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