Dr. Sajal K. Das is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Honorary Professor of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. His research interests include design and modeling of smart environments, mobile and pervasive computing, resource and mobility management in wireless networks, wireless multimedia, ad hoc and sensor networks, mobile internet architectures and protocols, security, distributed and grid computing, applied graph theory and game theory.

He has published over 400 technical papers in leading journals and conferences, and over 25 invited book chapters in these areas. He holds 5 US patents in wireless mobile networks, and co-authored the book "Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications", published by John Wiley in 2005. Dr. Das received numerous awards, including 5 Best Paper Awards in such prestigious conferences as ACM MobiCom, IEEE PerCom, ACM MSWiM, ICOIN, and IEEE PADS. He is also a recipient of the UTA academy of Distinguished Scholars Award (2006), University Award for Distinguished Record of Research (2005), College of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2003), and Outstanding Computer Science Faculty Award (2001, 2003). He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and symposia.

Dr. Das is the Editor-in-Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal (Elsevier), and serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, and Journal on Emergent Parallel and Distributed Systems. He served as General or Program Chair and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society's TCPP and TCCC Executive Committees and on the Advisory Boards of several cutting-edge companies.