Dr Himanshu Agrawal

A motivated teacher and passionate researcher in multidisciplinary research domains including Internet of Things, IoT security, AI, networking with key focus on solving engineering problems having societal impact in collaboration with industry.

• Authored 45+ research articles in numerous refereed journals and conferences
• Filed a patent on “Drown Support System” in July 2019.
• Successfully supervised two PhD thesis till completion.
• Featured by Microsoft as Green Warriors for sustainable future under AI for Earth grant in September 2018.
• Demonstrated experience of fetching two grants as PI on IoT based water quality information management system by Microsoft and Symbiosis International University.
• Founder academic for development IoT research lab at Symbiosis Institute of Technology in 2017 and contributed in development of UG Hons in Internet of Things. First to start a unit on Internet of Things with a proper research lab across various institutions in Pune.
• Strong focus on industry-academia collaboration for research and innovations.

An avid multidisciplinary researcher, Dr Himanshu holds PhD from RMIT University Australia (2010) and M. Tech. (Computer Science) from School of Electronics, DAVV, Indore (2003) respectively. His profession career spans over 24 years which includes various roles in Industry and academia. Starting his career as an Instrumentation engineer in 1995, he spent 3.5 years and learnt some important aspects of project management and shop floor communication with various stakeholder during solving machine problems. With quest for learning, he joined academics in 1999 and served as Lecturer at IET, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. After completion of PhD, he joined Symbiosis International University (SIU) as Associate Professor in 2011 and served SIU for 8 years. During his academic tenure 2011-2019 at SIT (SIU), he served on various key roles which include industry-academia interface, exam coordinator, Member Board of Studies, Member Research Excuse me understand when you play Advisory Committee, Incharge Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Criterion for Innovation and Best Practices. Since August 2019, he is associated with IoT lab, Swinburne as Visiting Associate Professor.

Starting career in electronics, sensors, and instrumentation to demonstrate expertise in IoT, he acquired wide range of knowledge and skills to develop deep interest in multidisciplinary research. During 2011-2019, as course coordinator (Unit Convener), he used project-based teaching and learning approach during teaching Internet of Things, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Network Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Network Security. He demonstrated his expertise guiding students on various major and minor projects on cutting edge issues relevant to IoT, fog computing, cybersecurity, and machine learning.

As researcher, he contributed quite significantly in Internet of Things, lightweight cryptography, security and privacy. One of the key contributions is the start of IoT research lab at Symbiosis Institute of Technology in 2017. In the past few years, he promoted research and innovation in IoT in liaison with Industry and guided several PG and UG students. He supervised 04 PhD students to successful completion. Thesis supervision on Lightweight Solution for security and privacy for Smart Grid Network got special recognition and has been selected (as one of the finalists) by KPIT, Pune for Shodh awards. He is a recipient of Microsoft AI for Earth grant and has been featured in media by Microsoft as “Green Warriors for Sustainable Future” in September 2018.

His research specialty includes Internet of Things, IoT security, security and privacy, Low Power WAN, IoT networking challenges, AI applications to networking and cybersecurity. He has authored/co-authored 50+ publications in reputed CORE journals and IEEE/ACM conferences which include JNSM, MobiHoc, ICOIN, IEEE ICUWB, IEEE ICIS to name a few. Furthermore, he served some of the highly ranked journals including JNCA, IEEE Communication Letters, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Internet of Things journal as reviewer since 2010. Furthermore, he has been TPC member, PC member, reviewer of various IEEE conferences such as IEEE Big Data, IEEE INDICON, IEEE ICUWB, etc.

Doctor of Philosophy (2010)

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Thesis advisors: Andrew Jennings and Mark Gregory Thesis Title: “Robust Routing under Dynamic Traffic Demands”

Master of Technology (2003)

School of Electronics, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India Thesis Title: Simulation study of dynamic queuing in TCP/IP. Result: First class with distinction (CGPA 8.45/10)

August 2019-till date: Visiting Associate Professor IoT lab Swinburne University of Technology

Key responsibility:

• Involvement as Senior researcher on a CRCP project.
• Teaching, IoT programming unit in Semester I 2020

August 2011- August 2019: Associate Professor, Symbiosis International University, India

Key responsibilities:

• Development of curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate programs of Computer Science.
• Development of course contents and successfully delivery of the courses; IoT, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Network Security, Network Computing, AI.
• Active engagement in Innovation and Institute’s best practices.
• Supervision of UG and PG students on academic and projects in collaboration with industry.
• Research supervision to PhD students.
• Administrative responsibilities: Program Evaluator, National Board of Accreditation (Govt. of India), Academia-Industry interface in charge, member of Board of Studies, member Research Advisory Committee, Incharge Internal Quality Assurance Cell for Innovations and Best Practices.

