BIOGRAPHY

Dr Neetesh Saxena is an Associate Professor at Cardiff University (CU), United Kingdom (UK) and the Director & Lead of the Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security (CyCIS) Research Lab. He has extensive research/teaching experience over 18 years. His research focuses on Cyber Security, Cyber-Physical Systems Security (Smart Grid, EVs/CAVs, etc.), Cellular Network Security, and IoT Security. Before joining CU, he was an Assistant Professor at Bournemouth University, UK. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and with the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA and SUNY Korea. He was also a DAAD Scholar at Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany, a TCS Research Scholar, and the GW4 Crucible Future Research Leader. 

Dr Saxena is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the ACM and Eta Kappa Nu. He has authored 100+ publications (incl. IEEE TIFS, TDSC, TII, TSC; ACM TCPS, TOIT, CSRR; ACM CCS, AsiaCCS, IEEE Euro S&P, IEEE S&P, Usenix, Esorics), and received Two Best Paper Awards. He is a draft committee member for the IEEE Standards (IEEE SA P2784, P1940, P2795, P1912). He is currently Associate Editor for the IET Cyber-Physical System, ACM DTRAP, IEEE Access, Cyber-Physical Systems (T&F), Computer Communications (Elsevier), and SCN (Hindawi). Previously, he served as a co-chair for the Protocols, Security and Services for Wireless Networks Track, IEEE VTC Fall (2026), security track of the SmartGridComm (2022), and IEEE TEMSCON (2018). He has organised several workshops in the past, such as PPT-PQC Workshop in conjunction with IEEE PerCom (2027), CPSIoTSec Workshop in conjunction with ACM CCS (2026), SPARC workshop in conjunction with IEEE CSR (2025, 2024), EnergySP Workshop co-located with ACM e-Energy (2024), and AIoTS workshop co-located with ACNS (2024). He also served as PC members for Usenix Security (2027), Usenix SOUPS (2026, 2025), Usenix Vehicle Security (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023), ESORICS (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023), ACM AsiaCCS (2027, 2025, 2024), ACM CCS (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021), IEEE EuroS&P (2023), IEEE Milcom (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), IEEE ICC (2023, 2022, 2021), IEEE Globecom (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), IEEE Trustcom (2025, 2024, 2022), IEEE SmartGridComm (2026, 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021), IEEE WiMob (2025, 2021), IEEE PIMRC (2022, 2021).

Dr Saxena is currently the Vice Chair - Data Analytics SIG, IEEE UK & Ireland Systems, previously, he also worked as Secretory. He is also the Lead of the Assessment & Feedback at COMSC, Cardiff University, UK. He is the Mentor at the Next Generation Incubation Scheme, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Govt. of India. He is also an Academic Advisor Panel Member for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) in the UK.

• • Guest Editor - ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Special Issue on User-Centric Security and Safety for Cyber-Physical Systems, 2018.

• • Special Session Chair: HCSS-CPS: Human-Centered Security and Safety for Cyber-Physical Systems at IEEE SMC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

• • Track Chair: Information Technology and the Internet IEEE TEMSCON 2018, Evanston, IL, USA, 2018.

  • Financial Support by New South Wales University, Canberra for International Workshop on Realigning Cyber Security Education at Canberra, Australia, Nov. 2017.

  • Financial Support for UK Science Collaboration Symposium on Cyber Security, organized by the British Council, Manchester, UK, Nov. 2017.

• • Erasmus Staff Training Mobility Fund Award, Apr. 2017.

  • IEEE Computer Society, Conference Grant for IEEE S&P, May 2016.

  • DAAD Scholarship, Germany, Short Term Scholarship, 2013-14.

  • Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA), USA, Student Conferenceship Grant, 2013.

  • Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, Young Scientist Conference Travel Grant, 2013.

  • Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS), India, International Conference Travel Grant, 2013 (not availed).

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, Geo-Diversity Financial Grant, 2013.

  • Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, Young Achievers Award, an interaction meet with the President of India (Shri Pranab Mukherjee), 2013.

  • Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC), India, Nominated by Institute and participated in the interaction meeting for “Capturing Vision of Young India – Technology Vision 2035”, 2012.

  • Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India, Young Scientist Conference Travel Grant, 2012.

  • Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, Young Scientist Conference Travel Grant, 2012 (not availed).

  • Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India, TCS Research Scholar, 2012.

  • Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, MHRD Research Scholarship, 2011.

  • GATE, Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).

    MEMBERSHIP

• • IEEE, Senior Member

  • ACM, Member