Welcome to my homepage. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, I worked as a Researcher in the CyberSecurity group at Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore. Before that I worked as a Research Fellow in the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Australia. I obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India. 

Link to the security testbed

PhD openings

I am looking for bright and enthusiastic young researchers to join our group as Ph.D. scholars to work in the broad areas of security and privacy. If interested, please drop me your CV at jharshan@ee.iitd.ac.in. You may also refer here for more details on PG admissions at IIT Delhi.   

Research Interests: 

Wireless networks, Security, Distributed Storage, Coding theory,  Information theory

Professional Activities: 

General Chair, 2026 JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School, jointly organized by IIT Delhi and IIIT Delhi, India

TPC Co-chair, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2026, organized at IISc, Bangalore, India

Convener, National Conference on Communications 2025, organized at IIT Delhi, India

Associate Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2018 - 2022)

Member of TPC, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2020

Awards:

Best Research Demo award at COMSNETS 2020 on Implementation of 5G Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol on XBee networks

Teaching Excellence Award 2018, IIT Delhi

Best Ph.D. thesis award (The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal) for 2010-2011 from the Council of Indian Institute of Science.