Staff profile

Dr. Anish Jindal is working as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Durham University, UK since Jan. 2022, fellow of Durham Energy Institute and is a visiting fellow in School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex. 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 the particular aspects of my research relates to resource aware computing, energy optimization, programmable and scalable networking, and wireless network & security. He has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (GCRF), Innovate UK (KTP), Alumnode, The Royal Society (International Exchanges), Durham Seed Corn and startup grant for some of his research ideas.

Many 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 IJCS (Wiley). 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.

Ongoing research calls

Research contributions are invited from prospective authors for the ongoing special calls:

1. Special issue in International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) on "Integrating Network Softwarization Techniques into 6G Communications Systems and Applications". Deadline: 30 June 2022.

Open positions

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. (Some competitive funded studentships are available for exceptional candidates until March 2022.)

For research internships, please follow the university guidelines.

Research Groups

• NESTiD: Network Engineering, Science and Theory in Durham
• DEI: Durham Energy Institute

Useful links

You can check my profile on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, DBLP, or LinkedIn.

• Smart City Applications (smart homes, smart grids, healthcare, transportation, etc.)
• Data analytics
• Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning
• Cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-things
• Programmable and scalable networking
• Wireless network & security
• Resource aware computing
• Energy optimization

• 2022: Keynote lecture: Short term training program on Tomorrow's Electrical Power Grid ;for SFIT Mumbai, India during 03-07 Jan. 2022.
• 2021: Book: Internet of Energy for Smart CIties: Machine Learning Models and Techniques ;published by CRC Press.
• 2021: FHEA: Fellowship of the HEA (FHEA), from Advance HE.
• 2021: Guest Editor: Topical Collection in Neural Computing and Applications (Springer) on Deep Neuro-Fuzzy Analytics for Intelligent Big Data Processing in Smart Ecosystems.
• 2021: Guest Editor: Special Issue in ;Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley) on Resource management of IoT edge devices: Challenges, techniques, and solutions.
• 2020: AFHEA: Associate Fellowship of the HEA (AFHEA), from Advance HE.
• 2020: Expert committee member: CONFIRM centre, Ireland ;for selection of Postdoctoral level candidates co-funded by MSCA and SMART 4.0.
• 2020: Guest Editor: Special Issue in Computer Communications (Elsevier) on Network Management in Beyond 5G/6G Networks.
• 2020: Keynote Speaker: IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Workshop - ;BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities.
• 2019: Keynote lecture: Summer School on ;Smart cities for a Sustainable Energy Future - From Design to Practice ;at TU, Berlin, Germany ;during 19-30 Aug. 2019.
• 2019: Outstanding PhD Award: IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
• 2019: Selection in HLF: Selected as one of the young researchers to participate in the coveted ACM’s 7th ;Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Germany.
• 2019: Talk in Ph.D. Forum: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society held at IEEE Smart World Congress, Leicester, UK ;during 19-23 Aug. 2019.
• 2019: Visiting Researcher: OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany ;during Oct. 2019.
• 2019: Young Researcher Award: IEEE Communication Society's Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
• 2016: Best Paper: Research paper selected as one of the best conference papers in IEEE PES GM, Boston, USA.
• Workshops Organised:
  • 2020-22: Workshop series on "Smart Computing for Smart Cities" in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM in ;2020, ;2021, ;2022.
  • 2022: 2nd Workshop on "BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities" in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2022. ;
  • 2021: 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (BlockCPS2021) in conjunction with IEEE/ACM UCC 2021.
  • 2021: 2nd Workshop on Network Management for 6G Communication Systems (NetMan6G) in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2021.
  • 2020: Program Chair for 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData).

Conference Paper

• Perveen, Abida, Abozariba, Raouf, Patwary, Mohammad, Aneiba, Adel & Jindal, Anish (2021), Clustering-based Redundancy Minimization for Edge Computing in Future Core Networks, 2021 IEEE 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF). 453.
• Singh, Maninderpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Bali, Rasmeet Singh, Vashisht, Sahil, Singh, Amritpal & Jindal, Anish (2020), Blockchain-enabled secure communication for drone delivery, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond. 25.
• Suresh Achari, Vejey Pradeep, Khanam, Zeba, Singh, Amit Kumar, Jindal, Anish, Prakash, Alok & Kumar, Neeraj (2021), I2UTS: An IoT based Intelligent Urban Traffic System, 2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). 1.
• Althobaiti, Ahlam, Jindal, Anish & Marnerides, Angelos K. (2021), Data-driven Energy Theft Detection in Modern Power Grids, Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems. 39.
• Rotsos, Charalampos, Marnerides, Angelos K., Magzoub, Abubakr, Jindal, Anish, McCherry, Paul, Bor, Martin, Vidler, John & Hutchison, David (2020), Ukko: Resilient DRES management for Ancillary Services using 5G service orchestration, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). 1.
• Althobaiti, Ahlam, Jindal, Anish & Marnerides, Angelos K. (2020), SCADA-agnostic Power Modelling for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources, 2020 IEEE 21st International Symposium on 'A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks' (WoWMoM). 379.
• Kumar, Neeraj, Dhand, Tanya, Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Cao, Haotong & Yang, Longxiang (2020), An Edge-Fog Computing Framework for Cloud of Things in Vehicle to Grid Environment, 2020 IEEE 21st International Symposium on 'A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks' (WoWMoM). 354.
• Jindal, Anish, Schaeffer-Filho, Alberto, Marnerides, Angelos K., Smith, Paul, Mauthe, Andreas & Granville, Lisandro (2020), Tackling Energy Theft in Smart Grids through Data-driven Analysis, 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). 410.
• Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj, Vashist, Sahil, Sharma, Neeraj & Obaidat, Mohammad S. (2019), DLRS: Deep Learning-Based Recommender System for Smart Healthcare Ecosystem, ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Shanghai, China.
• Jindal, Anish, Marnerides, Angelos K., Scott, Andrew & Hutchison, David (2019), Identifying Security Challenges in Renewable Energy Systems, Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems. 370.
• Jindal, Anish, Marnerides, Angelos K., Gouglidis, Antonios, Mauthe, Andreas & Hutchison, David (2019), Communication Standards for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources Integration in Future Electricity Distribution Networks, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 8390.
• Dua, Amit, Chaudhary, Rajat, Singh Aujla, Gagangeet, Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C. (2018), LEASE: Lattice and ECC-Based Authentication and Integrity Verification Scheme in E-Healthcare, 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1.
• Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Prodan, Radu & Obaidat, Mohammad S. (2018), DRUMS: Demand Response Management in a Smart City Using Deep Learning and SVR, 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• Dua, Amit, Sharma, Prateek, Ganju, Shivesh, Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C. (2018), RoVAN: A Rough Set-based Scheme for Cluster Head Selection in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks, 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 206.
• Kapoor, Lohit, Jindal, Anish, Benslimane, Abderrahim, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj & Zomaya, Albert Y. (2018), SLOPE: A Self Learning Optimization and Prediction Ensembler for Task Scheduling, 2018 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob). 1.
• Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Misra, Sudip (2018), Sustainable Smart Energy Cyber-Physical System: Can Electric Vehicles Suffice Its Needs?, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). Kansas City, USA.
• Aggarwal, Shubhani, Chaudhary, Rajat, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Dua, Amit & Kumar, Neeraj (2018), EnergyChain: Enabling Energy Trading for Smart Homes using Blockchains in Smart Grid Ecosystem, Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Networking and Cybersecurity for Smart Cities - SmartCitiesSecurity'18. Los Angeles, USA.
• Jindal, Anish, Dua, Amit, Kumar, Neeraj, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. & Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C. (2017), An efficient fuzzy rule-based big data analytics scheme for providing healthcare-as-a-service, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1.
• Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Singh, Mukesh (2016), SDN-Based Data Center Energy Management System Using RES and Electric Vehicles, 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Washington, DC, USA.
• Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Singh, Mukesh (2016), A data analytical approach using support vector machine for demand response management in smart grid, 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). 1.
• Arora, Nand Nandan, Jindal, Anish, Singh, Mukesh, Kumar, Neeraj & Kumar, Praveen (2015), A novel smart meter for better control over devices including electric vehicles and to enable smart use of power in smart home, 2015 IEEE International Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC). 1.

Edited book

• Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Aujla, Gagangeet Singh (2021). Internet of Energy for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Models and Techniques. CRC Press.

