Dr. Nidhi Desai

Designation: Assistant Professor

Academic Area: Computer Science and Engineering (AI-ML)

Brief Profile:

Dr. Nidhi Desai is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (AI-ML) at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering. Her research interests are data privacy, privacy in social networks, data anonymization and security. Dr Nidhi has completed PhD in Computer Science, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT). She holds a B.E in computer engineering, Gujarat University, M.E in Computer Science & Technology from L. D. college of engineering and PhD from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar.

Prior joining to Adani, Dr Nidhi was associated with DA-IICT and VGEC.


  • PhD in Computer Science, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), 2021.
  • E. in Computer Science & Technology, L.D. College of Engineering, 2013.
  • B.E. in Computer Engineering, Gujarat University, 2010.

  • Assistant Professor at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (January 2022 – )
  • Course Instructor at DA-IICT (November 2021 – March 2022)
  • PhD scholar/Teaching Assistant at DA-IICT (August 2014 – July 2021)
  • Assistant Professor at VGEC (October 2013 – July 2014)

  • Data Privacy, Privacy issues in social networks, Data Anonymization, Security.

  • Desai, M. L. Das, P. Chaudhari, and N. Kumar, Background Knowledge Attacks in Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing Models, Computers & Security, Elsevier, 122, 102874, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102874
  • Desai and M. L. Das, DeSAN: De-anonymization against Background Knowledge in Social Networks. In 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), pp. 99-105, 2021.
  • Desai and M. L. Das. Rule Based Anonymization Against Inference Attack in Social Networks. International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Inderscience, 2(3), pp. 212 – 228, 2021.
  • Desai and M. L. Das. Privacy – Preserving Scheme Against Inference Attack in Social Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security, Springer, pp. 819 – 830, 2020. (Best Paper)
  • Hemantha, N. Desai, M. L. Das. On Minimality Attack for Privacy – Preserving Data Publishing. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communication, Springer, pp. 324 – 335, 2019.
  • Desai and M. L. Das, “On the security of RFID authentication protocols,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), pp. 1 – 5, 2015.
  • N. Desai, H. Diwanji and J. S. Shah, “A temporal packet marking detection scheme against MIRA attack in MANET,” 2014 Recent Advances in Engineering and Computational Sciences (RAECS), pp. 1 – 5, 2014.
  • Nidhi N. Desai, Hiteishi Diwanji and, J. S. Shah “Throughput Analysis for MANET against Attacks” in International Journal of Scientific Computing Vol. 6, 2012 VVP- Rajkot.
  • Nidhi N. Desai, Hiteishi Diwanji, and J. S. Shah “A novel detection scheme against MIRA attack” in National Conference on Computer Science & Security, 2013.