Akanksha Srivastava Author & Editor

Gurjit Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India. She has been a topper throughout her academic education. As a testimonial to the same, she has been awarded by Chief Minister S. Prakash Singh Badal for being the topper in Punjab state. After that, she was awarded a ‘Gold Medal’ by former President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam for being the overall topper of the Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar in B.Tech program. She also received an Honour by Guru Harkrishan Education Society for being topper among all the colleges and all the disciplines of PTU, Jalandhar. She then proceeded to PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh to complete her M. Tech in 2003 and also earned her Ph.D. degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2010 with distinction. She has spent over 16 years of her academic career towards research and teaching in the field of Electronics and Communication in well-reputed institutes like PEC University of Technology, Punjab University, Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology, Gautam Buddha University, and Delhi Technological University, Delhi. During this academic tenure, she has guided 04 Ph.D. students and more than 50 M. Tech students. Her research interests mainly include Optical CDMA, Wireless Communication system, high-speed interconnect and IOT. She has also authored three books at the international and national level. Her two books, i.e., “Handbook of Research on Big Data and the IoT" and “Examining Cloud Computing Technologies through the Internet of Things," were published by IGI-Global, International Publisher of Progressive Information Science and Technology Research in 2018 and 2017 respectively. She also authored a national level book entitled “Optical Communication,” which was published by Galgotia Publications in 2005. Apart from that Dr. Kaur contributed various book chapters in well-renowned publishers’ books i.e., IGI, Springer, CRC, etc. She has presented her research work as short courses/tutorials in many national and international conferences. In recognition of her outstanding contribution as an active researcher, Dr. Kaur also received Bharat Vikas Award by Institute of Self Reliance in National Seminar on Diversity of Cultural and Social Environment at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India & Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leader Award in World Education Congress, Mumbai, India in 2017. Her career accomplishments over the past sixteen years include over 90 peer-reviewed publications, including 55 journal publications, 35 conference publications, and over ten invited talks/seminars. Due to her pioneer research, her name is also listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering Directory, USA and her biography was also published by International Biographic Center, Great Britain as 2000 Outstanding Scientists. She also worked as a convener for two international conferences i.e. International ICIAICT 2012 which was organized by CSI, Noida Chapter and International conference EPPICTM 2012 which was held in collaboration with MTMI, USA, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA and Frostburg State University, USA at School of Information and Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India. Till date, she had delivered many expert talks on the emerging trends in optical for all domain applications at various universities and served as a reviewer of multiple journals like IEEE transactions on communication etc.

Akanksha Srivastava is working as a Principal Investigator under Women Scientists Scheme-A (WOS-A) of Department of Science and Technology (DST) project in Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the area of Green Communication from Delhi Technological University. Before joining Delhi Technological University, she worked as a Women Scientists at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, H.P., India. Apart from this, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at PSIT- College of Engineering, Kanpur, India. She has good teaching and research experience. She has also been nominated for various college-level administrative profiles like time table coordinator, project coordinator, subject coordinator, member of the anti-ragging committee, member of discipline committee etc. Ms. Srivastava is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). She is selected as a student ambassador for the IEEEXtreme 14.0 coding competition from Delhi section of IEEE and received “Student Travel Grant” for International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems from IEEE. She has been awarded for "India Innovation Challenge Design Contest-2018" by DST and Texas Instruments. She has contributed a book chapter entitled “Green smart cities,” Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities, Taylor & Francis Group, 1st Edition Boca Raton, Florida, published by CRC Press. She has received her B. Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University (now Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University), Lucknow, India in 2010, and her M. Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2014. Her current research includes Green Communication, Energy Efficient Wireless Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Communication, Next-Generation Networks, and Heterogeneous Networking. Apart from teaching, she has guided various undergraduate projects in the areas of wireless communication. She has various publications in national/international journals and conferences and book chapters etc. She has also qualified various technical courses and attended many workshops/seminars.