Prof. Danda B. Rawat
Howard University, Washington, DC
Professional Activities and Services
Funding Agencies
Panelist/Reviewer, The U.S. National Science Foundation, 2013 - 2022.
Panelist/Reviewer, The United States Department of Energy, 2021
Panelist/Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
Panelist/Reviewer, The U.S. Department of Defense, 2016, 2018
Reviewer/Panelist, The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), 2017, 2018, 2019
Canada Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, 2017
Panelist/Reviewer, National Science Centre, Poland, 2015.
Panelist/Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, 2016
IEEE Special Interest Group
Vice Chair (Americas), IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Big Data for Cyber Security and Privacy
Founding Member, IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Big Data for Cyber Security and Privacy
Journal Editorship:
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023 - present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2023 - present
Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2018 ~ present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020 - Present
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Network Science for Internet of Things (IoT), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2017 - 2018.
Area Editor, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, 2016 - present
Guest Editor, Featured Topics in IEEE Communications Magazine
Guest Editor, Special Section in IEEE Access: Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications, January 31, 2017 (CFP).
Guest Editor, Special Issue on SDN, NFV and Mobile Edge Computing with QoE Support for 5G, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2017/2018
Area Editor, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2016 - present
Co-Director, IEEE Communications – Frontier, January 2017 - present
Editor, Elsevier Internet of Things Journal, 2018 - Present
Editor, (Wiley) Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), 2011 ~ present (Best Editor Award 2018 PDF | Link)
Editor in Chief, Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacyy, 2020 ~ present
Guest Editor, Wireless Networking Technologies for Smart Cities, Hindawi Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (CFP), 2017
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Future Networking Research Plethora for Smart Cities, Elsevier Journal Future Generation Computer Systems
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, EAI Transactions on Wireless Spectrum, 2015 ~ 2017
Editor, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, 2012 ~ present
Editor in Chief, Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2020 - present
Editor, International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC), (IJSSC leaflet) 2013 ~ present
Editor, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2016 ~ present
Guest Editor, IoT-BD 2017 : Special Issue on Internet of Things and Big Data International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), 2017
Editor, Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, (JNIT), 2012 ~ present
Editor, International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks (IJP2P), 2010 ~ present
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks for Measuring the Impact of Human Activities over Different Environments, Hindawi International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015 (cfp).
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Network Surveillance and Intruder Detection, cfp The Scientific World Journal (Hindawi), 2014
Lead Guest Editor, A Special Issue on Recent Advances in Vehicular Communications and Networking, Ad Hoc Networks(Elsevier Journal) , Elsevier, 2012/2013.
Guest Editor, A Special Issue on Network Protocols and Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, MONET "MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS", ACM/Springer, 2013.
Editorial Board Member, Future Internet of MDPI, 2016 ~
Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Cloud of Things”, Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks, 2016
Organizing Committee for Conferences/Workshops
Serving as a TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IEEE IRI 2020), August 11 - August 13, 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA..
Track Chair, Tactile Internet IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin Iraland.
Publication Chair IEEE INFOCOM 2019, 29 April - 2 May 2019, Paris, France.
Chair, IEEE 5G Wireless Security 2019 (IEEE - 5G-Sec) in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2019, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China
Track Co-Chair, ANSS 2019 Cybersecurity Track, USA
Track Co-Chair, 2019 WSC, Cybersecurity Track, Dec. 8 -11, 2019 Washington DC, USA
TPC Vice Chair (Information Systems), IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA
Track Chair, IEEE CCNC 2019, Wireless Communications - MAC/Cross-Layer Track
Invited Paper Chair, ICNC 2019
Workshop Chair, ACM SmartCitySecurity 2018, A MobiHoc 2018 Workshop.
Workshop Chair, IEEE 5G Wireless Security (5G-Security) in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA , 20-24 May 2018
Workshop Chair, The IEEE International Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systems (CCNCPS), in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA , 20-24 May 2018
TPC Chair, The Third International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2018), Barcelona, Spain. April 23-26, 2018
Poster Co-Chair, IEEE CNS 2017, 9-11 October 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Track Chair, IEEE CCNC 2018, Wireless Communications - MAC/Cross-Layer Track
Tutorial Chair, ICNC 2018
TPC Chair, 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 26-28 Feb., Paris - France
TPC Chair, The IEEE International Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systems (CCNCPS), in association with IEEE the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2017), June 5 - 8, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
TPC Chair, The Sixth International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC’18), Sept 19 - 22, 2018, Bangalore, India.
