Nurul I. Sarkar (Senior Member, IEEE) received a PhD in Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering (field of study: wireless networks) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is currently a Professor and Director of the Networking and Security Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. He has authored 200+ refereed articles (16+ Q1 journals since 2018) in network and communications, including the IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Education, Ad Hoc Networks, Computer Communications, and Computer Networks. Prof Sarkar is a member of many professional organisations and societies. He was on the Editorial Review Boards of several prestigious journals and was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine. Improving the Performance of Wireless LANs: A Practical Guide, his second book, was published by Taylor & Francis in 2014. He has spent research leave in China, Japan, and Malaysia in recent years. He was the conference General Co-Chair for the ITNAC’19, CECNet’18 and the TPC Co-Chair for the ICOIN’24, IEEE ICC’14, and IEEE TENCON’10. His research interests include wireless network protocols, cognitive radio ad hoc networks, IoT, and cloud/Fog/edge networking.
