Presently Dr Harish Kr. Shakya is working in Manipal University Jaipur as Associate Professor in the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Department from September 2023. Dr Shakya has Completed his Ph.D. in Computer science & Engineering Department from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi in 2018.His research interests includes social network analysis, soft computing techniques & Evolutinory algorithms. He has around 10 years of teaching and research experience. He holds bachelor’s degree in information technology from RJIT BSF Academy Gwalior and Completed his M.E. in Computer Engineering from SGSITS Indore (M.P.) India. Dr Shakya is a member/Fellow of various repudiated professional organizations i.e. FIETE, IEI, IEEE, ACM, IAENG, ICSES, CSTA, SAISE, IACSIT, and many more.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering) IIT BHU Varanasi
ME (Computer Engineering) SGSITS Indore
BE (Information Technology) RJIT BSF ACADEMY Gwalior
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Computer Engineering
59
Scopus Publications
673
Scholar Citations
11
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Scopus Publications
A hybrid multi-stream deep learning model for cognitive feature-based schizophrenia detection Muhilarasi Arumugam, Malarvizhi Nandagopal, Harish Kumar Shakya Discover Computing, 2026 Schizophrenia is a complicated neural condition that has serious effects on thinking, behavioral and perception; thus, early and proper diagnosis is highly necessary to provide early intervention and effective treatment of the disease. Nevertheless, the current detection methods especially the classical deep learning and transfer learning paradigms have several challenges which include, overfitting on large dimensional fMRI data, poor generalizations between datasets and weaknesses in the distributions of subtle neural patterns. Such shortcomings prevent clinical dependability and relevance of automated diagnostic means on actual environments. To address these issues, this work proposes a new framework of integrating Twisted Cascade Mind Network (TwiscaMind-Net) with the Hyper-Intelligent DRaco-Hippo Algorithm (HIDRA) to be robust in schizophrenia classification. TwiscaMind-Net is a new attention-based and multi-stream convolutional neural network based on the idea of twisted processing of the brain to learn complex spatie temporal patterns in the fMRI data. The HIDRA hyper-intelligent, hippocampal neuro-like modeled and Draco-lizard survival based optimization, is an intelligence optimizer that can adjust network settings and select the most discriminating features with a bio-inspired evolutionary algorithm. The offered methodology presupposes fMRI data preprocessing on three classic datasets, including Kaggle Schizophrenia, COBRE, and FBIRN, and then deep extraction of features by using TwiscaMind-Net and optimal adjustment of parameters on the basis of HIDRA. The last clustering is done by a neural final classification layer which is fully connected. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the model on the COBRE dataset reach the remarkable value of 98.9%, 98.85%, and 98.89, respectively, with a low error rate of only 5.4 and training time of 75 s. Similar results are also on the Kaggle and the FBIRN dataset. On the whole, the TwiscaMind-Net and HIDRA framework can serve as the viable example of an effective and innovative method of schizophrenia detection that would achieve higher diagnostic accuracy, decreased computational expenses, and increased generalizability, which positions the method as an effective tool of clinical decision support in the context of mental health diagnostics.
BFRN-IoV: Blockchain and Fog-Enabled Route Navigation for Digital Twin-Based Internet of Vehicles Amrendra Singh Yadav, Mihir Bhatt, Sameer Yadav, Sanjeev Kumar Dwivedi, Harish Kumar Shakya IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2026 The rapid evolution of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) necessitates secure, scalable, and low-latency route navigation mechanisms that can operate in highly dynamic vehicular environments. Emerging paradigms such as Vehicular Digital Twins (VDTs) further enhance IoV ecosystems by enabling real-time virtual representations of physical vehicles, facilitating predictive analytics, intelligent decision-making, and context-aware routing. However, conventional VANET-based approaches suffer from centralized trust dependencies, high computational overhead, and limited adaptability to real-time traffic conditions. This paper proposes BFRN-IoV, a blockchain- and fog-enabled route navigation framework that integrates lightweight ECC-HMAC-based mutual authentication, RSU-assisted fog routing, and global route validation via a Geo-Location Provider (GLP), while leveraging VDTs for enhanced situational awareness and dynamic route optimization. The framework ensures key security properties-including confidentiality, integrity, pseudonymity, unlinkability, and non-repudiation-using ECDH-derived session keys, HKDF-based key expansion, and HMAC verification, while preserving privacy through pseudonym-based identity management. A permissioned blockchain provides immutable and auditable logging of routing interactions without exposing vehicle identities. Simulation results using SUMO and implementation via Web3 demonstrate significant improvements in routing accuracy, along with reduced communication and computational overhead compared to existing approaches. Formal verification using the Scyther tool confirms robustness against replay, impersonation, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The proposed framework delivers a unified, secure, and efficient solution for real-time IoV route navigation, further strengthened by the integration of VDTs in next-generation intelligent transportation systems.
