Hemant Kumar Rath

Principal Scientist & Distinguished Engineer,
TCS Research and Innovation, India

Hemant is a Senior Member of IEEE and IARCS, holds MTech and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, India, and BE in EL&TCE from VSSUT Burla, Odisha. He has close to 25 years of experience in academics, research, and industry. At present, Hemant is a Principal Scientist at TCS Research & Innovation, Bhubaneswar/ Bangalore. His research interests include Augmented Robotics, Fog computing, Mobile Edge computing, QoS in Networks, 5G Network Design, Software Defined Networks, Network Security, etc. He has authored many research papers, co-authored a book, delivered several talks, and has more than 60 granted patents in the broad areas of communication and networking. Hemant has received several awards including the Distinguished Engineer Award in TCS. He is active in national and international standardization (IoT -ITU-T, GISFI, TSDSI, IEEE) in the areas of networking and communications. Hemant is also teaching at IIT Bhubaneswar (School of Electrical Sciences) as an Adjunct Faculty since July 2019.