assisted Problem SolvingTutored labs and graded lab assignments for an undergraduate course titled ComputerAssisted Problem Solving for Business

Experience in IndustryTata Consultancy Services Mumbai, IndiaResearch Advisor to CTO Jan 2017 - Dec 2017Advising the Innovation Labs of TCS on IoT projects

Microsoft Research, Bangalore Bangalore, IndiaVisiting Researcher June 2016Worked with Mobility, Systems, and Networking group on the project on IoT

VMware R&D, Pune Pune, IndiaVisiting Researcher May - June 2015Worked with Sandesh Sawant and Amit Chopra on an innovation that resulted in a patenttitled Distributed Tunneling for VPNDesigned a course titled Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing(CENS) and Post-doc at UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

Research Staff 2006 - 2008Member of the design team and in-charge of the implementation team for PEIR (PersonalEnvironmental Impact Report), which is a participatory sensing systems using cellphonesCharacterized performance of a 250Km long wireless network, the longest in the world then,of 50 embedded devices, which are equipped with seismic sensors, for earthquake monitoringin MexicoImproved routing services for delay tolerant 802.11b wireless networks for seismic monitoring

in PeruImplemented GPS tracking system for autonomous plane and helicopter, to be used formeasuring Earth’s magnetic field in seismic explorations in Death Valley, CADesigned and implemented duty-cyclable routing and data transfer services for low-powerembedded systems targeted towards aftershock and health monitoring of tall buildings inLos Angeles, CA

Telcordia Applied Research (FormerlyBellcore)

Morristown, NJ

Internship for Dr. Simon Tsang Summer of 2001Wrote remote management and configuration software for broadband home router/gateway

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Mumbai, IndiaAssistant Software Engineer 1999 - 2000Team member of system software group to administer the on-line transaction system of Na-tional Securities of Depository Ltd (NSDL), which is the largest electronic share depositoryof IndiaWorked as DB/2 database administrator and network administration for S/360 mainframe

Entrepreneurship ExperienceBackpack Labs New Delhi, IndiaChief Architect 2014 onwardsLead the design of architecture of Backpack, which is a Learning Management Systems(LMS)Backpak is being used at IIIT-Delhi, IITK, etc with thousands of students, hundreds ofcourses, and tens of faculty

Research ImpactGoogle Scholar’s Statistics – Citations 2200, h-index 13, and 10-index 17

Book Chapters and Journal PapersHelped Prof. P. C. P. Bhatt to write about Windows Phone OS in his “An Introduction toOperating Systems: Concepts and Practice”, PHI Learning Publications, 2014

K. Yadav and V. Naik, Mobile Networked Systems, One of the 11 invited articles forJournal of Indian Institute of Science, special issue on Cyber Physical Systems, edited byProf. Bharadwaj Amrutur, July-December 2013

V. Naik and A. Arora, ExScal: Designing with Scale. Invited book chapter to appear inWireless sensor networks: Deployments and Design Frameworks (Designing and DeployingEmbedded Sensing Systems), Springer Publications, 2010

H. Zhang and V. Naik, Data Transport Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, In theHandbook of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, May 2009

A. Husker, I. Stubailo, M. Lukac, V. Naik, R. Guy, P. Davis, and D. Estrin, WiLSoN:The Wirelessly Linked Seismological Network and its application in the Middle American

Subduction Experiment (MASE), In the Seismological Research Letters (SRL), May/June2008

V. Naik, A. Arora, P. Sinha, and H. Zhang, Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy EfficientData Dissemination Service for Extreme Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices, Inthe IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2007

A. Arora, P. Dutta, S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, H. Zhang, V. Naik , H. Cao, M.Demirbas, M. Gouda, Y. Choi, T. Herman, S. Kulkarni, U. Arumugam, M. Nesterenko,A. Vora, and M. Miyashita, A Line in the Sand: A Wireless Sensor Network for TargetDetection, Classification, and Tracking, In Computer Networks Journal, 2004 (2nd mostdownloaded article on Computer Networks in 2004)

V. Naik, A. Arora, S. Bapat, and M. Gouda, Whisper: Local Secret Maintenance inSensor Networks, Invited to IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 2003

Papers in Conferences and WorkshopsD. Anwar, P. Garg, V. Naik, A. Gupta, and A. Kumar, Use of portable EEG sen-sors to Detect Meditationr, Accepted at Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth’18)Workshop held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Communicationand Networks (ComsNets’18), Jan 3-7, 2018, Bangalore, India (Best Runner-up PaperAward)

V. Jain, M. Goel, M. Maity, V. Naik, and R. Ramjee, Scalable Measurement of AirPollution using COTS IoT Devices, Accepted at Workshop on Wild and Crazy Ideas on theinterplay between IoT and Big Data (WACI’18) in conjunction with the 10th InternationalConference on Communication and Networks (ComsNets’18), Jan 3-7, 2018, Bangalore,India (Best Paper Award)

A. Mongia, M. V. Gunturi, and V. Naik, UDetecting Activities at Metro Stations UsingSmartphone Sensors, Accepted at the 10th International Conference on Communicationand Networks (ComsNets’18), Jan 3-7, 2018, Bangalore, India

R. Banerjee, G. Chhikara, V. Naik, A. V. Subramanya, and K. Dey, Use of FacialLandmarks for Adaptive Compression of Videos on Mobile Devices, Accepted at the 10thInternational Conference on Communication and Networks (ComsNets’18), Jan 3-7, 2018,Bangalore, India (Invited to submit an extended version to LNCS)

S. Sood, G. Tyagi, R. Ahmad, and V. Naik, CAIL: Cross-calibration for AccurateIndoor Localization Without Extensive Site Survey, Accepted at The Twenty Third NationalConference on Communications (NCC 2017), Mar 2-4 2017, Madras, India

D. Jaisinghani, V. Naik, S. Kaul, and S. Roy, Sniffer-based Inference of the Causes ofActive Scanning in WiFi Networks, Accepted at The Twenty Third National Conferenceon Communications (NCC 2017), Mar 2-4 2017, Madras, India

D. Anwar, V. Naik, A. Gupta, and S. K. Sharma, Detecting Meditation using a Dry Mono-

Electrode EEG Sensor, Accepted at Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth’17) Work-shop held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Communication andNetworks (ComsNets’17), Jan 4-8, 2017, Bangalore, India

S. Soubam, M. Agarwal, and V. Naik, Using an Arduino and a Smartwatch to Mea-sure Liquid Consumed From Any Container, Accepted at Workshop on Wild and CrazyIdeas on the interplay between IoT and Big Data (WACI’17) in conjunction with the 9thInternational Conference on Communication and Networks (ComsNets’17), Jan 4-8, 2017,Bangalore, India (Best Paper Award)

M. Vij, V. M. V. Gunturi, and V. Naik, Use of ECDF-based Features and Ensemble ofClassifiers to Accurately Detect Mobility Activities of People using Accelerometers, Acceptedat the 9th International Conference on Communication and Networks (ComsNets’17), Jan4-8, 2017, Bangalore, India

R. Mehra, V. Naik, R. Purandare, and K. Malik, KIRKE: Re-engineering of Web Appli-cations to Mobile Apps, Accepted at 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile andUbiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous’16) in industrialtrack, November 28 - December 1, 2016, Hiroshima, Japan

S. Soubam, D. Banerjee, V. Naik, and D. Chakraborty, BluePark: Tracking Parkingand Un-parking Events in Indoor Parking Lots, Accepted at the International Conferenceon Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2016), Jan 4-7, 2016, Singapore

D. Jaisinghani, V. Naik, S. Kaul, and S. Roy, Realtime Detection of Degradation in WiFiNetwork’s Goodput Due to Probe Traffic, Accepted at The Eleventh International Workshopon Wireless Network Measurements and Experimentation (WiNMeE 2015) in conjunctionwith The 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hocand Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2015), May 25, 2015, Mumbai, India

S. Chakravarty, V. Naik, H. Acharya, and C. Tanwar, Towards Practical Infrastructurefor Decoy Routing (Positional Paper), Accepted at Workshop on Security of EmergingNetworking Technologies (SENT) held in conjunction with Network and Distributed SystemSecurity (NDSS) Symposium, February 8-11, 2015 in San Diego, California

A. Gautam, V. Naik, A. Gupta, S. Sharma, and K. Sriram, An Smartphone-basedAlgorithm to Measure and Model Quantity of Sleep, Accepted at Networked HealthcareTechnology (NetHealth’15) Workshop held in conjunction with 7th International Conferenceon COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (ComsNets’15), January 6 - 10, Bangalore, India

C. Hughes, R. Sengupta, D. Saxena, and V. Naik, Geovisualization for cluster detection ofHepatitis A & E outbreaks in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Accepted at Third InternationalACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on HealthGIS (HealthGIS’14), 4 November, 2014, Dallas,USA

K. Yadav, A. Kumar, P. Jassal, and V. Naik, PMWare: A Middleware for Discovering andManaging Places of Human Interest, Accepted at The Industrial Track of the Middleware2014, 8-12 December, Bordeaux, France

K. Yadav, V. Naik, A. Kumar, and P. Jassal, PlaceMap: Discovering Human Places ofInterest Using Low-Energy Location Interfaces on Mobile Phones, Accepted at The FifthAnnual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2014), 5-6 December, 2014, SanJose, USA

S. Anwer, A. Aggarwal, R. Purandare, and V. Naik, Chiromancer: A Tool for Boost-ing Android Application Performance, Accepted at 1st ACM International Conference onMobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft’14) in conjunction with ICSE’14,June 2-3, 2014 in Hyderabad, India

S. Gupta, R. Garg, N. Jain, V. Naik, and S. Kaul, Android Phone Based Appraisal ofApp Behavior on Cell Networks, Accepted at 1st ACM International Conference on MobileSoftware Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft’14) in conjunction with ICSE’14, June2-3, 2014 in Hyderabad, India

K. Yadav, A. Kumar, A. Bharti, and V. Naik, Characterizing Mobility Patterns of Peoplein Developing Countries using Their Mobile Phone Data, Accepted at The 6th InternationalConference on Communication and Networks (ComsNets’14), Jan 7-10, 2014 in Bangalore,India

V. Subbaraju, A. Kumar, V. Nandakumar, S. Batra, S. Kanhere, P. De, V. Naik,D. Chakraborty, and A. Misra, ConferenceSense: Monitoring of Public Events UsingPhone Sensors, Accepted at First International Workshop on Pervasive Urban CrowdsensingArchitecture and Applications (PUCAA 2013) with UbiComp 2013, Sept 9, 2013 in Zurich,Switzerland

K. Yadav, D. Chakraborty, S. Soubam, N. Prathapaneni, V. Nandakumar, V. Naik, N.Rajamani, L. Subramaniam, S. Mehta, and P. De, Human Sensors: Case-study of Open-ended Community Sensing in Developing Regions, Accepted at the The IEEE PervasiveComputing and Communication (PerCom) Conference Work in Progress, March 18-22,2013, San Diego, USA

P. Jassal, K. Yadav, A. Kumar, V. Narwal, V. Naik, and A. Singh, Unity: Collab-orative Downloading Content using co-located Socially Connected Peers, Accepted at The9th International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P’13) to be held inconjunction with (PerCom) Conference, March 18-22, 2013, San Diego, USA

S. Soubam, N. Prathapaneni, V. Nandakumar, K. Yadav, V. Naik, N. Rajamani, D.Chakraborty, L. Subramaniam, S. Mehta, and P. De, Open-Ended Community-Sensing:Data Collection and Processing, Accepted at the Sixth Workshop on Analytics for NoisyUnstructured Text Data (AND’12), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

K. Yadav, V. Naik, A. Singh, P. Singh, and U. Chandra, Low Energy and SufficientlyAccurate Localization for non-Smartphones, Accepted at 13th International Conference onMobile Data Management (MDM’12), July 23-26, 2012, Bangalore, India

S. Ashthana, P. Singh, P. Kumaraguru, A. Singh, and V. Naik, Tring! Tring! - AnExploration and Analysis of Interactive Voice Response Systems, Accepted at 4th Inter-

national Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IndiaHCI’12), 18-21st April 2012,India

R. Khurana, S. Sharma, A. Mehra, D. Yadav, V. Naik, and A. Singh, Jiah: Health-care goes Mobile, Accepted at 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication forDevelopment (M4D2012) on Feb 28-29, 2012, New Delhi, India

A. Bharadwaj, P. Arjunan, A. Singh, V. Naik, and P. Singh, MELOS: A Low Costand Low Energy Generic Sensing Attachment for Mobile Phones, Accepted at The Net-worked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR’11) workshop at The 9th Annual Interna-tional Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services from June 28-July 1, 2011,Washington DC, USA

K. Yadav, P. Kumaraguru, A. Goyal, A. Gupta, and V. Naik, SMSAssassin : Crowdsourc-ing Driven Mobile-based System for SMS Spam Filtering, Accepted at The 12th Workshopon Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile’11) from March 1-2, 2011,Phoenix, USA

A. Singh, V. Naik, S. Lal, R. Sengupta, D. Saxena, P. Singh, and A. Puri, Improvingthe Efficiency of Healthcare Delivery System in Underdeveloped Rural Areas, Accepted atWorkshop in Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth) at The third InternationalConference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (ComsNets) from 4 January 2011to 8 January 2011, Bangalore, India

K. Yadav, V. Naik, A. Singh, P. Singh, P. Kumaraguru, and U. Chandra, Challengesand Novelties while using Mobile Phones as ICT Devices for Indian Masses, Accepted asa short paper at The Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR’10) workshop atThe 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Servicesfrom June 15-18, 2010 in San Francisco, USA

N. Chakraborty, B. Dharmasena, V. T. Rathor, V. Naik, and D. Roy Mahapatra, Im-plementation of a Wireless Mote with Nano-Composite Sensor for Structural Health Mon-itoring, Accepted at XVI National Seminar on Aerospace Structures (NASAS), Nov 2009,IITB

E. Ertin, A. Arora, R. Ramnath, M. Nesterenko, V. Naik , S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani,M. Sridharan, H. Zhang, and H. Cao, Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale, In theFifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) forSensor Platform, Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems (SPOTS)track, 2006, Nashville, USA

V. Naik, E. Ertin, H. Zhang, and A. Arora, Wireless Testbed Bonsai, In the SecondInternational Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), 2006, Boston, USA

V. Naik, A. Arora, P. Sinha, and H. Zhang, Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy EfficientData Dissemination Service for Wireless Embedded Devices, In the 26th IEEE Real-TimeSystems Symposium for Real-Time Communication (RTSS) for Sensor Network Track, 2005,Miami, USA

A. Arora, R. Ramnath, P. Sinha, E. Ertin, S. Bapat, V. Naik , et al, Project ExScal,Invited to International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS),2005, Marin del Rey, USA

A. Arora, R. Ramnath, E. Ertin, P. Sinha, S. Bapat, V. Naik , et al, ExScal: Elementsof an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Network, Invited to The 11th International Conferenceon Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2005, HongKong, China

V. Naik, A. Arora, S. Bapat, and M. Gouda, Whisper: Local Secret Maintenance in SensorNetworks, In Workshop on Principles of Dependable Systems (PoDSy) in conjunction withThe International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2003, SanFrancisco, USA

PatentsS. Sawant, A. Chopra, V. Naik, J. Jain, A. Sengupta, and U. Masurekar, DistributedTunneling for VPN, Filed in India with Application number 201641005073 in February 2016and in USA in April 2016

Posters and DemosS. Sarangi, V. Naik, S. Bose Choudhury, P. Jain, V. Kosgi, R. Sharma, P. Bhatt, and P.Srinivasu, An Affordable IoT Edge Platform for Digital Farming in Developing Regions, Ac-cepted in Demo and Exhibits at 10th International Conference on COMmunication Systems& NETworkS (ComsNets’18), January 3 - 7, 2018, Bangalore, India

D. Jaisinghani, V. Naik, R. K. Balan, and S. Roy, Mitigating the Impact of UnnecessaryActive Scans in Heavily Utilized WLANs, Accepted at 10th International Conference onCOMmunication Systems & NETworkS (ComsNets’18), January 3 - 7, 2018, Bangalore,India

P. Shama, C. Kumar, A. Dogra, S. Chakravarty, V. Naik, and H. B. Acharya, Siege-Breaker : SDN based Decoy Routing System, Accepted at Annual Computer Security Ap-plications Conference, December 4 - 8, 2017, Orlando, USA

N. Gupta, S. Sengupta, and V. Naik, A Firewall for Internet of Things, Accepted at9th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (ComsNets’17),January 4 - 8, 2017, Bangalore, India

K. Grover and V. Naik, Monitoring of Android Devices using SNMP, Accepted at 8th In-ternational Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (ComsNets’16), January6 - 10, 2016, Bangalore, India

S. Soubam and V. Naik, Detecting Quantity of Drinking Using Smartwatch, Accepted atInternational Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2016), Jan 4- 7, 2016, Singapore

S. Soubam, V. Naik, and D. Chakraborty, Detection of Day-to-Day Human Activities

using Smart phones, Accepted at PhD Forum held in conjunction with 7th InternationalConference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (ComsNets’15), January 6 - 10, 2015,Bangalore, India

D. Jaisinghani, V. Naik, S. Kaul, and S. Srikanth, Analyzing Performance of EnterpriseWireless Networks in Presence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Accepted at 1st XeroxResearch Centre India (XRCI) Open, Mar 14, 2014, Bangalore, India

S. Soubam, V. Naik, and D. Chakraborty, Detection of Day-to-Day Human Activitiesusing Smart phones, Accepted at 1st Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) Open, Mar 14,2014, Bangalore, India

A. Agarwal, J. Govindaraj, N. Juneja, and V. Naik, Feasibility Study of On Deviceand In the Cloud Virtualization of Mobiles, Accepted at 5th IBM Collaborative AcademiaResearch Exchange (I-CARE’3), October 17 - 19, 2013, New Delhi, India

P. Jassal, A. Kumar, K. Yadav, V. Naik, and A. Singh, PlaceMap: Identifying andManaging Places of Human Interest Using Low Energy Location Interfaces, Accepted atThe 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing(MobiHoc’13), July 29 - Aug 1, 2013, Bangalore, India

M. Hasija and V. Naik, MMonitor: Android OS Monitoring Tool, Accepted at The 14thACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobi-Hoc’13), July 29 - Aug 1, 2013, Bangalore, India

K. Yadav, V. Naik, and A. Singh, Building Energy-Efficient Spatio-Temporal MobilityProfiles for Mobile Users, Accepted in Third International Conference on the Analysis ofMobile Phone Datasets (D4D Challenge), May 1-3, 2013, MIT, Boston, USA

K. Yadav, A. Kumar, V. Naik, and A. Singh, A Tale of Peoples Movement Patternsin Developing Countries, Accepted in Data for Development (D4D) Challenge at ThirdInternational Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob’13), May 1-3,2013, MIT, Boston, USA

A. Gautam, M. Hasija, V. Naik, and K. Sriram, ApneaMeter: Detecting Sleep Apneausing Android Mobile Device, Accepted at Nokia Confluence, Feb 2013, Bangalore, USA

K. Yadav, V. Kumar, S. Jairath, R. Khurana, V. Naik, and A. Singh, Cloud-enabledContent Search and Sharing System for Mobile Phones (MobiShare), Accepted at The 10thInternational Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys’12), June25-29, 2012, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom

P. Singh, A. Singh, and V. Naik, CVDMagic: A Mobile Based Study for CVD RiskDetection in Rural India, Accepted at International conference on information and commu-nication technologies and development (ICTD2012), March 12-15, 2012, Atlanta, USA

K. Yadav, V. Naik, P. Singh, and A. Singh, Alternative Localization Approach for MobilePhones without GPS, Accepted as a demo at Middleware 2010 (ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th

International Middleware Conference) from November 29 - December 3, 2010, Bangalore,India

V. Naik and PEIR team, PEIR: Personal Environment Impact Report, Accepted at IITB’sTechFest, Jan 2009, Mumbai, India

A. Arora, P. Sinha, E. Ertin, V. Naik, H. Zhang, M. Sridharan, and S. Bapat, ExScalBackbone Network Architecture, Accepted at The Third International Conference on MobileSystems, Applications, and Services (Mobisys), 2005, San Francisco, USA

V. Naik, S. Bapat, H. Zhang, C. Anderson, G. Fox, J. Wieseman, A. Arora, E.Ertin, and R. Ramnath, Kansei: Sensor Testbed for At-Scale Experiments, Accepted atThe Second TinyOS Technology Exchange, 2005, Berkeley, USA

Technical ReportsK. Yadav, V. Naik, and A. Singh, MobiShare: Cloud-enabled Opprtunistic Content Sharingamong Mobile Peers, Technical Report IIITD-TR-2012-009, October 2012

M. Lukac, V. Naik, I. Stubailo, A. Husker, and D. Estrin, In Vivo Characterization ofa Wide area 802.11b Wireless Seismic Array, CENS Technical Report #74, April 2007

V. Naik and A. Arora, Harvest: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Bulk Data CollectionService for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, Technical Report paper OSU-CISRC-4/06-TR37, The Ohio State University, April 2006

PresentationsSmart Transport for Smart Cities, at CSE Department in IIT Bombay, India on Feb 21,2018

Use of Machine Learning to Detect Physical Analytics of People Using Their Smart Phonesand Wearables, at the Joint Indo-Sri Lanka workshop on Big Data at the University ofPeradeniya, Sri Lanka on Dec 13, 2017

Increasing Throughput in Dense WiFi Networks, Invited speaker at Mojo R&D Meet, inIITB, Mumbai on June 24, 2017

Tutorial on IoT, Invited speaker at IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange Con-ference (I-CARE’16), in Bangalore on Oct 14-15, 2016

Software Defined Network and its Use in Security, Invited talk at ABES Engineering Col-lege, Ghaziabad on July 12, 2016

Using Smartphone-based Accelerometer to Detect Travel by Metro Train, Invited talk atMicrosoft Research, Bangalore on June 16, 2016

Scalable SDN, Invited talk at Faculty Development Program on SDN at MNIT, Jaipur onMar 21-22, 2016

Middleboxes in Networks, Invited talk at VMware R&D Innovation Offsite (RADIO) forIndia held on June 23-25, 2015

Backpack: Take Your Classroom Online, Invited talk at IBM Research Labs, Bangalore,India on Jan 9, 2015

Requirements from Wireless Networks for Measuring Physical Analytics of Mobile Users,Invited talk at Next Generation Networks (NGNs) organized by Science & TechnologyDepartment, Embassy of France in India, and Computer Society of India in associationwith CEFIPRA on April 5, 2014 at India Habitat Center, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Interference in Enterprise WiFi Networks, Invited talk AirTight Networks, Pune, India onDec 24, 2013

Introduction to Mobile Computing, Invited talk at Big Data and Mobile Computing Winterschool as a part of IBM Research’s I-CARE’13 , October 17-18, 2013

Making Healthcare Delivery System Distributed and Delay Tolerant, Invited talk at NetHealthWorkshop at ComsNet in Bangalore, India on January 7, 2013

Use of Technology in Public Health, Invited talk at Joint Annual Conference of IndianAssociation of Preventive and Social Medicine - Gujarat Chapter (19th) and Indian PublicHealth Association Gujarat Chapter (1st) in Ahmedabad, India on March 16, 2012

Low Energy Localization, Invited talk at Microsoft Research India, Bangalore on July 28,2011

MELOS: A Low Cost and Low Energy Generic Sensing Attachment for Mobile Phones,Invited talk in Coventry University, UK on June 22, 2011

Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Extreme ScaleWireless Networks of Embedded Devices at IIIT-D on Sept 25, 2009 and at IIT Kanpur onSeptember 10, 2009

It’s Not Just a Phone, Invited talk at Sensemaking with Smartphones workshop at the IEEEConference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2009) in Bangalore, India onAugust 22, 2009

It’s Not Just a Phone, Invited talk at the joint workshop on Traffic Monitoring and mHealthApplications by IISc and Bell Labs in IISc, Bangalore on July 10, 2009

ExScal Team’s Experiences with PIR Sensing, Invited talk at Workshop on Sensing forIntrusion Detection with WSNs at ECE Department, IISc on April 16, 2009

Realizing Large-Data, Long-Distance, and Large-Scale Embedded Networked Sensing Sys-tems for Public Health, Seismology, and Border Defense, Invited talk at Bell Labs, Banga-lore, India on March 16, 2009

Realizing Large-Data, Long-Distance, and Large-Scale Wireless Sensing Systems for PublicHealth, Seismic Science, and Border Defense, At Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,India, October 2008

Realizing Large-Data, Long-Distance, and Large-Scale Wireless Sensing Systems for PublicHealth, Seismic Science, and Border Defense, At Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,India, September 2008

E. Howard and V. Naik, Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), Invited at theCenter for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, July 2008

L. Girod and V. Naik, Wireless sensing systems for acoustic and seismic monitoring:Hands on tutorial, The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Net-works (IPSN), MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 2007

A Combo Appetizer of WSN tools, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, May 2006

Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Wireless Net-works of Embedded Devices, Invited at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing atUCLA, Los Angeles, USA, October 2005

Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Wireless Em-bedded Devices, Invited at the Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India, June 2005

Whisper: Local Secret Maintenance in Sensor Networks, Invited at the INFOSEC ForumVII organized by ACM, Columbus, USA, May 2005

ExScal Backbone Network Architecture, Keynote at Stargate Developer’s Forum organizedby Intel Research, San Jose, USA, May 2005

