Professor Salil Kanhere

Salil Kanhere received his MS and PhD degrees from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia. His research interests include the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, blockchain, pervasive computing, cybersecurity, and applied machine learning. Salil is also affiliated with the UNSW Institute of Cybersecurity (IFCYBER). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He has held visiting positions at I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich, the Graz University of Technology and RWTH Aachen University. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He has served on the organising committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences, including IEEE PerCom, IEEE/ACM IPSN, IEEE ICBC, IEEE WoWMoM, ACM MSWiM, etc. He has co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems, published by Artech House.