Web Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
General Co-Chair, IEEE RAFNET with VTC Fall 2017
TPC Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Workshop, IEEE SCAN 2017
TPC Co-Chair, FMEC 2017 - Second International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017), Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
Track Chair, IEEE CCNC 2017, Wireless Communications - MAC/Cross-Layer Track
Track Chair, ICNC 2017, Cognitive Computing and Networking Track
Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE WoWMoM 2017, Macao in June 12-15, 2017.
Publicity Co-Chairs, 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, SPAIN, June 26 — 30, 2017
Workshop Co-Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies (RAFNET), in conjunction with 85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), June 4 - 7, Sydney, Australia, 2017
TPC Co-Chair, Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systema (CCNCPS 2017) IEEE the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2017) June 5 - 8, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
Publicity Co-Chair, Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2017) will be held in Marrackech, Morocco, March 27 - 31, 2017
TPC Co-Chair, The First International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing co-located with 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System (SASO 2016), Augsburg, Germany, September 12-16, 2016
Track Chair, BWCCA 2016 Wireless and Vehicular Networking Track
Web Chair, INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA
Track Co-chair, IEEE CCNC 2016: Wireless Networking and Mobility Track
Track Chair, NBiS 2016, Ostrava, Czech Republic
TPC Co-Chair, IEEE SDS 2016, Berlin, Germany
General Chair, IEEE SDRANCAN 2015, International Workshop on Advances in Software Defined and Context Aware Cognitive Networks 2015 in Conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, 6-10 December 2015, San Diego, CA, USA.
General Chair, IEEE SCAN 2015, International Workshop on Advances in Software Defined and Context Aware Cognitive Networks 2015 in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2015, 8-12 June 2015, London, UK.
Student Travel Grants Co-Chair, INFOCOM 2015, in Hong Kong, April 27-30, 2015
General Chair, IEEE CCAN 2015: IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-assisted Context-Aware Networks and Cognitive Networks 2015 in conjunction with IEEE CCNC 2015 January 9 – 12, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
General Chair, IEEE Cloud-CPS 2014: IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-integrated Cyber Physical Systems 2014 (IEEE Cloud-CPS 2014) in conjunction with IEEE Cloud Com 2014, December 15 - 18, 2014, Singapore
Track Co-chair, The 29th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-15), Communications Network and Protocols, Gwangju, Korea, March 24-27, 2015.
Technical Program Chair, The Second International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC-2014), 24 - 29 September 2014, Delhi, India
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2017: The Sixth International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and their Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks in conjunction with IMIS-2017.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2016: The Sixth International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and their Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks in conjunction with IMIS-2016.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2015: The Fifth International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and their Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks in conjunction with IMIS-2015.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2014: The Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and their Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks in conjunction with IMIS-2014, July 2 to July 4, 2014, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.
Co-Chair, ASTSA 2013: The Fourth International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Technologies, Systems and Applications (ASTSA 2013) to be held in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2013) at the University of Technology of Compiegne, France October 28-30, 2013.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2013: The Second International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks (ACTICS 2013) in conjunction with International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing ( IMIS-2013), July 3-rd to July 5-th, 2013, Taichung, Taiwan.
Co-Chair, ASTSA 2012: The Third International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Technologies, Systems and Applications (ASTSA 2012) to be held in conjunction with Sixth International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA-2012), Victoria, Canada, November 12 - 14, 2012.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2012: The Second International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks 2012 (ACTICS 2012) in conjunction with International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS) 2012, July 4-th to July 6-th, 2012, Sanpaolo Palace Hotel, Palermo, Italy.
Co-Chair, ASTSA 2011: The Second International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Technologies, Systems and Applications (ASTSA 2011) in conjunction with Sixth International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA-2011), Barcelona, Spain, October 26-28, 2011.