Journal Article

• Zhang, Peiying, Wang, Yaqi, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish & Al-Otaibi, Yasser D. (2022). A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Cao, Haotong, Zhao, Haitao, Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Yang, Longxiang (2022). Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
• Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad, Goudarzi, Shidrokh, Anisi, Mohammad Hossein, Jindal, Anish, Kama, Nazri & Ismail, Saiful Adli (2022). A Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Real-time Medical Monitoring Systems. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 1.
• Rahman, Aniq Ur, Fourati, Fares, Ngo, Khac-Hoang, Jindal, Anish & Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (2022). Network Graph Generation through Adaptive Clustering and Infection Dynamics: A Step Towards Global Connectivity. IEEE Communications Letters 1.
• Althobaiti, Ahlam, Jindal, Anish, Marnerides, Angelos K. & Roedig, Utz (2021). Energy Theft in Smart Grids: A Survey on Data-Driven Attack Strategies and Detection Methods. IEEE Access 9: 159291.
• Ramasamy, Karthick, Anisi, Mohammad Hossein & Jindal, Anish (2021). E2DA: Energy Efficient Data Aggregation and End-to-End Security in 3D Reconfigurable WSN. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 1.
• Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad, Goudarzi, Shidrokh, Anisi, Mohammad Hossein, Movahedi, Zeinab, Jindal, Anish & Kama, Nazri (2021). PACMAN: Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Managing Cybertwin-based 6G Networking. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 1.
• Ren, Xiaodong, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Batth, Ranbir Singh & Zhang, Peiying (2021). Adaptive Recovery Mechanism for SDN Controllers in Edge-Cloud supported FinTech Applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• Sharma, Navuday, Kumar, Atul, Pervaiz, Haris, Magarini, Maurizio, Musavian, Leila, Alam, Muhamamd Mahtab, Jindal, Anish & Imran, Muhammad Ali (2021). Aerial Base Station Assisted Cellular Communication: Performance and Trade-Off. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 8(4): 2765.
• Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Jindal, Anish (2021). A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-envisioned IoT-based Healthcare Monitoring. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 39(2): 491-499.
• Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Singh, Mukesh (2020). Internet of energy-based demand response management scheme for smart homes and PHEVs using SVM. Future Generation Computer Systems 108: 1058.
• Jindal, Anish, Kronawitter, Jakob, Kühn, Ramona, Bor, Martin, de Meer, Hermann, Gouglidis, Antonios, Hutchison, David, Marnerides, Angelos K., Scott, Andrew & Mauthe, Andreas (2020). A flexible ICT architecture to support ancillary services in future electricity distribution networks: an accounting use case for DSOs. Energy Informatics 3(1).
• Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Villari, Massimo (2020). GUARDIAN: Blockchain-Based Secure Demand Response Management in Smart Grid System. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 13(4): 613.
• Saleem, Ahsan, Khan, Abid, Malik, Saif Ur Rehman, Pervaiz, Haris, Malik, Hassan, Alam, Masoom & Jindal, Anish (2020). FESDA: Fog-Enabled Secure Data Aggregation in Smart Grid IoT Network. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(7): 6132.
• Chaudhary, Rajat, Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Aggarwal, Shubhani, Kumar, Neeraj & Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond (2019). BEST: Blockchain-based secure energy trading in SDN-enabled intelligent transportation system. Computers & Security 85: 288.
• Jindal, Anish, Bhambhu, Bharat Singh, Singh, Mukesh, Kumar, Neeraj & Naik, Kshirasagar (2020). A Heuristic-Based Appliance Scheduling Scheme for Smart Homes. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 16(5): 3242.
• Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Kumar, Neeraj (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.
• Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Chaudhary, Rajat, Obaidat, Mohammad S. & You, Ilsun (2018). SeDaTiVe: SDN-Enabled Deep Learning Architecture for Network Traffic Control in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems. IEEE Network 32(6): 66.
• Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish & Kumar, Neeraj (2018). EVaaS: Electric vehicle-as-a-service for energy trading in SDN-enabled smart transportation system. Computer Networks 143: 247.
• Chaudhary, Rajat, Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Das, Ashok Kumar & Saxena, Neetesh (2018). LSCSH: Lattice-Based Secure Cryptosystem for Smart Healthcare in Smart Cities Environment. IEEE Communications Magazine 56(4): 24.
• Jindal, Anish, Singh, Mukesh & Kumar, Neeraj (2018). Consumption-Aware Data Analytical Demand Response Scheme for Peak Load Reduction in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 65(11): 8993.
• Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Singh, Mukesh (2020). A unified framework for big data acquisition, storage, and analytics for demand response management in smart cities. Future Generation Computer Systems 108: 921.
• Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C. (2018). A Heuristic-Based Smart HVAC Energy Management Scheme for University Buildings. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(11): 5074.
• Jindal, Anish, Dua, Amit, Kumar, Neeraj, Das, Ashok Kumar, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. & Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C. (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.
• Jindal, A., Aggarwal, N. & 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.
• Jindal, Anish, Dua, Amit, Kaur, Kuljeet, Singh, Mukesh, Kumar, Neeraj & Mishra, S. (2016). Decision Tree and SVM-Based Data Analytics for Theft Detection in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 12(3): 1005.
• Kaur, Kuljeet, Dua, Amit, Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj, Singh, Mukesh & Vinel, Alexey (2015). A Novel Resource Reservation Scheme for Mobile PHEVs in V2G Environment Using Game Theoretical Approach. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 64(12): 5653.
• Kumar, Neeraj, Kaur, Kuljeet, Jindal, Anish & Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C. (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.