Research Interest: Information Security, Applied Cryptography, Data Science and Gravitational Waves Graduated PhD Student: 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. R.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: Mohit Sewak, Security and Compliance Research, Microsoft, Hyderabad Title: Study and design of cognitive system for the detection of advanced malware. Hemant Rathore, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus Title: Design of a hybrid system to detect malicious applications of the smart devices. 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: PhD Thesis Evaluation: 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 Thesis Supervision: Sanjay Sharma Title: Machine Learning Approach to Detect Unknown Malware in Large Scale Data Using Opcodes. Ayushi Goel Title: Classification of Metamorphic Malware Using Machine Learning Techniques. Indrajeet Khandekar Title: Efficient Malware Classification using General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit. Avi Bhargava Title: Classification of Metamorphic Malware Using Data Mining Techniques. B.G.K. Varma Title: Prevention of ARP Spoofing using Cryptographic Techniques. Yogini Prabhu Title: A Study of the Performance of SHA-3 Candidate: BLAKE. Bibin Mathews Title: ARP Spoofing and its prevention using cryptographic techniques. Undergraduate Thesis Supervision: Ranjit Singh Title: Missing gravitational wave data imputation using LSTM. Ishan Tyagi Title: Reinforcement learning based solution to the stock trading problem. Abhishek Kumar Title: A study of metamorphic malware for the development of anti-malware. Saurabh Khare Title: Study of SHA-3 and its application for the malware detection. Amol Agarwal Title: Static analysis of advanced malware. Kunal Baweja Title: Secutriy for local and cloud storage file systems. Devendra K. Didwaniya Title: Application of Principal Component Analysis for Distributed Data Mining. Siddharth J. Menaria Title: Power spectrum analysis of highly modulated signal. Chiranjeev Singh Rao Title: Matched filter analysis using Fast Fourier Transform. Suneel Kolluri Title: Reduction of Communication cost in Distributed Data Mining. Nishant Varma Title: Study of cross-correlation with Fast Fourier Transform. Students Projects: Supervised more than 100 PG/UG students for Research Project/ Professional Practice - I & II/ Computer Project/ Study Oriented Project/ Lab Oriented Project / Design Project on the topics viz. Anti-Malware, Cryptography, Network Security, Data Mining, Data Analysis, Gravitational Waves, Scientific Computing.