Personal Information

Dr. Nishtha Kesswani

Associate Professor
Department of Data Science & Analytics

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: 9 Awarded, 1 under supervision

Publications:

  1. Books authored: 5
  2. Book Chapters authored: 18
  3. Peer-reviewed Journal publications: 56
    • 10 SCIE-indexed publications
    • 50 SCOPUS-indexed publications
    • 37 Web of Science publications
  4. Papers presented in refereed Conferences: 56
  5. Patents:
    1. A SYSTEM FOR POTHOLE DETECTION AND FILLING OF ROADS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    2. RAPID READING ENABLER 2.0

 

Other Professional endeavors:

  1. Organized 34 Conferences/Workshops
  2. Invited Talks delivered: 32
  3. Conference Sessions Chaired: 16
  4. Reviewer of several Journals/ Conferences
  5. Edited Special/ topical issues of 27 Books/Journals of reputed publishers
  6. Editorial Board Member of Discover Computing Springer and Scientific Reports, Springer
  7. Researcher of the Year Award 2025 in the 4th International Conference on Universal Threats in Expert Applications and Solutions on 1-2 February 2025.
  8. Young Teacher Award 2018 by Mody University, Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan.

 

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

Books Authored:

  • “Human-Computer Interaction”, Published by Genius Publications, ISBN 978-93-80311-66-1. Fourth Edition 2014.http://www.geniuspublications.com/our-books/Engineering-Books/CS-IT-Bran...
  • “E-Banking and security transactions”, Published by University Book House, ISBN 978-81-8198-298-6.
  • “Operating system Fundamentals”, Published by Genius Publication, ISBN 978-81-88870-91-2.
  • “Semiconductor Physics, Electronic Devices and Circuits”, Published by University Book House, ISBN 81-8198-091-3.

Books Edited -20

Recent Books Edited:

  • Guest Editor of Springer LNNS  Volume 340, ISBN 978-3-030-94506-0, ICIoTCT 2021.

  • Editor of Advances in Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, (ICDLAIR) 2020, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, Cham, Volume 249,  doi 10.1007/978-3-030-85365-5, ISBN 978-3-030-85365-5. ,https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030853648#.

  • Guest Editor of Topical Issue on Cyber Security and privacy in communication networks of Journal Springer Nature Computer Science. https://www.springer.com/journal/42979/updates/17257234
  • Editor of Information Systems and Management Science, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, Cham, Volume 303,doi https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86223-7, ISBN 978-3-030-86223-7. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-86223-7.
  • Kesswani, Nishtha, C. P. Gupta, and Frank Lin. "Special Issue on Security Challenges in Internet of Things (IoT)." Volume 12, Issue 2, April-June 2018.
  • Gupta, C. P., and Nishtha Kesswani. "Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile and Multimedia Computing (SecPriTrust) Preface." International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications, Volume 8, Issue 1, January-March-2017,  ISSN: 1937-9412, eISSN: 1937-9404.
  • Gupta, C. P., and Nishtha Kesswani. "Special Issue on Computers and Management Preface." for International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, Volume 8, Issue 2 , April-June-2017 , ISSN: 1947-8534 , eISSN: 1947-8542.
  • Special Issue on “Computers and Management” for “International Journal of Business Data Communication Networks (IJBDCN)”, IGI Global, volume 12, Issue2, July-December-2016, ISSN: 1548-0631,  eISSN: 1548-064X.
  • Guest Editor of Special Issue on Computers for Management for Journal of Global Information Management, IGI Global.
  • Lin, Frank, Nishtha Kesswani, and Sanjay Kumar Garg. "Special Issue on Computers and Management (ICCM 2015)." For “International Journal of Business Data Communication Networks (IJBDCN)”, IGI Global, Volume 11, Issue 1, Jan-March 2015.
  • Editor of the Self Instructional material of Operating Systems II, BCA Part III, Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota.

