Dr Neetesh Saxena
Lecturer
School of Computer Science and Informatics
- saxenan4@cardiff.ac.uk
- Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am an academic member of staff with the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK having 16+ years of teaching/research experience. Before joining CU, I was an Assistant Professor with Bournemouth University, UK. Prior to this, I was a Post-Doctoral Reserach Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. I was also with the Department of Computer Science as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Stony Brook University, USA and SUNY Korea. I earned my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. 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.
Biography
Neetesh Saxena is working at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK with more than 16 years of teaching/research experience. Before joining CU, he was an Assistant Professor with Bournemouth University, UK. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He was also with the Department of Computer Science as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Stony Brook University, USA and SUNY Korea. 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 reputed international journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM Transactions. He is a recipient of two Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICC (ComSoc YP and WICE) and ICOIN.
He has organised several conferences and workshops including an IEEE SMC Society sponsored summer school “Human Factors in System Safety and Security”.
He has also served as a reviewer for international journals, such as IEEE - TIFS, TDSC, TVT, TSG, TII, TSC, TMC, and ACM - TOIT, TIOT, TOPS. He has served as a session chair for IEEE SMC 2013 and 2018, and a track chair for IEEE TEMSCON 2018. He has also been a TPC member for international conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE MILCOM, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE SmartGridCom, ACM CCS, IEEE WiMob, IEEE PIMRC and IEEE ICCC, and an independent reviewer for ESORICS, ECIS, IEEE VTC, HICSS, and IEEE ICUFN.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Eta Kappa Nu.
Publications
2021
- Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Optimized predictive control for AGC cyber resiliency. Presented at: 2021 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Seoul, South Korea, 14-19 November 2021CCS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM pp. 2450-2452., (10.1145/3460120.3485358)
- Orr, F.et al. 2021. Securing publisher-subscriber in smart grid infrastructure. Electronics 10(19), article number: 2355. (10.3390/electronics10192355)
- Liu, C.et al. 2021. Cyber risks to critical smart grid assets of industrial control systems. Energies 14(17), article number: 5501. (10.3390/en14175501)
- Burke, G. and Saxena, N. 2021. Cyber risks prediction and analysis in medical emergency equipment for situational awareness. Sensors 21(16), article number: 5325. (10.3390/s21165325)
- Karunarathne, S. M., Saxena, N. and Khan, M. K. 2021. Security and privacy in IoT smart healthcare. IEEE Internet Computing 25(4), pp. 37-48. (10.1109/MIC.2021.3051675)
- Chugh, N.et al. 2021. A novel anomaly behavior detection scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. Electronics 10(14), article number: 1635. (10.3390/electronics10141635)
- Saxena, N.et al. 2021. Impact evaluation of malicious control commands in cyber-physical smart grids. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 6(2), pp. 208-220. (10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2879670)
- Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Specification-based process control attack detection in substation automation. Presented at: 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021, Virtual, 23-27 May 2021.
- Sharma, U.et al. 2021. Optimized authentication system with high security and privacy. Electronics 10(4), article number: 458. (10.3390/electronics10040458)
- Gope, P., Millwood, O. and Saxena, N. 2021. A provably secure authentication scheme for RFID-enabled UAV applications. Computer Communications 166, pp. 19-25. (10.1016/j.comcom.2020.11.009)
- Kumar, A., Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2021. Machine learning algorithm for detection of false data injection attack in power system. Presented at: 35th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2021), Jeju Island, Korea, 13-16 January 2021.
- Asiri, M., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Investigating usable indicators against cyber-attacks in industrial control systems. Presented at: 17th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (USENIX Security 2021), Virtual, 08-10 August 2021.
- Kumar, A., Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2021. FedTLG: federated learning using trusted local groups. Presented at: 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021), Virtual, 07-11 June 2021.
- Alrowaili, Y., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Determining asset criticality in cyber-physical smart grid. Presented at: 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2021), Virtual, 04-08 October 2021.
2020
- Saxena, N.et al. 2020. Impact and key challenges of insider threats on organizations and critical businesses. Electronics 9(9), article number: 1460. (10.3390/electronics9091460)
- Tung, Y.et al. 2020. Counteracting UDP flooding attacks in SDN. Electronics 9(8), article number: 1239. (10.3390/electronics9081239)
- Saxena, N.et al. 2020. PharmaCrypt: blockchain for critical pharmaceutical industry to counterfeit drugs. Computer 53(7), pp. 29-44. (10.1109/MC.2020.2989238)
- Saxena, N.et al. 2020. BVPSMS: A batch verification protocol for end-to-end secure SMS for mobile users. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 17(3), pp. 550-565. (10.1109/TDSC.2018.2799223)
- Saxena, N.et al. 2020. Introduction to the special issue on user-centric security and safety for CPS [Editorial]. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 4(3), article number: 29. (10.1145/3392715)
- Bhadoria, R. S., Nimbalkar, A. and Saxena, N. 2020. On the role of Blockchain technology in the Internet of Things. In: Kim, S. and Deka, G. C. eds. Advanced Applications of Blockchain Technology. Springer, pp. 129-140.
