Ishan Budhiraja (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2008, the M.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India, in 2021. He was a Research Associate on the Project Energy Management of Smart Home Using Cloud Infrastructure-A Utility Perspective, funded by CSIR, New Delhi, India. Some of his research findings are published in top-cited journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, and IEEE Systems Journal, and various international top-tiered conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCMC, ACM, and IEEE Infocom. His research interests include device-to-device communications, the Internet of Things, non-orthogonal multiple access, femtocells, deep reinforcement learning, and microstrip patch antenna.