Dr Neetesh Saxena

Neetesh Saxena is currently an Assistant Professor (lecturer) with the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK with more than 14 years of teaching/research experience in academia. Before joining CU, he was an Assistant Professor with Bournemouth University, UK. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He was also with the Department of Computer Science, The State University of New York (SUNY) Korea, South Korea as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. He earned my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. He 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. His current research interests include cyber security and critical infrastructure security, including cyber-physical system security: smart grid, V2G and cellular communication networks. He has published several high-quality publications in IEEE/ACM Transactions, IEEE, Elsevier and Springer Journals, as well as in ACM CCS workshop, IEEE ICC, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE SMC, ACSAC, and IEEE CCNC. He is a recipient of the ComSoc YP and WICE Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2017. He has organised several conferences and workshops including an IEEE SMC Society sponsored summer school “Human Factors in System Safety and Security” at the Bournemouth University, UK. He has also served as a reviewer for many prestigious IEEE journals, such as TIFS, TVT, COMST, TSG, TII, TSC, TC, TMC, TEM and SJ. He has served as a session chair for IEEE SMC 2013 and 2018, and a track chair: Information Technology and the Internet for IEEE TEMSCON 2018. He has also been a TPC member for many international conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE MILCOM, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE SmartGridCom, IEEE WiMob, IEEE PIMRC and IEEE ICCC, and an independent reviewer for ESORICS, ECIS, IEEE VTC, HICSS, IEEE ICUFN and TEMSCON. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of IEEE SMC, IEEE ComSoc, ACM, and Eta Kappa Nu.

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Developing Secure Systems and Applications - MSc.

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

Industrial Control System Security (Particularly, Smart Grid and Electric Vehicle (V2G) 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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Ttopics for Potential Candidates:

Monitoring Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness

Monitoring Safety Critical Systems’ Situational Awareness

Industrial Control System Situational Security in Smart Grid

5G Communication Network Security

Improving the IoT security infrastructure of Smart Cities