Professor  Salil Kanhere

Salil Kanhere received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is also a conjoint researcher at CSIRO Data61 and serves on the advisory board for two technology start-ups. He was a Faculty Associate with Institute of Infocom Research Singapore from 2013-2016 and a Visiting Professor at Technical University Darmstadt Germany in 2014. His research interests include Internet of Things, pervasive computing, blockchain, crowdsourcing, data analytics, privacy and security. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 35 tutorials and keynote talks on these topics. His research has been featured on ABC News Australia, Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, ZDNET, Computer World, Medium, MIT Technology Review and other media outlets. Salil regularly serves on the organizing committee of a number of IEEE and ACM international conferences including ACM MSWiM, ACM MobiSys and ACM CoNext. He is on the Editorial Board of Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing and Computer Communications. Salil is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2014.  

• Blockchains for Cyber-Physical Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges

  In a cyber-physical system (CPS), computing elements coordinate and communicate with sensors, which monitor cyber and physical indicators, and actuators, which modify the cyber and physical...

• Internet of Things Meets Brain-Computer Interface: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Enabling Human-Thing Cognitive Interactivity
  A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) acquires brain signals, analyzes and translates them into commands that are relayed to actuation devices for carrying out desired actions. With the widespread...
• Passive WiFi Sensing for Identification and Authentication
  Wireless devices are everywhere - our homes, offices, shops, restaurants and virtually all of our urban spaces. They invisibly fill the air with a spectrum of Radio Frequency (RF) signals. Any...
• Realizing a Smart University Campus: Vision, Architecture, and Implementation
  The revolution in Internet-connected devices like cameras, occupancy detectors and air quality monitors, collectively dubbed as the Internet-of-Things (IoT), is enabling the realization of smart...