Dr. Sujata Pal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE at IIT Ropar. She received her Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur. Sujata was a recipient of the TCS Scholarship. She was awarded the prestigious Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship for 2015 and 2016. She was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada, before joining IIT Ropar. Her research works have been published in high-quality international journals, such as IEEE TMC, TPDS, TC, TCyb, ACM Computing Surveys, conferences, a book, and several book chapters. Her current research interests include IoT, blockchain, WBANs, software-defined networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks.