Personal Information

Dr. Nishtha Kesswani

M.C.A., UGC-NET, M.Tech.(NIT, Jaipur), Ph.D(UOR), Postdoctoral fellow (California State University, USA)

nishtha@curaj.ac.in

  • Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning

Education

  • Post-Doc, California State University at San Bernardino, United States
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Rajasthan, India
  • M.Tech in Computer Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India
  • Master of Computer Application, University of Rajasthan, India

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Department of Data Science & Analytics, Central University of Rajasthan, BandarSindri, Rajasthan (January 2023- Till Date)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Central University of Rajasthan, BandarSindri, Rajasthan (January 2010- December 2022)
  • Assistant Professor, S.S. Jain Subodh P.G. College, Jaipur, Rajasthan (August 2002- January 2010)

Ph.D. students supervised: 6 Awarded, 1 Thesis submitted, 3 under supervision

Publications:

  1. Books authored: 4
  2. Book Chapters authored: 17
  3. Peer-reviewed Journal publications: 50
    • 10 SCIE-indexed publications
    • 50 SCOPUS-indexed publications
    • 37 Web of Science publications
  4. Papers presented in refereed Conferences: 52
  5. Patents:
    1. A SYSTEM FOR POTHOLE DETECTION AND FILLING OF ROADS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    2. RAPID READING ENABLER

 

Other Professional endeavors:

  1. Organized 25 Conferences/Workshops
  2. Invited Talks delivered: 24
  3. Conference Sessions Chaired: 13
  4. Reviewer of several Journals/ Conferences
  5. Edited Special/ topical issues of 20 Books/Journals of reputed publishers

 

S. No. Authors Title of Article Journal/Conference Details Journal/Conference Publication Year
1 P.Nehra, Nishtha Kesswani. Efficient resource allocation and management by using load balanced multi dimensional bin packing heuristic in cloud data centers. The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04707-wSCIE, Impact Factor 2.557. ISSN 0920-8542. Published 26 July 2022. Journal 2022

Indo-Belarus Joint research programme

Attended

Papers presented in Conferences- 52

Recent Conference presentations:

  • Nishtha Kesswani. “Comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for intrusion detection in IoT.” 3rd  International Conference on Computational intelligence and IoT held at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, 24-25 February 2023.

  • Nishtha Kesswani. “Facial emotion recognition using static images in a crowdy scenario.” 6nd International Conference on Emerging technologies in Computer Engineering: Industrial IoT and cyber physical systems held at SKIT Jaipur, 3-4 February 2023.

  • Nishtha Kesswani. “A Machine Learning based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things.” 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics held at IIT Patna, 29-30 March 2022.

  • Nishtha Kesswani. “An efficient intrusion detection system for Internet of Things.” 7th International Conference on Cyber Security and privacy in Communication networks held at Cardiff Metropolitan University United Kingdom, 9-10 Dec 2021.

  • Nishtha Kesswani. “Location privacy preservation in IoT based networks.”  6th International Conference on Computers, Management and Mathematical Sciences, 2020 held at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, 22-23 November 2020.
  • Nishtha Kesswani. “Accessibility analysis of government websites.” 6th Rajasthan Science Congress, Central University of Rajasthan, October 13-15, 2018.
  • Kesswani, Nishtha, and Sanjay Kumar. "The Smart-X Model for Smart Cities." 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). IEEE, 2018, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, 23-27 July 2018.
  • Nishtha Kesswani, Frank Lin, “How privacy invasive android apps are?” 3rd International Conference on Computing for sustainable global development (INDIACOM) 2016, March 16-18, 2016, Date added to IEEE Xplore: Oct 31, 2016, eISBN: 978-9-3805-4421-2, pp 3731-3734.
  • Nishtha Kesswani. “Performance evaluation of shortest path routing algorithms in real road networks” Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology , Date published 25 August 2016, Volume 469 of the Springer series Advances in Intelligent systems and Computing, pp. 77-83.
  • “A framework for intrusion detection using neural networks” Nishtha Kesswani, International Conference on Cyber Security, May 16-17, 2015, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
  • “Maintaining Cyber Security: Implications, Cost and returns”, Nishtha Kesswani, Sanjay Kumar, ACM SIGMIS CPR 2015,Newport beach, California, USA, June 4-6, 2015,  http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm.