Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, India, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India, in 2016. He is working as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Belfast, U.K. Before coming to QUB, he was a Research Fellow with the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, where he worked on the future-proof blockchain systems funded by SUTD-MoE. From November 16 to March 19, he worked with the Information Security Engineering Department, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, South Korea, in multiple positions such as a Postdoctoral Researcher from November 2016 to December 2017 and a Research Assistant Professor from January 2018 to March 2019. He also held a joint postdoctoral position with Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea. He was affiliated with the Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation and the Mobile Internet Security Lab with Soonchunhyang University. Before this, he worked as a Lecturer with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University. He has authored/coauthored more than 100 journal/conference articles and book chapters and co-edited two books with Springer. His areas of research and interests are 5G networks, Blockchain systems, aerial (UAV) communications, CPS-IoT behavior-modeling, and mobile Internet systems. Dr. Sharma was a recipient of the three best paper awards from the International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in April 2017; CISC-S’17 South Korea in June 2017; and IoTaas Taiwan in September 2017. He has served as a Guest Editor for Management Information Systems Quarterly, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Sensors (MDPI), Drones (MDPI), Future Internet (MDPI), and Autosoft Journals. He was the Track Chair of MobiSec’16 and AIMS-FSS’16, a PC Member of MIST’16, and a reviewer of MIST’17. He has served as the TPC Member for ETIC-2019, WiMO-2019, ITNAC-IEEE TCBD’17, ICCMIT’18, CoCoNet’18, and ITNAC-IEEE TCBD’18. He also serves as a reviewer for various ACM/IEEE Transactions and other journals. He serves as the ATE for the IEEE Communications Magazine and an AE for the IET-CAAI TRIT, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and IET Networks. He is a Professional Member of ACM and the Past Chair for ACM Student Chapter-TIET Patiala.