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Dharma P. Agrawal is the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing at the School of Computing Sciences and Informatics. He has been a faculty member at the ECE Dept., Carnegie Mellon University (on sabbatical leave), NC State University, Raleigh and Wayne State University. His current research interests include resource allocation in wireless mesh networks, query processing and secured communication in sensor networks, environmental monitoring using sensor networks, and effective traffic handling in integrated wireless networks.



His most recent contribution in the form of a co-authored introductory textbook on Wireless and Mobile Computing has been widely accepted throughout the world and a fourth edition has just been published. The book has been reprinted both in China and India and translated into Korean and Chinese. His co-authored book on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, 2nd edition, was published in the spring of 2011.



Professor Agrawal is a founding Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), International Journal of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, and the Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS). He has served as an editor of the journal IEEE Computer, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and the International Journal of High Speed Computing. He has been the Program Chair and General Chair for numerous international conferences and meetings, and has received numerous certificates from the IEEE Computer Society, including a Third Millennium Medal for his outstanding contributions. He has published over 610 papers, given 38 different tutorials and extensive training courses in various conferences in USA, and numerous institutions in Taiwan, Korea, Jordan, UAE, Malaysia, and India in the areas of Ad hoc and