Sajal Das

Curators' Distinguished Professor & Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair

Computer Science Department

 

Sajal K. Das is a professor of Computer Science and the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. He served the NSF as a Program Director in the Computer Networks and Systems division during 2008-2011. Prior to 2013, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2012, the Science Foundation of Ireland selected Dr. Das as the E.T.S. Walton Fellow.  He has published extensively in these areas with over 700 research articles in high quality journals and refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Das holds 5 US patents and coauthored 4 books – Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications (John Wiley, 2005), Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges (Morgan Kauffman, 2012), Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking (Wiley, 2012), and Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His h-index is 83 with more than 30,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences like ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom, and numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and research including the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing, and University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. Das serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, and as Associate Editor of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Research Interests:

wireless sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, mobile crowd sensing, cyber-physical systems and IoTs, smart environments (e.g., smart city, smart grid, smart transportation, and smart health care), distributed and cloud computing, cyber security, biological and social networks, and applied graph theory and game theory