Kapal Dev is currently serving as Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University (MTU), Ireland and formerly he was senior researcher at the same University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the CONNECT Centre, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He worked as 5G Junior Consultant and Engineer at Altran Italia S.p.A, Milan, Italy on 5G use cases. He worked for OCEANS Network as Head of Projects funded by the European Commission. He was awarded the PhD degree by Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2019 under the prestigious fellowship of Erasmus Mundus funded by the European Commission. He is recently award as IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher 2022 for promising research activities for the benefit of the Society. He received The Tom Brazil Excellence in Research Award 2023 from SFI Funded CONNECT Research centre. He received 2022 Irish Research Council Research Ally Prize for his mentoring/supervison services. He is among the top 45 researchers/scientist selected as a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) 2024 in the world. He received Best workshop Paper award at the prestigious IEEE WCNC 2024 conference! He has also received IEEE ComSoc excellent reviewer award from IEEE TNSE journal in 2022. He recently delivered invited talk on “Unlocking the Future: Exploring the Enchanting Possibilities of 6G" under IEEE ComSoc Distinguish Speaker Program at MUET, Jamshoro, Pakistan.

He is very active in leading successful projects as Principal Investigator under Horizon Europe MSCA Staff exchange, Erasmus + International Credit Mobility (ICM), Capacity Building for Higher Education, and H2020 CO-FUND projects and won over 1.2 million Euros funding in total.  He is serving as Funded Investigator (FI) at one of top European research centres-- CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) funded by Science Foundation.  
Recently, he is working towards the standardisation; He is active working group member of P1954: Standard for Self-Organizing Spectrum-Agile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communications.  Also, he has submitted internet draft on Operations and Control Networks (OCN) Use Cases for Industry control Networks in Internet Engineering Task Force-A Standardization Organization. He is founding chair of IEEE ComSoc special interest group titled as “Industrial Communication Networks” under CSIM technical committee.

He is serving as Associate Editor in IEEE Transaction on Green Communication and Networking, IEEE Open Journal of Communication, IEEE Open journal of vehicular technology, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, NATURE, Scientific Reports, Springer Wireless Networks, IET Quantum Communication, IET Networks, Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Area Editor in Elsevier Physical Communication, Technical Committee Member in Elsevier COMCOM, Board member of IEEE Future Directions Newsletter: Technology, Policy and Ethics, and Review Editor in Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He performed duties as Guest Editor (GE) in several Q1 journals, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Standard Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication, Elsevier Computer Networks, and Computers and Electrical Engineering. He served(ing) as Lead workshop chair in one of ACM Mobicom 2022, IEEE Globecom 2021-2023, IEEE Blockchain 2022, IEEE ICDCS 2022, IEEE CCNC 2021, IEEE Globecom 2021, IEEE PIMRC 2021 and ACM MobiCom 2021 workshops. He is a TPC member of IEEE Smart Cities 2022, IEEE BlackSeaCom 2022, IEEE Globecom2022, IEEE ICC 2021, IEEE ICBC 2021, IEEE VTC2021.

His research interests include Wireless Communication Networks, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence targeting applications majorly towards industry 4.0/5.0 and supervised more than 22 students at masters and PhD level in the same areas. He has published over 80 plus research papers majorly in top IEEE Transactions, Magazines, and Conferences.

He is an expert external evaluator of most prestigious European Research Council (ERC) starting grant, several MSCA Co-Fund schemes, Elsevier, IET, Springer Book proposals and top scientific journals and conferences. He is a Senior member of the IEEE, and professional member of ACM.

Research interests

• Security
• Privacy
• Wireless Networks
• Industry 5.0