Usha Sakthivel

Usha Sakthivel is currently working as a professor, Dean, and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Raja Rajeswari College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. She has 25 years of experience and graduated from Manonmanium Sundranar University, in Computer Science and Engineering in 1998. She obtained her master's degree in computer science and engineering and PhD degree from Sathyabama University in the area of mobile ad hoc networks in 2013. She has 70 publications in international and national conferences and 45 publications in national and international journals in the area of mobile ad hoc networks, IoT, and wireless security. Most of the publications are having impact factor cited in SCI, Google Scholar, Scopus (h index and i10index), Microsoft, and others. She received funding from AICTE under NCP scheme, MODROBS, TGS, VTU TEQIP, and SERB (DST). She received the best teacher award from Lions Club in 2010 and 2012. She received the best paper award in many conferences. She received the women researcher award from Elsevier in 2020. She developed the Centre of Excellence Lab in IoT with industry collaboration and organized many international and national conferences including ICICN'16, ICRTCET'18, ICACT 2020, ICETEMT 2022, FDPs, and Technical Talks. She is associated with ISTE, CSI, IEEE, IAENG, IDES, and IACSIT. She has reviewed papers in Springer journals, IGI global, IJCs, and CIIT journals. She acted as a TPC member in MIRA'14, IoT BDS'17, and IoTBDS'18 in Portugal. She chaired sessions in FCS'14, ICISC'13, ICCCT'15, ICCCT'17, and IoTBDS'18. She is local chapter Active SPOC for NPTEL, the college website coordinator, and NBA co-coordinator at college level. She is the program coordinator for CoE on Women Empowerment in collaboration with Honeywell Corporation and Capgemini. She has published four patents including one granted patent. She has authored two books and edited one book.