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Dr Anish Jindal

Visiting Fellow
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Dr Anish Jindal

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Biography

Dr. Anish Jindal is a visiting fellow in School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex and working as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Durham University, UK since Jan 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a Lecturer in CSEE, University of Essex from Mar. 2020 to Dec. 2021, and senior research associate at the School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University, UK from Oct. 2018 to Mar. 2020. He completed his Ph.D., M.Engg. and B. Tech. degrees in computer science engineering in 2018, 2014, and 2012, respectively. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2019 from the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and conferred with the IEEE Communication Society's Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Region, 2019. He has also been a visiting researcher to OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany in 2019. His research interests are in the areas of smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, and security. Some of his research findings are published in top-cited journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Future Generation Computer Systems, and Computer Networks. In addition to it, his research works have also been presented in various conferences of repute such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WiMob, IEEE PES General Meeting, ACM MobiHoc, etc. He has served as General co-chair, TPC co-chair, TPC member, Publicity chair and Session chair of various reputed conferences and workshops including IEEE ICC, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE GLOBECOM. He is also the guest editor of various journals including Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley), Neural Computing & Applications (Springer), Computer Communications (Elsevier), IET Smart Cities (IET), and Computers (MDPI). He has also delivered many invited talks and lectures in various international avenues. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and actively involved with various working groups and committees of IEEE and ACM related to smart grid, energy informatics and smart cities. *Always looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students having aligned research interests and prospective students are encouraged to contact me by email with their CV and a brief outline of their vision. **Vacancies: 1. Digital Business Transformation Manager (KTP Associate) Salary: £33,000 - £35,200 per annum, Duration: 2 years. Closing date: 08-11-2021. For application and more details: https://is.gd/PHdvHU (Closed now) 2. Research Scientist - Digital Document Threat Intelligence (KTP Associate) Salary: £32,600 - £38,950 per annum, Duration: 2 years, Closing date: 14-06-2021 (Closed now). 3. Research Officer - An IoT-based Medical Emergency Transportation System, Part-time and UK-based applicants only, until 31 July 2021. (Closed now) ***Research contributions are invited from prospective authors for the ongoing special calls (currently open): 1. Special issue "Smart Computing for Smart Cities" in IET Smart Cities. Submission deadline: 25 November 2021. More information: https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/26317680/Special%20Issues/IET_SMC_CFP_2WSCSC-1615389628373.pdf 2. Workshop on "BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities" in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2022. Submission deadline: 20 Jan 2022. https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops#ws-21 3. Workshop on "Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2)" in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2022. Submission date: 01 March 2022. More details: https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2022/home

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Thapar University, (2018)

  • M.Engg. Panjab University, (2014)

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex (30/3/2020 - present)

Other academic

  • Senior Research Associate, School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University (1/10/2018 - 29/3/2020)

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Smart cities

Key words: smart cities
Open to supervise

Data analytics

Key words: analytics
Open to supervise

Artificial intelligence

Open to supervise

Cyber-physical systems

Open to supervise

Wireless networks

Key words: network
Open to supervise

Security

Key words: security
Open to supervise

Machine Learning

Key words: machine learning
Open to supervise

Publications

Journal articles (36)

Ren, X., Aujla, GS., Jindal, A., Batth, RS. and Zhang, P., (2023). Adaptive Recovery Mechanism for SDN Controllers in Edge-Cloud supported FinTech Applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10 (3), 2112-2120

Cao, H., Jindal, A., Hu, H., Piran, MJ. and Yang, L., (2023). Secure and Intelligent Service Function Chain for Sustainable Services in Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 10 (5), 2674-2684

Soleymani, SA., Goudarzi, S., Anisi, MH., Cruickshank, H., Jindal, A. and Kama, N., (2023). TRUTH: Trust and Authentication Scheme in 5G-IIoT. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 19 (1), 880-889

