Dr. Upendra Verma

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
• U. 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.

• U. 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.

• U. 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

• U. 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

• U. 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

• U. 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

• U. 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

• U. 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.

• U. 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)
◦ Tech. 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)

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