February 2006- June 2011, Sessional Teaching Staff, RMIT University Australia

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and preparation for the lab units.
• Delivery and demonstration of lab tasks for the courses; Digital Access System, Network Engineering, Embedded Systems.
• Delivery of tutorial (two hours per week) for the course Mechatronics.
• Marking and grading students on lab performance and quizzes.

March 1999- Jan 2006, Lecturer, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

Key responsibilities:

• Development of course material and delivery of lectures.
• Taught courses on Networking and Wireless Communication
• Supervision of project to undergraduate and master’s students.
• Engagement in students learning through Continuous Assessment, marking, grading, and feedback of students.

Industry experience: April 1995-Oct 1998: Instrumentation Engineer, Shree Synthetics Ltd, Ujjain, India.

• Internet of Things
• IoT security
• Security and Privacy Preservation in IoT applications
• Edge and Fog computing
• Machine learning/AI applications to networking and Cybersecurity
• Modeling and simulation of IoT and wireless broadband traffic
• Low Power WAN
• Blockchains

• Modeling and simulation of Internet and mobile broadband traffic.
• Security and privacy in IoT applications

• Himanshu Agrawal, Atul Kulkarni, Nilesh Kumbhojkar, Rushikesh Kulkarni: USD 5000, Microsoft under AI for Earth for the project title: Smart Environment Information and Management System- A step towards Smart City (2018 - 2019)
• Himanshu Agrawal, Atul Kulkarni: 10,000,000 INR, major research grant by Symbiosis International University for the development of in-house water quality sensing system using IoT platform at Symbiosis International University waterreservoir in March 2019.

• Filed a patent on “Drown Support System” in July 2019.

• Dr Vidyasagar Potdar, Senior Research Fellow, Director Blockchain Lab Curtin University on “Lightweight privacy preservation for prosumer side in Smart Grid network”

• Best paper award of AUD 500 by IEEE Victoria section in 2007.
• International travel grant of USD 2000 for the presentation of research paper in an International Conference EUSPN 2018 during November 5-8, 2018 to travel to Belgium.
• Outstanding reviewer recognition by Journal of Network and Computer Applications in the year 2016 and 2018 respectively.
• Featured by Microsoft as Green Warriors for Sustainable Future in September 2018.

Invited speaker

• “Mathematical models for the robustness in Internet traffic, School of Mathematics and Geospatial Science Colloquium, RMIT University, October 2010.
• “Research trends in Internet of Things”, MMCoE Pune, February 2016.
• Keynote speaker, “Internet of Things for the connected digital world”, RAIT, Nerul, Mumbai, June 2016.

Research services as reviewer and TPC member

• Reviewer, Journal of Network and Computer Applications since 2010 till date.
• Reviewer, Neurocomputing journal, 2019.
• Reviewer, IEEE Communication Letters, 2015.
• Reviewer, Internet of Things Journal, Elsevier, 2019.
• PhD thesis reviewer of Dinusha Ratnayake, Curtin University, October 2014.
• PhD thesis reviewer of Dinusha Ratnayake, Curtin University, October 2014.
• Track chair-Industry 4.0, IEEE PuneCon December 2018.
• Session Chair, IEEE INDICON, Pune 2014.
• Program Committee member: ICUWB 2017, ACC 2014.

Industry engagement

• Academic-Industry interface in charge, SIT, Symbiosis International University, 2011-2014.
• SIT-Mahindra Innovation club for collaborative research activities in IoT in 2013.
• Phi-Robotics Research India Ltd, Thane for IoT research lab set-up during 2015-2017.
• NISG, C-DAC Pune for one-year research project on Smart City project during 2014-15.
• NDA with KPIT Hinjewadi, Pune in 2018 for collaborative research on AI and Deep Learning for semi-autonomous vehicles.

PhD thesis supervision (As primary guide)

Supervised successfully till completion: 03

• Aarti Agarkar in March 2019.
• Abhaya Pal Singh November 2019.
• Shilpa Gite November 2019.

Research services as reviewer and TPC member

PhD thesis submitted: 01

• Vijayalakshmi Chetlapalli, June 2019

PhD Thesis near submission: 02

Master’s thesis supervision and Undergraduate research

• Supervision with successful completion: 15
• Undergraduate research guidance: 30+

Research guidance to Hons. Student at Swinburne University

• Currently guiding Mohammad Carter, a Computer Science Hons. Student at Swinburne in a team on “Implementation platform for encryption-based privacy preservation for IoT applications”.

Full Capacity (Post PhD)

2011-2019: Associate Professor at Symbiosis International University and have successfully demonstrated learning and teaching for the followings courses:

• Internet of Things course: Course convener, Development of course material and delivery-both lectures and lab demonstrations, and grading to master’s students of Computer Science in 2016, 2017, 2018.
• Artificial Intelligence: Course convener, development of course material and delivery of (only) lectures to undergraduate students of Computer Science, Symbiosis International University in 2018 and 2019.
• Network Security: Course convener, development of course material, marking/grading, to undergraduate students of Computer Science, Symbiosis International University in 2017 and 2018.
• Computer Networks: Course convener, development of course material, marking/grading to undergraduate students of Computer Science, Symbiosis International University in 2015 and 2016.
• Wireless Communication and mobile computing: Course convener, development of course material, marking/grading to master’s students of Computer Science in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Sessional Teaching (during PhD and after PhD thesis submission)

2006-2011: Sessional Academic, RMIT University Australia

• 2006-2008: successful delivery of lab sessions for the courses Network Engineering, Digital Access Systems, Embedded Systems.
• 2008-2009: Digital systems.
• 2010-2011: Successful delivery of tutorial for the course Mechatronics.

Full Capacity (Pre PhD)

• 1999-2006: developed course syllabus and delivered courses including Computer Networks, Advance Computer Networks, and Embedded Systems to undergraduate and masters students at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Indore, India.

Year-wise publications 2007-2019

Year 2019

Conference paper: Ali Yavari, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Himanshu Agrawal, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Josip Karabotic Milovac, The 34 th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2020), Accepted (November 2019).

Journal article: Vijayalakshmi Chetlapalli, H. Agrawal, K.S.S. Iyer, “Modelling time-dependent aggregate traffic in 5G networks”, Telecommunication Systems (2019), DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-019-00629-w. (Impact Factor – 1.7, Q2, SCI indexed, H index-42)

Journal article: Himanshu Agrawal, Ruchi Dhall, K.S.S. Iyer, Vijayalakshmi Chetlapalli. “Improved Energy Efficient duty cycling algorithm for IoT based precision Agriculture”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, June 2019. DOI: 10.1007/ s12652-019-01359-2. (Impact Factor-1.910, Q2 in Computer Science, SCI Indexed, H index -23)

Journal article: Aarti Agarkar, Himanshu Agrawal. “LRSPP: Lightweight R-LWE based Security and Privacy Preservation Scheme for Prosumer-Side Smart Grid Network”, Heliyon Journal, 5(3), March 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e0132 (Q1, Elsevier, Web of Science)

Journal article: Aarti Agarkar, Himanshu Agrawal. “Lightweight R-LWE based Privacy Preservation Scheme for Smart Grid Network”. International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 11(3), Jan 2019. DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2019.10019163. (Scopus)

Journal article: Abhaya Pal Singh, Dipankar Deb, H. Agrawal, “On Selection of Improved Fractional Model and Control of Different Systems with Experimental Validation”. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 79 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.104902. (Impact Factor- 3.967, Q1 Modeling and Simulation, SCI indexed, H index-96)

Journal article: Poonam Chaudhary, Himanshu Agrawal, Ketan Kotecha, “Data augmentation using MG-GAN for improved cancer classification on gene expression data”. Soft Computing (2019). DOI 10.1007/s00500-019-04602-2. (Impact Factor: 2.784, Q2, SCI, H index-64)

Journal article: Shilpa Gite, Himanshu Agrawal, Ketan Kotecha. “Early anticipation of driver’s maneuver in semi- autonomous vehicles using deep learning”, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 7(24), pp 1-13, March 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13748-019-00177-z. (Springer, Scopus)

Journal article: Aarti Agarkar, Himanshu Agrawal. “A survey and vision on authentication and privacy preservation schemes for Smart Grid network”. Security and Privacy, 2 (2) March 2019. DOI: 10.1002/spy2.62.

