Past Events and Activities

Internal Events

IEEE IoT Theory and Practice Seasonal School 2024

7 July-9 July 2024 // Durham University, UK

https://iot.ieee.org/education/seasonal-school.html

This seasonal school was sponsored by the IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community (IoT TC). It is designed to provide education on various theory and practical aspects relating to IoT. It offered lectures, hands-on laboratories, and demonstrations to provide resources, information, and guidance to boost your learning in IoT.

External Events

(Conferences, Workshops, Tutorial)

The Members of NESTiD have been involved with the organization of the following events outside Durham.

Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling (MAPSP) 2026
- To be held at Redworth Hall Hotel, County Durham during 21 – 26 July, 2026, Durham, UK
- Workshop co-chair: Thomas Erlebach and Prudence Wong
- https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~kirk/MAPSP/index.html
33rd International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2026)
- To be held at Durham University between 9 – 11 June 2026, Durham, UK
- Workshop co-chair: Amitabh Trehan, Peter Davies-Peck, William Kr Moses Jr., and Karl Southern
- https://sirocco2026.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS) 2023
- IEEE CSR Workshop on Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS), July 31, 2023 – Venice, Italy
- Workshop co-chair: Anish Jindal
- https://www.ieee-csr.org/ds4cs/
ALGOSENSORS 2022
- 18^th International Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks, September 8-9, 2022 – Potsdam, Germany
- Program Committee Chairs: Thomas Erlebach and Michael Segal
- https://algo-conference.org/2022/algosensors/https://algo-conference.org/2022/algosensors/
EdgeAI 2024
- 1st International Workshop on Edge AI for Distributed Systems and Networks in conjunction with The 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing & Networking (ICDCN 2024)
- Workshop co-chair: Gagangeet Aujla
- https://sites.google.com/view/edgeai-dsn2024/home
Queueing Theory for Emerging Classical and Quantum Systems
- at the IFIP Performance 2023 conference, Chicago, USA
- Workshop Co-Chair: Thirupathaiah Vasantam
BlockSecSDN Workshop Series
- BlockSecSDN 2024
  - 4th International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom 2024), December 8 – December 12, Cape Town, South Africa.
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://globecom2024.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
- BlockSecSDN 2024
  - 4th International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023), June 9 – June 13, Denver, USA
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://icc2024.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-20-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
- BlockSecSDN 2023
  - 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023), May 28 – June 1, Rome, Italy
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-11-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
- BlockSecSDN 2022
  - 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), May 16 – 20, Seoul, South Korea
    (https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops#ws-2)
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops#ws-2
- BlockSecSDN 2021
  - 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), 6-9 July 2020 – Toronto, Canada
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla
  - https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities

BlockCPS Workshop Series
- BlockCPS 2024
  - 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2024), 16-19 December, 2024 -University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla
  - (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2024/)
- BlockCPS 2022
  - 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems ;(Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2022), December 6-9, 2022 – Portland, Oregon, USA
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://ucc-conference.org)
- BlockCPS 2021
  - 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems ;(Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 6 – 8 2021- Leicester, UK
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - Publicity Chair: Ehsan Toreini
  - (https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/UCC2021)
SC2 Workshop Series
- SC2 2024
  - 5th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2) in conjunction with 25th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2024), June 4 – 7, 2023, Perth, Australia.
  - Workshop chairs: Anish Jindal
  - Further details and link to submission: https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2024/home
- SC2 2023
  - 4th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2) in conjunction with 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2023), June 12 – 15, 2023, Boston, USA.
  - Workshop chairs: Anish Jindal
  - Further details and link to submission: https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2023/home
- SC2 2022
  - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC²) in conjunction with 23rd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2022), June 14 – 17, 2021 Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Workshop Chair: Anish Jindal
  - (https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2022/home)
Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs Workshop Series

Invited Talks and Guest Lectures:

The Members of NESTiD presented invited talks and guest lectures outside Durham.

