Awards, Recognitions and Services

Awards & Recognitions and Services

Scholarly Awards:

  1. SDSU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2023
    (This award is one of the highest honors bestowed within the university and recognizes the recipient’s extensive contributions to her discipline and to the university. Only one faculty member from each College receives this award each year)
  2. Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award, 2021
    (This award recognizes exemplary commitment to diversity and inclusion, and specifically contributions made to students and the campus community) 
  3. Best Paper Award at Wireless Telecommunications Symposium. 2021
  4. Fulbright Fellowship, 2021-2024 (PSG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore and Indian institute of Technology, Chennai, 2022)
  5. Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award, 2014
  6. Recipient of the Zahn competition award, March 2012
  7. Best Paper Award of International Conference on Communications Systems and Technologies, World Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013
  8. Best Paper Award in IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies, World Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013
  9. Best Paper Award in IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies, World Congress in Electrical and Computer Science, 2013
  10. Recipient of the Lavin competition Award, November 2011
  11. Winner at the Student Research Symposium, CSU-SDSU, for research work presented by student Mr. Archit Bhutani on Low Power Communication protocol for short range broadcast based communication, 2011
  12. Recipient of “President’s Leadership Award for Faculty Excellence”, 2010
  13. Inclusion in “Who’s Who in America” 2008 – 2018
  14. Research assistantship at UCSD: 2001 – 2005.
  15. Teaching assistantship at UCSD: 2000 – 2001.
  16. Summa Cum Laude – in graduating class with B.S degree in Computer Science, 2000
  17. National Dean’s List in USA 1998-99.
  18. National Scholarship in India: 1991, 1993.

Invited Talks:

  1. “Increasing Recruitment and Retention of Students from Underrepresented Groups through Research
  2. Experiences”, Invited talk at The American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, June 1 st 2023
  3. “Connecting the Unconnected through UAVs”, Plenary talk at ICAARS Conference, PSG,Coimbatore, December 2022
  4. Fullbright Specialist Program, Hosted by IIT-Madras and PSG, Coimbatore, September 2022-November 2022 – invited talk on the Future of Network Connectivity at PSG, Coimbatore, IIT-Madras, Eshwar College, Coimbatore and Women’s College, Chennai
  5. “IoT applications in 6G Telecommunications”, Keynote speaker at IEEE International Conference on IoT and Blockchain Technology at BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India, May 6-8, 2022
  6. “Engaging Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM”, Invited talk at the Culturally Connected Research Hub – annex of the LatinX Resource Center at San Diego State University, 22nd February, 2022
  7. “Use Cases and Emerging Technologies for 6G Network”, Invited Talk at the Aarhus University (Host: Dr. Ramjee Prasad), June 2021
  8. “IoT and 5G”, Invited Talk at Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhuvaneshwar, Orissa, India for the Conference on Internet of things and 5G Technology, June 2021
  9. “Being an Asian Woman in the Engineering World”, Invited panelist and speaker by APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) Resource Center and APIDA ERG, San Diego, November 18th , 2020 (https://sacd.sdsu.edu/apida-resource)
  10. “Future of Wireless Networks and Communication”, Invited Speaker in Joint Networks Summit, Department of Defense, San Diego, January 22, 2020
  11. “Future of Wireless Health – Challenges and Glories”, Keynote Speech in IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, Las Vegas, USA, January 6-8, 2020
  12. “Brain Computer Interface – Challenges and Future Work”, Vellore Institute of Technology, India, Invited Guest Lecture, 1st April 2019
  13. “The Future of Neuro-Engineering”, La Costa Canyon Career Compass Event, Carlsbad, USA, March 2018
  14. “Quality of Experience vs Quality of Service on Airborne Wi-Fi Services”, Viasat Inc, 2017
  15. “Brain Computer Interface”, Discovery Slam, San Diego State University, 2017
  16. “Future of Wireless Health”, San Diego Super Computer Center, 2016
  17. “Transceiver Choices for Implantable Bio Medical Devices”, 2014
    Delivered at the BioEngineering meet organized by organization “Wireless Health”, LaJolla, CA
  18. “Impact of Wireless Technology in Medical and Social Life”, 2013
    Delivered at the PI Lecture Series organized by the SDSU Research Foundation
  19. “Women in Engineering – Technology Drivers in the 21 st Century”
    Delivered keynote speech at Lockheed Martin, Women in Engineering Day, San Diego, 2013
  20. “Health Management through Wireless Technology”, 2011
    Delivered at the inauguration of the Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) project at CAL(IT)2 headed by Dr. Kevin Patrick
  21. “Future Data Networks”, 2011 Delivered at the CalSysNet research group, CAL(IT)2, UC-San Diego, La Jolla, headed by Dr. B.S Manoj
  22. “Impact of Wireless Technology on Life Sciences and Social Sciences”, 2010
    Delivered keynote speech at Encuentro Regional Academico (ERA), CITEDI, Mexico
  23. “Impact of Wireless Technologies on Health, Life and Social Sciences” 2010
    Delivered at the Cyber Infrastructure Group at Supercomputer Center, CA headed by Dr. A.Gupta
  24. “WiMAX: Today and Tomorrow”, 2008 Delivered at the Departmental meet at SPAWAR System Center, Point Loma, California