An Introduction to EmStar – A Practitioner’s Perspective, Ohio State University, Columbus,USA, April 2005

Sponsored ProposalsV. Naik, N. Singh, P. Singh, V. M. V. Gunturi, and P. Jalote, Consultancy to CentralBoard of Excise and Customs, Received funding from the Government of India’s CentralBoard of Excise and Customs to evaluate and recommend changes to their pan India ITsystems for Apr 2016 - Mar 2018

V. Naik, Monitoring of Air Pollution using IoT, Received a funding of ?1,75,000.00 fromMicrosoft Research, Bangalore for Scalable and Accurate Measurement of Air Pollutionusing COTS Sensors for Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

V. Naik, N. Singh, P. Singh, and P. Jalote, Consultancy to Central Board of Excise andCustoms, Received funding from the Government of India’s Central Board of Excise andCustoms to evaluate and recommend changes to their pan India IT systems for Apr 2015 -Mar 2016

V. Naik, Student Lifestyle Study using Smartphone Sensors, Received a funding of USD10,000(|6,33,900.00) from Google in terms of access to Google Cloud Platform for one year in Jan2015

V. Naik, K. Sriram, and S. Deb, Mobile-based Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea, In principalapproval of funding of |55,43,000 from DST-SERB for three years

A. Singh, IIIT-D and multiple co-PIs from IIIT-D, NIIT, and IGIT, HumanSense: TowardsContext Aware Sensing, Interference, and Actuation for Applications in Energy and Health-care, Received a funding of |2,45,00,000.00 from IT Research Academy (ITRA) DeitY forSep 2013 - Aug 2016

P. Singh, A. Singh, and V. Naik, Design and Development of a Mobile Device CentricEnvironment for Healthcare Delivery, Received a funding of |47,00,000.00 from DeitY forFeb 2013 - Dec 2016

V. Naik, Received a funding of $22,692 (|12,23,610.00) from Microsoft in terms of accessto Windows Azure, which is cloud computing platform from Microsoft in 2012

V. Naik, Received a funding of $8,600 (|4,78,891.00) in terms of 40 Samsung i937 Focusphones from Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA to teach TouchDevelop in Mobile Com-puting course in 2012

A. Singh, M. Srivastava, and V. Naik, Pervasive Sensing and Computing Technolo-gies for Energy and Water Sustainability in Buildings, Received a funding of $230,000(|1,30,00,000.00) from DIT and NSF for 2012-15

V. Naik, R. Sengupta, D. Estrin, A. Annaert, A. Singh, and P. Singh, Use of CellPhone for Detecting and Controlling Infectious Diseases, Received a funding of $20,100(|10,41,481.50) from National Geographic Society, USA for 2012-13

V. Naik, Mobile Health, Received a funding of e17,500 (|12,14,749.00) from Nokia Researchto conduct research in Mobile Health in 2012

V. Naik and A. Singh, Research in Cloud-based Services for Mobile Phones, Received afunding of |10,00,000 from Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India for 2011

V. Naik, Mobile Innovation Laboratory at IIIT-Delhi, Received a funding of e10,000(|6,51,670.00) from Nokia Research, Finland for 2011

V. Naik, Conduct exploratory research in Mobile Health, Received a funding of e12,000(|7,45,308.67) from Nokia Research, Bangalore, India for 2011

V. Naik, Use of Mobile Phones for Mobile Computing Course at IIIT-D, Received a fundingof |6,75,000 from Nokia Research Center, Finland for 2010 in terms of phones

D. Roy Mahapatra and V. Naik, Structural health monitoring of airplanes using motes andcarbon nanotube (CNT) sensors, Received a funding of |10,00,000 from ISRO IISc Space

Technology Cell for 2010 - 2011

V. Naik, Localization for Mobile Phones using Cell Broadcast Service Messages, Receiveda funding of $50,000 (|23,11,249.00) from Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA for 2010- 2014

A. Singh, P. Singh, and V. Naik, Review of IFFCO’s IT System, Received funding of|4,90,000 with Amarjeet Singh and Pushpendra Singh from IFFCO for Reviewing IFFCO’sIT System for Feb 2010 - Aug 2010

V. Naik, K. Gopinath, C. Bhattacharya, V. Natarajan, and K. Raghavan HealthcareSystem in India Using Mobile Phones, Received a funding of e40,000 (|32,54,525.00) fromNokia Research Center, Finland for 2010 - 2011

V. Naik, Use of Mobile Phones for Day-to-Day Routine Activities by Masses in India,Received a funding of |5,45,975 from Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA for 2009 interms of phones

P. Davis, D. Estrin, R. Guy, and V. Naik, Geonet: A rapidly deployable networks forearthquake monitoring, Received a funding of $35,000 from NSF’s CENS for 2009

P. Davis, D. Estrin, R. Guy, and V. Naik, Perunet: A wireless seismic monitoring systemfor Peru, Received a funding of $50,000 from NSF’s CENS for 2008

ProjectsMobile-based Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea, with AIIMS, New Delhi, 2014 onwards

Analysis Enterprise WiFi Network, with Sanjit Kaul of IIIT-Delhi, Praveen Bhagwat ofAirTight Networks, Bhaskar Raman of IITB, and Sumit Roy of University of Washington,2013-15

Primary Healthcare using Android Tablets and ODK, with Apollo Hospitals Educational &Research Foundation (AHERF), New Delhi, 2013-14

Follow-up of Immunization in Bihar using Android Tablets and ODK, with Aalto University,Finland, 2013-14

Mobile-based Survey of Prenatal Healthcare using Android Tablets and ODK, with IndianInstitute of Public Health (IIPH), Ahmedabad, 2012-14

Mobility Data Collection collected (GSM + WiFi) data of 62 users for a month and (GSM+ WiFi + GPS + Bluetooth) data of 38 users for an year during 2011-13

PhD StudentsD. Jaisinghani, Large-scale Enterprise WiFi Networks, Started in Winter’13 after winningInstitute Gold Medal from IIIT-Bangalore for her MTech, with co-advisor Sanjit Kaul.Passed comprehensive exam in July 2015 under examination committee of Mythili Vutukuru

(IITB), Sambuddho Chakravarty (IIIT-D), and Vivek Bohra (IIIT-Delhi)

S. Soubam, Mobile Sensing for Activity Detection, Started in Monsoon’13 with co-advisorDipanjan Chakraborty at IBM Research Lab, New Delhi. Passed comprehensive exam inJuly 2015 under examination committee consisting of Angshul Majumdar (IIIT-D), DhavalPatel (IITR), and Sujay Deb (IIIT-Delhi)

K. Yadav, Geo-localization and Location-aware Opportunistic Communication for MobilePhones, Started in Monsoon’09 after his BTech, with co-advisors Pushpendra Singh andAmarjeet Singh, Co-examiner Murat Demirbas (SUNY Buffalo), Romit Roy Choudhury(UIUC), and Sudip Misra (IIT-KGP, Graduated in Winter’14 and joined Xerox ResearchCenter in Bangalore

Technology Developed and DeployedBackpack course management system with online site and mobile apps for Android andWindows Phone. I am one of the five team members. It is live at IIITD for the last twosemesters with 40 courses.

