Dr. Aparna Kumari

About

- Recipient of Shri Pralhad P Chhabria Awards-2023 under the category of ”Best Woman Professional (Early Career) – Runner Up for 2023” from Hope Foundation and Research Centre,
Pune, IEEE India Council, WiE Affinity Group, IEEE Pune Section.
- Listed in the Top 2% researcher globally according to Stanford University August-2021, September2022, and October-2023 list.
- Two of my novel works (IEEE Network, Impact Factor: 10.294, IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
Impact Factor: 10.238) has been approved by WHO and they have included works in their “COVID19 Global literature on coronavirus disease” database (ID: covidwho-825817, ID: covidwho1015475).
- Recipient of Doctoral Scholarship from Nirma University, India under Ph.D scheme.
- Twelve+ year (Jan-2009 to January-2024) research and teaching experience.
- Authored/Coauthored 43 publications (including 29 papers in SCI Indexed Journals and 12 papers in IEEE ComSoc sponsored International Conferences and 02 book Chapter).
- The paper “Fusion of blockchain and artificial intelligence for secure drone networking underlying 5G
communications” is in the list of most downloaded paper since last 12 months on the Wiley website.
- The paper titled “Fog Computing for Smart Grid Systems in the 5G Environment: Challenges and
Solutions” has been published in high impact journal with IF 12.777 in Smart Grid research area.
- The paper “Fog computing for Healthcare 4.0 environment: Opportunities and challenges” is in the
list of most downloaded paper on the Elsevier website.
- External reviwer for the research project support at Qatar University from different disciplines.
- Total Impact Factor: 152.939.
- Total Citations
- As per Google Scholar, it is 2555 with h-index 22 and i10-index 25.
- As per Scopus is 1815 with h-index 19.

Employment

• Nirma University Institute of Technology Assistant Professor
  2022 - Present
• Ganpat University Assistant Professor
  2021 - Present
• Nirma University Research Scholar
  2017 - 2021

Education

• Nirma University Institute of Technology PhD
  2017 - 2021

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• A taxonomy of blockchain envisioned edge-as-a-connected autonomous vehicles
  Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2020 DOI: 10.1002/ett.4009
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• Blockchain and AI amalgamation for energy cloud management: Challenges, solutions, and future directions
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.05.004
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• Machine Learning Adoption in Blockchain-Based Smart Applications: The Challenges, and a Way Forward
  IEEE Access 2020 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2961372
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• Fog Computing for Smart Grid Systems in the 5G Environment: Challenges and Solutions
  IEEE Wireless Communications 2019 DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2019.1800356
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• Fog data analytics: A taxonomy and process model
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2018.12.013
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• Verification and validation techniques for streaming big data analytics in internet of things environment
  IET Networks 2019 DOI: 10.1049/iet-net.2018.5187
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• Fog computing for Healthcare 4.0 environment: Opportunities and challenges
  Computers and Electrical Engineering 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2018.08.015
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• Multimedia big data computing and Internet of Things applications: A taxonomy and process model
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2018.09.014
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