Journal article: Shilpa Gite, Himanshu Agrawal. Early Prediction of Driver’s Action using Deep Neural Net- works. International Journal of Information Retrieval Research, 9(2), pp 1-17, 2019. (Web of Science)

Journal article: Agrawal, P., H. Agrawal, and V. Potdar. "A novel bio-inspired algorithm for hunting in multi robot scenario”. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 15 (3): 1553-1563, September 2019. (Q-3, Scopus)

Journal article: Chaudhari, P., Agarwal, H. & Bhateja, V. Evol. Intel. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-019-00283-w. (ERA-C, Scopus/ESCI, H-19, IF-0.7)

Year 2018

Journal article: Poorva Agrawal, Himanshu Agrawal. “Adaptive Algorithm Design for Cooperative Hunting in Multi- Robot”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications. 10(12), 2018. (Q2 in Computer Network and Communications, SJR-0.34, Scopus)

Journal article: Abhaya Pal, H. Agrawal, “A Fractional Model Predictive Control Design for 2-D Gantry Crane System”, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 13(7), 2224-2235, July 2018. (Q2, Web of Science, Scopus, ESI).

Journal article: Dawit Uta Urku, Himanshu Agrawal. “Smart Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Sensing System and Analytics”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology,10(6), Dec 2018. DOI: 10.21817/ijet/2018/v10i6/181006200. (Q3, SJR:0.14)

Journal article: Yonas Birku, Himanshu Agrawal. “Survey on fall detection systems”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 118(18), 2018. (Q4, Scopus)

Conference paper: Ruchi Dhall, Himanshu Agrawal. “An improved energy efficient duty cycling algorithm for IoT based precision agriculture”. The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2018), pp 135-142, Leuven, Belgium, November 2018.

Conference paper: Tushar Mane, Himanshu Agrawal, Gurmeet Sigh Gill. “Enhancing Usability of Cloud Storage Clients with Dew Computing”, In Proc: The 3rd International Workshop on Dew Computing, Toronto, Canada, 2018.

Conference paper: Aarti Agarkar, Himanshu Agrawal, “J-PAKE and ECC based authentication protocol for smart grid network”, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Vol 906, pp 507-522, DOI 978-981-13-1813-9_51,2018.

Conference book series: Chaudhari P., Agarwal H. (2018) “Improving Feature Selection Using Elite Breeding QPSO on Gene Data set for Cancer Classification”, Intelligent Engineering Informatics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 695. pp 209-219, Springer, Singapore.

Year 2017

Journal article: Prathik Sargar, Himanshu Agrawal, Suman Mohandaas. “Implementation of Real Time Operating System based 6-degree of freedom Missile Trajectory Simulation”, Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 13(7),2017. (Q4, SJR-0.12, Scopus)

Journal article: Abhaya Pal Singh, Trisha Shrivastava, Himanshu Agrawal, Pallavi Shrivastava. “Fractional Order Controller design and Analysis of Crane System”, Progress in Fractional Differential and Application, 2( 2), pp 155-162, 2017. (Scopus)

Conference paper: Vijayalakshmi, K.S.S. Iyer, Himanshu Agrawal. “A new approach to modelling time-dependent problems in wireless broadband networks”, In Proceedings of 18 th ACM MobiHoc, Chennai 2017.

Conference paper: Tushar Mane, Himanshu Agrawal. “Cloud-Fog-Dew architecture for redefined driving assistance A complete service computing ecosystem”. 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, ICUWB 2017, Salamanca, Spain, 2017.

Year 2016

Conference paper: Vijayalakshmi Chetlapalli, K. S.S. Iyer, Sunil Patil, Himanshu Agrawal. “Estimation of diurnal bandwidth requirement using random point process and product density”, Future Technologies Conference (FTC 2016), San Francisco, California, USA, 2016.

Conference paper: Aarti Agarkar, Himanshu Agrawal. “R-LWE based privacy preservation scheme for Smart Grid”, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Analytics, and Security Trends, CAST 2016, Pune, India, 2016.

Conference book series: A. P. Singh, H. Agrawal, On modelling and Analysis of Launch Vehicle System, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, Volume 2, pp 273-279, DOI: 978-81-322- 3589-7_30, 2016.

