AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

Awarded Research Grants :

• E Smart System for Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring, Prediction and Management Framework funded by Research council of Oman.

Awards and Membership: 

• Emerald Literati Award-2018 for article, ‘Modeling human factors influencing herding during evacuation' published in International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications. 
• The World Education Congress Asia Awards (2011) “Best Professor in Information Technology Management”.
• Advisor to the ministry of Higher education for reviewing and analyzing new programs for the universities in the sultanate of Oman.
• N.C.C “C” Certificate (Technical) 1st Raj Campo Tech National Cadets Corps.
• Secretary of HSA in BITS Pilani Rajasthan India (1995-96) Games Secretary in BITS Pilani Rajasthan India (1995-96).
• Life member of Indian Science Congress Association.
• Members ACM and ACS
• Life Member Indian Society for Technical Education
• Life Member Institution of Engineers
• Life Member IACSIT Applied Chemical Engineering Society(ACES)
• Life Member International Association of Engineers, IAENG (Member No: 111225)
• Senior Member International Safety Quality Environment & Management Association, ISQEM
• Life Member Environment Society of Oman

Editorial and Reviewer 

• Applied Soft Computing – Elsevier Science Direct USA
• Editor member of International Journal of computer Science – Enformatica.
• Organizing committee member of National Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis “(Member Organizing Committee, October 8 – 9, 2004 at BITS, PILANI Rajasthan India. 
• Organizing committee member of an international conference on Quality Reliability and information Technology (ICQRIT)-2006 and ICQRIT 2009 Organized by INSA and Delhi University India.
• Organizing committee member of ADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2010 Freiburg, Germany, 26 – 31 July 2010.
• Reviewer for Journal of Super Computing, Springer – Germany
• Organizing committee member for International Conference on Collaborative Technology UK.
• Reviewer for the International Symposium, College of Applied Science, Ministry of Higher Education, Oman.

Invited Talk: 

• Cyber Defense Systems and Proactive Defense Design March 16, 2011, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 16.03.2011.
• Ethical, social and Security Issues in E-Business, International Symposium in the Faculty of Computing Nizwa University, Nizwa, 27.04.2011.
• Current Trends on Software Engineering, 22-24 April 2005, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi
• Advances in Software Engineering at National Seminar on Mathematics and Computer Science, 29-30 November 2005, S.D.(P.G.) College, Muzaffarnagar
• Cyber Defense National Conference on Mathematical Modeling on Real life problems, Deptt. Of Mathematics, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Sept. 16-17, 2006

Conference Organization:

• 2012 International Conference on Power Science and Engineering, ICPSE 2012, Hong Kong. December 29-30, 2012
• 2017 Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIAP-2017), May 27-28 2017. http://ccseit2016.org/2017/aiap/committee.html.

Training and workshops:

• Staff development program “Leading Institutional Innovation” Local and Global Leadership Perspective and Practices delivered by Dr. Tom Kennie UK.
• Attended workshops focusing on research skills have been organized by the Research Division. The workshop given in 2010 by Professor Bob Porter from the University of Tennessee, USA, concentrated on grant writing and grantsmanship.
• In early 2012, the workshop presented by Professor Helene Marsh from James Cook University in Australia covered contemporary issues associated with the supervision of postgraduate students.