Dr. Surjit Singh

Dr. Surjit Singh

Designation:

Assistant Professor (Contractual)

Specialization:

Next-Generation/Advanced Computer Networks, WSN, Internet of Things and Cloud collaboration, Information Security, and Soft Computing.

Email:

surjit.singh@thapar.edu

Biography:

Dr. Surjit Singh has completed Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (Institution of National Importance), Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He holds M.Tech. degree in CSE with Distinction from Jamia Hamdard (Institute of Eminence), New Delhi, and B.Tech. degree in Computer Engineering with Honors from Kurukshetra University. He was the State Board Topper during his diploma course.

He is currently working as an Assistant Professor and M.E. Coordinator in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala in Punjab (INDIA). Before joining TIET, he has worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering at NIT Kurukshetra. He has more than 11 years of experience in teaching and research with different institutions, including UPTU Engineering Colleges and GLA University.

He is serving as Guest Editor/Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and different journals of high repute. He is also serving as a reviewer and International Advisory Board of several journals & International Conferences including IEEE Transactions, IEEE Access, FGCS Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, and IGI Global. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 research publications with reputed publishers including IEEE Transactions, ACM, IET, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Pearson, and IGI Global USA. He has Three Books to his credit “Handbook of Research on the IoT, Cloud Computing and Wireless Network Optimization” and “Handbook of Research on Power and Energy System Optimization”, with publisher IGI Global USA; and “Computer Systems and Programming in C” with publisher Pearson Education.

His areas of current interests are Next-Generation/Advanced Computer Networks, Internet of Things, Cryptography & Information Security, Cloud-IoT collaborations, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Soft Computing.

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies:

  1. Member IEEE
  2. Member of Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) Lab USA

Publications and Other Research Outputs:

Books Published:

  1. Handbook of Research on the IoT, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Network Optimization (2 Volumes). (pp. 1-563). Year March 2019. Publisher: IGI Global USA. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7335-7. Scopus Indexing Submitted.
  2. Handbook of Research on Power and Energy System Optimization; Publisher: IGI Global USA; Year March 2018; DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3935-3. Scopus Indexed.
  3. Computer Systems and Programming in C; Publisher: Pearson Education; Year 2014; ISBN: 9789332521711.

Journal Publications:

  1. Singh et al. (2019). Big Data Analysis-based Network Behavior Insight of Cellular Networks for Industry 4.0 Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2930226. SCIE Indexed. Impact Factor-7.377.
  2. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. (2018). HSCA: A Novel Harmony Search based Efficient Clustering in Heterogeneous WSNs. Telecommunication Systems. 67(4), 651-667. Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-017-0365-5. SCIE Indexed. Impact Factor-1.707.
  3. Singh, S., & Kumar, P. (2019). MH-CACA: multi-objective harmony search based coverage aware load balanced clustering algorithm in WSNs. Enterprise Information Systems. 67(4), 651-667. Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2019.1633691. SCIE Indexed. Impact Factor-2.122.
  4. Singh et al. (2019). A SDN‐based fine‐grained measurement and modeling approach to vehicular communication network traffic. International Journal of Communication Systems. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4092 . SCIE Indexed. Impact Factor-1.278.
  5. Kumar, P., Ali, I., Thomas, M. S., & Singh, S. (2017). Imposing voltage security and network radiality for reconfiguration of distribution systems using efficient heuristic and meta-heuristic approach. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 11(10), 2457-2467. SCI Indexed. Impact Factor-3.229. DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.0935.
  6. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2018. Heuristic based Coverage aware Load Balanced Clustering in WSNs and Enablement of IoT. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE). 13(2), 1-10. IGI Global, USA. ESCI/Scopus/Web of Science Indexed.
  7. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2017. Special Issue on Current Trends of Global ICT Education, Design and Research Challenges in IoT and Wireless Networks. Journal of cases. on Information Technology (JCIT) 19(4), 2017. IGI Global USA. Web of Science Indexed.
  8. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2015. Some Aspects of Coverage Awareness in Wireless Sensor Networks. Procedia Computer Science, no. 70(2015), 160-165. DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2015.10.065. WoS /Scopus Indexed. Elsevier.
  9. Singh, S., Sharma, R.M. &, Kumar, P. 2016. WSNs and PDNs: Similarities, Challenges and Application of Computational Intelligence. International Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 9 (41), 489-497. Scopus Indexed.
  10. Kumar, Sujeet and Singh, Surjit, Utilization Of Cloud Services For Data Management (April 3, 2018). International Journal of Information Systems & Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2018. Available at Elsevier SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3364970.

