2026 Surya Nepal: 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	58	3582	3481	107	106	576	15835

Overview

Surya Nepal is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science with a notable focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics addressed in Surya Nepal's work include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Cryptography and Data Security
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Information and Cyber Security

Notable recent papers involve:

A Survey of Android Malware Detection with Deep Neural Models (2020, ACM Computing Surveys)
Backdoor Attacks and Countermeasures on Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Review (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
Realizing an Internet of Secure Things: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies (2020, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials)
Daedalus: Breaking Nonmaximum Suppression in Object Detection via Adversarial Examples (2021, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics)
Blockchain-Based Secure and Lightweight Authentication for Internet of Things (2021, IEEE Internet of Things Journal)

Frequent collaborators in their work include Alsharif Abuadbba, Seyit Camtepe, Marthie Grobler, Yansong Gao, and Xun Yi. These coauthors contribute extensively across shared research interests.

Surya Nepal's publications appear predominantly in:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 75 publications
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing with 15 publications
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security with 7 publications
IEEE Internet of Things Journal with 5 publications
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology with 5 publications

In addition to journal articles, Surya Nepal has contributed to book publications released by Springer Science+Business Media, including:

Information Systems Security (2022)
Big Data - BigData 2020 (2020)

Best Publications

A survey of emerging threats in cybersecurity

Julian Jang-Jaccard;Surya Nepal

1001
Citations
A survey of trust in social networks

Wanita Sherchan;Surya Nepal;Cecile Paris

874
Citations
IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies

Anne H. Ngu;Mario Gutierrez;Vangelis Metsis;Surya Nepal

767
Citations
STRIP: a defence against trojan attacks on deep neural networks

Yansong Gao;Change Xu;Derui Wang;Shiping Chen

727
Citations
Deep Learning for Community Detection: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities

Fanzhen Liu;Shan Xue;Shan Xue;Jia Wu;Chuan Zhou

336
Citations
Android HIV: A Study of Repackaging Malware for Evading Machine-Learning Detection

Xiao Chen;Chaoran Li;Derui Wang;Sheng Wen

319
Citations
A Survey of Android Malware Detection with Deep Neural Models

Junyang Qiu;Jun Zhang;Wei Luo;Lei Pan

286
Citations
Query processing issues in image (multimedia) databases

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278
Citations
A service computing manifesto: the next 10 years

Athman Bouguettaya;Munindar Singh;Michael Huhns;Quan Z. Sheng

239
Citations
Automatic detection of 'Goal' segments in basketball videos

Surya Nepal;Uma Srinivasan;Graham Reynolds

229
Citations
Practical Backward-Secure Searchable Encryption from Symmetric Puncturable Encryption

Shi-Feng Sun;Xingliang Yuan;Joseph K. Liu;Ron Steinfeld

212
Citations
A Privacy Leakage Upper Bound Constraint-Based Approach for Cost-Effective Privacy Preserving of Intermediate Data Sets in Cloud

Xuyun Zhang;Chang Liu;Surya Nepal;Suraj Pandey

203
Citations
Threats to Networking Cloud and Edge Datacenters in the Internet of Things

Deepak Puthal;Surya Nepal;Rajiv Ranjan;Jinjun Chen

198
Citations
End-to-End Evaluation of Federated Learning and Split Learning for Internet of Things

Yansong Gao;Minki Kim;Sharif Abuadbba;Yeonjae Kim

191
Citations
A platform for secure monitoring and sharing of generic health data in the Cloud

Danan Thilakanathan;Shiping Chen;Surya Nepal;Rafael Calvo

188
Citations
Lightweight Mutual Authentication for IoT and Its Applications

Nan Li;Dongxi Liu;Surya Nepal

170
Citations
Internet of Things (IoT): Smart and Secure Service Delivery

Elisa Bertino;Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo;Dimitrios Georgakopolous;Surya Nepal

165
Citations
A hybrid approach for scalable sub-tree anonymization over big data using MapReduce on cloud

Xuyun Zhang;Chang Liu;Surya Nepal;Chi Yang

157
Citations
Platform-Independent Secure Blockchain-Based Voting System

Bin Yu;Joseph K. Liu;Amin Sakzad;Surya Nepal

149
Citations
Using gamification in an online community

Sanat Kumar Bista;Surya Nepal;Nathalie Colineau;Cecile Paris

148
Citations
IoTChain: Establishing Trust in the Internet of Things Ecosystem Using Blockchain

Bin Yu;Jarod Wright;Surya Nepal;Liming Zhu

142
Citations
Backdoor Attacks and Countermeasures on Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Review.

Yansong Gao;Bao Gia Doan;Zhi Zhang;Siqi Ma

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Paris Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University

Jinjun Chen Swinburne University of Technology

Xun Yi RMIT University

Yang Xiang Swinburne University of Technology

Athman Bouguettaya University of Sydney

Joseph K. Liu Monash University

Deepak Puthal United Arab Emirates University

Xuyun Zhang Macquarie University

Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

External Links

Personal website of Surya Nepal Google Scholar page

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