Dr. Upendra Verma

Area of Interest

Designing of Cryptographic Protocols, Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Fog Computing

Work experience

Since August 2007

• 01 Years – Academic experience as Senior Lecture at Patel College of Science and Technology, Indore (August 2007 – August 2008).
• 06 Months – Academic experience as Lecturer at Mathuradevi Institute of Technology & Management, Indore (August 2008 – Feb. 2009)
• 03 Years- Academic experience as Lecturer at Lord Krishna College of Technology, Indore (March 2009 – March 2012)
• 12+ Years - Academic experience as an Assistant Professor at SVKM’s NMIMS MPSTME Shirpur Campus (April '23' 2012 onwards).

Professional Membership

• Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (LM 95787)

 Awards and Achievements

• Received "Outstanding Teaching Award” on January 01, 2013 at the MPSTME Shirpur Campus.
• Received "Outstanding Teaching Award” on August 15, 2013 at the MPSTME Shirpur Campus.

 Research and Publications

• Verma and M. Sohani, "An efficient lightweight authentication scheme for dew-assisted IoT networks” In Security and Privacy (Wiley) [Q3], E-SCI (IF: 1.5), Research Article [Published-2024] (First & Corresponding Author), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/spy2.360.
• Verma and H. Gianey, "A secure and lightweight hash-based mutual authentication scheme in fog-assisted healthcare network” In International Journal of Embedded Systems (Inderscience) [Q4], E-SCI & Scopus (IF: 0.5), (Research Article) [Published-2024] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2024.10066866.
• Verma and K.K. Nagwanshi, "A secure and anonymous authentication and key agreement protocol based on ECC for edge computing environment” In International Journal of Information and Computer Security (Inderscience) [Q4], E-SCI & Scopus (Research Article) [Forthcoming Article-2024] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2024.10068112
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, "A secure lightweight anonymous ECC-based authentication and key agreement scheme for fog assisted-IoT enabled networks", In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) [Q2], SCIE (IF: 1.5), (Research Article) [Published-2022] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7172
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, "Centralized and Distributed authentication schemes in Internet of Things: Review and Outlook ", In IJITST (Inderscience) [Q3], Scopus (Review Article) [Published-2022] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJITST.2022.121418
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, " CMAKM-FIoT: Centralized Mutual Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Fog computing-enabled IoT network ", In IJEB (Inderscience) [Q3], Scopus (Research Article) [Published-2022] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEB.2022.126265
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, "ECC based lightweight mutual authentication protocol for Fog enabled IoT system", In IJCSE (Inderscience) [Q3], SCI & Scopus (IF: 1.4), (Research Article) [Published-2021] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCSE.2021.118099
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, " Elliptic Curve Cryptography based Centralized Authentication Protocol for Fog enabled Internet of Things ", In IJCDS [Q4], Scopus (Research Article) [Published-2021] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.12785/ijcds/110107.
• Verma and D. Bhardwaj, " Design of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Fog enabled Internet of Things-A Centralized Authentication Framework ", In IJCNIS [Q3], Scopus (Research Article) [Published-2020] (First & Corresponding Author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v12i2.4464.

STTPs/Workshops Attended

• One Week FDP on "Recent Trends in Blockchain Enabled Internet of Things", held from 04/12/2023 - 08/12/2024, conducted by National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar.
• One Week FDP on "Cyber Security in the Era of Artificial Intelligence", held from 18/12/2023-22/12/2023, conducted by BGSP University, Rajouri, J&K.
• Two Week FDP on " Blockchain Technology and Applications", held from 15/06/2023 - 24/06/2024, conducted by PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur.
• One Week FDP on "Teaching and Research Practices", held from 18/12/2023-22/12/2023, conducted by BGSP University, Rajouri, J&K.
• One Week ATAL FDP on "Application of Cryptographic Tools for Data and Image Securities”, held from 06/12/2021 – 10/12/2021, conducted by IIIT Kalyani.
• One Week ATAL FDP on "Device Security in Internet of Things”, held from 07/07/2021 – 11/07/2021, conducted by IIIT Guwahati.
• One Week FDP on "Cloud and Fog Computing Platforms for Internet of Things Applications”, held from 16/12/2020 – 23/12/2020, conducted by NIT Warangal.
• One Week FDP on "Internet of Things”, held from 18/06/2018 – 22/06/2018, conducted by NIT Jaipur.
• One Week FDP on "Cloud Security and Privacy”, held from 12/12/2016 – 18/12/2016, conducted by NIT Goa.

  Conferences Attended

• International Conference on Digital Technology Vision 2030: Transforming Healthcare, Education and Industry (ICDTV 2030), Organized by SVKMS’S NMIMS, Shirpur Campus, 14-18 Feb. 2024.
• International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND – 2023), Organized by NIT Hamirpur, 21-22 December 2023.
• International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (ICADCML - 2022), Organized by NIT Warangal, December, 2022.
• International Conference on enabling technologies in Computational Intelligence and its applications for IoT( ICCIIoT- 2018), Organized by NIT Agartala, 18-20 December 2019.

 Extra/Co-Curricular Activities

• Reviewer for various Esteemed Journals such as:
  • International Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
  • Wireless Personal Communication (Springer)
  • Annals of Telecommunication (Springer)
  • Science Publication
  • SN Computer Science (Springer)
  • Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer)
  • Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (IOS Press)
  • International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems
  • Computer & Security (Elsevier)
  • Computer Networks (Springer)

Official Email Id

upendra.verma@nmims.edu

LinkedIn Profile:

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