International Conferences (SCOPUS Indexed-selected):

  1. Birthriya, S., & Singh, S. (2019). A comprehensive study for TCP in data center network (DCN). Springer, ICACCT-2019, 6-7 Dec. 2019, NIT Kurukshetra, India. Accepted for Publication.
  2. Kumar, Sujeet and Singh, Surjit. (2018). Utilization Of Cloud Services For Data Management. Elsevier 4th International Conference on Computers & Management (ICCM-2018), G.B. Pant Govt. Engg College, Delhi. Elsevier ISSRN Indexed.
  3. Mishra, S., Singh, S., & Ali, S.T., (2018). MPoWS: Merged Proof of Ownership and Storagefor Block Level Deduplication in Cloud Storage. IEEE 9th ICCCNT, 10-12 July 2018, IISc Bangalore, India. Scopus Indexed.
  4. Mishra, S., Singh, S., & Ali, S.T., (2018). RCDSD: RSA based Cross Domain Secure Deduplication on Cloud Storage. IEEE 9th ICCCNT, 10-12 July 2018, IISc Bangalore, India. Scopus Indexed.
  5. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2016. Optimization Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks. In (p.7) ICTCS’16 ACM ICPS Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies.Udaipur, India, 4-5 March, 2016. ACM. Scopus Indexed.
  6. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2015. Some Aspects of Coverage Awareness in Wireless Sensor Networks. ICECCS 2015, 07-08 Dec 2015, NIT Kurukshetra, India. Elsevier. Scopus Indexed.
  7. Kumar, P., & Singh, S. (2014, December). Reconfiguration of radial distribution system with static load models for loss minimization. In Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2014 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1-5). IEEE. at IIT Bombay. Scopus Indexed.
  8. Kumar, P., & Singh, S. (2014, December). Comprehensive stability analysis of radial distribution system with load growth. In Power Electronics (IICPE), 2014 IEEE 6th India International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Scopus Indexed.
  9. Kumar, P., & Singh, S. (2014, December). Energy efficiency performance of reconfigured radial networks with reactive power injection. In Power Electronics (IICPE), 2014 IEEE 6th India International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Scopus Indexed.

Book Chapters Published:

  1. Mishra, S., & Singh, S. (2019). Secure Data Deduplication on Cloud Storage. In S. Singh, & R. Mohan Sharma (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the IoT, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Network Optimization (pp. 23-40). Hershey, PA: IGI Global USA. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7335-7.ch002.
  2. Kumar, R., Vijay, R., & Singh, S. (2019). Designing and Analysis of Antenna Using Back Propagation Network. In S. Singh, & R. Mohan Sharma (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the IoT, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Network Optimization (pp. 453-490). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7335-7.ch020.
  3. Singh, S., & Sharma, R.M. 2016. Localization System Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks (LSO-WSN). Handbook of Research on Wireless Sensor Network Trends, Technologies, and Applications; of AWTT Book Series (Eds.). Aug 2016. IGI Global, USA. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0501-3.ch001.

Awards and Honors:

  1. Lead Guest Editor/Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on “Energy Management, Protocols and Security for the Next Generation Networks and Internet of Things”, with Prof. Michael Sheng (Head, Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia), Prof. Elhadj Benkhelifa (Staffordshire University, UK), Prof. Jaime Lloret (University of Valencia, Spain). Year 2019. SCIE Indexed. Impact Factor: 7.377.
  2. Lead Guest Editor, Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), Special Issue on “Current Trends of Global ICT Education, Design and Research Challenges in IoT and Wireless Networks”. Year 2017. IGI Global USA. Web of Science/Scopus Indexed.
  3. International Journal Editorial Board/Advisory Board Member:
    • International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), IGI Global USA. 
    •  International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT), IGI Global USA.
    •  International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies (IJWNBT), IGI Global USA.
    • Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), IGI Global USA.
    • International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), IGI Global USA.
  4. International Conferences Organizing Committee Member/Technical Committee Member:
    • MIND-2019, Technical Program Committee & Local Organizing Committee Member, at Department of Computer Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, India.
    • SUSCOM-2019, SUSCOM-2020, National Advisory Board Member, at Amity University Jaipur.
    • 1st International Conf. on ICT for Digital, Smart, and Sustainable Development (ICIDSSD-19), Technical Program Committee Member, at Deptt. of CSE, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi.
    • PerCAA-2019, Program Committee Member, Purnima University, Jaipur.
    • ICCSRE-2018, Morocco, Organizing Committee Member, at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Quarzate, Morocco.
    • NGCT-2017, Technical Program Committee Member, at UPES Dehradun.
    • SmartTech-17, National Advisory Committee Member, at Amity University Jaipur.
  5. Received Outstanding Reviewer Recognition certificate from Elsevier Journal.
  6. Chaired “Invited Talk” at International Conference, SmartTech-2017, Amity University Jaipur.
  7. Theory/Practical Examiner: at ABES Engg College Ghaziabad, PCCS Greater Noida, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Greater Noida, G.L. Bajaj Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida, MGMCoET, Noida, RKGIT, Ghaziabad.
  8. M.Tech with Distinction and B.Tech with Honors.
  9. Got 1st Rank in State Board during Diploma Course, with scholarships from SBTE Chandigarh.

PG: M.Tech Thesis Guided: Last 2 Years

S.No

Name of Student

Affiliation/Institute

Date of Completion

Title of Thesis

Current Status

1

Shivansh Mishra

Deptt. of Computer Engg, NIT Kurukshetra

Sub: 20-07-18

Viva: 04-09-18

Secure Data Deduplication

PhD Research Scholar, CSE, IIT (BHU), Varanasi

2

Sujeet Kumar

Deptt. of Computer Engg, NIT Kurukshetra

Submitted:

July 2019

Utilization of resources and secure data management in Cloud-IoT

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Description of Research Interests:

His current research interests include Internet of Things,(IoT), Cloud-IoT Collaborations, Blockchain Technology, Cryptography & Information Security, Next-Generation/Advanced Computer Networks, SDN, WSN, CRN, DTN, Opportunistic Mobile Networks, and Soft Computing.