WiFiShare Android app, developed by my PhD student Kuldeep Yadav and MTech studentVartika Srivastava, has so far more than 50,000 installations.

Fourteen applications from Mobile Computing course, which was offered in Monsoon’12semester, were published in Android and Windows Phone App Stores. BTech student S.Singhal’s app had more than 12K downloads in three months and BTech student A. Saini’sapp was listed “The best Impressive and New App on App Flow and Featured” on WP7market.

Indigenously developed low-cost SMS (GSM to IP) Gateway was provided to IBM ResearchLabs (IRL), India for their National University Challenge 2012: Build Smarter Cities.

GrepFellas is a web-based application, developed by S. Jairath using his BTech project. Itis a search-engine to search mobile phones in social network. The application is online athttp://grepfellas.com/search.php

Disha Journey Planner, which was developed as an internship project and later on wasmodified to include extensive database from the industrial partner DIMTS. This applicationprovides user with route information for going between any two places in Delhi using publictransport. It was co-supervised with Prof. Amarjeet Singh and Prof. Pushpendra Singhfrom IIIT-Delhi. It is online at http://61.16.238.196/disha/index.php

RighFare, which was developed as an internship project, is a mobile application takes twolocations in Delhi as input over SMS and calculates the approximate auto-rickshaw farebetween the two given locations. It was co-supervised with Prof. Amarjeet Singh andProf. Pushpendra Singh. Our industrial collaborator Ideophone marketed it as Autofare athttp://www.ideophone.in/products/sms/

CVDMagic is an application for early detection of Cardio-Vascular Disease based on pre-

viously proposed studies using non-laboratory based tests. The application was developedwithin the Sana Framework and deployed in rural areas of Punjab with Electronic HealthPoint (EHP), who are setting up rural clinics in that state. It is co-supervised with Prof.Amarjeet Singh and Prof. Pushpendra Singh.

Sprinkler, which is an innovation resulting from V. Naik’s PhD Thesis, is a utility to wire-lessly reprogram wireless sensor nodes. The utility was transferred to Northrop Grumman,USA and Samraksh, USA.

Professional Services and ActivitiesA member of the Advisory Technical Program Committee for INFOCOM, Honolulu, HI,USA, April 15 - 19, 2018

A reviewer of ACM on Interactive, Multimedia, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies(IMWUT), 2017

A co-organizer of WiFi Knowledge Summit, New Delhi, India, September 30, 2016

A program committee member of International Conference on Computing, Networking andCommunications (ICNC 2017), San Francisco, USA, January 26-29, 2017

A program committee member for The 8th IBM Collaborative Academia Research ExchangeI-CARE 2016

A program committee member of Tenth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Net-works and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS’16), November 6-9, 2016, Bangalore, India

A reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC’16)

A technical program committee member for the First Workshop on IoT-enabled Health-care and Wellness Technologies and Systems (IoT of Health), co-located with MobiSys’16,Singapore June 2016

A member of the organizing committee and chair of infrastructure track for Workshop forSmarter and Digital Delhi, New Delhi, Feb 13, 2016

A technical program committee member of The 13th annual IEEE Conference on Sensing,Communication, and Networking (SECON 2016), London, from June 27 - 30, 2016

A technical program committee member of The 36th IEEE International Conference onDistributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016), Japan, from June 27 - 30, 2016

Student Scholarship Co-chair for The 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Sys-tems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’16), Singapore, from June 26 - 30, 2016

A technical program committee member of First International Workshop on Urban Crowd-sourcing (UCS 2016), January 4-7, 2016, Singapore

A senior judge for Google India’s Code to Learn Contest, Aug 2015

A member of Standing Expert Peer Committee for Public Health Research Initiative Grantsto evaluate projects, in public health, to be funded by Public Health Foundation of India(PHFI) and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under Department of Scienceand Technology (DST), Government of India. The committee is chaired by Prof. DileepMavalankar, Director of Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar from Aug 2015 -July 2016

Organized a panel discussion titled ”Successfully Building PhDs” involving Aditi GuptaPhD student at IIIT Delhi, M. Balakrishnan Faculty at IIT Delhi, PK Faculty at IIIT Delhi,Pushpendra Singh Faculty at IIIT Delhi, Richa Singh Faculty at IIIT Delhi, SiddharthaAsthana PhD student at IIIT Delhi, and Tejas Dhamecha PhD student at IIIT Delhi onAug 5, 2015 at IIIT Delhi

Graduate Forum Co-Chair at The Eighth International Conference on COMmunicationSystems and NETworkS (ComsNets), Bangalore, India from Jan 5-9, 2016

A program committee member of Ninth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Net-works and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS’15), December 15-18, 2015, Kolkata, India

A program committee member of Sixth Workshop on Real World Wireless Sensor Networks(RealWSN’15), November 1, 2015, Seoul, South Korea

A program committee member of Third International Workshop on Software DevelopmentLifecycle for Mobile DeMobile, at ESEC/FSE, August 31 - September 4, 2015 Bergamo,Italy

A member of the evaluation team to judge Cloud-based startups at Center for InnovationIncubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad, VMware Campus, Pune, June29-30, 2015

As a chair of the IT Infrastructure Committee at IIIT-Delhi from August 2010 - July 2015(except for 2013-14), designed and implemented IT infrastructure for teaching and researchat the Institute

A founding coordinator of the MTech in CSE with specialization in Mobile Computing, amember of the MTech Admission Committee, and Post Graduation Committee in IIIT-Delhisince Dec 2010 - July 2015

A member of BTech CSE committee in IIIT-Delhi since June 2014 - July 2015

A program committee member of The 16th International Workshop on Mobile ComputingSystems and Applications (HotMobile’15), Feb 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Proceedings Chair for The Second International Conference on Mobile Software Engineeringand Systems (MOBILESoft’15) to be held in conjunction with ICSE’15 in Florence, Italy

