Sharad Sharma is currently working as head of the department of electronics and communication engineering at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), India. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has conducted workshops on soft computing and its applications in engineering, wireless networks, simulators, etc. He has a keen interest in teaching and implementing the latest techniques related to wireless and mobile communications. His research interests are routing protocol design, performance evaluation, and optimization for wireless mesh networks using nature-inspired computing, the Internet of Things, space communication, etc.