Conference book series: Umang Nanda, Shrey Rajput, Himanshu Agrawal, Antriksh Goel, Mohit Gurnani, “On context awareness and analysis of various algorithms”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Volume 3, pp 85-93, DOI:978-81-322-2526-3_19, 2016.

Conference book series: Anurag Joshi, Himanshu Agrawal, Poorva Agrawal, “Simultaneous localization and Mapping for visually impaired for outdoor environments”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Volume 3, pp 85-93, DOI: 978-81-322-2526-3_12, 2016.

Conference book series: Shilpa Gite, Himanshu Agrawal, “On context-awareness for multi- sensor data fusion in IoT” Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Volume 3, pp 85-93, DOI 978-81-322-2526-3_10, 2016.

Year 2015

Journal article: A.P. Singh, H. Agrawal, P. Shrivastava. “Fractional Order Controller for Inverted Pendulum On A Cart System (POAC)”, WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control, Vol 10, pp172- 178, 2015.

Journal article: Sagar Sukode, Shilpa Gite, H. Agrawal. “Context Awareness in IoT- A survey”. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 4 (1), 2015.

Journal article: Archana Solanki, Himanshu Agrawal, Kanchan Khare. “Predictive analysis of water quality parameters using Deep Learning”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 125 (9), pp 29-34, September 2015.

Journal article: T. Shrivastava, A. P. Singh, H. Agrawal. Modelling the under-actuated mechanical system with Fractional Order Derivative. Progress in Fractional Differentiation and Applications: An International Journal, 1(1), pp 57-64, 2015.

Journal article: Vaidehi Dudhwadkar, Himanshu Agarwal, Aarti Agarkar, Pratish Ray. “On Lightweight authentication for Smart Grid Network”, International Journal of Computer Applications,123 (5), pp 1-6, 2015.

Conference book series: Pranoti Meshram, Nisha Auti, Himanshu Agrawal, “Monitoring Driver’s Head Posture to Control risk of accidents”, Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Vol 50, Pages 617- 622, March 2015.

Conference paper: Sumit Garethiya, Himanshu Agrawal, Shilpa Gite, Suresh V, Amit Kudale, Gaurav Wable and Girish chandra Yendargaye. Affordable System for Alerting, Monitoring and Controlling Heat Stroke inside Vehicles. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Instrumentation and Control ICIC, Pune, 2015.

Year 2014

Conference paper: Pranav Sharan, Mohit Mutyal, H. Agrawal, Poorva Agrawal, “Simulation Study of Intelligent Transportation System”, IEEE INDICON Pune, 2014.

Conference paper: Vijayalakshmi Chetlapalli, K.S.S. Iyer, H. Agrawal, Sunil Patil, “Random Point Process Model for Time Dependent Cumulative bandwidth requirements in wireless broadband networks, IEEE INDICON, Pune, 2014.

Journal article: A. A. Agarkar, H. Agrawal, Shilpa Shelke. “Survey on Authentication schemes in Smart Grid Network”, International Journal of Engineering Technology and Computer Research, 2(7), pp 15-20, 2014.

Year 2013

Journal article: Poorva Agrawal, Himanshu Agrawal. A Review on Multi robot Cooperation using Bio-Inspired Neural Networks. International Journal of Soft Computing, Mathematics and Control, IJSCMC, Wireilla, 2013.

2007-2012

Journal article: H. Agrawal, A. Jennings. Evaluation of robust routing under dynamic traffic demands. Journal of Network and System Management, 19(4), pp 513-528, 2011 (SCI, IF-1.676).

Conference paper: H. Agrawal, M. Grah, M. Gregory, “Optimization of QoS routing. In Proc. 6th IEEE/ACIS International conference on Computer and Information Science, Melbourne, 2007.

Conference paper: H. Agrawal, A. Jennings. Robust Solution for Optimal Routing. In IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems conference IEEE-ANTS, Mumbai, 2007.

Conference paper: H. Agrawal, A. Jennings and M. Gregory. Robust Traffic Engineering. In IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems conference IEEE-ANTS, pp. 1-3, Mumbai, 2008.

Conference paper: H. Agrawal, A. Jennings, M. Gregory, D. Channa. Robust Routing. In Seventh IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, pp. 695-700, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2008.