Graduate Forum

Keynote Speaker

Dr. RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands

Bio Talk Info

Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad has been a faculty at the Networked Systems group of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He has (co-)authored 300+ publications in peer-reviewed international transactions/journals and conferences, including patents, standards and book chapters. He has been successful in acquiring and executing several European and Dutch national projects in the areas of IoT, CPS, mmWave networks, Smart-energy systems, Personal Networks, and Cognitive Radios. Dr. Prasad received his 4TU University Teaching Qualification diploma with excellence in 2015. Recognizing his research contributions to the field of IoT, he was selected as an IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer, twice, during 2016-2020. He has been contributing significantly to valorizing research to practice by contributing to standards on Cognitive radios work groups and the mentor of the IEEE Tactile Internet standard. Currently vice chair of MobiNet-SC standardization group and was secretary of ComSoc standards board. He is also leading many IEEE activities through positions in technical committees (vice-chair of the cognitive networking 2013-16, 2020-22 and Green Communications and Computing 20172019). He is an editor of many transactions and magazines and is a regular TPC member for many conferences. He was responsible for the signing of the MoU between Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and TU Delft and he is anchoring the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and TU Delft cooperations. He was the Deputy Project Director for Lunar Zebro – a moon rover project. Dr. Prasad completed his PhD from IISc, Bangalore, India in 2003. During his PhD research, a scalable VoIP conferencing platform was designed. His thesis work led to a start-up venture, Esqube Communication Solutions. While at Esqube, Several patent applications and PCT applications were filed along with his colleagues. He was instrumental in Esqube’s selection as top 100 IT innovators in India in 2006 by NASSCOM and the top 100 promising companies in Asia by RedHerring in 2008. Recently, he led a student team to win the worldwide Airbus challenge – Fly Your Ideas (2019). He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is a Fellow of IETE.

Title: You Must be Kidding, VP!

COMSNETS 2025 Graduate Forum is a supportive environment for graduate students (Post-graduate and Doctoral Researchers) to showcase early-stage research in areas related to communications, systems, and networking at COMSNETS, the premier conference that brings together networking researchers from both academia and the industry. Graduate Forum will provide students with useful feedback on their current research as well as future research directions from experienced researchers, and the opportunity to interact with eminent researchers from both academia and industry. All submissions will receive detailed reviews from the review committee.

Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings (unless the author requires otherwise). At least one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the dedicated Graduate Forum session through a formal presentation.

Best Paper Award:

Best “Graduate Forum Paper Award” will be awarded based on the presentations by a panel of judges.

Who can Submit:

To be eligible to submit your work to the Graduate Forum, you must be registered as a Ph.D. or Master’s student at the time of submission. Submissions must include the author’s name, affiliations, and email addresses. We will follow a single-blind review policy.

The topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:

What to submit:

We encourage the authors to submit their proposals with the following as a single PDF file at HotCRP containing:

• Resume, a one-page resume informing of your current position, educational details, broad area of research, research experiences, publications (if any), etc.
• A three-page Extended Abstract, explaining the problem statement, relevant state-of-the-art, proposed solution approach, preliminary results, future work, and bibliography. Submissions must be written in English, in IEEE two-column format (details can be seen on the main conference page) and must adhere to the submission guidelines and template of the main conference. The page limit is three pages (strictly) and no additional page will be allowed.

It is suggested that the prospective authors should merge all of the above submission (resume and extended abstract) files into a single PDF document and upload the PDF file at HotCRP. Submissions not formatted as described above will be rejected without any review. Upon acceptance, the authors will be requested to submit only the three pages of Extended Abstract for the final camera-ready version. The accepted papers need to be presented at the conference. Presentation must be within 5-6 slides for a 10-minute talk, including QAs from the audience.

Submission Link: https://comsnets25gradforum.hotcrp.com/

Important Dates:

Technical Program Committee:

• Anirban Das, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Gerhard Petrus, Hancke City University, HongKong
• Mukulika Maity, IIIT Delhi, India
• Abhijit Mondal, VDX.tv, India
• Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, BowieState University, USA
• Soumyajit Chatterjee, Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Eirini Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA
• Snigdha Das, Ericsson Research, India
• Barbara Caci, Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche, dell’Esercizio Fisico e della Formazione
• Rohit Verma, Intel Labs, India
• Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Arani Bhattacharya, IIIT Delhi, India
• Aleksandr Zavodovski, University of Oulu

Graduate Forum Co-Chairs

Pragma Kar

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
India

Tanya Shreedhar

TU Delft,
Netherlands