I have been involved in high level research since 1997, the year I started working as a software engineer for National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology. Then, I carried out research in computer networking and software engineering, which are fundamental areas of Computer Science. My research interests are now wide ranging and include cybersecurity, data security and privacy, blockchain, cryptocurrency, data mining, distributed networking, software engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), incidence response, digital forensics, cloud computing, etc. As an active researcher, I have developed a solid core of research skills and the ability to apply these skills to turn ideas into scientific contributions. Please visit my google scholar page. I have also developed an ability to manage undergraduate research students, and to train them in the research process, as they have little or no knowledge of the research process.
I'm looking for self motivated graduate and undergraduate students with a good background in Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Data Science to work together on problems such as Cyber security, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Digital Forensics, Cloud Security, Ad-hoc sensor networks, Distributed computing, Vehicular Networks and Autonomous Vehicles.
Student Researchers
Caleb Riggs, Computer Science, 2017-2019
Gonzales, Elijah, Computer Science, 2017
Samuel Uribe, Computer Science, 2017
Nadia Hassan, Computer Science, 2018
Jesal Patel, Computer Science, 2018
Alex Kiss, Computer Science, 2018
Alex Krol, Computer Science, 2018
Michael Walen, Computer Science, 2018-2020
Riely Keifer, Computer Science, 2018-2020
Lawrence Marquez, Computer Science & Engineering, 2021
Stephen Christian Carlos, Computer Science & Engineering, 2022
Carolina Martinez, Computer Science, 2022
Daniel Josep, Computer Science, 2022
Cesar Luna, Computer Science, and Engineering, 2022-23
Xander Reyes, Computer Science, 2023
Tyler Brown, Computer Science, 2023-24
Jarl Ramos, Computer Science, 2023-24
Kritika Khera, Computer Science, 2023-24
Priscilla Zavala, Computer Science & Engineering, 2024-
Caleb presenting a paper at a conference in March 2019
Shawn presenting a paper in conference in March 2019
Research presentation 2020
PUBLICATIONS:
Conference Papers:
Wilson Bedford, Nick Jackson, Noah Pitts, Kanwalinderjit Kaur, Connor Tennison, “Training a Neural Network to Perform Sentiment Analysis of Stocks-Related Tweets”, IEEE SouthEastCon 2024, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 20-25, 2024.
Mario Ervin, Kanwalinderjit Kaur, “Commute Tracking Mentor Tool for Automobile to Decrease Car Accidents”, IARIA Congress 2023, Valencia, Spain, Nov. 13-15, 2023.
Kanwalinderjit Kaur, C Martinez, "Blockchain Scalability Solved via Quintessential Parallel Multiprocessor", IWCMC 2023 - Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2023 Mobile Computing), Marrakesh, Morocco, June 2023. DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC58020.2023.10183268
Kanwalinderjit Kaur, “Design and Simulation of the 5G Communication Link Between Solar Micro-Inverters and SCADA System”, IEEE GPECOM, Turkey, June 14-16, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/GPECOM58364.2023.10175814
Kanwalinderjit Kaur Gagneja, Morgan Havel, Alexander Schwarze, Navninderjit Singh, “Improving Drowsy Driving Detection Techniques for Accident Avoidance”, GCAIA 2020.
H. Vincent, B. Jack and K. K. Gagneja, "Food Network System Secured with Blockchain," 2020 SoutheastCon, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SoutheastCon44009.2020.9249738.
K. Gagneja and R. Kiefer, "IoT Devices with Non-interactive Key Management Protocol," 2020 Sixth International Conference on Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ), Miami Beach, FL, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/MobiSecServ48690.2020.9042942
K. Gagneja and R. Kiefer, "Security Protocol for Internet of Things (IoT): Blockchain-based Implementation and Analysis," 2020 Sixth International Conference on Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ), Miami Beach, FL, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/MobiSecServ48690.2020.9042948.
