2026 Nitesh Saxena: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	42	8533	8294	3644	3506	202	5361

Overview

Nitesh Saxena is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions in several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Sociology and Political Science, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as User Authentication and Security Systems, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Speech and Audio Processing, and Music and Audio Processing.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Saxena include:

"WearID: Low-Effort Wearable-Assisted Authentication of Voice Commands via Cross-Domain Comparison without Training" (2020), published in the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
"Two-factor Password-authenticated Key Exchange with End-to-end Security" (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
"Enabling Finger-Touch-Based Mobile User Authentication via Physical Vibrations on IoT Devices" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
"Voicefox: Leveraging Inbuilt Transcription to Enhance the Security of Machine-Human Speaker Verification against Voice Synthesis Attacks" (2020), published in Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
"An In-Depth Analysis of Password Managers and Two-Factor Authentication Tools" (2025), published in ACM Computing Surveys

Frequent collaborators include Prakash Shrestha, Yingying Chen, Zengrui Liu, Mohammed Jubur, and Cong Shi.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, prominently including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Nitesh Saxena has also authored a book titled Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, published in 2020 by Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Best Publications

Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel.

Nitesh Saxena;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Kari Kostiainen;N. Asokan

259
Citations
The pollution attack in P2P live video streaming: measurement results and defenses

Prithula Dhungel;Xiaojun Hei;Keith W. Ross;Nitesh Saxena

170
Citations
Password-protected secret sharing

Ali Bagherzandi;Stanislaw Jarecki;Nitesh Saxena;Yanbin Lu

145
Citations
What's in a name: a study of names, gender inference, and gender behavior in facebook

Cong Tang;Keith Ross;Nitesh Saxena;Ruichuan Chen

140
Citations
Estimating age privacy leakage in online social networks

Ratan Dey;Cong Tang;Keith Ross;Nitesh Saxena

139
Citations
Secure proximity detection for NFC devices based on ambient sensor data

Tzipora Halevi;Di Ma;Nitesh Saxena;Tuo Xiang

128
Citations
Admission control in Peer-to-Peer: design and performance evaluation

Nitesh Saxena;Gene Tsudik;Jeong Hyun Yi

127
Citations
A comparative study of secure device pairing methods

Arun Kumar;Nitesh Saxena;Gene Tsudik;Ersin Uzun

114
Citations
On the privacy of web search based on query obfuscation: a case study of TrackMeNot

Sai Teja Peddinti;Nitesh Saxena

114
Citations
A comparative usability evaluation of traditional password managers

Ambarish Karole;Nitesh Saxena;Nicolas Christin

106
Citations
Caveat eptor: A comparative study of secure device pairing methods

Arun Kumar;Nitesh Saxena;Gene Tsudik;Ersin Uzun

101
Citations
Location-Aware and Safer Cards: Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy via Location Sensing

Di Ma;N. Saxena;Tuo Xiang;Yan Zhu

94
Citations
All Your Voices are Belong to Us: Stealing Voices to Fool Humans and Machines

Dibya Mukhopadhyay;Maliheh Shirvanian;Nitesh Saxena

94
Citations
Comparing and fusing different sensor modalities for relay attack resistance in Zero-Interaction Authentication

Hien Thi Thu Truong;Xiang Gao;Babins Shrestha;Nitesh Saxena

91
Citations
Drone to the Rescue: Relay-Resilient Authentication using Ambient Multi-sensing

Babins Shrestha;Nitesh Saxena;Hien Thi Thu Truong;N. Asokan;N. Asokan

88
Citations
Speechless: Analyzing the Threat to Speech Privacy from Smartphone Motion Sensors

S Abhishek Anand;Nitesh Saxena

86
Citations
Identity-Based access control for ad hoc groups

Nitesh Saxena;Gene Tsudik;Jeong Hyun Yi

85
Citations
Efficient device pairing using Human-comparable synchronized audiovisual patterns

Ramnath Prasad;Nitesh Saxena

81
Citations
VibWrite: Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical Vibration

Jian Liu;Chen Wang;Yingying Chen;Nitesh Saxena

80
Citations
Threshold cryptography in P2P and MANETs: The case of access control

Nitesh Saxena;Gene Tsudik;Jeong Hyun Yi

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislaw Jarecki University of California, Irvine

Nadarajah Asokan University of Waterloo

Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine

Yingying Chen Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Hugo Krawczyk Amazon (United States)

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Keith W. Ross New York University

Jan-Erik Ekberg Aalto University

Paul C. van Oorschot Carleton University

Rajesh K. Kana University of Alabama

External Links

Personal website of Nitesh Saxena Google Scholar page

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