Dr. Pushpendu Kar is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK (China campus), where he has also served as an Assistant Professor since 2019. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also worked in different engineering colleges as a lecturer and in the IT industry as a software professional. He has over 14 years of experience in teaching and research, as well as 1.5 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 a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) in 2023. He received 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 Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has received the 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. He has received six research grants to support research-based projects, three of which were as a Principal Investigator (PI). He also received many travel grants to attend conferences and doctoral colloquiums. He is the author of over 70 scholarly research papers that have appeared in prestigious journals, conferences, book chapters, and IT magazines. He has also published one authored and three edited books. He holds nine patents. He has organized the ICIoT2024 and ICDSEC2025 conferences with a team. He has also chaired numerous conference committees, collaborated with a team to organize short-term courses, and delivered a few Keynote and Invited talks at international conferences and institutions. He has also served on the editorial boards of several 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 the Engineering Council, UK. The Ningbo Municipal Government in China has recognised him as a High-Level Talent. Dr. Kar mainly teaches Computer Networks and programming-related modules. His research areas include Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Content-Centric Networking, Blockchain, BigData, and Quantum Communication.

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• Ad Hoc Networks
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Internet of Things
• Content-Centric Networking
• Blockchain
• BigData Analytics
• Quantum Communication

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

Open for academic and industrial collaborations in WSN, IoT, Content-Centric Networking, Blockchain, BigData Analytics, and Quantum Communication.