Wen, W., Demirbaga, U., Singh, A., Jindal, A., Batth, RS., Zhang, P. and Aujla, GS., (2023). Health Monitoring and Diagnosis for Geo-Distributed Edge Ecosystem in Smart City. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1-1

Soleymani, SA., Goudarzi, S., Anisi, MH., Jindal, A., Kama, N. and Ismail, SA., (2023). A Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Real-time Medical Monitoring Systems. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 27 (5), 2314-2322

Pourkabirian, A., Kooshki, F., Anisi, MH. and Jindal, A., (2023). An accurate RSS/AoA-based localization method for internet of underwater things. Ad Hoc Networks. 145, 103177-103177

Soleymani, SA., Goudarzi, S., Anisi, MH., Movahedi, Z., Jindal, A. and Kama, N., (2022). PACMAN: Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Managing Cybertwin-based 6G Networking. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 18 (7), 4902-4911

Jindal, A., Marnerides, AK., Spachos, P. and Dvir, A., (2022). Guest editorial: Smart computing for smart cities. IET Smart Cities. 4 (1), 1-2

Rahman, AU., Fourati, F., Ngo, K-H., Jindal, A. and Alouini, M-S., (2022). Network Graph Generation Through Adaptive Clustering and Infection Dynamics: A Step Toward Global Connectivity. IEEE Communications Letters. 26 (4), 783-787

Zhang, P., Wang, Y., Aujla, GS., Jindal, A. and Al-Otaibi, YD., (2022). A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24 (2), 1-10

Ramasamy, K., Anisi, MH. and Jindal, A., (2022). E2DA: Energy Efficient Data Aggregation and End-to-End Security in 3D Reconfigurable WSN. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 6 (2), 787-798

Cao, H., Zhao, H., Jindal, A., Aujla, GS. and Yang, L., (2022). Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 6 (3), 1408-1417

Singh, M., Aujla, GS., Bali, RS., Batth, RS., Singh, A., Vashisht, S. and Jindal, A., (2022). CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics. Computing. 104 (7), 1589-1613

Aujla, GS. and Jindal, A., (2021). A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-envisioned IoT-based Healthcare Monitoring. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 39 (2), 491-499

Sharma, N., Kumar, A., Pervaiz, H., Magarini, M., Musavian, L., Muhammad, MA., Jindal, A. and Imran, MA., (2021). Aerial Base Station Assisted Cellular Communication: Performance and Trade-off. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 8 (4), 2765-2779

Kumar, N., Jindal, A., Villari, M. and Srirama, SN., (2021). Resource management of IoT edge devices: Challenges, techniques, and solutions. Software: Practice and Experience. 51 (12), 2357-2359

Althobaiti, A., Jindal, A., Marnerides, AK. and Roedig, U., (2021). Energy Theft in Smart Grids: A Survey on Data-Driven Attack Strategies and Detection Methods. IEEE Access. 9, 159291-159312

Du, J., Cao, H., Sun, A., Lu, G., Anisi, MH. and Jindal, A., (2021). Drone-Assisted and Blockchain-Enabled Edge-Cloud Computing Networks: Architecture Design, Case Study, and Future Directions. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. 4 (4), 54-59

Jindal, A., Aujla, GSS., Kumar, N. and Villari, M., (2020). GUARDIAN: Blockchain-based Secure Demand Response Management in Smart Grid System. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 13 (4), 613-624

Saleem, A., Khan, A., Malik, SUR., Pervaiz, H., Malik, H., Alam, M. and Jindal, A., (2020). FESDA: Fog-Enabled Secure Data Aggregation in Smart Grid IoT Network. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7 (7), 6132-6142

Jindal, A., Bhambhu, BS., Singh, M., Kumar, N. and Naik, K., (2020). A Heuristic-Based Appliance Scheduling Scheme for Smart Homes. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16 (5), 3242-3255

