Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina

Office: 2259 Storey Innovation Center 550 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201 Email: sur@cse.sc.edu Phone: 803 777 6853

[ CV ] (Last Updated: April 2026)

Brief Bio

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of South Carolina, where I lead the SyReX group. My research interests are in AI for Healthcare, Mobile and Ubiquitous Sensing, and Millimeter-Wave Networks.

I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where the department nominated me for the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for outstanding graduate work. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, India, where I earned the President of India Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement. Prior to joining USC, I was a Research Associate in the IoT & Edge Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs (2015–2017) and a Design Engineer at Texas Instruments (2010–2013).

Honors and Awards

• Provost's Research Competition Winner, University of South Carolina, 2026
• Deans Excellence Award for Research and Scholarship, University of South Carolina, 2025, 2026
• Best Poster Award Second Place, Discover USC Medical Scholars, University of South Carolina, 2025
• Best Poster Award Third Place, CSE Research Symposium, University of South Carolina, 2024
• CEC Young Investigator Award, University of South Carolina, 2024 For outstanding early-career research work
• Breakthrough Star Award, University of South Carolina, 2023 The award is presented to faculty for their groundbreaking research at the university
• Best Poster Award Second Place, CSE Research Symposium, University of South Carolina, 2023 For work on non-invasive soluble sugar content estimation
• Best Poster Award, Engineering and Computing Division at Discover, University of South Carolina, 2023 For work on Drone based millimeter-wave networking
• Nominated for the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, University of South Carolina, 2023 For the impacts on undergraduate research at the university
• NSF CAREER Award, 2022 NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research
• Best Poster Runner-up Award, ACM HotMobile, 2022 For work on Drone-based survey of millimeter-wave propagation
• Nominated for the CEC Young Investigator Award, University of South Carolina, 2022 For outstanding early-career research work
• Junior Faculty Researcher Award, 2021 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina
• Best Poster Honorable Mention, ACM UbiComp, 2021 For work on handheld millimeter-wave imaging
• Best Poster Award, ACM HotMobile, 2021 For work on visual map and machine learning aided 5G picocell placement
• Best Poster Runner-up Award, ACM HotMobile, 2021 For work on machine learning augmented hand-held millimeter-wave imaging
• ASPIRE II Award, University of South Carolina, 2020 For in-home mobility impairment assessment research
• Travel Grant Award for NSF CSR-NeTS PI Workshop, 2019 PI for NSF CNS Core grant
• Nominated by the ECE department, UW-Madison, for Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, 2017 For outstanding graduate work
• President of India Gold Medal, Bengal Engineering and Science University, 2012 For outstanding academic achievement
• University Silver Medal Bengal Engineering and Science University, 2011 Ranked 1st in academic department
• Student Travel Grant Award: ACM MobiCom'16, USENIX NSDI'16, ACM MobiSys'14

Professional Services

• Organizing Committee Member
  • Steering Committee Member: IEEE/ACM STEERS Workshop, 2021–2023
  • Program Committee Co-Chair: IEEE/ACM STEERS Workshop 2021–2023; ACM mmNets Workshop 2020
  • Poster and Demo Co-Chair: ACM HotMobile 2023
  • Demo Co-Chair: ACM MobiSys 2022
  • Travel Grants Co-Chair: IEEE COMSNETS 2024
  • Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE COMSNETS 2023; ACM SenSys 2022
  • Session Chair: IEEE INFOCOM 2023; IEEE MASS 2021–2022; IEEE WoWMoM 2021; IFIP Networking 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member
  • IEEE PerRad 2026; ACM MobiCom 2023–2025; ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2023;
  • ACM TheWebConference 2023; IEEE MSN 2021–2022; IEEE ICPADS 2022–2023; IEEE ICC-MWN 2023;
  • IEEE MASS 2021–2022; IEEE ICDCS 2021; EAI MobiQuitous 2022; IEEE WoWMoM 2021–2023;
  • IEEE IFIP Networking 2021; ACM mmNets 2019–2023; ACM WiNTECH 2019–2024; ACM mmWaveSys 2023;
  • ACM S3 Workshop 2017; IEEE WSCE 2019
• Panel Member
  • NIH/NINDS panelist for SBIR/STTR 2025
  • NSF panelist for CISE/IIS and TIP/ITE 2025, ECCS/CCSS 2025, CNS-Core Medium 2025, VINES Track 1 2025; panelist for American Heart Association 2025
  • NSF panelist for SWIFT NewSpectrum 2024, CNS-Core Small 2024, CNS-Core Medium 2024, SCH 2024
  • NSF panelist for Midscale Research Infrastructure-1 2023, NeTS CAREER 2022, GRFP 2021
  • Panelist for ACM MobiCom S3 Workshop 2018
• Reviewer
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2023–2024;
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2015–2024; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2016–2023;
  • ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2023–2024; UbiComp Poster 2022–2023;
  • IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking 2023;
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications 2016–2020; IEEE Pervasive Computing 2022–2023;
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2020; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2017;
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2018, 2021; IEEE Systems 2018–2022;
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2018; IEEE Access 2019–2021;
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2018; IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 2018;
  • Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2020; PLOS One 2021;
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2018–2021, 2023, 2025; Elsevier Computer Communications 2021;
  • Elsevier Journal of the International Measurement Confederation 2023; Springer Applied Intelligence 2023;
  • Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing 2018–2022; Book proposal at Springer Nature 2018;
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2019; MDPI Energies, Applied Sciences, Information 2019–2021

University Service

• Serving on the MCEC Strategic Working Group on Elevating Student Excellence, 2025–Present
• Serving on the USC Graduate Council, 2024–Present
• Serving on the CSE Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 2018–Present
  • Director of the CSE Graduate Admissions Sub-committee, 2019–Present
• Served as the judge for the Math/CS Senior Division projects at the USC Science and Engineering Fair
  • Head Judge 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025; Judge 2021, 2024
• Proposal Reviewer for ASPIRE II, USC 2021
• Reviewer and Judge for USC Discover, 2021–2023
• Faculty Mentor for first-year scholars at USC for National Fellowships and Scholar Programs, 2021–Present
• Serving as an Advising Fellow for the CSE department, 2021–Present
• Served on the USC CSE Faculty Search Committee, 2019