Shiva was born in Damak, Nepal. He is in Higher Degree Research Coordination and Mobile Computing Teaching/Research at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. He received the B.E./M.E. degree in 2007/2013 from Pokhara University, Nepal and a PhD degree in 2017 from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He was a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a network engineer at Nepal Telecom (2007-2014). His research interests include multi-connectivity, federated learning, industry 4.0 automation, blockchain modelling, optimization, recommender systems, 6G, cloud computing, dynamics control, Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems as well as their applications in smart manufacturing, autonomous vehicles and cities. He serves/served as the Workshop Chair/Publicity Co-Chair for several IEEE/ACM conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ACM MobiCom, and more. He was a recipient of the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship in 2017-2020, the COMCAST Innovation Fund 2022 and the finalist of the IEEE Future Networks' Connecting The Unconnected Challenge (CTUC) in 2021.