DrKeshav Sood

Recipient of the Professor of IT award 2016. This award is given to a PhD candidate having outstanding research achievement within School of IT.

Course Team Award - for excellence in aligning courses with industry certifications, Dec 2021, SIT Deakin Uni.

Recipient of the School of Information Technology Higher Degree by Research Supervision award for the 2023 Academic Year.

Excellent Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Journal (2023 Award).

Associate Editor, IET Networks Journal (Wiley Publications, UK), 2024-

Guest Editor, Security and Privacy for AI-powered Smart IoT Applications, Digital Communications and Networks, Elsevier, October 2020 http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networks/call-for-papers/security-and-privacy-for-aipowered-smart-iot-applications/

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Privacy Preserved Learning in Distributed Communication Systems 2021, Elsevier, http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networks/call-for-papers/si-on-privacy-preserved-learning-in-distributed/

Guest Editor, Special Issue "Edge Intelligence for Internet of Things: Architecture, Privacy, and Applications" 2022-2023 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/63WY0287J9

Workshops Co-chairs, IEEE VTC2023-Fall, Hong Kong, https://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2023-fall/

Workshop General-chairs, IEEE-ANTS 2023, India. https://ants2023.ieee-ants.org/workshop/metaverse-and-6g

Workshop General -chairs, IEEE- CCGRID 2023, at Philadelphia, USA, https://sites.google.com/view/ccgridcloud6g/home

PC member of IEEE Big Data Conference, IEEE/CIC, ICCC, IEEE ICC, Workshop on Big security IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM.

Journal reviewer: IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Access, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transaction on Computational Social System, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation systems, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, JNCA, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Elsevier Computer Networks, etc.

External examiner Honors thesis. Deakin University, University of New England, University of Wollongong, University of Sydney

External examiner Master by Research and M. Phil thesis. University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Auckland.

External examiner PhD thesis. La Trobe University and University of Auckland, University of Technology Sydney

Sessional lecturer, Unit developer and course co-coordinator for Cyber Security and Cloud Security Units at Victoria University, Melbourne.

TPC-co-chairs, IEEE ITNAC 2017 and 2018

PC Member: IEEE Globecom (2021, 2022, 2023), IEEE ICC (2022), etc.

Panel member HEAG, Deakin Uni. June 2019-March 2020, March 2022-

RPL assessment officer, School of IT, Deakin Uni. January 2019 to till date.

Session facilitator for Cyber Security workshops, Deakin Career Studios, India and Nepal, July 2019.

Panellist- Emerging Careers Program 2023 for Malaysian school counsellors by Australian Trade & Investment Commission (Austrade) Kuala Lumpur, May 2023

Publication co-chair, Springer International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE2020), China http://spde2020.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65558

Oct. 2018- till date- Lecturer in Cyber Security, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia