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Nagender Aneja

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Adversarial Machine Learning Cybersecurity For Space Computing Medical Imaging Analysis Large Language Models
Virginia Tech Computer Science

About

Dr. Nagender Aneja is a Collegiate Associate Professor at Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. He has previously worked as a research scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and as an Assistant Professor at the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He also has five years of industry experience as an associate IP Lead for the Microsoft Patent Research Services Team at CPA Global India, where he drafted the responses to office actions for US Patent Applications and developed various innovative NLP tools for patent analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, India, and his M.E. in Computer Technology and Applications from Delhi College of Engineering. He has held academic positions at several academic institutes in India. His area of expertise is in applied machine learning, and he has mentored undergraduate and graduate students in domains such as cybersecurity, large language models, medical imaging, natural language processing, and adversarial machine learning. Dr. Nagender collaborates with Purdue University and Sandia National Laboratories to enhance cybersecurity measures, particularly in space computing platforms. He has published over 42 research papers and holds two US Patents. Dr. Nagender’s recent contributions have been acknowledged at prestigious events such as the NeurIPS 2023 workshop and the CSCI’23 Las Vegas Conference. He also contributed to the NL-Augmenter, a large-scale collaborative effort to develop transformations of datasets dealing with natural language. Dr. Nagender is an editorial board member of Scopus-indexed Journals and is a judge for the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2023 and 2024.

Research Performance Summary

57
Total Papers
1093
Total Citations
16
H-Index
2006-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Reliable ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol

Year: 2006

Citations: 41

Venue: IEEE International Conference on Networking, International Conference on

Latest Recorded Paper

Differentially processed optimized collaborative rich text editor

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: Multimedia Tools and Applications 84 (17)

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
5
2024
6
2023
9
2022
10
2021
4
2020
3
2019
4
2018
2
2017
3
2016
2
2015
3

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 24
Journal 10
Book 3

Top Coauthors

Aneja Gambhir Sharma

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 5
Citations 0
Avg. Citations / Paper 0
H-Index 0

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 32
Citations 609
Avg. Citations / Paper 19
H-Index 12

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 14
Citations 395
Avg. Citations / Paper 28.2
H-Index 7

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 4
Citations 36
Avg. Citations / Paper 9
H-Index 3

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 53
Avg. Citations / Paper 26.5
H-Index 2

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

naneja@vt.edu
5402312118

Detected Research Keywords

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