Faculty at School of Engineering

Himani Sikarwar

Himani Sikarwar

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering


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Dr. Himani Sikarwar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. She completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur under the supervision of Dr. Debasis Das. Her research focuses on advanced security solutions for large-scale and highly dynamic Internet of Vehicles (IoV), hardware security, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and secure intelligent communication systems.

Building on this foundation, her research has evolved toward designing secure and intelligent frameworks for next-generation connected transportation systems. A significant milestone in this journey is the award of a Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG) from the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).

Complementing her research contributions, Dr. Sikarwar has built a strong academic presence through publications in reputed international journals and conferences, including leading IEEE Transactions such as IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). In addition, she has actively engaged in international research collaborations with the University of Padua, Italy, working with Prof. Mauro Conti, and the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, working with Prof. Chun-I Fan.

  • Ph.D. 2024 Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (Raj.)
  • M.Tech. 2017 National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (HP)
  • B.Tech. 2014 Govt. Engg. College, Ajmer (Raj.

  • Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi/NCR (Dec 2024- Current)
  • Assistant Professor, RCEW Jaipur (July 2020- Feb 2022)
  • Assistant Professor, RCEW Jaipur (June 2018- July 2019)
  • Assistant Professor, PGI Jaipur (July 2017- Dec 2017)

  • Security and Privacy in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET), Hardware Security, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)

  1. Awarded the Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG) by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) for the research project “SURAKSHA: A PUF-Enabled Secure Architecture for Accident Prevention and Drone-Assisted Emergency Response.”
  2. Selected as an Instructor for Shiv Nadar University under the Cisco Networking Academy and completed the CyberOps Associate certification.
  3. Student Travel Grant for participating in the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2023.
  4. Participated in ACM INDIA GRAD COHORT, AICWiC-2020: ACM-W India Celebration of Women in Computing, and WIPSIP-2022: IEEE Women in Sensors- Idea to Prototype.
  5. Held Vice-Secretary position 2021-22, ACM Student Chapter IIT Jodhpur.

Worked on collaborative project of India- Taiwan Government 

Title: Lightweight Anonymous Authentication and Communication Protocol for IoV (Collaboration with Distinguished Prof. Chun-I Fan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

 

  1. M. Nagar, H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "Enhancing Cross-User Generalization in Human Activity Recognition With Adaptive Noise Scheduling and Linear Attention," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 26, no. 14, pp. 21626-21635, July, 2026, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2026.3694802.
  2. Kumar, A., Vishwakarma, L., Sikarwar, H. et al. Redactable blockchain-based healthcare: a secure key management with auditability. Cluster Comput 29, 267 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-026-06096-8
  3. H. Sikarwar, A. Nahar and D. Das, "DyBatch: Message Prioritization and Priority-Driven Dynamic Batch Verification in Large-Scale IoV Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 6616-6629, April 2026, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3621547.
  4. K. K. Mondal, H. Sikarwar, D. Das and C. -I. Fan, "Secure IoT Communications With Optimized AES and Dynamic Threat Modeling on Embedded System," in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 971-982, Feb. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2025.3645059.
  5. A. Nahar, H. Sikarwar, D. Das and S. Misra, "MRMH: Multi-Constraint Routing Optimization Using Hybrid Metaheuristics in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 4726-4740, Nov.-Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2025.3575271.
  6. H. Sikarwar, H. Vasudev, D. Das, M. Conti and K. Kumar Mondal, "SECURE: Secure and Efficient Protocol Using Randomness and Edge-Computing for Drone-Assisted Internet of Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 6974-6988, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3462746.
  7. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "SecEdge: Secure Edge-Computing-Based Hybrid Approach for Data Collection and Searching in IoV," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1213-1225, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2023.3299264.
  8. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "A Novel MAC-Based Authentication Scheme (NoMAS) for Internet of Vehicles (IoV)," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 4904-4916, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2023.3242291.
  9. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "Towards Lightweight Authentication and Batch Verification Scheme in IoV," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 3244-3256, 1 Sept.-Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3090400.

 

  1. A. Nahar, H. Sikarwar, S. Jain and D. Das, "CacheIn: A Secure Distributed Multi-layer Mobility-Assisted Edge Intelligence based Caching for Internet of Vehicles," 2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 437-446, doi: 10.1109/CCGrid57682.2023.00048.
  2. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "SMMAP: Secure MAC-based Mutual Authentication Protocol for IoV," In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 330–335. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571306.3571431.
  3. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "EECAAP: Efficient Edge-Computing based Anonymous Authentication Protocol for IoV," 2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), Bengaluru, India, 2022, pp. 302-307, doi: 10.1109/HiPC56025.2022.00047.
  4. A. Nahar, H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "AlcFier: Adaptive Self-Learning Classifier for Routing in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network," 2022 IEEE 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2022, pp. 311-314, doi: 10.1109/LCN53696.2022.9843737.
  5. H. Sikarwar, A. Nahar and D. Das, "LAAS: Lightweight Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Universal Internet of Vehicles (UIoV)," 2022 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2022, pp. 859-864, doi: 10.1109/IWCMC55113.2022.9824872.
  6. A. Nahar, H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "CSBR: A Cosine Similarity Based Selective Broadcast Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks," 2020 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), Paris, France, 2020, pp. 404-412.
  7. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "A Lightweight And Secure Authentication Protocol for WSN," 2020 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), Limassol, Cyprus, 2020, pp. 475-480, doi: 10.1109/IWCMC48107.2020.9148483.
  8. H. Sikarwar and D. Das, "An Efficient Lightweight Authentication and Batch Verification Scheme for Universal Internet of Vehicles (UIoV)," 2020 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), Limassol, Cyprus, 2020, pp. 1266-1271, doi: 10.1109/IWCMC48107.2020.9148081.
  9. H. Sikarwar, A. Nahar and D. Das, "LABVS: Lightweight Authentication and Batch Verification Scheme for Universal Internet of Vehicles (UIoV)," 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/VTC2020-Spring48590.2020.9129180.
  10. H. Sikarwar, D. Das, S. Kalra, "Efficient authentication scheme using blockchain in IoT devices," In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2020), Caserta, Italy (pp. 630-641).

 

  • Conference Presentations: 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2023 held in IISc Banglore.