‪Surya Nepal‬

14.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
351 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

‪Surya Nepal‬ is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, ‪Surya Nepal‬ has authored 351 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 168 papers in Information Systems and 133 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in ‪Surya Nepal‬'s work include Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (63 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (56 papers) and Cloud Data Security Solutions (55 papers) ‪Surya Nepal‬ is often cited by papers focused on Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (63 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (56 papers) and Cloud Data Security Solutions (55 papers) ‪Surya Nepal‬ collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States ‪Surya Nepal‬'s co-authors include Julian Jang‐Jaccard, Cécile Paris, Wanita Sherchan, Jinjun Chen, Rajiv Ranjan, Shiping Chen, Quan Z. Sheng, Yang Xiang, Derui Wang and Anne H. H. Ngu and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

‪Surya Nepal‬

339 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 survey of emerging threats in cybersecurity

2014 534 citations ‪Surya Nepal‬ et al. profile →
IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling technologies

2016 476 citations ‪Surya Nepal‬ et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
A survey of trust in social networks

2013 455 citations ‪Surya Nepal‬ et al. profile →
STRIP

2019 336 citations Yansong Gao, Derui Wang et al. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology) profile →
A Survey of Android Malware Detection with Deep Neural Models

2020 204 citations ‪Surya Nepal‬, Yang Xiang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
‪Surya Nepal‬ Australia	47	3.6k	3.5k	3.5k	1.7k	1.1k	351	8.4k
Xiapu Luo Hong Kong	44	2.9k 0.8×	4.7k 1.3×	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	804 0.7×	357	8.1k
Jaideep Srivastava United States	37	3.5k 1.0×	5.2k 1.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	817 0.7×	319	10.3k
Wouter Joosen Belgium	36	2.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	404 0.4×	588	6.6k
Wanlei Zhou Australia	54	5.1k 1.4×	2.7k 0.8×	5.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	457	9.7k
Roberto Di Pietro Italy	41	2.6k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	868 0.5×	435 0.4×	241	6.8k
Anupam Joshi United States	55	4.3k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	4.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.8×	397	11.0k
Yaser Jararweh Jordan	53	3.6k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	4.3k 1.2×	671 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	340	9.8k
Jong Hyuk Park South Korea	50	2.4k 0.7×	4.6k 1.3×	5.7k 1.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	436	9.8k
Bhavani Thuraisingham United States	38	3.5k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	598 0.5×	383	6.2k
Ali Dehghantanha Canada	46	3.7k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	4.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.9×	654 0.6×	154	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by ‪Surya Nepal‬

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of ‪Surya Nepal‬

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of ‪Surya Nepal‬. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of ‪Surya Nepal‬ based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with ‪Surya Nepal‬. ‪Surya Nepal‬ is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Ruoxi, Minhui Xue, Sheng Wen, et al.. (2025). Leakage-Resilient and Carbon-Neutral Aggregation Featuring the Federated AI-Enabled Critical Infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(4). 3661–3675. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhi, Yueqiang Cheng, Yansong Gao, et al.. (2024). SoK: Rowhammer on Commodity Operating Systems. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA). 436–452. 1 indexed citations

Nepal‬, ‪Surya, et al.. (2024). Mitigating Distributed Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning Through Mode Connectivity. 1287–1298.

Ramachandran, Gowri, et al.. (2024). Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains. 1724–1733. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Siqi, Juanru Li, ‪Surya Nepal‬, et al.. (2024). Range Specification Bug Detection in Flight Control System Through Fuzzing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(3). 461–473. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Shuo, Mahathir Almashor, Alsharif Abuadbba, et al.. (2023). DOITRUST: Dissecting On-chain Compromised Internet Domains via Graph Learning. 1 indexed citations

Steinfeld, Ron, et al.. (2023). Fast and private multi-dimensional range search over encrypted data. Information Sciences. 652. 119773–119773. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Ruoxi, et al.. (2023). Not Seen, Not Heard in the Digital World! Measuring Privacy Practices in Children’s Apps. arXiv (Cornell University). 2166–2177. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhi, Yueqiang Cheng, Wenhao Wang, et al.. (2023). WhistleBlower: A System-Level Empirical Study on RowHammer. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 74(3). 805–819. 12 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yifeng, Cong Wang, Ruochen Wang, Huayi Duan, & ‪Surya Nepal‬. (2022). Optimizing Secure Decision Tree Inference Outsourcing. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(4). 3079–3092. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Xu, Xun Yi, ‪Surya Nepal‬, et al.. (2021). Efficient and Anonymous Authentication for Healthcare Service With Cloud Based WBANs. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 15(5). 2728–2741. 25 indexed citations

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Yang, Xu, Xun Yi, Ibrahim Khalil, et al.. (2021). Secure and Lightweight Authentication for Mobile-Edge Computing-Enabled WBANs. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(14). 12563–12572. 11 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xingliang, et al.. (2021). ShieldDB: An Encrypted Document Database With Padding Countermeasures. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 35(4). 4236–4252. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhi, et al.. (2020). DRAMDig: A Knowledge-assisted Tool to Uncover DRAM Address Mapping. 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Lin, Wenmin, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, et al.. (2020). Location-Aware Service Recommendations With Privacy-Preservation in the Internet of Things. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 8(1). 227–235. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Derui, Chaoran Li, Sheng Wen, ‪Surya Nepal‬, & Yang Xiang. (2020). Defending Against Adversarial Attack Towards Deep Neural Networks Via Collaborative Multi-Task Training. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 19(2). 953–965. 24 indexed citations

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Nanda, Priyadarsi, et al.. (2019). Exploiting the Remote Server Access Support of CoAP Protocol. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 6(6). 9338–9349. 10 indexed citations

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Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal, Anton V. Uzunov, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, ‪Surya Nepal‬, & Ryszard Kowalczyk. (2019). Self-Improving Autonomic Systems for Antifragile Cyber Defence: Challenges and Opportunities. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 18–23. 10 indexed citations

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Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal, Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Quoc Bao Vo, ‪Surya Nepal‬, & Ryszard Kowalczyk. (2019). Exploiting Heterogeneity for Opportunistic Resource Scaling in Cloud-Hosted Applications. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 14(6). 1739–1750. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Xuechao, Xun Yi, ‪Surya Nepal‬, Andrei Kelarev, & Fengling Han. (2018). A Secure Verifiable Ranked Choice Online Voting System Based on Homomorphic Encryption. IEEE Access. 6. 20506–20519. 44 indexed citations

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