He received his PhD degree from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He had been the recipient of various prestigious scholarships during his PhD studies. He was the recipient of Faculty development Program (Overseas scholarship), International Research Scholarship (IRS) at UTS, and Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) scholarship. He was awarded the best student researcher award for the year 2014 at the University of Technology Sydney Australia. His research interests include energy-efficient and secured communication in Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things. Recently, he has been actively involved in machine learning, big data analytics, smart cities infrastructure and vehicular ad hoc networks. His research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications and ACM Computing Surveys, among others. He has been guest editor of numerous special issues in various prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Information, Springer Neural Networks and Applications, and Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems etc. He has been general co-chair of numerous International conferences and been session chair as well.