Mohan’s research interests include pervasive and mobile computing and parallel and distributed computing. He has published more than 180 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and supervised 17 doctoral dissertations and 32 MS theses in the above areas. He has developed or co-developed: algorithms/architectures for service composition in pervasive environments; information acquisition, dissemination and processing in pervasive and sensor systems; and caching and prefetching in mobile, distributed, pervasive, and P2P systems. He has received research funding of over 7 million dollars as a PI or Co-PI in several projects funded by the NSF, The Air Force Research Laboratory, Texas ARP, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Defense Science and Technology Organization (Australia). His h-index is 29. 

Mohan is one of the founding editors of the Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal and is one of the area editors of Computer Communications. He has co-guest edited special issues of several leading international journals. He is a co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom); served in different roles - he is currently serving in his second term as the chair of the Steering Committee. IEEE PerCom is established as the premier international conference on pervasive computing and communications. Mohan has played a major leadership role in building an international community comprising researchers, students and industry persons, working in pervasive computing and communications.