PPWCS: A Strategy for Enhancing Caching Performance in Content-Centric Networking Enabled Consumer IoT Systems Sumit Kumar, Rajeev Tiwari, Shashank Sheshar Singh, Harish Shakya, Gyanendra Kumar, Ali Kashif Bashir IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2026 The exponential increase in smart consumer devices and bandwidth-intensive applications is accelerating the integration of 5G and 6G technologies in Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems. Content-Centric Networking (CCN) has gained prominence as a future-oriented Internet architecture for the growing needs of consumer device applications with its in-network caching capability. It offers a scalable solution for efficient content retrieval. However, consumer-grade router nodes have substantially smaller caching capacity, which presents challenges in maintaining Quality-of-Service (QoS). In this direction, this paper proposes a Partitioning and Dynamic Popularity Window-based Caching Strategy (PPWCS) that combines partition-aware collaboration with an adaptive popularity window to optimize content placement in consumer IoT systems. In contrast to prior approaches, PPWCS divides the network nodes into non-overlapping partitions based on the proposed heuristic and takes collaborative caching decisions by identifying frequently requested contents. Comprehensive evaluations on Abilene-based and US-26-based network topologies demonstrate that PPWCS consistently outperforms existing strategies. It achieves up to 10% higher cache hit ratio, 23% lower hop count, 17% lower delay, 20% less traffic, and 17% lower energy consumption in Abilene. Similarly, in US-26 topology, the proposed scheme achieves up to 9% higher cache hit ratio, 21% lower hop count, 20% lower delay, and 18% lower energy consumption. These improvements validate PPWCS as a technically innovative and practically viable solution for consumer IoT networks operating over next-generation network infrastructure.
Leveraging similarity and community-based features for link prediction in temporal social networks using attention-enabled LSTM Rohit Ahuja, Simranjit Kaur, Harish Kumar Shakya, Shashank Sheshar Singh Scientific Reports, 2025 Link prediction refers to predicting future or missing links within the social network. Static social networks, with their fixed topology, require less data analysis, making predicting future or missing links relatively easier than in dynamic social networks. Dynamic social networks change over time, which makes link prediction challenging. Modern similarity-based features look at the topological structure of the network but only use a single snapshot to calculate, so they miss important patterns and changes in the network over time. Community features, which divide the whole network into communities, help to improve the prediction by focusing on links between the intra-communities. Our proposed framework, SimCom-AN-LSTM, shows that combining structural and community features can leverage the strengths of both approaches. The sequence-based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model processes the snapshot sequences to capture the network's temporal dependencies. These features help the model learn temporal patterns and predict future links by capturing local interaction between the nodes, the overall network topology, and community structure. The attention mechanism enhances the performance of the LSTM model by giving more weight to the feature that yields the best results. Results indicate that the proposed framework surpasses the individual state-of-the-art algorithms.
Plant disease detection using a hybrid dilated CNN with attention mechanisms and optimized mask RCNN segmentation Kalicharan Sahu, Shivam Tiwari, Manoj Kumar Singh, Jankisharan Pahareeya, Harish Kumar Shakya, Gyanendra Kumar, Shitharth Selvarajan Scientific Reports, 2025 In accordance with human life, agriculture has main role in it, and in addition to that most people are involved in some kind of agricultural activity either in a direct or indirect manner. Moreover, the agricultural sectors acquired a major role in supplying better quality food and thus made the greatest attribution to the growth of populations and economics. But, the disease over the crop has influenced the growth of the corresponding species and thus requires an earlier diagnosis of plant disease by utilizing the most adequate and automatic detection approach for improving the quality of the production of food as well as to reduce the loss in economic. But, there are no techniques in the conventional system for identifying the disease in diverse crops in the agricultural environment. In modern times, deep learning approaches have acquired tremendous enhancement in the identification of image categorization as well as the object detection system. For precise detection of plant disease, an improved classification model is developed. Initially, from the standard publicly available database, the images of the plants are aggregated. The gathered images are segmented using Dilated, Adaptive, and Attention-based Mask Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (DAA-MRCNN). Then, it is fed into a hybrid classification phase, where the new model namely Dilated, Adaptive, and Attention-based Multiscale DenseNet termed as (DAA-MDeNet) for classification. The classifier performance is improved by optimizing the parameter in Mask RCNN and Multiscale DenseNet using the hybrid optimization algorithm named African Vulture and Lemur Optimizer (AVLO). When compared with the other model, a superior performance is shown in the proposed model.