Activity	Name	Details	Date
Keynote Talk	Thomas Erlebach	Delivered a keynote talk on “Temporal Graphs: Exploration and Realization” at ALGOWIN	September 2025
Invited Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a talk on “Application of AI in Smart Communities” at Khalsa College, Kapurthala, India	August 25, 2025
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal	Delivered an invited talk on “Data Analytics in Smart Grid” at Auckland University of Technology, NZ	August 2025
Invited Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a talk on “Blocks, Coins, and Chains: A Journey Through the World of Cryptocurrency” at LPU, India	August 22, 2025
Invited Paper Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a talk on “Secure Ledger for Internet of Things (A preference – based committee member auction consensus framework” at Nanyang Blockchain Conference 2025, at NTU Singapore	August 17, 2025
Invited Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a talk on “Shaping the Digital Landscape through Twins: Background and Applications” at IIT Ropar	August 13, 2025
Keynote Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a keynote talk on “Digital Twins: A new dimension in computing” at 4th International Conference on Innovations in Computing 2025, CGC Landran, India	April 24, 2025
Keynote Talk	Anish Jindal	Keynote speaker at IEEE International Conference on Computing and Intelligent Reality Technologies (ICCIRT 2024) on December 5-6, 2024, Coimbatore, India	December 2024
Panel Talk	Anish Jindal	Hosted a roundtable discussion on “Role of computing in achieving Net Zero” in 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany	September 2024
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal	Invited talk on “Engineering Solutions for Smart Cities” in Short Term Training Program at SFIT, Mumbai, India	June 2024
Invited Talk	Thirupathaiah Vasantam	Performance Analysis of a Quantum Switch: An Erlang Loss Model (https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~bbuke/INI_Network_Stochastics/participants/)	June 17-19, 2024
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal	Invited talk on “The role of electric vehicles in green cities” at The Knowledge Hub Universities (TKH), Cairo, Egypt	June 2024
Seminar	Gagangeet Aujla	Seminar on Electric Vehicle as a Service at Durham Energy Institute, Durham University, UK	May 16, 2024
Keynote Talk	Anish Jindal	Keynote talk in “UK-India Workshop on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Security, and Data Analytics” at Cardiff University, UK	April 2024
School Seminar	Gagangeet Aujla	Seminar on Energy Trading in SDN-enabled Smart Transportation System at University of Hull, UK	February 10, 2024
Panel talk	Anish Jindal	Led an expert panel discussion on ‘Future of the AI’ at St. Chad’s College Durham	Nov 2023
Keynote Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Delivered a keynote talk on Electric Vehicle as a Service at ICAIoT 2023 at NITTTR, Chandigarh, India	March 31, 2023
Abstract Talk	Thirupathaiah Vasantam	Delivered a talk on “Bounds on Bipartite Entanglement Distribution Rates for Discrete and Continuous Variable Quantum Switches*” at APS March Meeting 2023	March 8, 2023
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal	Delivered a talk on “Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing Seminar” series at the University of Glasgow.	September 2022
Keynote Talk	Thomas Erlebach	Delivered a talk on “Explorable Uncertainty and Untrusted Predictions” at the MAPSP 2022 (15th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling).	June 2022
Keynote Talk	Amitabh Trehan	Delivered a talk on Self-healing Networks at the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC²) in conjunction with 23rd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2022), Belfast, United Kingdom	14th June 2022
Tutorial	Anish Jindal	Presented a tutorial on “Data Analytics in Smart Grid” in the Durham Energy Institute seminar series.	November 2022
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal	Delivered an invited talk in Short term training program on “Tomorrow’s Electrical Power Grid” for SFIT Mumbai, India.	03-07 January 2022
Invited Talk	Thirupathaiah Vasantam	Delivered a talk on “A throughput optimal scheduling policy for a quantum switch” at University of York, UK	4th April 2022
Tutorial	Amitabh Trehan	Presented a tutorial on Self-healing Distributed Algorithms at the 10th The Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC) 2021 (https://ladc.lisha.ufsc.br/ladc2021/Tutorial).	23rd November 2021
Keynote Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Keynote talk on Edge-Cloud Interplay using Software-defined Networking for Smart City Applications at 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2021.	7th June 2021
Keynote Talk	Gagangeet Aujla	Keynote talk on EVaaS: Energy Trading in SDN-enabled Smart Transportation System at SOFA 2020 – 9th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, Arad, Romania	29th November 2020

Event	Details
NESTiD Mini Seminar (Virtual)	Online mini seminar held on Thursday 25 February 2021 between 10-12 am. Participants: Tom Friedetzky, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis, Wanqing Tu, Gagangeet Aujla, Ehsan Toreini, Amitabh Trehan, George Mertzios, Iain Stewart, Daniel Paulusma, Konrad Dabrowski, Barnaby Martim, Matthew Johnson, and Stamos Katsigiannis.