Nivethitha Somu

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nivethitha Somu is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nivethitha Somu has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Information Systems, 11 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nivethitha Somu's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (5 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (4 papers). Nivethitha Somu is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (5 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (4 papers). Nivethitha Somu collaborates with scholars based in India, Singapore and Slovakia. Nivethitha Somu's co-authors include M. R. Gauthama Raman, Krithi Ramamritham, V. S. Shankar Sriram, Kannan Kirthivasan, Ramiro Liscano, Kannan Krithivasan, Anupama Kowli, Aditya P. Mathur, Umesh Bellur and Purushottam Kulkarni and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Nivethitha Somu

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A deep learning framework for building energy consumption forecast

2020 327 citations Nivethitha Somu, M. R. Gauthama Raman et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
A hybrid model for building energy consumption forecasting using long short term memory networks

2020 293 citations Nivethitha Somu, M. R. Gauthama Raman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nivethitha Somu India	16	463	441	416	394	218	30	1.4k
M. R. Gauthama Raman India	15	511 1.1×	454 1.0×	445 1.1×	302 0.8×	140 0.6×	24	1.3k
Aurora González-Vidal Spain	18	429 0.9×	389 0.9×	434 1.0×	255 0.6×	131 0.6×	54	1.2k
Gabe Fierro United States	16	245 0.5×	229 0.5×	265 0.6×	478 1.2×	131 0.6×	52	1.1k
Hany F. ElYamany Egypt	7	422 0.9×	291 0.7×	155 0.4×	203 0.5×	122 0.6×	15	1.1k
Ruoxi Jia United States	20	677 1.5×	316 0.7×	120 0.3×	277 0.7×	126 0.6×	48	1.3k
Salah Bouktif United Arab Emirates	15	330 0.7×	485 1.1×	151 0.4×	163 0.4×	449 2.1×	50	1.4k
Jiaming Li Australia	18	494 1.1×	415 0.9×	183 0.4×	158 0.4×	107 0.5×	44	1.3k
Juan Gómez‐Romero Spain	20	504 1.1×	238 0.5×	82 0.2×	263 0.7×	184 0.8×	62	1.1k
Qi Han United States	21	347 0.7×	801 1.8×	900 2.2×	157 0.4×	110 0.5×	129	2.1k
Edoardo Patti Italy	27	395 0.9×	1.3k 2.8×	472 1.1×	483 1.2×	210 1.0×	143	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2026). Readiness assessment of sustainable energy technologies transition pathway: A probabilistic techno-commercial feasibility framework-based dynamic multi-criteria decision analysis. Energy. 344. 140065–140065.

Nguyen, Hai-Tra, Abdulrahman H. Ba-Alawi, Nivethitha Somu, Roberto Chang, & ChangKyoo Yoo. (2025). Smart multi-stage energy-emission nexus framework for sustainable supply-demand management and CO2 mitigation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 214. 115551–115551. 3 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2025). An edge-cloud IIoT framework for predictive maintenance in manufacturing systems. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 65. 103388–103388. 2 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2024). Multi-sensor data fusion framework for energy optimization in smart homes. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 193. 114235–114235. 8 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2023). Occupancy estimation with environmental sensors: The possibilities and limitations. Energy and Built Environment. 6(1). 96–108. 4 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha & Anupama Kowli. (2023). Evaluation of building energy demand forecast models using multi-attribute decision making approach. Energy and Built Environment. 5(3). 480–491. 15 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2021). A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings. Building and Environment. 204. 108133–108133. 87 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2020). PanOpticon: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Tool for Serverless Applications. 144–151. 17 indexed citations

Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2020). A multilayer perceptron model for anomaly detection in water treatment plants. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. 31. 100393–100393. 47 indexed citations

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Raman, M. R. Gauthama, Nivethitha Somu, Kannan Krithivasan, & V. S. Shankar Sriram. (2019). A hybrid approach using rough set theory and hypergraph for feature selection on high-dimensional medical datasets. Soft Computing. 23(23). 12655–12672. 13 indexed citations

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Raman, M. R. Gauthama, et al.. (2019). An efficient intrusion detection technique based on support vector machine and improved binary gravitational search algorithm. Artificial Intelligence Review. 53(5). 3255–3286. 70 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2019). An improved rough set approach for optimal trust measure parameter selection in cloud environments. Soft Computing. 23(22). 11979–11999. 12 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2018). Design and Development of Self-Governing Robotic Cart for Universal Applications. International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (IJEAS). 5(1). 257299.

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Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2018). An improved robust heteroscedastic probabilistic neural network based trust prediction approach for cloud service selection. Neural Networks. 108. 339–354. 27 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha, et al.. (2018). Mining Road Accident Data Based on Diverted Attention of Drivers. 245–249. 4 indexed citations

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Raman, M. R. Gauthama, Nivethitha Somu, Kannan Kirthivasan, & V. S. Shankar Sriram. (2017). A Hypergraph and Arithmetic Residue-based Probabilistic Neural Network for classification in Intrusion Detection Systems. Neural Networks. 92. 89–97. 73 indexed citations

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Raman, M. R. Gauthama, Nivethitha Somu, Kannan Kirthivasan, Ramiro Liscano, & V. S. Shankar Sriram. (2017). An efficient intrusion detection system based on hypergraph - Genetic algorithm for parameter optimization and feature selection in support vector machine. Knowledge-Based Systems. 134. 1–12. 180 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha, Kannan Kirthivasan, & V. S. Shankar Sriram. (2016). A computational model for ranking cloud service providers using hypergraph based techniques. Future Generation Computer Systems. 68. 14–30. 39 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha, M. R. Gauthama Raman, Kannan Kirthivasan, & V. S. Shankar Sriram. (2016). Hypergraph Based Feature Selection Technique for Medical Diagnosis. Journal of Medical Systems. 40(11). 239–239. 27 indexed citations

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Somu, Nivethitha. (2014). Authentication Service in Hadoop using One Time Pad. Indian Journal of Science and Technology. 7(is4). 56–62. 18 indexed citations

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