Bioinformatics-Driven Identification of Ferroptosis-Related Gene Signatures Distinguishing Active and Latent Tuberculosis Rakesh Arya, Hemlata Shakya, Viplov Kumar Biswas, Gyanendra Kumar, Sumendra Yogarayan, Harish Kumar Shakya, Jong-Joo Kim Genes, 2025 Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health challenge, and diagnosing it can be difficult due to issues such as distinguishing active TB from latent TB infection (LTBI), as well as the sample collection process, which is often time-consuming and lacks sensitivity and specificity. Ferroptosis is emerging as an important factor in TB pathogenesis; however, its underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. Thus, there is a critical need to establish ferroptosis-related diagnostic biomarkers for tuberculosis (TB). Methods: This study aimed to identify and validate potential ferroptosis-related genes in TB infection while enhancing clinical diagnostic accuracy through bioinformatics-driven gene identification. The microarray expression profile dataset GSE28623 from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database was used to identify ferroptosis-related differentially expressed genes (FR-DEGs) associated with TB. Subsequently, these genes were used for immune cell infiltration, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), functional enrichment and correlation analyses. Hub genes were identified using Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) and validated in independent datasets GSE37250, GSE39940, GSE19437, and GSE31348. Results: A total of 21 FR-DEGs were identified. Among them, four hub genes (ACSL1, PARP9, TLR4, and ATG3) were identified as diagnostic biomarkers. These biomarkers were enriched in immune-response related pathways and were validated. Immune cell infiltration, GSEA, functional enrichment and correlation analyses revealed that multiple immune cell types could be activated by FR-DEGs. Throughout anti-TB therapy, the expression of the four hub gene signatures significantly decreased in patients cured of TB. Conclusions: In conclusion, ferroptosis plays a key role in TB pathogenesis. These four hub gene signatures are linked with TB treatment effectiveness and show promise as biomarkers for differentiating TB from LTBI.
Fixing Poorly Written Questions and Classifying Their Difficulty with DistilBERT, ALBERT, CNN, and Explainable AI Aradhana Saxena, A. Santhanavijayan, Harish Kumar Shakya Procedia Computer Science, 2025 Classifying question difficulty levels is critical in educational data mining, impacting adaptive learning systems and assessments. However, questions are sometimes poorly written, which can lead to misunderstandings. This study focuses on ensuring questions are clear and comprehensible before classification. By utilizing DistilBERT (Distilled Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) to clarify ambiguously written questions and ALBERT (A Lite BERT) integrated along with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify them, the proposed method enhances both the clarity and accuracy of the classification process. The methodology uses Random Over Sampling (ROS) for dataset balancing and Explainable AI (XAI) techniques, particularly SHAP; to understand model decisions. The models are evaluated on a labelled dataset of questions, with ALBERT achieves a validation accuracy of 94.76% and DistilBERT reaching 91.83%, demonstrating improved handling of class imbalance. Comparisons between ALBERT and RoBERTa (Robustly Optimized BERT Approach) indicate that ALBERT achieves higher accuracy, higher AUC, and lower loss, making it the preferred choice for classification. DistilBERT is used for efficient and effective text correction. This research underscores the importance of question clarification, robust evaluation strategies, and model interpretability in natural language processing tasks, offering valuable insights for the development of intelligent educational systems.
E-Voting System over Conventional Voting System Using Blockchain Technology Vishan Kumar Gupta, Neeraj Jain, Harish Shakya, Shaili Gupta, Paras Jain, Kanishka Bhatt Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Electronics and Computer Science with Advance Power Technologies A Future Trends Ice2cpt 2025, 2025
A Review on Social Network Analysis Methods and Algorithms Ranjana Sikarwar, Harish Kumar Shakya, Shashank Sheshar Singh Proceedings 2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks Cicn 2021, 2021
A study of link prediction using deep learning Anant Dadu, Ajay Kumar, Harish Kumar Shakya, Siddhartha Kumar Arjaria, Bhaskar Biswas Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2019
Improvisation of differential evolution for community detection Anuranjan Kumar, Vaibhav Gupta, Gaurav Kumar Singh, Harish Kumar Shakya, Bhaskar Biswas 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research IEEE Iccic 2014, 2014
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Optimizing cervical cancer diagnosis with a hybrid deep neural network and progressive resizing on pap smear WSIs NK Chauhan, A Kumar, A Jain, K Singh, D Kumar, SS Singh, HK Shakya Scientific Reports , 2026 2026
A hybrid multi-stream deep learning model for cognitive feature-based schizophrenia detection M Arumugam, M Nandagopal, HK Shakya Discover Computing 29 (1), 254 , 2026 2026
Detection of benign prostatic hyperplasia using RGB prostate images and deep learning R Srivastava, R Kumar, S Kant, HK Shakya Scientific Reports , 2026 2026
PPWCS: A Strategy for Enhancing Caching Performance in Content-Centric Networking Enabled Consumer IoT Systems S Kumar, R Tiwari, SS Singh, H Shakya, G Kumar, AK Bashir IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics , 2026 2026
Low-light driver drowsiness detection for real-time safety assistance using dual attention mechanisms in deep learning model S Saxena, Angel, M Khurana, S Tiwari, HK Shakya Scientific Reports , 2026 2026
Deep Learning Approaches for Real-Time Intrusion Detection and Threat Classification in Cybersecurity Systems AS Reddy, A Samatha, N Joshi, N Chauhan, A Jain, HK Shakya 2026 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Innovations For Smart … , 2026 2026
Explainable AI Framework for Climate Risk Prediction and Environmental Decision Support GS Atwal, A Singla, Y Lohumi, M Kumari, D uma Vishweshwar, ... 2026 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Innovations For Smart … , 2026 2026
Large Language Models in the Diagnosis of Squamous Cell Carcinoma: The State of the Art, Problems, and Future Perspectives J Meena, VK Gupta, H Shakya, P Jain, H Tiwari, K Kokila 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), 471-476 , 2026 2026
Human-Like Hiring at Scale: A Conversational AI and Computer Vision Approach A Aggarwal, S Sachar, H Singh, VK Gupta, H Shakya 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), 933-938 , 2026 2026
Leveraging similarity and community-based features for link prediction in temporal social networks using attention-enabled LSTM: R. Ahuja et al. R Ahuja, S Kaur, HK Shakya, SS Singh Scientific Reports , 2025 2025
Hybrid Convolution-Recurrent Deep Learning Framework for High-Precision Lung and Colon Disease Detection A Singh, S Kumar, J Gangrade, S Gangrade, HK Shakya SN Computer Science 6 (8), 998 , 2025 2025
Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Plant Disease Detection SA Wagle, N Chankhore, R Iyer, G Shukla, S Sridhar, HK Shakya 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Computing, Communication and … , 2025 2025
Facial Expression Recognition and Deep Learning: Revolutionizing Personalized Music Therapy SA Wagle, O Mishra, R Iyer, G Shukla, S Sridhar, HK Shakya 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Computing, Communication and … , 2025 2025
Plant disease detection using a hybrid dilated CNN with attention mechanisms and optimized mask RCNN segmentation K Sahu, S Tiwari, MK Singh, J Pahareeya, HK Shakya, G Kumar, ... Scientific Reports , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
E-Voting System Over Conventional Voting System Using Blockchain Technology VK Gupta, N Jain, H Shakya, S Gupta, P Jain, K Bhatt 2025 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Computer … , 2025 2025
Wavelet-Pix2pix Framework for CT Denoising and Super Resolution C Vishwakarma, S Jha, G Bansal, HK Shakya, DK Jha International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computing, 283-295 , 2025 2025
