Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

Nihar Ranjan Roy (life time member of Cryptology Research Society of India) is a passionate teacher working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology at Sharda University, Greater Noida. Dr. Roy is an active member of the Center for Cyber Security and Cryptography at Sharda University. He holds a Doctorate and M.Tech degree in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, and  Bachelor of Engineering degree from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha formerly known as Utkal University, Orissa. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in reputed colleges and universities of Delhi-NCR. He has authored and co-authored several research papers in reputed journals and international conferences, and is a reviewer of many SCI indexed journals from IEEE, Wiley, Elsevier and Springer to name a few.  He has chaired several technical sessions and has reviewed papers of many international conferences from Springer, & IEEE.  Dr. Roy’s research areas includes: Computer Network, Cyber Security and Forensics, and Machine Learning. He has 4 published patents to his credit.

Some of the honors and awards to his credit are Best Teacher Award, Best Researcher Award, Best Teaching Website Design Award, and  Best Personality Award. Dr. Roy has successfully organized the REDSET conference series which was published by springer and the is available at:

REDSET-2017 Springer CCIS

REDSET-2019 Springer CCIS

Sudeep Tanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a full professor at the Nirma University, India. He is also a Visiting Professor with Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland, and the University of Pitesti, Romania. He received B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization inWireless Sensor Network. He has authored 04 books and edited 20 books, more than 300 technical articles, including top cited journals and conferences, such as IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TII, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TCSC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE NETWORKS, IEEE WCM, ICC, IWCMC, GLOBECOM, CITS, and INFOCOM. He initiated the research field of blockchain technology adoption in various verticals in the year 2017. His H-index as per Google Scholar and Scopus is 61 and 47, respectively. His research interests include blockchain technology, wireless sensor networks, fog computing, smart grid, and the IoT. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Tactile Internet of IEEE Communication Society. Recently, He has been awarded cash prize of Rs, 50,000 for publishing papers with 5+ Impact factor and publication of books with Springer, IET & CRC under the scheme of "Faculty Awards and Incentives" of Nirma University for the year 2019-2020. He has been awarded the Best Research Paper Awards from IEEE IWCMC-2021, IEEE ICCCA-2021, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019. He has won Dr KW Wong Annual Best Paper Prize (with 750 USD)  for 2021 sponsored by Elsevier (publishers of JISA). He has served many international conferences as a member of the Organizing Committee, such as the Publication Chair for FTNCT-2020, ICCIC 2020, and WiMob2019, and a General Chair for IC4S 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, ICCSDF 2020, FTNCT 2021. He is also serving the editorial boards of COMCOM-Elsevier, IJCS-Wiley, Cyber Security and Applications- Elsevier, Frontiers of blockchain, SPY, Wiley, IJMIS journal of Inderscience, JCCE, and JSSS. He is also leading the ST Research Laboratory, where group members are working on the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Usha Batra is currently working as a Professor and Dean, MRIIRS. She is also holding additional responsibility as Director Research in Computational Technology and Science and Director, Manav Rachna Centre for Cyber Security. Beforejoining MR, she worked as Associate Dean, Engineering and Sciences at GD Goenka University. She is a doctorate in Computer Science Engineering from Banasthali University. She has over 20 years of rich academic, research and administrative experience in Indian university system including Jaypee University, Northcap University and GD Goenka University. She is a recipient of government recognised prestigious Indian Achievers' Award 2021 for Excellence in Education in recognition of outstanding professional achievement and contribution in nation building. She is a recipient of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Puraskar 2022 for Excellence in Research & Innovation by ICSRR in association of NITI Aayog. She is a university rank holder during Bachelors of Engineering. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 scholarly research articles as conference papers, book chapters and in quality journals such as Nature's Scientific Reports, Elsevier's Health Policy and Technology, Material Sciences etc. to namea few . She has 15 national and international patents published and 5 national and international patents granted to her credit. She is an editor and reviewer of reputed and indexed journals of IEEE, Springer and Elsevier. She contributed as keynote speaker in IEEE international conference, session chair of various international conferences; and convener and organizer of many international conferences in association with IEEE and Springer. She presented herself as a special Invitee and IT expert for a live talk on ‘emerging trends in IT’ on IBN7. She is IBM certified faculty for various courses in the domain of cloud computing and Business Analytics. Her current responsibilities also include designing state of the art curriculum and finalising MoUs with industries like IBM, Oracle, Xebia, Dell, Amazon, Microsoft etc. She has supervised over 30 projects at Undergraduate to Postgraduate level and got 6 national level winning projects. Six scholars have successfully completed their PhD inher guidance and 2 more scholars have submitted their PhD thesis. Her areas of research include Distributed Systems, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Analytics, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems.

In addition to her research, she successfully contributed to enhancing the employability of students through project assistance, teaching, and mentoring. She is actively working towards cyber security awareness sessions and playing a lead role to develop Indian Cyber Army.