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Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

ORCID: 0000-0003-4022-3615

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Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Engineering, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia, 1998.
  • Master of Engineering Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, 1999.
  • PhD, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia, 2005.

Personal Summary

Prof Sasitharan (Sasi) is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He received the Bachelors of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) from the University of Queensland, 1998, Masters of Engineering Science (Computer and Communication Engineering) from the Queensland University of Technology, 1999, and the Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Queensland, 2005.

He was previously the Director of Research at Walton Institute, South East Technological University, Ireland and was also previously an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Tampere University, Finland. While in Ireland Prof. Balasubramaniam was the PI of SFI research centres CONNECT and VISTAMILK, and was a Funded Investigator with the SFI FutureNeuro research centre. He was also a PI for the EU FET H2020 GLADIATOR project and was a PI and Coordinator of the EU FET H2020 PRIME project. Prof Balasubramaniam was also a past recipient of the SFI Starter Investigator Research Grant.

Prof Balasubramaniam’s research interests includes molecular communications modeling and simulations, neural communication and nano networks brain implants, as well as the Internet of Bio -Nano Things (IoBNT). Sasi is currently an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Member. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, and Editor for Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things journal. In 2018 he was the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Nanotechnology Council.

A full list of his publications can be found at http://publicationslist.org/sasi

 

Publications

A list of Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam’s publications can be found here: http://publicationslist.org/sasi

Academic supervision

  • Michael Barros, Waterford Institute of Technology (PhD, primary supervisor): Molecular Communications for Body Area Nanonetworks. .
  • Michael Donohoe, Waterford Institute of Technology (PhD, secondary supervisor): Embedded nanoscale networks for Intra-body communication.
  • Daniel Martins, Waterford Institute of Technology (PhD, primary supervisor): Protocols for Bacterial Nanonetwork Applications.
  • Siblee Islam,Waterford Institute of Technology (PhD, secondary supervisor): Localization using Bacterial Nanonetworks.
  • Stefanus Arinno Wirdatmadja,Tampere University of Technology: Protocols for Neural Motes in Brain-Machine Interface.