Staff Profile

Dr Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Ph.D
(email at gagangeet.s.aujla@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Durham University. Before this, I worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Newcastle University, a research associate at Thapar University (India), a visiting researcher at University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and on various academic positions for more than a decade. I received my PhD degree from the Thapar University (India), my Master and Bachelor degrees from the Punjab Technical University (India). For my contributions to the area of scalable and sustainable computing, I was awarded the 2018 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award of Excellence. The main theme of my research is energy-efficient, reconfigurable, resilient and intelligent surfaces (smart city, smart grid, IoT-Edge-Cloud systems, healthcare systems, transportation systems). To develop myself as a researcher, I worked on various research projects awarded by EPSRC, the Department of Science and Technology (India), and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. This facilitated me to collaborate with international researchers from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, China, Austria, Brazil, and India. Together, we published several research papers in the fields of software-defined networking, energy-efficient cloud data centres, edge-cloud computing, blockchain, particularly focusing on the creation of reconfigurable, resilient and intelligent surfaces. I led my team organizing workshops (SecSDN and BlockSecSDN) in conjunction with different IEEE Communication Society conferences like IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and many more. Contributing to the research community, I have served as a Topic Editor for Sensors, a Guest Editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Network, Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Computer Communications (Elsevier), and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications (Wiley).
Working with Me
The main theme of my research revolves around energy-efficient, reconfigurable, resilient and intelligent surfaces (smart city, smart grid, IoT-Edge-Cloud systems, healthcare systems, transportation systems). If you aspire to conduct high-quality research, do explore working with me on following research strands:
- Intelligent and Resilient Network Control for SDN-IoT-Edge Systems.
- Intelligent Fog and Edge Infrastructures for Future Wireless Systems.
- Blockchain for Secure Software defined Networking in Smart Communities.
- Privacy (or compliance)-aware Cloud Ecosystems or Trusted Cloud Systems.
- Energy Trading involving Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids.
Research Interests
- Software-defined Networking
- Edge-Cloud Computing
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Tecnology
- Machine/Deep Learning
- Internet of Things (Smart City, Smart Grids, Healthcare Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems)
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems
Teaching Areas
Programming for Data Science (Master of Data Science)
(18 hours/year.)
Publications
Journal Article
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Jindal, Anish (2020). A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-envisioned IoT-based Healthcare Monitoring. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Singh, Amritpal & Kumar, Neeraj (2020). AdaptFlow: Adaptive Flow Forwarding Scheme for Software-Defined Industrial Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(7): 5843.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Singh, Amritpal, Singh, Maninderpal, Sharma, Sumit, Kumar, Neeraj & Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond (2020). BloCkEd: Blockchain-Based Secure Data Processing Framework in Edge Envisioned V2X Environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 69(6): 5850.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Singh, Maninderpal, Bose, Arnab, Kumar, Neeraj, Han, Guangjie & Buyya, Rajkumar (2020). BlockSDN: Blockchain-as-a-Service for Software Defined Networking in Smart City Applications. IEEE Network 34(2): 83.
- Singh, Maninderpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Singh, Amritpal, Kumar, Neeraj & Garg, Sahil (2020). Deep Learning based Blockchain Framework for Secure Software Defined Industrial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 17(1): 606 - 616.
- Sharma, Deepika, Singh Aujla, Gagangeet & Bajaj, Rohit (2020). Deep neuro‐fuzzy approach for risk and severity prediction using recommendation systems in connected health care. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
- Singh, Amritpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Garg, Sahil, Kaddoum, Georges & Singh, Gurpreet (2020). Deep-Learning-Based SDN Model for Internet of Things: An Incremental Tensor Train Approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(7): 6302.
- Gulati, Amuleen, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj, Obaidat, Mohammad & Benslimane, Abderrahim (2020). DiLSe: Lattice-based Secure and Dependable Data Dissemination Scheme for Social Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- Ranjan, Rohit, Thakur, Ishan Singh, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Zomaya, Albert Y. (2020). Energy-Efficient Workflow Scheduling Using Container-Based Virtualization in Software-Defined Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 16(12): 7646.
- Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Villari, Massimo (2020). GUARDIAN: Blockchain-Based Secure Demand Response Management in Smart Grid System. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 13(4): 613.
- Singh, Amritpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Bali, Rasmeet Singh (2020). Intent-Based Network for Data Dissemination in Software-Defined Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Kumar, Neeraj, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Garg, Sahil, Kaur, Kuljeet, Ranjan, Rajiv & Garg, Saurabh Kumar (2019). Renewable Energy-Based Multi-Indexed Job Classification and Container Management Scheme for Sustainability of Cloud Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 15(5): 2947.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kaur, Kuljeet, Garg, Sahil, Kumar, Neeraj & Ranjan, Rajiv (2019). SAFE: SDN-Assisted Framework for Edge–Cloud Interplay in Secure Healthcare Ecosystem. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 15(1): 469.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Singh, Mukesh, Kumar, Neeraj & Zomaya, Albert Y. (2019). Stackelberg Game for Energy-Aware Resource Allocation to Sustain Data Centers Using RES. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 7(4): 1109.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Zomaya, Albert Y. & Ranjan, Rajiv (2018). Optimal Decision Making for Big Data Processing at Edge-Cloud Environment: An SDN Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(2): 778.
- Kaur, Devinder, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Zomaya, Albert Y., Perera, Charith & Ranjan, Rajiv (2018). Tensor-Based Big Data Management Scheme for Dimensionality Reduction Problem in Smart Grid Systems: SDN Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 30(10): 1985.
Conference Paper
- Zhang, Peiying, Liu, Fanglin, Kumar, Neeraj & Aujla, Gagangeet Singh (2020), Information Classification Strategy for Blockchain-based Secure SDN in IoT Scenario, IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). Toronto, Canada.
- Li, Yinhao, Jha, Devki Nandan, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Morgan, Graham, Zomaya, Albert Y. & Ranjan, Rajiv (2020), IoTWC: Analytic Hierarchy Process Based Internet of Things Workflow Composition System, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). Sydney, Australia.
- Singh, Maninderpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh & Bali, Rasmeet Singh (2020), ODOB: One Drone One Block-based Lightweight Blockchain Architecture for Internet of Drones, IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). Toronto, Canada.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj, Vashist, Sahil, Sharma, Neeraj & Obaidat, Mohammad S. (2019), DLRS: Deep Learning-Based Recommender System for Smart Healthcare Ecosystem, ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Shanghai, China.
- Prodan, Radu, Torre, Ennio, Durillo, Juan J., Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kummar, Neeraj, Fard, Hamid Mohammadi & Benedikt, Shajulin (2019), Dynamic Multi-objective Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers, 2019 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Greece.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj, Kumar, Ravinder & Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C. (2018), An Ensembled Scheme for QoS-Aware Traffic Flow Management in Software Defined Networks, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Kansas City, USA.
- Gulati, Amuleen, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Chaudhary, Rajat, Kumar, Neeraj & Obaidat, Mohammad S. (2018), Deep Learning-Based Content Centric Data Dissemination Scheme for Internet of Vehicles, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Kansas City, USA.
- Mudgill, Vipul, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Obaidat, Mohammad S. & Prodan, Radu (2018), DLopC: Data Locality Independency-Aware VM Clustering in Cloud Computing, 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Prodan, Radu & Obaidat, Mohammad S. (2018), DRUMS: Demand Response Management in a Smart City Using Deep Learning and SVR, 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- Aggarwal, Shubhani, Chaudhary, Rajat, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Dua, Amit & Kumar, Neeraj (2018), EnergyChain: Enabling Energy Trading for Smart Homes using Blockchains in Smart Grid Ecosystem, Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Networking and Cybersecurity for Smart Cities - SmartCitiesSecurity'18. Los Angeles, USA.
- Chaudhary, Rajat, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj, Das, Ashok Kumar, Saxena, Neetesh & Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C. (2018), LaCSys: Lattice-Based Cryptosystem for Secure Communication in Smart Grid Environment, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Kansas City, USA.
- Jindal, Anish, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Kumar, Neeraj & Misra, Sudip (2018), Sustainable Smart Energy Cyber-Physical System: Can Electric Vehicles Suffice Its Needs?, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). Kansas City, USA.
- Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Jindal, Anish, Kumar, Neeraj & Singh, Mukesh (2016), SDN-Based Data Center Energy Management System Using RES and Electric Vehicles, 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Washington, DC, USA.
Doctoral Thesis
- Gagangeet Singh Aujla (2018). Renewable Energy Based Efficient Framework for Sustainability of Data Centres. Computer Science and Engineering. Thapar University. PhD.