Book Chapters

  • Monika Vishwakarma, and Nishtha Kesswani.”An Interactive dashboard for intrusion detection in Internet of Things.” Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence(2022). Springer.
  • Naveen Saran and Nishtha Kesswni. “Ethical aspects in the IoT.” Understanding  values and ethics in shrinking world (2022): 168- 176, Bloomsbury. ISBN:9789354358944.
  • Jyotiyana, Monika, Nishtha Kesswani, and Anupam Agarwal. "An Improved Approach for Removal of Salt and Pepper Noise in MR Images." Advances in Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Springer,  LNNS, Cham, 2022. 111-118.
  • Vishwakarma, Monika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A Two-Stage Intrusion Detection System (TIDS) for Internet of Things." Advances in Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics. Springer LNNS, Cham, 2022. 89-97.
  • Jyotiyana, Monika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "Introduction to Deep Learning in Health Informatics." Biomedical Data Mining for Information Retrieval: Methodologies, Techniques and Applications (2021): 237-261, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119711278.ch9.
  • Jyotiyana, Monika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "An Improved Approach for Removal of Salt & Pepper Noise in MR Images." 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, (ICDLAIR) 2020, 07-18 December 2020, University of Salerno, Italy. Springer LNNS.
  • Vishwakarma, Monika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A Two-Stage Intrusion Detection System (TIDS) for Internet of Things." 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, (ICDLAIR) 2020, 07-18 December 2020, University of Salerno, Italy. Springer LNNS.
  • Jyotiyana, Monika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A Study on Deep Learning in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Other Brain Disorders." Rising Threats in Expert Applications and Solutions: Proceedings of FICR-TEAS 2020. Springer Singapore. Springer AISC, Volume 1187, pp. 791-799.
  • Nishtha Kesswani, “Accessibility analysis of Indian Government websites”, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer. Paper presented in International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, held at MNIT Jaipur on December 7-8, 2019. SCOPUS indexed.
  • Jyotiyana M., Kesswani N. (2020) Deep Learning and the Future of Biomedical Image Analysis. In: Dash S., Acharya B., Mittal M., Abraham A., Kelemen A. (eds) Deep Learning Techniques for Biomedical and Health Informatics. Studies in Big Data, vol 68. Springer, Cham, ISBN: 978-3-030-33965-4,DoI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33966-1_15. SCOPUS indexed
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani. “Privacy threat model for IoT” 4th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT), 2019, MNIT, Jaipur, May 9-10, 2019, Proceedings published in Springer Nature Switzerland, AISC 1122, SCOPUS indexed.pp. 278-292.
  • Verma, Priyanka, and Nishtha Kesswani. "Analysis of Web Usage Patterns to Identify Most Frequently Accessed Web Page by Multiple Users." International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies. Springer, Cham, 2019, Volume 1122. Pp. 151-159. SCOPUS indexed
  • Priyanka Verma, Nishtha Kesswani, “Mining Web Repositories Storing Genomic Information to Cure Cancer Through Personalized Medicines” Book Chapter in Advanced Applications of Nanotechnology in Cancer Detection and Therapy, IGI Global, ISBN13: 9781799801399, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0139-9.
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani. “Smart Judiciary System: A Smart Dust based IoT Application” International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering. Springer, Singapore ICETCE 2019, SKIT, Jaipur, February 1-2, 2019, Proceedings published in Springer CCIS.SCOPUS indexed.
  • Nishtha Kesswani, Shelendra Jain, “Schematic classification Model of Green computing approaches” Book Chapter in Nature Inspired computing: concepts, methodologies, tools and applications, IGI Global, ISBN: 978152250788. Indexed in Scopus.
  • “Wireless QoS Routing Protocol (WQRP): Ensuring Quality of Service in Mobile adhoc Networks”, Nishtha Kesswani, Computational Intelligence in Data mining- Volume 3, /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies- Volume 33, Springer, Print ISBN 978-81-322-2201-9, Online ISBN 978-81-322-2202-6, pp 261-269. SCOPUS indexed
  • Unit 1(Disk Scheduling) and 2(Linux Operating System) of Self Instructional material of Operating Systems II, BCA Part III, Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota.
  • Unit 14(Emerging Trends in DBMS I) and 15(Emerging trends in DBMS II) of Self Instructional Material of Database Management system, Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, ISBN 13/978-81-8496-325-0.

Peer-reviewed Journals (Recent publications)

  • Saran, Naveen, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A comparative study of supervised Machine Learning classifiers for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things." Procedia Computer Science 218 (2023): 2049-2057. Doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.01.181. Impact factor 0.883.
  • Monika Vishwakarma, Nishtha Kesswani, DIDS: A deep neural network based real-time intrusion detection system for IoT, Decision Analytics Journal, Elsevier (2022), Volume 5, SCOPUS ISSN 2772-6622, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2022.100142. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277266222200073X).
  • 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.
  • Jyotiyana, M., Kesswani, N. & Kumar, M. A deep learning approach for classification and diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Soft Computing, Springer (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-022-07275-6.Vol. 26, Issue 11, July 2022, SCIE, Impact Factor 3.643 . ISSN 1432-7643. Published 2 July 2022.
  • Singh, Krishan Pal, and Nishtha Kesswani. "An Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection System for IoT Networks Using Trust Factor." SN Computer Science 3.2 (2022): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01053-9.SCOPUS. ISSN 2661-8907
  • Choudhary, Sarika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A Hybrid Classification Approach for Intrusion Detection in IoT Network." Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (JSIR),CSIR, NISCAIR 80.09 (2021): 809-816, ISSN: 0975 1085, SCIE, Impact Factor 1.056.
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani. “A Noise Based Privacy Preserving Model for Internet of Things.” Complex and Intelligent Systems (2021). SCIE, Impact Factor 4.927.
  • Kesswani, Nishtha, and Sanjay Kumar. "Government website accessibility: a cross-country analysis of G7 and BRICS countries." Universal Access in the Information Society (2021): 1-16. SCIE, Impact Factor 3.078.
  • Choudhary, Sarika, Apurba Dey, and Nishtha Kesswani. "CRIDS: Correlation and Regression-Based Network Intrusion Detection System for IoT." SN Computer Science 2.3 (2021): 1-7.
  • Nishtha Kesswani. “FLOT : Location Privacy preservation in Internet of Things.” IOP Conference Series: Material Science and Engineering, 1020 (2021):1-9. Online ISSN: 1757-899X Print ISSN: 1757-8981. SCOPUS doi:10.1088/1757-899X/1020/1/012002.
  • Ayyagari, M.R., Kesswani, N., Kumar, M. et al. “Intrusion detection techniques in network environment: a systematic review.” Wireless Networks, Springer (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02529-3. Impact Factor 2.659, SCI, ISSN 2366-1186.
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani.  “A Comparative study of Location privacy preservation in the Internet of Things” , Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, 171 (2020):1760-1769. Impact Factor 1.26, SCIE, SCOPUS.ISSN 00002010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.04.189.
  • Devi, U., N. Kesswani, and A. Sharma. "A Diverse View on Feature-Oriented Programming in Software Product Line." Studies in Indian Place Names 40.18 (2020): 1950-1957. ISSN 2394-3114. UGC Journal.
  • Monika Jyotiyana, Nishtha Kesswani. “Classification and Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease using Multi-Layer Perceptron”, International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Inderscience, ISSN 1755-0564,SCOPUS.
  • Choudhary, Sarika, and Nishtha Kesswani. “Analysis of KDD-Cup’99, NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB15 Datasets using Deep Learning in IoT.” Procedia Computer Science 167 (2020): 1561-1573. Impact Factor 1.26, SCIE, SCOPUS.ISSN 00002010.
  • Nishtha Kesswani, Basant Agrawal. “SmartGuard: An Intrusion Detection system for Smart homes.” International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Inderscience 13.1 (2020), SCOPUS, ISSN Online 1751-5866.UGC Journal No. 22985
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani. “IoTP: An Efficient Privacy Preserving scheme for Internet of Things Environment.” International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, Volume 14, Issue 2, IGI Global (2020), ESCI, SCOPUS,ISSN 1930-1650.UGC Journal no. 22950.
  • Shelendra Kumar Jain, Nishtha Kesswani, and Basant Agarwal. "Security, privacy and trust: privacy preserving model for internet of things." International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems 13.2-4 (2020): 249-277. SCOPUS, ISSN Online 1751-5866.UGC Journal No. 22985.
  • Devi, U., N. Kesswani, and A. Sharma. "An Efficient model for measuring maintainability from code cloning and refactoring using regression." International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research  8.12 (2019): 4019-4023 ISSN 2277-8616.
  • Verma, Jyotsna, and Nishtha Kesswani. "AMIGM: Animal Migration Inspired Group Mobility Model for Mobile Ad hoc Networks." Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience 20.3 (2019): 577-590. ISSN 1895-1767. DOI 10.12694/scpe.v20i3.1574.ESCI, SCOPUS. UGC Journal No. 23855.
  • Priyanka Verma, Nishtha Kesswani. “FEDUS: A comprehensive algorithm for Web usage mining”. Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Taylor and Francis(2019), ESCI, DOI : 10.1080/02522667.2019.1616912, ISSN 0252-2667 (Print), ISSN 2169-0103 (Online).1-20.
  • Choudhary, Sarika, and Nishtha Kesswani. "A Survey: Intrusion Detection Techniques for Internet of Things." International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) 13.1 (2019): 86-105. ESCI, SCOPUS. ISSN 19301650.UGC List Journal No. 22950.
  • Kaur, Rajwinder, et al. "Efficient Routing Protocol for Location Privacy Preserving in Internet of Things." International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) 13.1 (2019): 70-85.ESCI, SCOPUS. ISSN 19301650.UGC List Journal No. 22950.
  • Verma, Jyotsna, and Nishtha Kesswani. "BIGM: A Biogeography Inspired Group Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer (2018): 25.4, 1-18 ISSN  10689605. UGC List Journal No. 7760.
  • Kesswani, Nishtha, Hongbo Lyu, and Zuopeng Justin Zhang. "Analyzing Android App Privacy with GP-PP Model." IEEE Access (2018), Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 39541-39546, Print ISSN 2169-3536, Online ISSN 2169-3536, SCIE, SCOPUS, Impact Factor 4.098, DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2850060.UGC Journal No. 29801.
  • Nishtha Kesswani, Sanjay Kumar. “Cyber physical systems and Smart cities”, CSI Communications, December 2017, Volume 41, Issue 9, ISSN 0970-647X, pp 29-30. http://www.csi-india.org/Communications/CSIC/CSIC%20December%202017.pdf#...
  • Verma Priyanka, Kesswani Nishtha. “User identification prerequisite for memorization a type of personalization”. International J. Services Technology and Management,Inderscience, Indexed in DBLP, SCOPUS etc, Vol 23, Issue 4 (2017), ISSN 14606720 eISSN 1741-525X.UGC Journal no. 43964.pp 290-298.

 

    Indo-Belarus Joint research programme

    Attended

    Papers presented in Conferences- 56

    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.