Research Interest:

• Information Security, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Malware Analysis, Blockchain Technology, Applied Cryptography and Gravitational Waves

Graduated PhD Students:

• Hemant Rathore, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Design of Adversarially Robust Android Malware Detection Models.


• Mohit Sewak, Security and Compliance Research, Microsoft, Hyderabad
  Title: Design and Investigation of Artificial Intelligence Approaches for the Defense Against Advanced Windows Malware.


• Trupil Limbasiya, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Design of Vehicular Communication Protocols for Secure and Efficient Smart Transportation.


• Ashu Sharma, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Group-wise Classification Approach to Improve Malware Detection Accuracy.


• Aruna Govda, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Study in Data Reduction and Multi-Class Classification for Distributed Data.


• Rajendra. K. Roul, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Design and Investigation of Techniques to Improve Information Retrieval on the Web.

Current PhD Students:

• Lokesh Kumar, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus.
  Title: Search of gravitational waves using deep learning techniques in the output of laser interferometer gravitational wave detector.


• Akbar Kushanoor, General Electric, Bengaluru
  Title: Design of an effective computer aided diagnosis systems using deep learning for the detection of melanoma cancer.


• Ankush Soni , BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Efficient and secure authentication protocols using lightweight cryptography primitives for drones.


• Jyotiprakash Mishra (2021PHXP0041G), BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
  Title: Design of an efficient and secure processor with page-level authenticated memory encryption for IoT devices.

PhD Thesis Evaluation:

• Investigating Approaches for Improving Security in Remote User Authentication for Internet of Things Paradigm, Chintan Jayprakash Patel, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, 2021.


• Network Event Based Model to Predict and Detect Insider Intrusion on Enterprise Network, Nisha T. N., Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Pune, 2019.


• Relativistic Studies of Compact Stars, Abdul Aziz, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 2019.


• Design and Implementation of an Interoperable, Privacy Preserving Framework For Health Records, Rohini R. Roa, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, 2017.

Master and Undergraduate Thesis/ Research Project/ Professional Practice - I/ Computer Project/ Design Project/ Study Oriented Project/ Lab Oriented Project:

• Supervised more than 20 master/undergraduate thesis and over 150 PG/UG students for Research Project/ Professional Practice/ Computer Project/ Study Oriented Project/ Lab Oriented Project / Design Project on the topics viz. Malware Analysis, Cryptography, Network Security, Data Mining, Data Science, Gravitational Waves, Scientific Computing.