Jindal, A., Kronawitter, J., Kühn, R., Bor, M., de Meer, H., Gouglidis, A., Hutchison, D., Marnerides, AK., Scott, A. and Mauthe, A., (2020). A flexible ICT architecture to support ancillary services in future electricity distribution networks: an accounting use case for DSOs. Energy Informatics. 3 (1)

Chaudhary, R., Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Aggarwal, S., Kumar, N. and Choo, K-KR., (2019). BEST: Blockchain-based secure energy trading in SDN-enabled intelligent transportation system. Computers & Security. 85, 288-299

Jindal, A., Aujla, GS. and Kumar, N., (2019). SURVIVOR: A blockchain based edge-as-a-service framework for secure energy trading in SDN-enabled vehicle-to-grid environment. Computer Networks. 153, 36-48

Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2018). A Heuristic-Based Smart HVAC Energy Management Scheme for University Buildings. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 14 (11), 5074-5086

Jindal, A., Singh, M. and Kumar, N., (2018). Consumption-Aware Data Analytical Demand Response Scheme for Peak Load Reduction in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 65 (11), 8993-9004

Jindal, A., Dua, A., Kumar, N., Das, AK., Vasilakos, AV. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2018). Providing Healthcare-as-a-Service Using Fuzzy Rule Based Big Data Analytics in Cloud Computing. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 22 (5), 1605-1618

Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Kumar, N., Chaudhary, R., Obaidat, MS. and You, I., (2018). SeDaTiVe: SDN-Enabled Deep Learning Architecture for Network Traffic Control in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems. IEEE Network. 32 (6), 66-73

Aujla, GS., Jindal, A. and Kumar, N., (2018). EVaaS: Electric vehicle-as-a-service for energy trading in SDN-enabled smart transportation system. Computer Networks. 143, 247-262

Jindal, A., Aggarwal, N. and Gupta, S., (2018). An Obstacle Detection Method for Visually Impaired Persons by Ground Plane Removal Using Speeded-Up Robust Features and Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. 28 (2), 288-300

Chaudhary, R., Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Kumar, N., Das, AK. and Saxena, N., (2018). LSCSH: Lattice-Based Secure Cryptosystem for Smart Healthcare in Smart Cities Environment. IEEE Communications Magazine. 56 (4), 24-32

Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Singh, M., (2018). Internet of energy-based demand response management scheme for smart homes and PHEVs using SVM. Future Generation Computer Systems. 108, 1058-1068

Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Singh, M., (2018). A unified framework for big data acquisition, storage, and analytics for demand response management in smart cities. Future Generation Computer Systems. 108, 921-934

Jindal, A., Dua, A., Kaur, K., Singh, M., Kumar, N. and Mishra, S., (2016). Decision Tree and SVM-Based Data Analytics for Theft Detection in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 12 (3), 1005-1016

Kaur, K., Dua, A., Jindal, A., Kumar, N., Singh, M. and Vinel, A., (2015). A Novel Resource Reservation Scheme for Mobile PHEVs in V2G Environment Using Game Theoretical Approach. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 64 (12), 5653-5666

Kumar, N., Kaur, K., Jindal, A. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2015). Providing healthcare services on-the-fly using multi-player cooperation game theory in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environment. Digital Communications and Networks. 1 (3), 191-203

Books (1)

Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Aujla, GS., Internet of Energy for Smart Cities. CRC Press

Conferences (26)

Achari, V., Khanam, Z., Singh, A., Jindal, A., Prakash, A. and Kumar, N., I2UTS: An IoT Based Intelligent Urban Traffic System

Wang, C., Zhai, D., Zhang, R., Li, H., Cao, H. and Jindal, A., (2022). Joint UAVs Position Optimization and Offloading Decision for Blockchain-enabled Intelligent Transportation

Singh, MP., Singh, A., Aujla, GS., Singh Bali, R. and Jindal, A., (2022). Referenced Blockchain Approach for Road Traffic Monitoring in a Smart City using Internet of Drones

Althobaiti, A., Jindal, A. and Marnerides, AK., (2021). Data-driven Energy Theft Detection in Modern Power Grids

