CV

Work experience

Aug 2024 - till date: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- Collegiate Associate Professor, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Teaching:
  - ECE 3574 Applied Software Design
  - ECE 3564 Introduction to Networking
  - ECE 3514 Data Structure and Algorithms
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science
Nov 2018 - Till Date: ResearchID.co
- Founder and Developer
Feb 2013 - Aug 2024: University of Brunei
- Assistant Professor, School of Digital Science
July 2007 - Dec 2012: CPA Global, Noida, India
- Associate IP Lead, Microsoft Patent Research Services

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
- J. C. Bose University of Science & Technology YMCA, Faridabad, India, 2019
- Title: Optimization of Routing Protocols and Profile Matching Algorithms in Ad-hoc Social Networking, Jan 16, 2019
M.E. Computer Technology and Applications
- Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India

Editor/Judge

Special Issue Editor, Symmetry/Asymmetry in Data Mining and Machine Learning, Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994), indexed in SCIE; Scopus (Deadline for Submissions: 27 April 2026)
Special Issue Guest Editor, Intelligent and Secure Wireless Network Sensing: Techniques, Architectures, and Real-World Applications, Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220), indexed in SCIE Scopus (Deadline for Submissions: 31 March 2026)
Judge, QS Reimagine Education Awards 2025, 2024, 2023

Patents

Instant messaging for mobile device with offline and online mode
Aneja, S., Aneja. N., and Petra, I. "Instant messaging for mobile device with offline and online mode." U.S. Patent 10,834,035, filed Dec 28, 2015, issued Nov 10, 2020.
Method and System for Ad-hoc Social Networking and Profile Matching
Aneja, N., and Gambhir, S. "Method and system for Ad-hoc Social Networking and Profile Matching." U.S. Patent 10,264,609, filed Dec 28, 2015, issued April 16, 2019.
Anti-fraud computer implemented method for financial card transaction
Aneja, N., and Aneja, S. "Anti-fraud computer implemented method for financial card transaction." U.S. Patent Publication 2015/0339,657, filed May 23, 2014, published Nov 26, 2015.

Publications

45. Certified Accuracy and Robustness: How different architectures stand up to adversarial attacks
Azryl Elmy Sarih, Nagender Aneja, Wee Hong Ong "Certified Accuracy and Robustness: How different architectures stand up to adversarial attacks." Intelligent Systems with Applications, 2025. pp. 200555
44. Differentially processed optimized collaborative rich text editor
Nishtha Jatana, Mansehej Singh, Charu Gupta, Geetika Dhand, Shaily Malik, Pankaj Dadheech, Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja "Differentially processed optimized collaborative rich text editor." Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2025. vol. 84 pp. 17189--17204
43. Deep Explainable Ensemble for Medical Image Analysis
Hassaan Haider Syed, Nagender Aneja, Owais Ahmed Malik, Mohammed Abdul Rahman Minhaj "Deep Explainable Ensemble for Medical Image Analysis." TENCON 2024-2024 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), 2024. pp. 1737--1740
41. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Innovations, Challenges, and Applications
Pawan Whig, Pavika Sharma, Nagender Aneja, Ahmed A Elngar, Nuno Silva "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Innovations, Challenges, and Applications." , 2024.
42. SAGA-Integrating AI for Enhanced Recruitment: A System with Audio-Video Proctoring and Comprehensive Evaluation
Nishad Mathur, Ashutosh Sharma, Shubh Kaushik, VS Bakkialakshmi, Vishishta Kavadiya, Nagender Aneja "SAGA-Integrating AI for Enhanced Recruitment: A System with Audio-Video Proctoring and Comprehensive Evaluation." 2024 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communication and Information Technology (ICAICCIT), 2024. vol. 1 pp. 395--399
40. Fingerprinting Browsers in Encrypted Communications
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja "Fingerprinting Browsers in Encrypted Communications." IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), 2024. doi: 10.1109/UEMCON62879.2024.10754712
39. Feature Selection-based Machine Learning Comparative Analysis for Predicting Breast Cancer
Chour Singh Rajpoot, Gajanand Sharma, Praveen Gupta, Pankaj Dadheech, Umar Yahya, Nagender Aneja "Feature Selection-based Machine Learning Comparative Analysis for Predicting Breast Cancer." Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2024. vol. 38 pp. 2340386
35. SentimentPulse: Temporal-Aware Custom Language Models vs. GPT-3.5 for Consumer Sentiment
Lixiang Li, Bharat Bhargava, Alina Nesen, Nagender Aneja "SentimentPulse: Temporal-Aware Custom Language Models vs. GPT-3.5 for Consumer Sentiment." I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes in the Age of Foundation Models, NeurIPS 2023, 2023.
34. Detect & Adapt: A Resiliency Enhancement Mechanism for Space Computing Platforms
Shafkat Islam, Nagender Aneja, Ruy de Oliveira, Sandhya Aneja, Bharat Bhargava, Jason Hamlet, Chris Jenkins "Detect & Adapt: A Resiliency Enhancement Mechanism for Space Computing Platforms." 10th Annual Conf. on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI'23), 2023.
36. Predicting agriculture yields based on machine learning using regression and deep learning
Priyanka Sharma, Pankaj Dadheech, Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja "Predicting agriculture yields based on machine learning using regression and deep learning." IEEE Access, 2023.
37. Sustainable Development through Machine Learning, AI and IoT: First International Conference, ICSD 2023, Delhi, India, July 15--16, 2023, Revised Selected Papers
Pawan Whig, Nuno Silva, Ahmed A Elngar, Nagender Aneja, Pavika Sharma "Sustainable Development through Machine Learning, AI and IoT: First International Conference, ICSD 2023, Delhi, India, July 15--16, 2023, Revised Selected Papers." , 2023.
31. Conversational chat system using attention mechanism for COVID-19 inquiries
Wang Xin Hui, Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja, Abdul Ghani Naim "Conversational chat system using attention mechanism for COVID-19 inquiries." International Journal of Intelligent Networks, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.ijin.2023.05.003
38. NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation
Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahadiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Shrivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho Choi, Eduard Hovy, Ondřej Dušek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Emile Chapuis, Wanxiang Che, Mukund Choudhary, Christian Clauss, Pierre Colombo, Filip Cornell, Gautier Dagan, Mayukh Das, Tanay Dixit, Thomas Dopierre, Paul-Alexis Dray, Suchitra Dubey, Tatiana Ekeinhor, Marco Di Giovanni, Tanya Goyal, Rishabh Gupta, Louanes Hamla, Sang Han, Fabrice Harel-Canada, Antoine Honoré, Ishan Jindal, Przemysław Joniak, Denis Kleyko, Venelin Kovatchev, Kalpesh Krishna, Ashutosh Kumar, Stefan Langer, Seungjae Ryan Lee, Corey James Levinson, Hualou Liang, Kaizhao Liang, Zhexiong Liu, Andrey Lukyanenko, Vukosi Marivate, Gerard Melo, Simon Meoni, Maxine Meyer, Afnan Mir, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Niklas Meunnighoff, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Kenton Murray, Marcin Namysl, Maria Obedkova, Priti Oli, Nivranshu Pasricha, Jan Pfister, Richard Plant, Vinay Prabhu, Vasile Pais, Libo Qin, Shahab Raji, Pawan Kumar Rajpoot, Vikas Raunak, Roy Rinberg, Nicholas Roberts, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Claude Roux, Vasconcellos Samus, Ananya Sai, Robin Schmidt, Thomas Scialom, Tshephisho Sefara, Saqib Shamsi, Xudong Shen, Yiwen Shi, Haoyue Shi, Anna Shvets, Nick Siegel, Damien Sileo, Jamie Simon, Chandan Singh, Roman Sitelew, Priyank Soni, Taylor Sorensen, William Soto, Aman Srivastava, Aditya Srivatsa, Tony Sun, Mukund Varma, A Tabassum, Fiona Tan, Ryan Teehan, Mo Tiwari, Marie Tolkiehn, Athena Wang, Zijian Wang, Zijie Wang, Gloria Wang, Fuxuan Wei, Bryan Wilie, Genta Indra Winata, Xinyu Wu, Witold Wydmanski, Tianbao Xie, Usama Yaseen, Michael Yee, Jing Zhang, Yue Zhang "NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation." Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 2023. vol. 9
