Bharat S. Chaudhari received the BE in Industrial Electronics from Amravati University in 1989 and then ME in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and PhD in Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1993 and 2000, respectively. After being a Full Professor in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering with the Pune Institute of Computer Technology, and the Dean and Principal of the International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, he joined MIT World Peace University (then MIT Pune) Pune, as a Professor in 2014. Currently, he is serving as Dean—Academics and Head of the School of Electrical Engineering. With 32 years of experience in teaching and research, he has authored more than 98 research papers in the field of wireless, telecom, and optical networks edited several conference proceedings, and authored three books. His research interests include low-power wide-area networks, the Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, and Si-Photonics.