Program committee co-chair of First Mobile Software Engineering (MSE) Track co-locatedwith 8th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Feb 18-20, 2015, Bangalore, India

A judge for the Best PhD Forum Award at The Seventh International Conference on COM-munication Systems and NETworkS (ComsNets), Bangalore, India from Jan 6-10, 2015

A program committee member of The 3rd International Workshop on Cloud ComputingApplications (IWCA14), to be held in conjunction with HiPC14, Dec 17 - 20, 2014, Goa,India

An external examiner for evaluation of MS CSE Thesis titled ”Improving Localization andEnergy Efficiency of Smartphone Applications” by Mr. Swadhin Pradhan IIT KharagpurNov 2014

A program committee member of Second International Workshop on Software DevelopmentLifecycle for Mobile DeMobile, at FSE, November 16 - 22, 2014 HongKong

A program committee member of Second Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle Mo-bileDeli 2014, at SPLASH/OOPSLA, October 20 - 24, 2014 Portland, Oregon

A program committee member of Second Workshop on Programming for Mobile and TouchPROMOTO 2014, at SPLASH/OOPSLA, October 20 - 24, 2014 Portland, Oregon

Invited to be on the panel on ”Mobile Software is that really just software for devices withsmall screens” at MOBILESoft’14, June 2014, Hyderabad, India

Invited to chair Emerging Ideas session at MOBILESoft’14, June 2014, Hyderabad, India

An internal examiner for evaluation of MTech CSE Thesis titled ”Twitter and Polls: Analyz-ing and estimating political orientation of Twitter users in India General #Elections2014”by Abhishek Bhola IIIT Delhi June 2014

An internal examiner for evaluation of MTech CSE Thesis titled ”Broker Bots: Analyzingautomated activity during High Impact Events on Twitter” by Sudip Mittal IIIT DelhiJune 2014

Invited as a panelist on the discussion of ”Smart Cities” at First Xerox Research CentreIndia (XRCI) Open on March 14, 2014 in Bangalore, India

A program committee member of Second International Workshop on Software DevelopmentLifecycle for Mobile DeMobile, at FSE, November 16 - 22, 2014 HongKong

A program committee member of Second Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle Mo-bileDeli 2014, at SPLASH/OOPSLA, October 20 - 24, 2014 Portland, Oregon

A program committee member of Second Workshop on Programming for Mobile and TouchPROMOTO 2014, at SPLASH/OOPSLA, October 20 - 24, 2014 Portland, Oregon

A program committee member of 1st International Workshop on Mobile CollaborativecROwdsourcing and Sensing (M-CROS) held in conjunction with the 15th IEEE Inter-national Conference on Mobile Data Management, 14-18 July, 2014, Brisbane, Australia

Invited to attend Co-Creation Workshop on Digital Activism and Online Communitiesorganized by M4ID in New Delhi on April 24, 2014

An internal examiner for evaluation of MTech CSE Thesis titled ”URL shorteners securityanalysis and proposed framework to detect malicious shortened links” by Neha Gupta IIITDelhi April 2014

An external examiner for evaluation of MS CSE Thesis titled ”Improving latency of micein the internet: An approach based on TCP initial window” by Mr. Runa Barik IIT MandiMarch 2014

A member of the 1st Meeting of the Expert Committee to evaluate R&D Proposals onthe Possible Impact of EMF Radiation Exposure from Mobile Towers and Handsets onLife and Related R&D Initiatives, organized by Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB), Department of Telecommunication (DoT), and Ministry of Telecommunication &Information Technology in Feb 2014

Proceedings Chair and a Program Committee member for The First International Con-ference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2014) to be held inconjunction with ICSE’14 in Hyderabad, India

A reviewer for 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Com-munication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India during 6-7 Jan 2014

A program committee member for NetHealth workshop to be held in conjunction with withComsNets’14 in Bangalore, India

An evaluator for The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development andInnovation Funding (UEFISCDI) of Romania in 2013

A program committee member of DEV-4 Symposium on Computing for Development, CapeTown, South Africa, on Dec 6-7, 2013

An internal examiner for evaluation of MTech CSE Thesis titled ”OCEAN: open-sourcecollation of eGovernment data and networks” by Srishti Gupta IIIT Delhi November 2013

Publication Chair and a Program Committee member of Programming for Mobile andTouch PROMOTO 2013, Indianapolis, USA on Oct 26, 2013

Co-chair for Demos, Publicity Sub-Committee Members, and a judge for the Best PhDForum Award at The Sixth International Conference on COMmunication Systems andNETworkS (ComsNets), Bangalore, India from Jan 6-10, 2014

Founding Faculty Advisor of Mobile Development Club at IIIT-Delhi since March 2013

Invited to chair Networking Track session at ICDCN’13, Jan 2013, Mumbai, India

A reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB’13)

A program committee member of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Com-puting and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India during 17-19Jan 2013

An evaluator for The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development andInnovation Funding (UEFISCDI) in Romania in 2012

A member of the PG Committee at IIIT-Delhi since June’12

A program committee member for The 4th IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange(I-CARE 2012)

A program committee member for the Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things trackat the 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing(EUC), 2012

A member of the program committee for the Forth International Conference on Contempo-rary Computing (IC3), JIIT University, Noida, August 8-10, 2011

A reviewer for ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC’11)

A member of the team that organized a ”Using mobile phones for healthcare in India”workshop, where Prof. Deborah Estrin gave a keynote

A program committee member for PhD Forum to be held at COMSNET’10 in Bangalore

A program committee member for Nethealth workshop to be held with COMSNET’10 inBangalore

A program committee member of Sensing Technology at the National Exhibition Centre inBirmingham, UK

A program committee member of Networks track at The Seventeenth National Conferenceon Communications (NCC 2011) to be held in IISc, Bangalore

A member of the team that organized a Workshop on Sana Mobile at IIIT-D from July 5 -9, 2010

A reviewer for ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC’10)

A member of the program committee for the Third International Conference on Contem-porary Computing (IC3), JIIT University, Noida, August 9-11, 2010

A member of the Computer Infrastructure Committee at IIIT-Delhi since Jan’10

A reviewer for ACM Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS’09)

Invited to attend Workshop on Geospatial Information for Developing Countries: Scienceand Technology at IITB from Dec 16 - 18, 2009

A member of the program committee for Advanced Computing and Communications (AD-COM 2009), Bengaluru, 14 -18 December 2009

