Dr. Pushpendu Kar

Dr. Pushpendu Kar

SFHEA, FIETE, CEng, SMIEEE
Assistant Professor
University of Nottingham (China campus)

Membership:

  1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member, Id: 93025879
  2. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member, Id: 1355491
  3. Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Member, Id: 1101015556
  4. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Lifetime Member, Id: 80339962

Professional Institution Leadership:

  1. International Professional Registration Advisor (IPRA), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, 2024 - Present.
  2. Professional Registration Interviewer (PRI) for CEng/IEng, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, 2024 - Present.

Research Laboratory Development:

  1. Co-Developer, Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoE) Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (Directors: Dr. Chiew-Foong Kwong and Co-Director: Dr. David Chieng)

Editorial Activities:

  1. Editorial Board Member, Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - 2026
  2. Guest Editor, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Current Challenges to Future Solutions with Innovative Techniques and Tools for Smart Healthcare Applications, Frontiers in Communications and Networks (Impact factor: 2.21), 2023 - 2024.
  3. Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Engineering Business Management, Sage Publisher (Impact factor: 3.3), 2022 - Present
  4. Academic Editor, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Hindawi (Impact factor: 2.68), 2021 - 2023
  5. Editor, American Journal of Networks and Communications, Science Publishing Group, 2022 – 2024
  6. Review Editor, Frontiers in the Internet of Things - IoT Services and Applications, 2022 - Present

Distinguish Talks:

  1. Invited Talk: “Identifying COVID-19 Fake News on Social Networks Using Deep Learning: You will not know what happens next!”, 8th International Conference on Mathematical Models & Computational Techniques in Science & Engineering (MMCTSE 2024), Athens, Greece, 02nd June 2024
  2. Invited Talk: “Smart Home Control Through Activity Recognition”, Techno College of Engineering Agartala, Tripura, India, 22nd May 2024
  3. Keynote Speech: "Enhancing NDN Security: Name Signature Lookup System", 13th International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICTech 2024), Xiamen, China, 13th April 2024
  4. Keynote Speech: "Activity Recognition Based Smart Home Control System", International Conference on Image, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (ICIAAI 2023), Singapore, 11th August 2023
  5. Keynote Speech: "Activity Recognition Based Smart Home Control System", International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Technology (ICMAT 2022), Wuhan, China, 29th October 2022
  6. Keynote Speech: "Name Signature Lookup System for Enhanced Security of NDN-based IoT Networks", 2nd International Conference on Computer, Remote Sensing, and Aerospace (CRSA 2022), Osaka, Japan, 26th August 2022
  7. Keynote Speech: "Name Signature Lookup System for Enhanced Security of NDN-based IoT Networks", International Faculty Development Program, Sharda University, Noida, India, 23rd June 2022
  8. Keynote Speech: "Activity Recognition Based Intelligent Sensory System for Smart Home Control", International Conference on 3D Immersion, Interaction and Multi-sensory Experiences (ICDIIME 2022), Madrid, Spain, 27-29 June 2022
  9. Keynote Speech: "Activity Recognition Based Smart Home Control System", International Conference on Algorithms, Microchips and Network Applications (AMNA 2022), Zhuhai, China, 18th February 2022
  10. Keynote Speech: "Recommendation based approach for personalized control, Visual Comfort & Energy Efficiency in office buildings", International Conference on Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing (ICCAID 2021), Harbin, China, 24th December 2021
  11. Keynote Speech: "Named Data Networking Based Interoperable and Secure Framework for Heterogeneous IoT Networks", International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning (IoTML 2021), Dalian, China, 17th December 2021
  12. Keynote Speech: "Security Enhancement to Named Data Networking", International Conference on Cyber Warfare, Security & Space Research (SpacSec'21), Jaipur, India, 10th December 2021
  13. Invited Talk: "Personalized Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings", International Conference on Sustainability and Equity: Digital Society, Bhubaneswar, India, 24th November 2020
  14. Invited Talk: "Personalized Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings", co-organized by IEEE Kharagpur Section and National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) Kharagpur Chapter, 16th July 2020
  15. Keynote Speech: "Named Data Networking: towards data-centric, fast and secure new generation Internet technology", 5th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2020), Mauritius, 25th June 2020
  16. Keynote Speech: "Named Data Networking: towards data-centric, fast and secure new generation Internet technology", 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ICITEE 2019), Changsha, Hunan, China, 6th December 2019
  17. Invited Talk: "Underwater Sensor Network Protocols at Various Layers", Faculty Development Program, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India, 4th August 2016

Conference Chair:

