Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a Professor at CSE department, United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He received PhD in Computer Engineering in 2009 from Kyung Hee University, South Korea and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2003. In his academic career so far, he worked as a faculty member at CSE Department of Independent University, Bangladesh (2020-2021), Southeast University, Bangladesh (2015-2020), Computer Science department, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia (2010-2015); at BRAC University, Bangladesh (2009-2010), and at North South University (NSU), Bangladesh (2004-2005). He has served as a General Chair, Organizing Committee member, and Technical Program Committee member in numerous top-ranked international conferences/workshops like INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, etc. He was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award for his role in IEEE GreenCom'13 and IEEE Outstanding Service Award in IEEE 21st IRI 2020. So far, he has delivered over 30 Keynotes/Invited speeches at various international events. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computers and Applications and Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Taylor & Francis; Associate Editor of Connection Science, T&F; Editor of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, Old City Publishing, and International Journal of Sensor Networks, Inderscience; Guest Editor of many top-indexed journal special issues, and Editor/Author of 28 books. One of his books was included twice in Intel Corporation's Recommended Reading List for Developers, 2nd half 2013 and 1st half of 2014; 3 books were included in IEEE ComSoc's Best Readings in Communications and Information Systems Security, 2013, several other books were indexed with all titles (chapters) in Elsevier's acclaimed citation database, Scopus and in Web of Science (WoS), Book Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics, at least one has beenapproved as textbook at NJCU, USA in 2020, one is among the Top Used resources on SpringerLink in 2020 for UN's Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) - Affordable and Clean Energy and one book has been translated to simplified Chinese language from English version. His name appeared on the List of Top 2% Scientists of the World published by Stanford University, USA in 2020 and 2021. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, USA.