Academic

Education Qualifications:

Academic Projects:

Hybrid Network Intrusion Detection System (Hybrid-NIDS) in Cloud Computing (Ph. D Thesis) (2010- 2014). Supervisor: Dr. Dhiren R. Patel, NIT Surat

Efficient Approaches for Privacy Preserving Mining of Association Rules in Different Environments (M. Tech. Thesis) (2009- 2010). Supervisor: Dr. U. P. Rao, NIT Surat

An Energy Aware Routing Protocol For Wireless Sensor Network” (Course project 1) (2008). Supervisor: Dr. M. A. Zaveri, NIT Surat

A Vertex Chain Code Approach For Image Recognition (Course project 2) (2008). Supervisor: Dr.M. A. Zaveri, NIT Surat, Gujarat, India

“Online Railway Reservation System” (B.E Final Year Project) (2008)

Academic Positions held:

Courses Taught:

Network Security (UG)

Computer Networks (UG)

Foundations of Cryptography (UG and PG)

Number Theory and Cryptography (UG)

Operating Systems (UG)

Fundamental of Programming Language (UG)

Object Oriented Programming (UG)

Software Engineering (UG)

Security and Privacy (PG)

Data Warehousing and Data Mining (UG)

Object Oriented Software Engineering (PG)

Leadership positions held:

Associate Dean (Student Welfare) @ NIT Goa (Feb 2021- Till date)

Chairman of Training and Placement Cell @ NIT Goa (July 2017 - Jan 2021)

Faculty Advisor of B.Tech 2016-2020 Batch (From July-2017 - Till date)

In charge of CSE Research scholar lab 2D @ NIT Goa

Convener of "Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan" @ NIT Goa (Sep, 2015 - Till date)

Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the NPTEL Local Chapter-NIT Goa (Dec 2015 -Till date)

Faculty Advisor of M.Tech 2014-2016 Batch (July-2015 - June- 2016)

Convener Seed Money Recommendation Process @ NIT Goa

Internal Expert for Ph.D candidates @ NIT Goa

External Expert for PhD candidates @ NIT Goa

Member of Technival-2016 cultural programme @ NIT Goa

Member of Technival-2017, cultural programme @ NIT Goa

Member of different purchase committees @ NIT Goa

Research Guidance

Ph D supervision – 1 Graduated, 2 Ongoing

• • 1. Designing an Out-of-VM Monitoring Framework for Securing Virtual Environment of Cloud Computing, Completed in 2019 (Dr. Rajendra Shivaji Patil-Full time)

    2. Smart Grid Energy Management Using Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts, ongoing since Jan-2018 (Mr. Ajit Ashok Muzumdar- Full time)

    3. Asset Management in Smart Grid Using Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts, ongoing since Dec-2019 (Mr. Madhu Babu Janjanam- Part time)

M.Tech D supervision – 11 Completed (2015- till date)

B Tech group projects guidance - 12 completed (2015-till date)

Awards and Recognition:

Best Review Paper Award: Title: "A survey of intrusion detection techniques in Cloud”, Journal of Network and Computer Application (Elsevier), 2015, San Diego, USA

Young Scientist Award: in the specialization of Cloud Computing, by Venus International Foundation, Chennai, India

First Position in the “National level workshop and competition on Ethical Hacking”, conducted by Wegillent Inc. in association with IIT Roorkee, at NIT Surat, 2013

Active SPOC of Swayam-NPTEL local chapter, NIT Goa

Recognition from ZS Associates as a Training and Placement Officer

Course Material Developed:

Network security: Implementations of hacking and security solutions, Scapy, Snort, Honeypot, IPtables, Wireshark, Vulnerability scanners, PGP

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Trust management

Privacy Preserving Data Mining

Cyber Crime Investigation and Digital Forensics

Blockchain and Applications