Prof. Dr. Srinivas Sampalli

Srinivas Sampalli received a B.E. degree from Bangalore University, in 1985, and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bengaluru, India, in 1989. He is currently a Professor and the 3M National Teaching Fellow with the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. He has led numerous industry-driven research projects on the Internet of Things, wireless security, vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, and applications of emerging wireless technologies in healthcare. He also supervises six Ph.D. and ten master’s students in his Emerging Wireless Technologies (MYTech) Lab. He has supervised over 150 graduate students in his career. His primary joy is in inspiring and motivating students with his enthusiastic teaching. He received the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award, the Dalhousie Alumni Association Teaching Award, the Association of Atlantic Universities’ Distinguished Teacher Award, a teaching award instituted in his name by the students within his faculty, and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s most prestigious teaching acknowledgment. Since September 2016, he has been holding the honorary position of Vice President (Canada) and the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), and a consortium of national teaching award winners from around the world.