Co-Chair, ACTICS 2011: The First International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks 2011 (ACTICS 2011) in conjunction with International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS) 2011, June 30th - July 2nd, 2011, Seoul, Korea. (CFP)
Technical Program Committee Member (selected)
TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2020 -
TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2019 TPC PDF | Web Link
TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2018 - CRN Track
TPC MEmber of VTC2018-Spring: Porto
TPC Member of INFOCOM 2017
TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2017 - CRN Track
TPC Member, IEEE CBDCom 2017
TPC Member of IEEE/CIC ICCC'16
TPC Member of VTC2017-Spring: Sydney
2016 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016), Globecom'16 - SAC - - CN (2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Cloud Networks), 4-8 December 2016, Washington, DC USA.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Track - Cloud and Big Data for Internet of Things (IoT), Toulouse, France, July 18 - 21, 2016.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016),Track - Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23 - 26, 2016.
2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015),Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals, Doha, Qatar, April 3 - 6, 2016.
2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015),Track 3 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, Doha, Qatar, April 3 - 6, 2016.
IEEE/SAE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2015), October 19-23, 2015, Shenzhen, China
2015 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), Cognitive Radio Networks, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.
2015 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), Selected Area of Communications, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015),Track - Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, London, UK, 8-12 June 2015.
2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015),Track 3 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 9-12, 2015.
2014 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Selected Area of Communications, Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 8-12, 2014.
2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014),Track 3 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, Istanbul, Turkey, April 6-9, 2014
IEEE/SAE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014), November 3-7, 2014 | Vienna, Austria
9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC-14), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 17 - 20, 2014
The 9th International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2014), Mobile and Vehicular Networks Track, November 8-10, 2014, China
The Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications (INTELLI 2014) June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain.
IEEE/SAE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2013 ), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2-6 December 2013
IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2013 - Communications and Networking Track
The Eighth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology -- ICCGI 2013, July 21 - 26, 2013 - Nice, France
International Workshop on Converged Networks, Technologies and Applications (CNTA 2013) In conjunction with ICNC 2013, San Diego, USA, January 28-31, 2013
The Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2013 (INTELLI 2013), April 21 - 26, 2013 - Venice, Italy.
The Third International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT- 2013), February 18 ~ 20, 2013, Bangalore, India.
The Sixth International Conference on Network Security & Applications (CNSA-2013), July 13 ~ 15, 2013, Chennai, India.
The IADIS international conference on “Theory and Practice in Modern Computing”, Lisbon, Portugal, 22 - 24 July, 2013.
2013 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2013), 22 – 25 August 2013, Mysore, India.
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Track - Mobile and Wireless Networks. Paris, France, April 1-4, 2012
International Conference on Mathematical Sciences & Computer Engineering (ICMSCE 2012), Malaysia.
2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2012), Chennai, India, 3 - 5 August 2012.
2012 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and Computational Intelligence - ICDMCI 2012, February 16-17, 2012.
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Special Session on Information Dissemination in Vehicular Networks.
The First International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications 2011 (ACC 2011).
The First International Workshop on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Communications 2010 (BioAdcom 2010).
Journal (Regular) Referee/Reviewer (incomplete list):
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Magazine
Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)
Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications (ComCom)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN)
International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN)
Conference (Regular) Referee/Reviewer (incomplete list):
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC)
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM).
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT)
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC).
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC).
IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC).
The Seventh International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2010).
Editor/Editorial Board Member
Book: "Cyber Physical Systems: From Theory to Practice," CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, USA, Spring 2015
Book: Security, Privacy, Trust, and Resource Management in Mobile and Wireless Communications, IGI Publishers, USA, 2013/2014.
Book: Embedded Systems and Wireless Technology: Theory and practical applications. (to be published by Science Publishers), 2011.
Book: Cognitive Radio Technology Applications for Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (to be published by IGI Publishers, USA), 2012 - 2013.
Reviewer for the books and book chapters:
Book: Introduction to Random Processes, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Book chapters: Emerging Technologies in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Applications and Future Development, IGI Publications, 2011.
Book chapters: Security in Computing and Networking Systems: The State-of-the-Art, 2010
Professional (Society) Memberships:
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Senior Member,, IEEE Computer Society (Computer)
Senior Member,, IEEE Communications Society (comSoc)
Senior Member,, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (vtSociety)
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Reviewer Pool for ACM SIGCOMM CCR
Professional Member, Nepal Engineering Council
Professional Member, Nepal Engineers' Association, 2003
Member, Amnesty International
Panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF)