Sanwal is currently working as a PhD student on a Science Foundation Ireland funded project under the supervision of Prof. Marco Ruffini.

He worked as a Senior Officer (Fixed Portfolio) in Enterprise Solutions & Services (ESS) department in ZONG CMPaK which is leading 4G Telco in Pakistan. He looked after Fixed Line (Data + Voice) Solution designs & new product development and launched SD-WAN for corporate customers.

He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from BZU Multan Pakistan, in 2014. He was awarded a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from SEECS, NUST in 2018 with a thesis on “Energy Minimization by Optimal Data Center Placement in Elastic Optical Networks”.

His main research areas include virtualization, slicing and monitoring of converged fixed/mobile and access/metro networks.