Samaresh Bera is working as a senior project officer in the Smart Wireless Applications and Networking (SWAN) Lab in the School of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has published a number of research articles in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Systems Journal. His current research interests include smart grid communications and networking, cloud computing, and wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks.