Dr. Pushpendu Kar is 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 has completed PhD, Master of Engineering, and Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. He was awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission, ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship from the European Union, and SERB OPD Fellowship from Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has received the 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He has received four research grants for conducting research-based projects, three of them as a Principal Investigator (PI). He also received many travel grants to attend conferences and doctoral colloquiums. He has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience, a few of them from highly reputed organizations around the world. He also worked as a software professional at IBM for one and a half years. He is the author of more than 50 scholarly research papers, which have been published in reputed journals and conferences, and in IT magazines. He has also published two edited books. He is also an inventor of four patents. He has participated in several conference committees, worked as a team member to organize short-term courses, and delivered a few invited talks as well as Keynote Lectures at international conferences and institutions. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. He has been recognized as a High-Level Talent by Ningbo Municipal Government, China.

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• Ad Hoc Networks
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Internet of Things
• Content-Centric Networking
• Blockchain

• Programming and Algorithms (COMP1038)
• Programming paradigms (COMP1039)
• Mobile Device Programming (COMP3059)

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