Prof. Dharm Singh Jat received his Master of Engineering and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from prestigious universities in India. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). From 1990 to 2014, he was with the College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural and Technology—[MPUAT], Udaipur, India. He has guided about 8 PhD and 24 master research scholars.
He is the author of more than 146 peer-reviewed articles and the author or editor of more than 16 books. His interests span the areas of multimedia communications, wireless technologies, mobile communication systems, edge, roof computing, Software Defined Networks, Network security, and Internet of things. He has given several Guest Lecturer/Invited talks at various prestigious conferences.
He has been the recipient of more than 19 prestigious awards, such as Eminent Scientist Award, Distinguished Academic Achievement, Eminent Engineering Personality, CSI Chapter Patron, CSI Significant Contribution, Best Faculty Researcher, Best Technical Staff, Outstanding University Service Award and Distinguished ACM Speaker award.
Prof. Dharm Singh is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (I), Computer Society of India and Chartered Engineer (I), Senior Member IEEE and Distinguished ACM Speaker.
He has contributed much to the development of multimedia communication over wired and wireless networks and formed the Special Interest Group on Wireless Networks (SIG-WNs) of Computer Society of India (CSI) and designated first Convener and Chairman, SIG-WNs by CSI. He was Member of International review committee for accreditation and chairing of a number of programs of International Conferences. He also developed an experiment based on simulation software for network experiments, research and project work for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
His research in developing video communication platform for solving QoS issues in video communications and developed a framework for video transmission over wireless networks for undergraduate and postgraduate students.