33. Pronunciation scoring with goodness of pronunciation and dynamic time warping
Kavita Sheoran, Arpit Bajgoti, Rishik Gupta, Nishtha Jatana, Geetika Dhand, Charu Gupta, Pankaj Dadheech, Umar Yahya, Nagender Aneja "Pronunciation scoring with goodness of pronunciation and dynamic time warping." IEEE Access, 2023. vol. 11 pp. 15485--15495
30. AI Enabled Learning Architecture Using Network Traffic Traces over IoT Network
Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja, Bharat Bhargava "AI Enabled Learning Architecture Using Network Traffic Traces over IoT Network." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2023. vol. 2023 doi: 10.1155/2023/8658278
32. Biogeography-based optimization of artificial neural network (BBO-ANN) for solar radiation forecasting
Ajay Kumar Bansal, Virendra Swaroop Sangtani, Pankaj Dadheech, Nagender Aneja, Umar Yahya "Biogeography-based optimization of artificial neural network (BBO-ANN) for solar radiation forecasting." Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2023. vol. 37 pp. 2166705
29. Predictive Linguistic Cues for Fake News: A Societal AI Problem
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru "Predictive Linguistic Cues for Fake News: A Societal AI Problem." IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2022. vol. 11( 4) doi: 10.11591/ijai.v11.i4.pp1252-1260
28. Defense against adversarial attacks on deep convolutional neural networks through nonlocal denoising
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Abdul Ghani Naim "Defense against adversarial attacks on deep convolutional neural networks through nonlocal denoising." IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2022. vol. 11( 3) doi: 10.11591/ijai.v11.i3.pp961-968
25. Transfer learning for cancer diagnosis in histopathological images
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Abdul Ghani Naim "Transfer learning for cancer diagnosis in histopathological images." IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2022. vol. 11( 1) doi: 10.11591/ijai.v11.i1.pp129-136
27. Device fingerprinting using deep convolutional neural networks
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Bharat Bhargava, Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury "Device fingerprinting using deep convolutional neural networks." International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2022. vol. 28 pp. 171--198 doi: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2022.121197
26. Collaborative adversary nodes learning on the logs of IoT devices in an IoT network
Sandhya Aneja, Melanie Ang Xuan En, Nagender Aneja "Collaborative adversary nodes learning on the logs of IoT devices in an IoT network." 2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2022. pp. 231--235 doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS53615.2022.9668602
24. Packet-level and IEEE 802.11 MAC frame-level network traffic traces data of the D-Link IoT devices
Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury, Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas "Packet-level and IEEE 802.11 MAC frame-level network traffic traces data of the D-Link IoT devices." Data in Brief, 2021. vol. 37 pp. 107208 doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107208
23. Recent Advances in Ad-Hoc Social Networking: Key Techniques and Future Research Directions
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Recent Advances in Ad-Hoc Social Networking: Key Techniques and Future Research Directions." Wireless Personal Communications, 2021. vol. 117 pp. 1735--1753 doi: 10.1007/s11277-020-07942-7
22. Network traffic analysis based iot device identification
Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury, Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Emeroylariffion Abas "Network traffic analysis based iot device identification." Proceedings of the 2020 the 4th International Conference on Big Data and Internet of Things, 2020. pp. 79--89 doi: 10.1145/3421537.3421545
21. Neural Machine Translation model for University Email Application
Sandhya Aneja, Siti Nur Afikah Bte Abdul Mazid, Nagender Aneja "Neural Machine Translation model for University Email Application." 2020 2nd Symposium on Signal Processing Systems, 2020. pp. 74--79 doi: 10.1145/3421515.3421522
18. Semi-supervised learning for cancer detection of lymph node metastases
Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Ivan Panshin, Dimitrij Shulkin, Nagender Aneja, Samuel Abramov "Semi-supervised learning for cancer detection of lymph node metastases." arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09587, 2019.
19. Transfer learning using CNN for handwritten Devanagari character recognition
Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja "Transfer learning using CNN for handwritten Devanagari character recognition." 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (ICAIT), 2019. pp. 293--296 doi: 10.1109/ICAIT47043.2019.8987286
20. Detecting Fake News with Machine Learning
Nagender Aneja, Sandhya Aneja "Detecting Fake News with Machine Learning." International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 2019. pp. 53--64 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67187-7_7
17. IoT device fingerprint using deep learning
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja, Md Shohidul Islam "IoT device fingerprint using deep learning." 2018 IEEE international conference on internet of things and intelligence system (IOTAIS), 2018. pp. 174--179 doi: 10.1109/IOTAIS.2018.8600824
16. Profile-based ad hoc social networking using Wi-Fi direct on the top of android
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Profile-based ad hoc social networking using Wi-Fi direct on the top of android." Mobile Information Systems, 2018. vol. 2018 doi: 10.1155/2018/9469536
14. Social profile aware AODV Protocol for ad-hoc social networks
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Social profile aware AODV Protocol for ad-hoc social networks." Wireless Personal Communications, 2017. vol. 97 pp. 4161--4182 doi: 10.1007/s11277-017-4718-x
15. Piecewise maximal similarity for ad-hoc social networks
Sapna Gambhir, Nagender Aneja, Liyanage Chandratilake De Silva "Piecewise maximal similarity for ad-hoc social networks." Wireless Personal Communications, 2017. vol. 97 pp. 3519--3529 doi: 10.1007/s11277-017-4683-4
12. Protecting Internet Traffic: Security Challenges and Solutions
Mohammed Aledhari, Sukanya Mandal, Nagender Aneja, Mikael Dautrey, Rajesh Nighot, Prasad Mantri, Jared Bielby "Protecting Internet Traffic: Security Challenges and Solutions." IEEE Internet Technology Policy Community White Paper, 2017.
11. Internet of Things (IoT) Security Best Practices
G Corser, G Fink, J Bielby "Internet of Things (IoT) Security Best Practices." IEEE Internet Technology Policy Community; White Paper, 2017.
13. Security and Privacy: Challenges and Defending Solutions for NoSQL Data Stores
Sandhya Aneja, Nagender Aneja "Security and Privacy: Challenges and Defending Solutions for NoSQL Data Stores." NoSQL: Database for Storage and Retrieval of Data in Cloud, 2017. pp. 237--250 doi: 10.1201/9781315155579-13
10. Middleware architecture for ad-hoc social network
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Middleware architecture for ad-hoc social network." Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 2016. vol. 13 pp. 690--695 doi: 10.19026/rjaset.13.3342
9. Software Design for social profile matching algorithm to create ad-hoc social network on top of android
Sapna Gambhir, Samridhi Mangla, Nagender Aneja "Software Design for social profile matching algorithm to create ad-hoc social network on top of android." 2016 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), 2016. pp. 3450--3454
7. Need of ad-hoc social network based on users' dynamic interests
Sapna Gambhir, Nagender Aneja, Samridhi Mangla "Need of ad-hoc social network based on users' dynamic interests." 2015 International Conference on Soft Computing Techniques and Implementations (ICSCTI), 2015. pp. 52--56 doi: 10.1109/ICSCTI.2015.7489562
8. Geo-social semantic profile matching algorithm for dynamic interests in ad-hoc social network
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Geo-social semantic profile matching algorithm for dynamic interests in ad-hoc social network." 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology, 2015. pp. 354--358 doi: 10.1109/CICT.2015.50
6. Geo-social profile matching algorithm for dynamic interests in ad-hoc social network
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Geo-social profile matching algorithm for dynamic interests in ad-hoc social network." Social Networking, 2014. vol. 3 pp. 240 doi: 10.4236/sn.2014.35029
5. Verification of Forecasts from High Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model
Nagender Aneja, Thomas George "Verification of Forecasts from High Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model." Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 2014. vol. 8 pp. 1255--1258 doi: 10.19026/rjaset.8.1092
4. Ad-hoc social network: A comprehensive survey
Sapna Gambhir, Nagender Aneja "Ad-hoc social network: A comprehensive survey." International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 2013. vol. 4 pp. 156--160
3. Various Issues in Ad-hoc Social Networks (ASN)
Nagender Aneja, Sapna Gambhir "Various Issues in Ad-hoc Social Networks (ASN)." National Conference on Recent trends in computer science and Information Technology (RTCSIT), 2012.
2. Minimum exposed path to the attack (MEPA) in mobile ad hoc network (MANET)
Sandhya Khurana, Neelima Gupta, Nagender Aneja "Minimum exposed path to the attack (MEPA) in mobile ad hoc network (MANET)." Sixth International Conference on Networking (ICN'07), 2007. pp. 16--16 doi: 10.1109/ICN.2007.57
1. Reliable ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol
Sandhya Khurana, Neelima Gupta, Nagender Aneja "Reliable ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol." International Conference on Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies (ICNICONSMCL'06), 2006. pp. 98--98 doi: 10.1109/ICNICONSMCL.2006.183