  1. General Chair: Asia-Europe Conference on Cybersecurity, Internet of Things and Soft Computing (CITSC 2025), 10-12 January 2025, Rimini, Italy
  2. Technical Program Committee Chair: International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIoT 2024), 24 - 25 October 2024, Ningbo, China
  3. Publication Chair: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Information Science (AICIS 2024), 15-17 March 2024, Guangzhou, China
  4. Publication Chair: 2nd International Conference on Computer, Internet of Things and Control Engineering (CITCE 2023), 3 - 5 November 2023, Leicester, UK.
  5. Program Committee Chair: International Conference on Images, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (ICIAAI 2023), 11 – 13 Aug 2023, Singapore
  6. General Chair: 2nd International Conference on 3D Immersion, Interaction and Multi-sensory Experiences (ICDIIME 2023), 27-29 June 2023, Madrid, Spain.
  7. Publication Chair: 2nd International Conference on Computer, Internet of Things and Control Engineering (CITCE 2022), 11 - 13 November 2022, Sanya, China.
  8. Publication Chair: 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Visualization (AIVRV 2022), 23 - 25 September 2022, Chongqing, China.
  9. General Chair: International Conference on Advanced Communications and Machine Intelligence (MICA 2022), 7-9 July 2022, Tamil Nadu, India.
  10. General Chair: International Conference on 3D Immersion, Interaction and Multi-sensory Experiences (ICDIIME 2022), 27-29 June 2022, Madrid, Spain.
  11. International Advisory Chair: 10th International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2020), 24-25 April 2020, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Conference Session Chair:

  1. 17th IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021), June 2021, Harbin, China.
  2. International Conference on Sustainability and Equity: Digital Society, 24 November 2020, Bhubaneswar, India
  3. 20th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT 2020), October 2020, Nanning, China.
  4. ACM International Workshop on Future Industrial Communication Networks (FICN) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom, November 2018, New Delhi, India.
  5. IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 2016), November 2016, Singapore.

Conference International Advisory Committee Member:

  1. 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing and Software Engineering (ICACSE 2021), 19-20 February 2021, Sultanpur, Uttar Prades, India.
  2. International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2020), 19-20 December 2020, Kolkata, India.
  3. International Conference on Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision (ICICV 2020), 17-19 January 2020, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
  4. International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (ICAMCS 2019), October 17-19, 2019, Dehradun, India.
  5. International Conference on Advanced Computing and Software Engineering (ICACSE 2019), February 2019, Sultanpur, U.P., India.

Conference Technical Program Committee Member:

  1. The IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications (IARIA Congress 2025), 6 - 10 July 2025, Venice, Italy
  2. IEEE International Conference on Communication: SAC E-Health Track (ICC2025:SAC-EH), 8–12 June 2025, Montreal, Canada.
  3. 9th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (ICDSP 2025), 21-23 February 2025, Chengdu, China
  4. The 15th IEEE Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (IEEE GIIS2025), 25-27 February 2025, Dubai, UAE
  5. IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2024), 18–20 November 2024, Nara, Japan
  6. The 10th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2024), 5-8 November 2024, Malay, Philippines
  7. The 14th International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE 2024), 16-18 August 2024, Macau, China.
  8. IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication & Information Systems Security (Globecom 2024 CISS), 8–12 December 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.
  9. The 9th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2024), 24-26 May 2024, Tokyo, Japan
  10. The 7th World Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (WCCCT 2024), 12-14 April 2024, Chengdu, China
  11. IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2023), 15–17 December 2023, Chongqing, China
  12. IEEE International Conference on Communication: SAC E-Health Track (ICC 2024:SAC-EH), 9–13 June 2024, Denver, CO, USA
  13. 4th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data (CLBD 2023), 11 - 12 November 2023, Dubai, UAE
  14. 15th International Conference on Networks & Communications (NeCoM 2023), 23 - 24 September 2023, Toronto, Canada
  15. 6th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2023), 22 - 24 December, Sanya, China
  16. 7th World Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (WCCCT 2024), 22-24 March 2024, Chengdu, China
  17. 12th IEEE International Conference on Communications, Networks, and Satellite (ComNetSat 2023), 23-25 November 2023, Malang, Indonesia
  18. 8th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (ICDSP 2024), 23-25 February 2024, Hangzhou, China
  19. International Conference on Communications, Computing and Artificial Intelligence(CCCAI 2023), 23-25 June 2023, Shanghai, China
  20. IEEE International Conference on Communication: SAC E-Health Track (ICC 2022:SAC-EH) 28 May – 01 June 2022, Rome, Italy
  21. 6th World Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (WCCCT 2023), 6 – 8 January 2023, Chengdu, China
  22. 12th International Conference on Communication and Network Security (ICCNS 2022), 1-3 December 2022, Beijing, China
  23. IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Computational Intelligence (CyberneticsCom 2022), 16-18 June 2022, Malang, Indonesia.
  24. IEEE Global Communication Conference: Communication & Information Systems Security (Globecom 2022:CISS), 4 – 8 December, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
  25. 23rd IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2022), 6-8 June 2022, Taicang, Jiangsu, China.
  26. 14th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (Things 2021), 06-08 December 2021, Melbourne, Australia.
  27. IEEE Global Communication Conference: Communication & Information Systems Security (Globecom 2021:CISS) 7-11 December 2021, Madrid, Spain.
  28. IEEE International Conference on Communication: SAC E-Health Track (ICC 2022:SAC-EH) 16-20 May 2022, Seoul, South Korea.
  29. 21st IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT 2021), 13-16 October 2021, Tianjin, China.
  30. 10th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks, and Satellite (COMNETSAT 2020), 17-18 July 2021, Purwokerto, Indonesia.
  31. 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications (Smart GIFT 2021), 12-13 August 2021, Virtual conference.
  32. IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2021), 23-26 August 2021, Calgary, Canada
  33. 9th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks, and Satellite (COMNETSAT 2020), 17-18 December 2020, Batam, Indonesia.
  34. International Conference on IoT and its Applications (ICIA 2020), December 2020, Jamshedpur, India
  35. 20th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT 2020), 28-31 October 2020, Nanning, China.
  36. 13th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (Things 2020), 02-06 November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece.
  37. IEEE International Conference on Communication: SAC E-Health Track (ICC 2021 SAC-EH2021) and COVI-COM Workshop, 14-18 June 2021, Montreal, Canada.
  38. IEEE Globecom 2020 Communication & Information Systems Security Symposium (Globecom 2020:CISS), 7-11 December 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
  39. IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020), 17-21 August 2020, Calgary, Canada
  40. IEEE International Conference on Communication – Big Data Track (ICC 2020: BD Track), Dublin, Ireland, 7-11 June 2020.
  41. 11th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (UbiSafe 2019), Atlanta, USA, 14-17 July 2019.
  42. 6th International Symposium on Big Data Principles, Architectures, and Applications (BDAA 2019), Dublin, Ireland, 15–19 July 2019.
  43. ACM International Workshop on Future Industrial Communication Networks (FICN) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom, New Delhi, India, November 2018
  44. International Conference on Communication (ICC 2018): SAC Symposium Smart Cities Track, Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018
  45. IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC 2017), Wuxi, China, 14-17 September 2017
  46. 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2017), Toronto, Canada, 2017
  47. International Conference on Intelligent, Secure, and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments (ISDD 2017), Canada, 2017
  48. 20th International Conference of Network-Based Information System (NbiS 2017), Canada, 2017.
  49. International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2016), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 2016.
  50. 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction (IHCI 2012), IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 2012.

Short Term Couse Organization:

  1. Organizing team member: International Summer and Winter Term (ISWT) course at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, June 2015.
  2. Organizing team member: Short Term Course on Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structure using C++, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 2nd - 20th June 2014

Administrative Duties:

  1. Computer Science UG Course Director at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2023 - Present
  2. PGCHE faculty advisor of FoSE at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2023 – Present
  3. The BCS Accreditation Coordinator at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2023 - Present
  4. School of Computer Science Learning Community Forum (LCF) Coordinator, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2023 - Present
  5. Appointed Member of Faculty Education and Student Experience Committee (FESEC) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2022 - Present
  6. Member of the Admission and International Relations committee at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2020 - Present
  7. Member of EC Committee in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2020 - 2021
  8. Held the post of Cashier at Vikram Sarabhai Residential Complex (VSRC) Hall, IIT Kharagpur, 2013 - 2014
  9. Held the post of Block Representative at Vikram Sarabhai Residential Complex (VSRC) Hall, IIT Kharagpur, 2012 - 2013

PhD Thesis Examiner:

  1. External Examiner: Padmini Mansingh, “Health Care Data Management Using Big Data Analytics”, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India, 2024
  2. Internal Examiner: Lincan Li, “Mobile Edge Cache Technique Under Radio Access Network for The Next Generation of Communication Networks”, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2021

Paper Review:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  2. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  3. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  4. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  5. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  6. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
  7. IEEE Systems Journal
  8. IEEE Sensors Journal
  9. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  10. IEEE Network
  11. IEEE Communication Magazine
  12. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
  13. Building and Environment (Elsevier)
  14. Computer Networks (Elsevier)
  15. Smart Health (Elsevier)
  16. IET Wireless Sensor Systems
  17. Wireless Personal Communications (Springer)
  18. Telecommunication Systems (Springer)
  19. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley)
  20. Security and Communication Networks (Wiley)
  21. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (IOS Press)
  22. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (InderScience)
  23. Photonic Network Communications
  24. International Journal of Engineering Business Management
  25. Journal of Mobile Multimedia (River Publisher)
  26. IEEE Healthcom 2023
  27. IEEE Globecom 2020
  28. International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE), 2013
  29. IEEE Students' Technology Symposium (IEEE TechSym), 2014, 2016
  30. IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), 2015, 2018, 2020
  31. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2016
  32. IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), 2019

Book Review:

  1. The seventh edition of “Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management” by Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg, Pearson Global Editions