Bioinformatics-driven identification of ferroptosis-related gene signatures distinguishing active and latent tuberculosis R Arya, H Shakya, VK Biswas, G Kumar, S Yogarayan, HK Shakya, JJ Kim Genes 16 (6), 716 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Big data meets social networks: A survey of analytical strategies and research challenges SS Singh, S Singh, K Singh, V Srivastava, HK Shakya IEEE Access , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
Cache Invalidation-Based Optimization in Next Generation Wireless Network: Taxonomy, Review, and Future Directions R Tiwari, S Kumar, SS Singh, HK Shakya IEEE Access , 2025 2025
MRI-to-CT Scan Conversion Using CycleGAN: A Deep Learning Approach S Jha, C Vishwakarma, V Ananya, HK Shakya 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computer, Electronics, Electrical … , 2025 2025
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Social network analysis: A survey on process, tools, and application SS Singh, S Muhuri, S Mishra, D Srivastava, HK Shakya, N Kumar ACM computing surveys 56 (8), 1-39 , 2024 2024 Citations: 136
Energy-Proficient cluster enrichment in wireless sensor networks via categorized fuzzy clustering and Multi-Hop routing optimization HK Shakya, AK Chandanan, C Subbalakshmi, G Khambra, MS Ansari, ... SN Computer Science 6 (1), 25 , 2024 2024 Citations: 64
Clustering of people in social network based on textual similarity K Singh, HK Shakya, B Biswas Perspectives in Science 8, 570-573 , 2016 2016 Citations: 63
Advanced security solutions for conversational AI R Sikarwar, HK Shakya, A Kumar, A Rawat Conversational Artificial Intelligence, 287-301 , 2024 2024 Citations: 55
A survey on information diffusion models in social networks SS Singh, K Singh, A Kumar, HK Shakya, B Biswas International conference on advanced informatics for computing research, 426-439 , 2018 2018 Citations: 54
Mining of high‐utility itemsets with negative utility K Singh, HK Shakya, A Singh, B Biswas Expert Systems 35 (6), e12296 , 2018 2018 Citations: 41
EHNL: An efficient algorithm for mining high utility itemsets with negative utility value and length constraints K Singh, A Kumar, SS Singh, HK Shakya, B Biswas Information Sciences 484, 44-70 , 2019 2019 Citations: 32
Hybrid recommendation system for movies using artificial neural network S Sharma, HK Shakya Expert Systems with Applications 258, 125194 , 2024 2024 Citations: 20
Nested sentiment analysis for ESG impact: Leveraging FinBERT to predict market dynamics based on eco-friendly and non-eco-friendly product perceptions with explainable AI A Saxena, A Santhanavijayan, HK Shakya, G Kumar, B Balusamy, ... Mathematics 12 (21), 3332 , 2024 2024 Citations: 19
Mitigation strategies for distributed denial of service (DDoS) in SDN: A survey and taxonomy S Karnani, HK Shakya Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective 32 (6), 444-468 , 2023 2023 Citations: 19
A location based novel recommender framework of user interest through data categorization VM Saurabh Sharma, Harish Kumar Shakya Materials Today: Proceedings 47 (special issue), 7155-7161 , 2021 2021 Citations: 13
Big data meets social networks: A survey of analytical strategies and research challenges SS Singh, S Singh, K Singh, V Srivastava, HK Shakya IEEE Access , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
A review on social network analysis methods and algorithms R Sikarwar, HK Shakya, SS Singh 2021 13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and … , 2021 2021 Citations: 9
An efficient genetic algorithm for fuzzy community detection in social network HK Shakya, K Singh, B Biswas Advanced Informatics for Computing Research: First International Conference … , 2017 2017 Citations: 9
Advanced Privacy Preserving Model for Smart Healthcare Using Deep Learning P Jain, HK Shakya, A Lala 2023 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics … , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
Recommendation system for movies using improved version of som with hybrid filtering methods S Sharma, H Shakya International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Smart Systems, 181-197 , 2023 2023 Citations: 7
Hybrid real-time implicit feedback SOM-based movie recommendation systems S Sharma, HK Shakya International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security … , 2022 2022 Citations: 7
Happiness index in social network K Singh, HK Shakya, B Biswas Advanced Informatics for Computing Research: First International Conference … , 2017 2017 Citations: 7
An efficient approach to discovering frequent patterns from data cube using aggregation and directed graph K Singh, HK Shakya, B Biswas Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer and … , 2015 2015 Citations: 7
SOM and Hybrid Filtering: Pioneering Next-Gen Movie Recommendations in the Entertainment Industry. S Sharma, GP Dubey, HK Shakya, A Sharma Fusion: Practice & Applications 16 (2) , 2024 2024 Citations: 6