Keely Hill, Kanwalinderjit Kaur Gagneja, Navninderjit Singh, “LoRa PHY Range Tests and Software Decoding - Physical Layer Security”, 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2019), 7 - 8 March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/SPIN.2019.8711682
Alexandro Riuz, Carloas Machdo, Kanwal Gagneja, Navninderjit Singh, “Messaging App uses IRC Servers and any Available Channel”, 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2019), 7 - 8 March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/SPIN.2019.8711759
C. Riggs, J. Patel and K. Gagneja, "IoT Device Discovery for Incidence Response," 2019 Fifth Conference on Mobile and Secure Services (MobiSecServ), Miami Beach, FL, USA, 2019, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/MOBISECSERV.2019.8686717
S. Godwin, B. Glendenning and K. Gagneja, "Future Security of Smart Speaker and IoT Smart Home Devices," 2019 Fifth Conference on Mobile and Secure Services (MobiSecServ), Miami Beach, FL, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/MOBISECSERV.2019.8686545
C. Riggs, T. Douglas and K. Gagneja, "Image Mapping through Metadata", 2018 Third International Conference on Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications (SSIC), Shanghai, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/SSIC.2018.8556664
Javier Campos, Slater Colteryahn, Gagneja Kanwal, “IPv6 transmission over BLE Using Raspberry PI 3", International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Wireless Networks (ICNC'18 WN), Maui, USA, 5, Mar, 2018. (Acceptance rate 26%) http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/iccnc.2018.8390350
Keely Hill, Gagneja K.K., “Concept network design for a young Mars science station and Trans-planetary communication", IEEE MobiSecServ 2018, Miami, FL, USA, Feb. 24-25, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/MOBISECSERV.2018.8311448
Gagneja K.K., “Knowing the Ransomware and Building Defense Against it - Specific to HealthCare Institutes”, IEEE MobiSecServ, Miami, USA, Feb. 11-12, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MOBISECSERV.2017.7886569
Luis Jaimes, Gagneja K. K., Mustafa Akbas, Idalides Vergara-Laurens, “Future Stress, Forecasting Physiological Signals”, IEEE CCWC, Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 9-10, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/CCWC.2017.7868378
A. S. Gagneja and K. K. Gagneja, "Incident Response through Behavioral Science: An Industrial Approach," 2015 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, NV, 2015, pp. 36-41. doi: 10.1109/CSCI.2015.170
A. P. S. Gagneja and K. K. Gagneja, "Mobile health (mHealth) technologies," 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom), Boston, MA, 2015, pp. 37-43. DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454470
Lauren Evanoff, Nicole Hatch, Gagneja K.K., “Home Network Security: Beginner vs Advanced”, ICWN, Las Vegas, USA, July 27-30, 2015.
Max Runia, Gagneja K.K., “Raspberry Pi Webserver”, ESA, Las Vegas, USA, July 27-30, 2015.
Gagneja K.K., “Secure Communication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks to maintain Anonymity”, IEEE ICNC, Anaheim, California, USA, Feb. 16-19, 2015. (Acceptance rate ~29%). DOI: 10.1109/ICCNC.2015.7069511
Gagneja K.K., “Global Perspective of Security Breaches in Facebook”, FECS, Las Vegas, USA, July 21-24, 2014.
Gagneja K.K., "Pairwise Key Distribution Scheme for Two-Tier Sensor Networks", IEEE ICNC, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pages 1081-1086, Feb. 3-6, 2014. (Acceptance rate ~25%). DOI: 10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785489
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "Energy Efficient Approach with Integrated Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM MOBIHOC, Bangalore, India, pages 13-18, July 29, 2013. (Acceptance rate 20%) DOI: 10.1145/2491260.2491263
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "Heuristic Clustering with Secured Routing in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks", IEEE SECON, New Orleans, USA, pages 9-16, June 24-26, 2013. (Acceptance rate 18.2%) DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2013.6644959
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "GUI Based Tool for Generation of Test Cases for Software", CATA 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pages 65-68, March 4-6, 2013.
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "A QoS based Heuristics for Clustering in Two-Tier Sensor Networks", IEEE FedCSIS 2012, Wroclaw, Poland, pages 779-784, Sept. 9-12, 2012.
Gagneja K.K., Navninderjit Singh and Nygard K., "Tabu-Voronoi Clustering Heuristics with Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks", IEEE ICUFN 2012, Phuket, Thailand, pages 46-51, July 4-6, 2012. (Acceptance rate 24%) doi: 10.1109/ICUFN.2012.6261662
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "Pairwise Post Deployment Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks", 13th IEEE WoWMoM 2012, San Francisco, California, USA, pages 1-2, June 25-28, 2012. (Acceptance rate 21%) DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2012.6263741
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., "Key Management Scheme for Routing in Clustered Heterogeneous Sensor Networks", IEEE NTMS 2012, Security Track, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1-5, 7-10 May, 2012. (Acceptance rate ~30%) doi: 10.1109/NTMS.2012.6208754
Gagneja K.K. Ranganathan P., Boughosn S., Loree P. and Nygard K., "Limiting Transmit Power of Antennas in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks", IEEE EIT2012, IUPUI Indianapolis, IN, USA, pages 1-4, May 6-8, 2012. doi: 10.1109/EIT.2012.6220775
Gagneja K.K. and Nygard K., “Tabu-Voronoi Clustering Heuristics for Secure Data Routing in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks”, NDSU Graduate Research and Arts Forum, Fargo, ND, USA, April 11, 2012.
Gagneja K., Nygard K., “Retrieving Information by Clustering Related Events using Vector Space”, CATA’12, Las Vegas, NV, USA, March 12-14, 2012.
Nygard K., Bender L., Walia G., Kong J., Gagneja K., and LeNoue M., “Collaboration Using Social Networks for Team Projects”, International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'11), Las Vegas, USA, July 18-21, 2011. (Acceptance rate 23%)
Gagneja K., Nygard K., “Adjusted Voronoi Clusters in Two-Tier Sensor Networks”, CATA’11, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 23-25, 2011.
Gagneja K. K., Xiaojiang Du, and Nygard K., “Enhanced routing in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks”, IEEE Computation World’09, pp. 569-574, Athens, Greece, Nov. 15-20, 2009. (Acceptance rate 29%)
Kanwalinder jit Gagneja and Kendall Nygard, “Performance Comparison of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols: An implementation study”, ICWN'08, International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, USA, Vol. 1, pages 162-168, 14-17 July, 2008. (Acceptance rate 30%)
Kanwalinder jit Kaur Gagneja, “Privacy Protocol for Quantum Channel”, International Conference on Security and Management (SAM’05), Las Vegas, USA, pages 170-175, 20-23 June, 2005.
Journal Papers:
Kaur, Kanwalinderjit (2023) "Lightweight Pairwise Key Distribution Scheme for IoTs," Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice: Vol. 2022: No. 2, Article 8. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jcerp/vol2022/iss2/8/ DOI 10.32727/8.2023.7
Kanwalinderjit Kaur, Jesal Patel, Alex Kiss, Michael Walen, "Classification of Malicious Android Applications using Machine Learning," Global Journal of Engineering Sciences, May 2022. (Impact Factor: 1.37) DOI: 10.33552/GJES.2022.09.000720
Kanwal Gagneja, Andre Goode, David Rentos, Karim Rezk, “Traceability of Cryptocurrency Transactions using Blockchain Analytics", IJCDS, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12785/ijcds/090202 (Impact Factor: 0.59)
Gagneja K. K., “Pairwise Key Distribution Mechanism for Heterogeneous Sensor Network”, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational and Applied Sciences, 11(2), December 2014 – February 2015, pp. 127-133. (Impact Factor: 7.127)
Book Chapters:
Austin Sasko, Trevor Hillsgrove, Kanwal Gagneja, Udita Katugampola, “System Usage Profiling Metrics for Notifications on Abnormal User Behavior”, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1113, Oct. 2019. Springer, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34353-8_11
Emanuel Tirado, Brendan Turpin, Cody Beltz, Phillip Roshon, Rylin Judge, Kanwal Gagneja, ”A New Distributed Brute-Force Password Cracking Technique”, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 878. Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94421-0_9
Gagneja K., Jaimes L.G., “Computational Security and the Economics of Password Hacking”, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 759. Springer. 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-655G48-2_3
Gagneja K., Nygard K., “Energy Efficient Variant of Enhanced Tree Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks”, IEEE CISSE 2010, CT, USA, Dec. 3-6, 2010.
Kanwalinder jit Kaur Gagneja and Jyotsna Sengupta, “Performance of Enhanced Distance Vector Multipath Routing”, IEEE Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering, (CIS2E 06), Bridgeport, CT, USA, 4-14 Dec., 2006. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_96