Organized following talks at IISc: Dr. Sangita Bhattacharya from Intel India Systems Re-search Center, Bangalore, Prof. Anish Arora from Ohio State University, and Dr. SameeraPoduri from University of Southern California in 2009

An invited examiner for IITB’s 7 Masters students of SYNERG group in CSE, June 2009

A reviewer for ACM Transactions of Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2009

A reviewer for Springer’s Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, 2009

A member of the program committee for Wireless Sensing Demonstrator Showcase held bythe Wireless Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) of the Sensors & Instrumentation KnowledgeTransfer Network (SIKTN), 2009

An external reviewer for the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infras-tructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM), 2008

A reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2007

A reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Communications Wireless NetworkingSymposium (ICC WN), 2008

A Guest Lecturer for Prof Deborah Estrin’s CS118 course about Computer Network Fun-damentals, 2007

A reviewer for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), 2007

A reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2007

An external reviewer for the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems(SenSys), 2007

A member of the program committee for the First International Workshop on Mobile Ad hocand Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security (MASS - GHS) held in conjunctionwith The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems,2007

An organizer of the tutorial titled ”Wireless sensing systems for acoustic and seismic mon-itoring: Hands on tutorial” at the International Conference on Information Processing inSensor Networks (IPSN), 2007

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sen-sor Systems (DCOSS), 2007

Honors and RecognitionsFirst Position in the nationwide competition WiFi ThinkFest that evaluated ideas in usingWiFi for Smart World, IITB, Mumbai, India on September 14-15, 2017

Teaching Excellence Award By 2017 Graduating Batches of BTech and MTechin May, 2015

PhD student S. Soubam received IBM PhD Fellowship for the academic year 2017-18

The Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award by Google Research on Mar 24,2016

PhD student S. Soubam received IBM PhD Fellowship for the academic year 2016-17

Shuchita Gupta, Yashovardhan Sharma, and myself received Gandhian Young Techno-logical Innovation Award, 2016 hosted by the office of the President of India underthe category of MLM (More from less from Many)

Teaching Excellence Award from IIIT-Delhi on the basis of student feedback in CSE232:Computer Networks course taught in Winter’15 semester

Mentor of the the team for project titled Use of Smart phone for Preliminary Diagnosisfor Sleep Disorders that won 2nd prize at the startup contest held at Esya, IIIT Delhi’sTechfest, on Aug 21, 2015

Innovation Internship by The Entrepreneurship Center of IIIT-Delhi for the project titledUse of Smart phone for Preliminary Diagnosis for Sleep Disorders for the period of May-July’15

Teaching Excellence Award By 2015 Graduating Batches of BTech and MTechon May 2, 2015 (Received the maximum number of votes)

D. Jaisinghani got selected to attend MSR Summer School on Wireless Networking onJune 23 - July 2, 2014 in Bangalore, India

BTech J. Mehar gets selected for summer research internship at Inria, France for May-July,2014

Three MTech students and one BTech student did internships at Xerox Research Center,Bangalore during 2013-14

One PhD student and one MTech student did summer internships at IBM Research Labs,New Delhi during 2013-14

MTech student A. Gautam gets selected for A Summer School of Neuroscience, organizedby MIT, Harvard, and IIT Delhi, June 24 -July 6, 2013 in IIT Delhi, India

BTech student N. Juneja gets selected for Viterbi-India program at USC for Summer’13to work with Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme on the topic of Cloud-based Smartphone OS in VM

PhD student K. Yadav & Team from IIIT-D decoded The Whodunit? challenge (similarto DARPA Network Challenge that was won by MIT Red Ballon Team), organized by MSRIndia, in 5 hours 7 minutes to win 1 Lakh Rupees in 2013

PhD student K. Yadav’s poster wins First Runner-Up Award at MSR’s TechVista’13 inCoimbatore, India in Feb 2013

PhD student M. Hasija receives Prime Ministers Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Researchjointly from CII and DST to work in collaboration with Nokia Research, Finland in Jan2013

Teaching Excellence Award from IIIT-Delhi on the basis of student feedback in CSE535:Mobile Computing course taught in Winter’12 semester

PhD student K. Yadav wins USD1,000 Google Best Presentation Award given to the bestpresentation at the PhD Forum and the award will be presented during the opening sessionof the 2012 ACM MobiSys conference, UK in June 2012

BTech students R. Sethi and M. Pundir from Mobile Computing course won MicrosoftWindows Phone 7 App-a-thon held at IITD, India on 25th and 26th February, 2012

Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award from India International Friendship Society, New Delhi inAug 2011

Invited to attend Faculty Summit at the Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond in July, 2011

PhD student K. Yadav awarded Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship (one out of six)in 2011

CENS Local Employee Award for the academic year 2007-08 for his commitment and ded-ication to the Center above and beyond his normal day to day activities (The award isofficially approved by the SEAS Deans office at UCLA) in 2008

Awarded A+ by Prof. Dhabaleswar Panda in graduate-level Computer Architecture courseat Ohio State University in 2002

Received Silver Medal in Homi Bhabha Young Scientist Competition in 1991

Appeared in Merit List for High School Scholarship Exam in 1989

Popular Press

A blog post about Using Smartphone Sensors to Measure Metro Traffic in New Delhi incrowdsource.io on July 21, 2016

An article about mSleep in Hindustan Times on Mar 23, 2016

An article about an app to measure volume of water drank using an app, smart bottle, andsmart watch in Hindustan and Jagran on Mar 13, 2016

An article about Upgrades to Basic Mobile Phones for a Smart Future in SciDev.net onMar 25, 2013

An article about Empowering Feature Phones to Execute Smart Apps in Delhi edition ofTimes of India in 2012

This articles gets a reference in MIT Technology Review, India in 2012

An article about Localization and Mobishare in NewScientist and ACM TechNews maga-zines in 2012

An article in Delhi edition of MidDay newspaper about SMSAssassin project view in 2011

A story about school children using PEIR in NPR and KQED news channels in 2009

A blurb about PEIR appeared in Mumbai edition of DNA newspaper in 2009

An article on PEIR appeared in Fall 2008 issue of UCLA Engineer, the magazine of theUCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2008

A demo on PEIR appeared in Wired magazine’s NextFest in 2008

An article about PEIR in CNBC news channel in 2008

An article about PeruNet in La Republica newspaper from Peru in 2008

A video about A Line In The Sand in Ohio News Network news channel in 2006

An article about A Line In The Sand in News in Engineering magazine published by OhioState University in 2006

Social ActivityPresident of Sankalpa from 2004 to 2006 and adviser from 2007 onwards (Sankalpa is anon-profit organization working for the social development of India)