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Neetesh Saxena   BTech, MTech, PhD

Dr Neetesh Saxena

(he/him)

BTech, MTech, PhD

Reader

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am a Reader with the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK having 16+ years of professional experience. Previously, I had affiliations with the Bournemouth University (UK), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Stony Brook University (USA) and SUNY Korea. I was a DAAD Scholar at Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn (Germany) and was also a TCS Research Scholar. My current research interests include cyber security and critical infrastructure security, including cyber-physical system security: smart grid, V2G and cellular communication networks.

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Research

My current research interest is cybersecurity, cyber-physical system security, and IoT security.

Industrial Control System Security (Particularly, Smart Grid and Electric Vehicle Security): Secure smart grid infrastructure, securing smart grid network with plugged-in devices, decision support secure control centres in smart grid, cyber incident-response smart grid tool, developing techniques for monitoring the current health of the cyber-physical system in real-time, building cyber range capabilities under a virtual simulated environment.

5G and SMS Security: Security analysis of SMS-based applications, and real-time authentication and authorization among several new actors in the system.

IoT and Smart Cities' Security: Develop automated tools for identifying security vulnerabilities and interdependencies in devices and services, and developing IoT configuration and monitoring capable tools.

Human-Centric Security: Safety and security

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Teaching

CMT310 Developing Secure Systems and Applications

Biography

Dr Neetesh Saxena is an Associate Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He has extensive research/teaching experience over 16 years in Cyber Security. His research focuses on Cyber Security, Cyber-Physical System Security, Cellular Network Security, and IoT Security. Previously, Postdoc Fellow at Georgia Tech and Stony Brook University, USA. IEEE Senior Member. Author of 100+ papers (incl. IEEE/ACM Transactions and conferences). Two Best Paper Awards. Draft committee member for IEEE Standards. Multiple research and TNE grants.

Interviewed by:

Interviewed by the Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust in the Digital Economy (SPRITE+) ( Aug 2021).

https://spritehub.org/2021/08/18/sprite-member-spotlight-neetesh-saxena/

Interviewed by IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals (Sep 2017).

http://cyp.committees.comsoc.org/interview-with-neetesh-saxena/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honours and awards

Best Paper Award at 35th International Conference on Information Networking (2021).

GW4 Crucible Future Research Leader Award (2021).

A paper titled "PharmaCrypt: Blockchain for Critical Pharmaceutical Industry to Counterfeit Drugs" is featured on the Front Page of the IEEE Computer Journal (2020).

European Initiative Expert Visitor Award to Singapore by EPIC – European Pacific Partnership for ICT (2018).

ComSoc YP and WICE Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC by IEEE ComSoc YP & WICE Committees (2017).

DAAD Scholarship Award (2013).

TCS Scholarship Award (2012).

Professional memberships

IEEE Senior Member

ACM Member

Academic positions

2019 - Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University (UK)

2016-19 - Lecturer, Bournemouth University (UK)

2015-16 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

2014-15 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Stony Brook University (USA) & the State University of New York (Korea)

2005-11 - Assistant Professor, IMS Engineering College (India)

Committees and reviewing

Associate Editor - Cyber-Physical Systems (T&F); Computer Communications (Elsevier); SCN (Hindawi).

Lead Guest Editor - ACM TCPS; IEEE TII.

Track Chair - IEEE SmartGridComm 2022, TEMSCON 2018.

Workshop Chair: AloTS co-located with ACNS'24; IEEE CSR SPARC 

Journal Reviewer – 60+ journals, including IEEE TIFS, TDSC, TC, TMC, TVT, TII; ACM TOIT, TIOT, TOPS.

TPC Member – 90+ conf., ACM CCS, AsiaCCS,  ESORICS, IEEE EuroS&P, ICC, TrustCom, WiMob, SmartGridComm, INFOCOM, MILCOM.

Cybersecurity Expert Research Proposal Reviewer.

Supervisions

Topics for Potential Candidates:

Monitoring Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness

Monitoring Safety Critical Systems' Situational Awareness

Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Resilience

EV Infrastricture Security and Resilience

Autonomous Vehicle Security and Resilience

5/6G and Satellite Communication Network Security

Improving the IoT security infrastructure of Smart Cities

 

If you are looking for a PhD in one of these or similar topics and willing to work with me, please drop me an email with your proposal including the following points:

A. Title of your PhD work

B. Motivation of the work

C. Research problem and questions (any 3) that you want to address in your work

D. Research gaps - limitations of the existing solutions/tools inline with your research problem

E. Current/existing challenges in developing a better solution

F. Initial thoughts on your proposal/idea and contributions that you will make in this work.

 

 

 

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
  • Cybersecurity and privacy