Dr. Ashutosh Dutta

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Ashutosh Dutta is currently Chief 5G Strategist and APL Sabbatical Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs,  USA. He also serves as associate research professor and the director of Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University. Most recently he served as the Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering for Engineering Professional Program at JHU. Ashutosh has been a teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins University since 2019. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh is author of more than 110 technical papers and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley. As a Technical Leader in 5G and security, Ashutosh has been serving as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks Initiative that focuses on 5G standardization, education, publications, testbed, and roadmap activities. As the founding Co-Chair for IEEE Future Networks Initiative he has led 20 working technology working groups including education, publication, standards, roadmaps among others.  Ashutosh is IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020 and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2020-2025). Ashutosh has been serving in IEEE Communications Society’s BOG as a Member-At-Large (2020-2025). Ashutosh serves as the founding Co-Chair for IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge and summit (ctu.ieee.org). Ashutosh also serves as the Co-Chair for IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed that provides a unique platform for the academia, startups, industry, and government.

Ashutosh was inducted into IPv6 Hall of Fame in 2024. Ashutosh co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the IEEE STEM conference for the last 15 years. Ashutosh served as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society from 2014-2019, and Industry Relation coordinator  for IEEE Region 1 and MGA during 2009-2013. Ashutosh has also served as the chair, vice-chair, treasurer and secretary for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section. He has served as the chair of IEEE Communications Society Chapter for Princeton and Baltimore sections. He was recipient of 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award. Ashutosh is recipient of IEEE-USA’s 2010 Professional Leadership Award, 2022 IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor. He also received 2022 IEEE North American Region Exceptional Service Award. Ashutosh served as Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society for 2020-2022. Ashutosh has served as the founding Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has helped organized 90 5G World Summits around the world. Ashutosh currently serves as the Chair for IEEE Industry Connection’s O-RAN activities and 6G. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne.

Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and Distinguished member ACM.