Dr. Shalli Rani(Director, Research) completed her Post-doc from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK in June , 2023. She is Professor in Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India. She has 18+ years teaching experience. She received MCA degree from Maharishi Dyanand University, Rohtak in 2004 and the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science from Janardan Rai Nagar Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Applications from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar in 2017. Her main area of interest and research are Wireless Sensor Networks, Underwater Sensor networks, Machine Learning and Internet of Things. She has published/accepted/presented more than 100+ papers in international journals /conferences (SCI+Scopus) and edited/authored five books with international publishers. She is serving as the associate editor of IEEE Future Directions Letters. She served as a guest editor in IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Hindawi WCMC and Elsevier IoT Journals. She has also served as reviewer in many repudiated journals of IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, IET, Hindawi and Wiley. She has worked on Big Data, Underwater Acoustic Sensors and IoT to show the importance of WSN in IoT applications. She received a young scientist award in Feb. 2014 from Punjab Science Congress, Lifetime Achievement Award and Supervisor of the year award from Global Innovation and Excellence, 2021. .Her work has gained global and reputed recognition, and she has been nominated as one of the top 2% of scientists in her field by Stanford University.