Prof. Neeraj Kumar

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India

Biography:

Prof. Neeraj Kumar is working as full Professor in Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. He is the 2019, 2020 highly-cited researcher from WoS and published more than 400 technical research papers (DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/hd/k/Kumar_0001:Neeraj) in top-cited journals and conferences which are cited more than 20000 times from well-known researchers across the globe with current h-index of 79 and i-10 index as 359. (Google scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gL9gR-4AAAAJ).

He has guided many research scholars leading to Ph.D. and M.E./M.Tech. His research is supported by funding from various competitive agencies across the globe. His broad research areas are Green computing and Network management, IoT, Big Data Analytics, Deep learning and cyber-security. He has edited/authored 10 books with International/National Publishers like IET, Springer, Elsevier, CRC. Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records: Concepts, paradigms and solutions (ISBN-13: 978-1-78561-898-7), Machine Learning for cognitive IoT, CRC Press, Blockchain, Big Data and Machine learning, CRC Press, Blockchain Technologies across industrial vertical, Elsevier, Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (ISBN: 978-981-13-8759-3), Proceedings of First International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security (IC4S 2019) (ISBN 978-981-15-3369-3). Probabilistic Data Structures for Blockchain based IoT Applications, CRC Press. One of the edited text-book entitled, "Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms, and Solutions” published in Springer in 2019 is having 3.5 million downloads till 06 June 2020. It attracts attention of the researchers across the globe. (https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811387586).

He is serving as editors of ACM Computing Survey, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier Computer Communication, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems. Also, he has organized various special issues of journals of repute from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer. He has been the workshop chair at IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Infocom 2020 and IEEE ICC 2020 and IEEE MSN 2020. I have won the best papers award from IEEE Systems Journal 2018 and 2021 and IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas-city in 2018.