Dr. Ayan Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Engineer at Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications - Networks and Systems, University of Oulu, Finland, in 2023. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2020. He was a visiting researcher at Inria, Rennes, France, in 2019. He completed his M.S. (by Research) degree from the IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2015. He received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India, in 2012. His research works are published in prestigious IEEE Transactions, Journals, and conferences such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal , IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM. Dr. Mondal also served as a reviewer in several prestigious IEEE/ACM Transactions, Journals, and Conferences. He received the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Fellowship (India) and IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2016 and 2022, respectively. Previously, Dr. Mondal chaired many workshops at different conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE HPSR, and ACM/IEEE CCGrid. He is an IEEE Senior Member and ACM Professional Member.
The current research interests of his group, Next-Generation Networking, Services, and Technologies (NEST) Research Group, include algorithm design for intelligent edge cloud, next-generation networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He is a former member of Myriads research team at INRIA, Rennes, France, and Smart Wireless Applications & Networking (SWAN) Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
The current research interests of his group, Next-Generation Networking, Services, and Technologies (NEST) Research Group, include algorithm design for intelligent edge cloud, next-generation networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He is a former member of Myriads research team at INRIA, Rennes, France, and Smart Wireless Applications & Networking (SWAN) Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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News
| [Apr. 2024] "T-RESIN: Throughput-Aware Dynamic Resource Orchestration for IoE-Enable Software-Defined Edge Networks" accepted in International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley. |
| [Mar. 2024] Faculty Counselor, IEEE Student Branch Chapter, IIT Indore. |
| [Feb. 2024] Elected as IEEE Senior Member. |
| [Jan. 2024] "ABP: Attribute-based Broadcast Proxy Re-encryption with Coalitional Game Theory" accepted in IEEE Systems Journal. |
| [Nov. 2023] Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) - E-Health Track Chair at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada. |
| [Nov. 2023] "MBP: Multi-Channel Broadcast Proxy Re-Encryption for Cloud-Based IoT Devices" accepted in Computer Communications, Elsevier. |
| [Aug. 2023] Visting Professor, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, August 19-September 3, 2023. |
| [Jun 2023] Corresponding Editor and Organizing Chair, MICA 2023, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India, October 30-31, 2023. |
| [May 2023] Workshop Chair, the Second Workshop on "A4E: AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 4-8, 2023. |
| [May 2023] "TiME: Time-sensitive Multihop Data Transmission in Software-Defined Edge Networks for IoT" accepted in the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) Workshop: The 3rd International Workshop on Big data-driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS). |
| [Apr 2023] "CBP: Coalitional Game-based Broadcast Proxy Re-encryption in IoT" accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. |
| [Dec 2022] Panel Chair, International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE) 2022 (Springer), Cuttack, Odisha, India, December 23-24, 2022. |
| [May 2023] Program Committee Chair, "CLEF: Cloud, Edge, and Fog for Smart Industries" Workshop co-located with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGrid) 2023, Bangalore, India, May 1-4, 2023. |
| [Jan 2023] Program Committee Member, Doctoral Symposium of the 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking (ICDCN) 2023, IIT Kharagpur, January 4-7, 2023. |
| [Sep 2022] Associate Editor, IoT Services and Applications (specialty section of Frontiers in the Internet of Things), September 2022 - Present. |
| [May 2023] Workshop Chair, the Second Workshop on "SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services" Workshop co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023, Rome, Italy, May 28-June 1, 2023. |
| [Dec 2022] Publicity Chair, International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS) 2022 (Springer), IIT Ropar, India, December 19-21, 2022 |
| [Oct 2022] Received the prestigious IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2022 |
| [May 2022] Workshop Chair, "A4E: AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks" Workshop co-located with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2022, Virtual conference, May 2-5, 2022 |
| [Jan 2022] Co-host, the webinar series on "Next Generation IoT" organized by the Technical Committee on Communications Software: Special Interest Group on "NFV and SDN Technologies" of IEEE Communication Society |
| [Jan 2022] Co-host, the webinar series on "Healthcare IoT" jointly organized by the Technical Committee on eHealth: Special Interest Group on "IoT for eHealth" and Technical Committee Green Computing and Communications: Special Interest Group on "Pandemics" of IEEE Communication Society |
| [Dec 2021] Workshop Chair, "SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2021, Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021 |
| [Oct 2021] "AuGrid: Edge-Enabled Distributed Load Management for Smart Grid Service Providers" accepted in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking |
| [Oct 2021] Joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Indore |