- Singh, V.et al. 2020. Improving smart healthcare safety & security using Kinect. Presented at: International Conference on Cybersecurity in Emerging Digital Era (ICCEDE 2020), Greater Noida, India, 9-10 October 2020.
- Asad, B., Saxena, N. and Katos, V. 2020. Analysis of the security and privacy risks and challenges in smart cities’ traffic light system. Presented at: 3rd Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2020), Virtual, 21-23 September 2020.
- Asad, B. and Saxena, N. 2020. On the feasibility of DoS attack on smart door lock IoT network. Presented at: 8th International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2020), Virtual, 14-17 October 2020.
- Nafees, M. N.et al. 2020. Impact of energy consumption attacks on LoRaWAN-enabled devices in industrial context. Presented at: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020), Virtual, 9-13 November 2020.
- Nafees, M. N.et al. 2020. Towards distance relay attack discrimination for situational awareness-based anomaly detection. Presented at: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020), Virtual, 7-11 December 2020.
2019
- Adewole, K., Saxena, N. and Bhadauria, S. 2019. Application of cryptocurrencies using Blockchain for e-commerce online payment. In: Maleh, Y. et al. eds. Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges and Applications. C&C Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 263-306.
- Saxena, N.et al. 2019. BAS-VAS: A novel secure protocol for value added service delivery to mobile devices. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 15, pp. 1470-1485. (10.1109/TIFS.2019.2940908)
2018
- Saxena, N. and Grijalva, S. 2018. Efficient signature scheme for delivering authentic control commands in the smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9(5), pp. 4323-4334. (10.1109/TSG.2017.2655014)
- Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2018. Integrated distributed authentication protocol for smart grid communications. IEEE Systems Journal 12(3), pp. 2545-2556. (10.1109/JSYST.2016.2574699)
- Chaudhary, R.et al. 2018. LSCSH: Lattice-based secure cryptosystem for smart healthcare in smart cities environment. IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE 56(4), pp. 24-32. (10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700787)
- Saxena, N., Grijalva, S. and Choi, B. J. 2018. Securing restricted publisher-subscriber communications in smart grid substations. Presented at: International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 3-7 Jan. 20182018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE pp. 364-371., (10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328220)
- Stone, J. A., Saxena, N. and Dogan, H. 2018. Systematic analysis: Resistance to traffic analysis attacks in Tor System for critical infrastructures. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Miyazaki, Japan, 7-10 Oct. 20182018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE pp. 2832-2837., (10.1109/SMC.2018.00482)
- Saxena, N. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2018. Secure algorithms for SAKA protocol in the GSM network. Presented at: 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), Valencia, Spain, 25-27 Sep. 20172017 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/WMNC.2017.8248853)
2017
- Saxena, N.et al. 2017. CPSA: A cyber-physical security assessment tool for situational awareness in smart grid. Presented at: ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security & Privacy (CPS-SPC) in Conjunction with ACM CCS, Dallas, USA, 3 Nov. 2017CPS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and PrivaCy. ACM pp. 69-79., (10.1145/3140241.3140246)
- Saxena, N.et al. 2017. Network Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Vehicle-to-Grid. IEEE Wireless Communications 24(4), pp. 88-98. (10.1109/MWC.2016.1600039WC)
- Saxena, N. and Grijalva, S. 2017. Dynamic secrets and secret keys based scheme for securing last mile smart grid wireless communication. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 13(3), pp. 1482-1491. (10.1109/TII.2016.2610950)
- Saxena, N., Choi, B. J. and Grijalva, S. 2017. Secure and privacy-preserving concentration of meeting data in AMI networks. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 21-25 May 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE pp. 1-7., (10.1109/ICC.2017.7996874)
2016
- Saxena, N., Grijalva, S. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2016. Authentication Protocol for an IoT-Enabled LTE Network. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 16(4), pp. -., article number: 25. (10.1145/2981547)
- Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2016. Authentication scheme for flexible charging and discharging of mobile vehicles in the V2G networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 11(7), pp. 1438-1452. (10.1109/TIFS.2016.2532840)
- Saxena, N., Choi, B. J. and Lu, R. 2016. Authentication and authorization scheme for various user roles and devices in smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 11(5), pp. 907-921. (10.1109/TIFS.2015.2512525)
2014
- Saxena, N. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2014. EasySMS: a protocol for end to end secure transmission of SMS. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 9(7), pp. 1157-1168. (10.1109/TIFS.2014.2320579)
My current research interest is cybersecurity, IoT security and cyber-physical system 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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Supervision
Ttopics for Potential Candidates:
Monitoring Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness
Monitoring Safety Critical Systems’ Situational Awareness
Industrial Control System Situational Security in Smart Grid
Smart Grid Resilience
EV Infrastricture Security and Resiliency
Autonomous Vehicle Security
5G Communication Network Security
Improving the IoT security infrastructure of Smart Cities