Interviews/Media Coverage of my Research Work:

  1. Interviewed by SDSU President de la Torre in her series of Fireside Charla as one of the top engineering researchers in the College of Engineering. interviews, June 9, 2020
  2. Interviewed by SDSU NewsCenter: “Creating Alternative Communication Highways”, June 2017
    https://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76853
  3. Interviewed by EEWeb: “Spotlight on Mahasweta Sarkar”, March 2012
    http://www.eeweb.com/profiles/mahasweta_sarkar
  4. Interviewed by Union Tribune: “Female Scientists Blazing New Trails” – San Diego based local newspaper that has been in circulation for over 150 years with the largest print number in San Diego featured me amongst seven women scientists in the San Diego county:
    http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/08/women-science/ July, 2012
  5. “The Right Connections” – an article published about Dr. Sarkar’s software App Proximity Careers by San Diego State University News Center (link provided below), October 2013
    http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=74524
  6. “Generating Changes” – an article published about Dr. Sarkar’s research work by San Diego State University News Center (link provided below) in the series of “Exploring Women in Engineering”, October 2013
    http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=74529

K-12 STEM Development:

  1. Tutorial on “How Wireless Works” at Morning Creek Elementary School for 5 th grade students, San Diego, 2013
  2. Event Captain/Coordinator for the “Simple Machines” track in Science Olympiad San Diego County Regional Competition (Division B) February, 2014
  3. Neuro-Engineering Workshop for High School students from various San Diego school district, 2016,2017, 2018, 2019
    http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76853

Selected Professional Services:

a) Journal Editor:

  • Guest Editor, Sensors Journal Special issue on Recent Advances in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) and Long Range (LoRa) Networks, 2023-2024
  • Editor, Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning, Springer Publications, 2023-2024
  • Guest Editor of SAE International Journal of Engines, Special Issue: AI-Enabled Engine Combustion and Emissions Control, 2023-2024
  • Guest Editor of MDPI Journal, Special Issue: Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH- WSNs): Current Trends and Future Perspectives, 2021-2022
  • Editor-in-Chief of MDP Journal – Special Issue: Energy-efficient Internet of Things, 2021
  • Guest Editor of Journal of Wireless Personal Communication, Special issue on Autonomous Learning-Based Algorithm for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, 2021
  • Co-Editor of the book “Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning”, Springer Publications, June 2020
  • Guest Editor of International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2014 (Science Publishing Group, USA)

b) Conference Organization:

  • Co-Chair of TPC, IEEE BlackSeaComm, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 4-7, 2022
  • Co-Chair of TPC, IEEE Sponsored conference on Wireless Technical Symposium (WTS), San Francisco, April 21-24, 2021.
  • General Chair, First International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, 30-31 January, 2020
  • Technical Program Committee, Co-Chair, 8th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth 2018), June 25, 2018, Los Angeles, USA Co-Chair on the Track, “Networking solutions for Games, Multimedia, Social Good, and P2P apps”, in 14 th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), October 2016
  • Track Chair, ACM MobiMWare HM, July 2016 (held in conjunction with ACM
    MobiHoc)
  • Vice Chair of TPC at IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), San Diego,CA, USA, 2015
  • Co-Chair on the Track “Internet of Things” for the IEEE conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), held in Kerala India on December 19-21, 2013
  • Co-Chair (Student Volunteers) for the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2013), held on May 20-24, in San Diego, CA, USA
  • Chair, Session at IWCMC, 2013
  • Chair, Session at IEEE WCNC, Shanghai, China 2013
  • Chair, Session at IWCMC, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
  • Chair, Session at IEEE PIMRC, Athens, Greece, 2007
  • Chair, Session at IEEE INFOCOM, Arizona, USA, 2008