Specialization

Blockchain Technology & Wireless Sensor Network

Email

neeraj.sharma@thapar.edu

Employment History
2021-2024         Teaching Assistant, CSE Department, IIT Guwahati
2019-2020         JRF. CSIR project, EIED, Thapar University.
2016 – 2018         Teaching Assistant, CSE Department, IIT Ropar. 
2014-2015         Academic Tutor (PHY), Gambhirs Coaching Center, Rajpura.

Education
2024      Ph.D. CSE, IIT Guwahati
      Thesis title: PCN for Scalability on Blockchain Networks
2019      MS-R CSE, IIT Ropar
      Thesis title: Designing of Routing Trees for Wireless Sensor Networks.
2013      B.Tech CSE, Punjab Technical University

Research Publications
Journal Articles
N. Sharma and K. Kapoor, “maxREE: maximizing flow by replacing exhausted edges in lightning network,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2025.   DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2024.3522198.
N. Sharma and K. Kapoor, “Deadlock prevention in payment channel networks,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 5164–5177, 2024.   DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3435484.
N. Sharma, K. Kapoor, and V. Anirudh, “Design and evaluation of swift routing for payment channel network,” Blockchain: Research and Applications, p. 100 179, 2023, Issn: 2096-7209.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2023.100179.
N. Sharma, J. Jun, and S. Pal, “Mitigating the effect of negative link correlation on contention mechanism of mac protocols in wireless sensor networks,” IET Communications, vol. 14, Feb. 2021.   DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0947.
N. Sharma, V. Kumar, and S. K. Singla, “Single image defogging using deep learning techniques: Past, present and future,” Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, vol. 28, pp. 4449–4469, 2021.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-021-09541-6.

Conference Proceedings
N. Sharma and K. Kapoor, “Flood and loot attack in distributed routing protocols in pcns,” in 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems NETworkS(COMSNETS), 2025.
N. Sharma and K. Kapoor, “Attacks in distributed routing protocols in pcns,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), Denmark, 2024, pp. 29–36.   DOI: 10.1109/Blockchain62396.2024.00014.
N. Sharma and K. Kapoor, “Distributed routing algorithms for concurrent execution of transactions in pcns,” in 202/ IEEE 7th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), 2023, pp. 49–57.   DOI: 10.1109/ICFEC57925.2023.00015.