Project Associates

Name: Ms. Ami Mehta

Area of Work: Cloud security

Name: Ms. Ayushi Tandel

Area of Work: Cyber Security and Natural Language Processing

Project Interns

Name: Nirmit Patel

Duration: January 2025 - July 2025

Problem Statement: Enhancing Cybersecurity Training and Mental Health Detection Using AI, NLP, and Synthetic Social Media Data with Privacy Safeguards.

Name: Rishabh Patel

Duration: January 2025 - July 2025

Problem Statement: Detection of Spam Patterns using Natural Language Processing: Training on Reddit and Public Datasets and Evaluation via Synthetic Data Generation

Name: Pranami Patel

Duration: January 2025 - July 2025

Problem Statement: Generating sanitized comments for online social networks to fool gender classifiers and protect user privacy against adversarial attacks.

Name: Jaymin Patel

Duration: January 2025 - July 2025

Problem Statement: Developing an optimized ELM using Grey Wolf Optimizer to accurately detect and mitigate real-time DDoS attacks, overcoming traditional defenses' limitations.

Name: Bhumika Katariya

Duration: January 2025 - July 2025

Problem Statement: Improved Quantum Machine Learning Model for Cryptojacking Detection in IIOT Networks

Name: Taral Patel

Duration: July 2025

Problem Statement: Designing and Development of SVNIT ISEA Website

PhD students in Thematic area

Name of Student: Aditya Trivedi

Domain: Information Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Nidhi Joraviva

Domain: Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Srinivas Patil

Domain: Cyber Security, Blockchain

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Sourabh Bhaskar

Domain: Cyber Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Krishnaraj Bhat

Domain: Cyber Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Sondarva Kumar

Domain: Malware Detection, Artificial Intelligence, Android

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Adarsh Kumar

Domain: Malware Detection, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Akhil Chaurasia

Domain: IOT Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Mihir Patel

Domain: Cyber security, Digital Forensics

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Sujoy Roy

Domain: Cyber Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Prarthana J. Mehta

Domain: Cyber Security

Status: Ongoing

Name of Student: Dilay Parmar

Domain: Cyber security

Status: Completed

Name of Student: Chaudhari Ashish

Domain: Cloud Security

Status: Ongoing

M.Tech Thesis in Thematic area

Name of Student: Rahul Kishorbhai Chavda

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Anamoly Detection in diamond grains using Deep learning

Name of Student: Shashank R. Varnekar

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Secure authentication and key agreement Protocol for IoT-based Smart Healthcare systems

Name of Student: Shivani Pal

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Advances in Anamoly Detection on Real-Life Systems

Name of Student: Sagar Bhanudas Patil

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Malware Classification Using Signature-Based Detection Techniques

Name of Student: Ayush S. Mangukiya

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Cross Platform Malware Detection using Deep Learning

Name of Student: Ratan Kumar

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Context-Aware Intrusion Detection System for Containerized

Name of Student: Rozy Kumari

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Privacy Preservation in QNLP

Name of Student: Vaibhav Datta Shinder

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Anomaly detection in Smart Grid using Deep Learning

Name of Student: Ankur Anandbhai Gamit

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Privacy preserving in Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare

Name of Student: Moni Kumari

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Cyber attack Detection in IOMT device.

Name of Student: Yokshan Hathile

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Security in Internet of Drones(IOD)

Name of Student: Surakshit Nautiyal

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Secure and Efficient IOT Digital Forensics Using Blockchain with Fuzzy Hash Integration

Name of Student: Utsav Rajeshbhai Kanani

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Malware detection in android using deep learning

Name of Student: Rajeev Kumar Mandal

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Security in V2G(Vehicle to Grid)

Name of Student: Padigapati Venkateswarlu

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Differential Privacy on Age estimation and gender identification based on Social media comments

Name of Student: Anchal

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Network intrusion detection system in cloud

Name of Student: Sakshi Jitendra Joshi

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Psychoforensic Modeling: Predicting Insider Threats Through Behavioral and Digital Evidence

Name of Student: Jinal Nirajbhai Mehta

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Dimensional Malware Detection: A Framework for Enhanced Interpretability using Explainable AI

Name of Student: Yash Kishorbhai Makwana

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Federated Machine Learning for Privacy Preservation

Name of Student: Deep Kumar Singh

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: DDoS Attack Detection in HetIoT Devices Network using learning techniques

Name of Student: Devanshu Chauhan

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Implementing zero trust architecture on Internet of medical things

Name of Student: Sahana R

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Demonstrating Adversarial Attacks on XAI and its prevention

Name of Student: Nikhil Gajbhiye

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Security in IoT Enabled Healthcare Services

Name of Student: Nitish Kumar

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Hardware Trojan

Name of Student: Rohan Rajeshbhai Chhag

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Detection and Prevention of Block Withholding Attack in Bitcoin

Name of Student: Pratik Sureshbhai Kher

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Machine Learning based Linux Kernel vulnerability prediction

Name of Student: Prakhar Singh Sengar

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Intrusion Detection system in Internet of Things using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

Name of Student: Ajit Kumar

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Detection and Mitigation of Spoofing Attacks in Voice Authentication Systems

Name of Student: Anmol Sen

Academic Year: 2023 - 2025

Dissertation Topic: Design and develop authentication scheme for IOT devices

Publications in Thematic area

2024 July Onwards

Title of the paper: A Novel Pairing-FreeECC-Based Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based proxy Re-Encryption for Secure Cloud Storage

Journal/Conference: Conference

Authors: Shivangi Shukla, Sankita J. Patel

Title of the paper: MedReward: privacy preservation of electronic health records (EHR) and secure incentive distribution in the presence of active insider and outsider adversaries using blockchain

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Shriniwas Patil, Keyur Parmar

Title of the paper: Comparative evaluation of pairing-free and pairing-based CP-ABE schemes for resource constrained environments

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Sourabh Bhaskar, Keyur Parmar, Devesh C. Jinwala

Title of the paper: FTBAC : Fuzzy Trust Based Access Controlfor Healthcare Cross- Domain Environment

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Sujoy Roy, Jeet Agrawal, Alok Kumar, Udai Pratap Rao

Title of the paper: Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Shriniwas Patil, Keyur Parmar

Title of the paper: AKdroid: Deep Learning based Android Malware Classification using Markov Images and Text Messages

Journal/Conference: Conference

Authors: Kumar Sondarva, Adarsh Kumar, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Devesh C. Jinwala, Sankita J. Patel

Title of the paper: Privacy-preserving Crime Reporting and Rewarding in the Presence of Active Insider and Outsider Adversaries

Journal/Conference: Conference

Authors: Shriniwas Patil, Keyur Parmar

Title of the paper: Ab‐HIDS: An anomaly‐ based host intrusion detection system using frequency of N‐gram system call features and ensemble learning for containerized environment

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Nidhi Joraviya, Bhavesh N Gohil, Udai Pratap Rao

Title of the paper: BACP-IeFC: designing blockchain-based access control protocol in IoT-enabled fog computing environment

Journal/Conference: Journal

Authors: Akhil Chaurasia, Alok Kumar, Udai Pratap Rao