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Personal profile
Personal profile
Dr. Pushpendu Kar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham (China campus). Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University. He also worked in different engineering colleges as a lecturer and in the IT industry as a software professional. He has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience as well as one and a half years of industrial experience at IBM. He has completed all his PhD, Master of Engineering, and Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. He also completed Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) in 2023. He was awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission, the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship from the European Union, and the SERB OPD Fellowship from the Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has received the 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. He has received four research grants for conducting research-based projects, three as a Principal Investigator (PI). He also received many travel grants to attend conferences and doctoral colloquiums. He is the author of more than 60 scholarly research papers, which have been published in reputed journals, conferences, book chapters, and IT magazines. He has also published one authored and three edited books. He is an inventor of five patents. He has chaired several conference committees, worked as a team member to organize short-term courses, and delivered a few invited talks and Keynote Lectures at international conferences and institutions. He has also worked on the editorial boards of a few international journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK, a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), India, and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) from Engineering Council, UK. Ningbo Municipal Government, China has recognized him as a High-Level Talent.
Research Interests
- Ad Hoc Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Internet of Things
- Content-Centric Networking
- Blockchain
- BigData Analytics
- Quantum Communication
Teaching
- Programming and Algorithms (COMP1038)
- Programming paradigms (COMP1039)
- Mobile Device Programming (COMP3059)
Collaboration Opportunities
Open for academic and industrial collaborations in WSN, IoT, Content-Centric Networking, Blockchain, BigData Analytics, and Quantum Communication.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computer Science and Engineering
Master, Computer Science and Engineering
Master, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE)
Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering
Disciplines
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Information and Communication Engineering
- Electronics Science and Technology
Person Types
- Staff
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 1 Finished
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DOMINANT: Development of an Efficient Plug-n-Play and Real-Time Remote Health Monitoring System;
Kar, P. (PI)
1/11/19 → 31/10/22
Project: Government Funded Projects › Vertical-Ningbo Municipal/Departmental Government (市厅级) Funded Projects
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ALDII: Adaptive Learning-based Document Image Inpainting to enhance the handwritten Chinese character legibility of human and machine
Mao, Q., Li, J., Zhou, H., Kar, P. & Bellotti, A. G., 1 Feb 2025, In: Neurocomputing. 616, 128897.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
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Efficient and Secure Data Sharing in Scalable C-V2X with Dynamic Sharding Blockchain and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Chen, N., Kwong, C. F., Chieng, D., Kar, P., Chu, Z. & Fan, P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025). IEEEResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Advancing NDN security: Efficient identification of cache pollution attacks through rank comparison
Kar, P., Chen, L., Sheng, W., Kwong, C. F. & Chieng, D., Jul 2024, In: Internet of Things (Netherlands). 26, 101142.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
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An Accurate Salary Estimation Scheme by Using BigData Technique
Zhu, Y. & Kar, P., Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT 2024). IEEEResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Autonomous handover parameter optimisation for 5G cellular networks using deep deterministic policy gradient
Kwong, C. F., Shi, C., Liu, Q., Yang, S., Chieng, D. & Kar, P., 15 Jul 2024, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 246, 122871.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
Open Access