Suresh Achari, VP., Khanam, Z., Singh, AK., Jindal, A., Prakash, A. and Kumar, N., (2021). I2UTS: An IoT based Intelligent Urban Traffic System

Perveen, A., Abozariba, R., Patwary, M., Aneiba, A. and Jindal, A., (2021). Clustering-based Redundancy Minimization for Edge Computing in Future Core Networks

Kumar, N., Dhand, T., Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Cao, H. and Yang, L., (2020). An Edge-Fog Computing Framework for Cloud of Things in Vehicle to Grid Environment

Althobaiti, A., Jindal, A. and Marnerides, A., (2020). SCADA-agnostic Power Modelling for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources

Singh, M., Aujla, GS., Bali, RS., Vashisht, S., Singh, A. and Jindal, A., (2020). Blockchain-enabled secure communication for drone delivery

(2020). Message from the SC2 2020 Workshop Organizers

Rotsos, C., Marnerides, AK., Magzoub, A., Jindal, A., McCherry, P., Bor, M., Vidler, J. and Hutchison, D., (2020). Ukko: Resilient DRES management for Ancillary Services using 5G service orchestration

(2020). Message from the IEEE SmartData 2020 Program Chairs

Jindal, A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Marnerides, AK., Smith, P., Mauthe, A. and Granville, L., (2020). Tackling Energy Theft in Smart Grids through Data-driven Analysis

Aujla, GS., Jindal, A., Chaudhary, R., Kumar, N., Vashist, S., Sharma, N. and Obaidat, MS., (2019). DLRS: Deep Learning-Based Recommender System for Smart Healthcare Ecosystem

Jindal, A., Marnerides, AK., Gouglidis, A., Mauthe, A. and Hutchison, D., (2019). Communication Standards for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources Integration in Future Electricity Distribution Networks

Jindal, A., Marnerides, AK., Scott, A. and Hutchison, D., (2019). Identifying Security Challenges in Renewable Energy Systems

Aggarwal, S., Chaudhary, R., Aujla, GS., Jindal, A., Dua, A. and Kumar, N., (2018). EnergyChain

Dua, A., Sharma, P., Ganju, S., Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Kumar, N. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2018). RoVAN: A Rough Set-based Scheme for Cluster Head Selection in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Dua, A., Chaudhary, R., Singh Aujla, G., Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2018). LEASE: Lattice and ECC-Based Authentication and Integrity Verification Scheme in E-Healthcare

Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Kumar, N., Prodan, R. and Obaidat, MS., (2018). DRUMS: Demand Response Management in a Smart City Using Deep Learning and SVR

Kapoor, L., Jindal, A., Benslimane, A., Aujla, GS., Chaudhary, R., Kumar, N. and Zomaya, AY., (2018). SLOPE: A Self Learning Optimization and Prediction Ensembler for Task Scheduling

Jindal, A., Aujla, GS., Kumar, N. and Misra, S., (2018). Sustainable Smart Energy Cyber-Physical System: Can Electric Vehicles Suffice Its Needs?

Jindal, A., Dua, A., Kumar, N., Vasilakos, AV. and Rodrigues, JJPC., (2017). An efficient fuzzy rule-based big data analytics scheme for providing healthcare-as-a-service

Aujla, GS., Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Singh, M., (2016). SDN-Based Data Center Energy Management System Using RES and Electric Vehicles

Jindal, A., Kumar, N. and Singh, M., (2016). A data analytical approach using support vector machine for demand response management in smart grid

Arora, NN., Jindal, A., Singh, M., Kumar, N. and Kumar, P., (2015). A novel smart meter for better control over devices including electric vehicles and to enable smart use of power in smart home

Grants and funding

2021

An IoT-based Medical Emergency Transportation System for Enhancing Citizens Well-being

University of Essex (GCRF)

Contact

a.jindal@essex.ac.uk

Location:

3A.525, Colchester Campus

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