About
Dr Sheenam Naaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Sharda School of Computing Science and Engineering (SSCSE), Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. She earned her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, in 2026. Her research focuses on cybersecurity, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly secure communication, authentication mechanisms, and intelligent smart-city infrastructure.
Dr. Naaz earned her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, in 2026. Her doctoral research focused on developing authentication models for secure communication in IoT–blockchain-enabled smart-city applications, contributing a lightweight elliptic-key authentication scheme, blockchain-based secure data sharing, and an attention-based deep learning model for attack detection. She completed her MTech in Computer Science and Engineering, specialising in Cyber Forensics and Information Security, from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, in 2020. She earned her BTech in Computer Science and Engineering in 2018 and a Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering in 2015 from Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad.
Dr Naaz began her teaching career as an Assistant Professor in 2021 and joined Sharda University in August 2024. With over five years of teaching experience, she has taught core and advanced computer science courses and mentored student projects in machine learning, blockchain, and IoT. Her mentees have published research papers, filed patent applications, and received the Best Paper Award at DINS-2026. She also received a Certificate of Appreciation for mentoring at the 6th Technovation Hackathon.
Her research portfolio includes 16 journal articles, including an SCIE-indexed paper in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley), more than 20 conference papers published through IEEE, Springer, and AIP, a Springer Nature book chapter, and an authored book titled The Future of Smart Cities: AI, IoT, Blockchain, and Digital Twins. She has also contributed to 11 Indian patent applications and design registrations. Her work has received 30 Google Scholar citations, with an h-index of 3.
An active member of the research community, Dr. Naaz is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has reviewed submissions for more than 90 international conferences and serves as a meta-reviewer. She has chaired sessions at InTech-2025 and ICTACS-2024 and served on the Technical Program Committee for InCITe-2026. She has completed 29 Faculty Development Programmes, including AICTE ATAL Academy, NPTEL–AICTE, and international programmes, along with 35 online certifications from institutions including IBM, Yale, INSEAD, and Duke.
Dr. Naaz is committed to research-driven education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and mentoring students to transform innovative ideas into practical solutions, particularly in cybersecurity and secure, sustainable smart-city development.