Dr Anish Jindal

Associate Professor

Affiliations
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Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science	+44 (0) 191 33 44080

Biography

Dr. Anish Jindal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University since July 2024, a fellow of Durham Energy Institute, and a visiting fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, USA. Before this, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Durham University, UK (Jan. 2022 - June 2024), a Lecturer in CSEE, University of Essex (Apr. 2020 - Dec. 2021), and a Senior Research Associate at the School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University, UK (Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2020). He completed his Ph.D., M.Engg., and B. Tech. degrees from India in computer science engineering in 2018, 2014, and 2012, respectively. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2019 from the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), the IEEE Communication Society's Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Region, 2019, and conferred with the IEEE Hyper-intelligence Technical Committee (HITC) Award for Excellence (Early Career Researcher) 2023. He was a visiting researcher at OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany in 2019.

His research interests are in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, and security. Some of the particular aspects of his research relate to resource-aware computing, energy optimization, programmable and scalable networking, and wireless network & security. He is one of the Co-Is for the EPSRC's £3M early communications hub, CHEDDAR (EP/X040518/1) and DSIT's £8.5M CHEDDAR TMF uplift (EP/Y037421/1), EPSRC's £10M National Edge AI Hub for Real Data: Edge Intelligence for Cyber-disturbances and Data Quality (EP/Y028813/1), UKRI's £1.84M AI for Net Zero grant, VPP-WARD (EP/Y005376/1). Apart from these, he is PI and Co-I of several fundings received from UK Research and Innovation (GCRF), Innovate UK (KTP), The Royal Society (International Exchanges), British Council (Going Global Partnerships), Alumnode, Durham Seed Corn, and startup grant for some of his research ideas.

Many of his research findings are published in top-cited journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TSC, IEEE TII, IEEE TIE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TITS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TCE, IEEE TGCN, IEEE JBHI, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE IoTJ, Future Generation Computer Systems, Ad-hoc Networks, and Computer Networks. In addition to it, his research works have also been presented at various conferences of repute such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WiMob, IEEE PES General Meeting, ACM MobiHoc, etc. He has served as General co-chair, TPC co-chair, TPC member, Publicity chair and Session chair of various reputed conferences and workshops including IEEE ICC, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE COINS, and IEEE GLOBECOM. He is also the guest editor of various journals including Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley), Neural Computing & Applications (Springer), Computer Communications (Elsevier), IET Smart Cities (IET), and IJCS (Wiley). He has also delivered many invited talks and lectures in various international avenues. He is an environment champion for Durham Greenspace and a member of the ACM and IEEE. He is actively involved with various working groups and committees of IEEE and ACM related to smart grids, energy informatics, and smart cities.

Ongoing research calls

Research contributions are invited from prospective authors for the ongoing special calls:

- There are no open calls at the moment.

Open positions

Always looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students having aligned research interests. Prospective students are encouraged to contact me by email with their CV and a brief outline of their vision. (Some competitively funded studentships will be available for exceptional candidates by March 2024 for which an early discussion is advised.)

For research internships, please follow the university guidelines.

Research Groups

NESTiD: Network Engineering, Science and Theory in Durham
DEI: Durham Energy Institute

Useful links

You can check my profile on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, DBLP, or LinkedIn.

Research interests

Data analytics
Smart City Applications (smart homes, smart grids, healthcare, transportation, etc.)
Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning
Cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-things
Programmable and scalable networking
Resource aware computing
Wireless network & security
Energy optimization

Esteem Indicators

2024: Guest Speaker at The Knowledge Hub Universities (TKH), Egypt:
2024: Workshop speaker: UK-India Workshop on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Security, and Data Analytics
2023: Panel discussion on the ‘Future of the AI’ at St. Chad’s College Durham:
2023: Technical committee member: ComCom journal (Elsevier)
2023: Visiting Fellow: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, USA
2023: External Examiner: University of West of Scotland
2022: Keynote lecture: in “Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing Seminar” series at the University of Glasgow, UK.
2022: Keynote lecture: Short term training program on Tomorrow's Electrical Power Grid for SFIT Mumbai, India during 03-07 Jan. 2022.
2022: Visiting Fellow: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex
2021: Book: Internet of Energy for Smart CIties: Machine Learning Models and Techniques published by CRC Press.
2021: FHEA: Fellowship of the HEA (FHEA), from Advance HE.
2021: Guest Editor: Special Issue in Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley) on Resource management of IoT edge devices: Challenges, techniques, and solutions.
2021: Guest Editor: Topical Collection in Neural Computing and Applications (Springer) on Deep Neuro-Fuzzy Analytics for Intelligent Big Data Processing in Smart Ecosystems.
2020: Expert committee member: CONFIRM centre, Ireland for selection of Postdoctoral level candidates co-funded by MSCA and SMART 4.0.
2020: AFHEA: Associate Fellowship of the HEA (AFHEA), from Advance HE.
2020: Keynote Speaker: IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Workshop - BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities.
2020: Guest Editor: Special Issue in Computer Communications (Elsevier) on Network Management in Beyond 5G/6G Networks.
2019: Young Researcher Award: IEEE Communication Society's Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
2019: Visiting Researcher: OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany during Oct. 2019.
2019: Talk in Ph.D. Forum: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society held at IEEE Smart World Congress, Leicester, UK during 19-23 Aug. 2019.
2019: Selection in HLF: Selected as one of the young researchers to participate in the coveted ACM’s 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Germany.
2019: Outstanding PhD Award: IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
2019: Keynote lecture: Summer School on Smart cities for a Sustainable Energy Future - From Design to Practice at TU, Berlin, Germany during 19-30 Aug. 2019.
2016: Best Paper: Research paper selected as one of the best conference papers in IEEE PES GM, Boston, USA.
2000: Workshops Organised:
- 2023: IEEE CSR Workshop on Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS) in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR), July 31 - 2 Aug, Venice, Italy.
- 2020-23: Workshop series on "Smart Computing for Smart Cities" in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
- 2022: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Network Management for 6G Communication Systems (NetMan6G) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, Brazil.
- 2022: 2nd Workshop on "BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities" in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2022.
- 2021: 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (BlockCPS2021) in conjunction with IEEE/ACM UCC 2021.
- 2021: 2nd Workshop on Network Management for 6G Communication Systems (NetMan6G) in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2021.
- 2020: Program Chair for 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData).