Dr. Gaurav Somani is an assistant professor at Department of CSE at Central University of Rajasthan, India. Earlier, he served as a lecturer at the LNMIIT, Jaipur, INDIA. He completed his PhD in CSE at MNIT, Jaipur, MTech in ICT from DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India, and BE in IT from MLVTEC Bhilwara, University of Rajasthan, India.
His research interests include Cloud computing and network and system security. He is an associate editor of ACM DTRAP Journal. Earlier, he has served as an associate editor of IEEE Access Journal (2018-2022) and an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021-2024). He also served as lead guest editor of a special issue of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience. He has been a part of program committees of various conferences and was a Track chair-INDICON 2021 and keynote and tutorial chair for ICISS 2016. He has received awards like IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Rising Star Award 2021, COMCOM Best Survey Paper Award 2020, IEI Young Engineer Award 2019-20, Outstanding reviewer Award from Elsevier JISA 2018, Best Paper Award ICISP 2015, UGC TRF Award 2015, Excellence in branch counseling Award from IEEE 2011 among many others. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.
News:
March 2024: work on load balancing during DDoS attacks accepted at IEEE Networking Letters.
November 2023: Appointed AE for ACM DTRAP Journal.
October 2023: ACM Senior Member.
October 2023: IEEE R10 Ethics Champion.
April 2023: Our work on amplification attacks accepted at IEEE Networking Letters.
April 2023: Our work accepted at IEEE IT Professional Magazine.
March 2023: Paper accepted at SIoTEC 2023 (colocated with CCGRID 2023).
Jan 2023: Paper accepted at JISA Journal.
Paper accepted at ICISS 2022 (IIT Tirupati).
IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Rising Star Award 2021
Book "Research Advanced in Cloud Computing", Springer (> 50K downloads)
Book: "Versatile Cybersecurity", Springer International, 2018. with Prof. Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) and Prof. Radha Poovendran (University of Washington).
Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2018-2022).
Core Research Grant (INR 3.7M), SERB, DST India (2021-24).
DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Somani:Gaurav
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=vRM1LccAAAAJ