Sajal K Das

Dr. Sajal K. Das is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. He alo served the US National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division. Dr. Das’ interdisciplinary research spans cyber-physical systems, IoT, cybersecurity, machine learning, data science, wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, smart environments, parallel/cloud/edge computing, social and biological networks, applied graph theory and game theory. He has contributed significantly to these areas and published extensively in top-tier venues (more than 350 journal articles and more than 450 peer-reviewed conference papers). He coauthored four books, 59 book chapters, and 5 US patents. He directed over $24 million funded research projects. His h-index is 99 with more than 42,000 citations.

Dr. Das is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. A founder of the IEEE PerCom, WoWMoM, SMARTCOMP and ACM ICDCN conferences, he has served as General and Program Chair of reputed conferences. He is a recipient of 12 Best Paper Awards in flagship conferences like ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom; and numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and research including the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing, and the University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. Das has mentored and graduated 12 postdoctoral fellows, 51 Ph.D. scholars, 31 MS thesis, and numerous undergraduate research students. Currently he is supervising 9 Ph.D. students and 4 postdocs. He is a Distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).