Research Funding
§ IIT Kharagpur AI4CPS I Hub Foundation
Project Title: “Malware Executable Detection and Classification through Visualization and Machine Learning”
PI: Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 24 months (Dec 2023 – Dec 2025)
§ Intel Corporation
Project Title: “Security Course Development for Intel Unnati Program”
PI: Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Sandip Chakraborty
Duration: 6 months (Apr 2023 – Sep 2023)
§ Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Govt. of India
Project Title: “Cyber Security of Power Systems through Design-for Prevention, Real-time Detection and Effective Intervention”
PI: Prof. Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury
Co-PI: Prof. Pabitra Mitra, Prof. Ashok Pradhan, Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 2 years (Mar 2022 – Mar 2024)
§ Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
Project Title: “A Comprehensive Framework for Adversarial Evaluation of Random Number Generators: Theory and Implementation”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 3 years (Jan 2020 – Jan 2023)
§ Intel Corporation
Project Title: “DeepFake Catcher: Methods to Identify AI Generated Facial Videos and Images”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 15 months (Oct 2019 – Jan 2021)
§ Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research (IGCAR), Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Design and Development of FPGA Implementable Physical Unclonable Function for High Security Authentication Applications”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Prof. Indrajit Chakrabarti
Duration: 3 years (May 2019 – May 2022)
§ Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Digital Image Forensics in the Context of a Connected India: Algorithms and Implementation”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar (IIEST Shibpur)
Duration: 3 years (Jul 2019 - Mar 2023)
§ Directorate of Futuristic Technology Management (DFTM), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Secure Resource-Constrained Communication Framework for Tactical Networks Using Physically Unclonable Functions (SeRFPUF)”
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Co-PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 5 years (Jul 2017 - Jul 2022)
§ Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Design, Implementation & Evaluation of Encryption/Decryption Unit for IFF System”
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Co-PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 2 years (Jan 2017 - Jan 2019)
§ Intel Corporation (U.S.A.)
Project Title: “Verification Challenges in Compression and Cryptographic Stacks in QuickAssist Technology”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 4 years (May 2016 - May 2020)
§ BRNS, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Hardware Security in the Context of a Connected World: Threats and Mitigations”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Duration: 3 years (May 2016 - May 2019)
§ IBM
Project Title: “Optimize real time encryption performance for high volume storage data traffic by means of software improvements to Linux”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 3 years (November 2015 - November 2018)
§ DEITY, Ministry of Communication and IT, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project Phase-II”
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Co-PI: Dr. Sandip Chakraborty and Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 5 years (November 2015 - November 2020)
§ Wipro Limited, India
Project Title: “Securing Internet-of-Things using Unconventional Cryptographic Techniques”
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 4 years (June 2015 - June 2019)
§ Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
Project Title: “High Performance Reversible Watermarking of Digital Images: Theory, Implementation and Impact on Medical Imaging”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 3 years (May 2014 - May 2017)
§ Scientific Analysis Group (SAG), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Power Attacks on Stream Ciphers and Cache Memory Attacks”
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Co-PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 2 years (Mar. 2013 - Mar. 2015)
§ Reconnoiter Technology and Research, India
Project Title: “Hardware Trojan Attack Testbed on FPGA based Systems” (consultancy project)
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Duration: 3 years (Dec. 2012 - Dec. 2015)
§ Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Machine Learning based Model-building Attack on PUFs”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Duration: 2 years (Dec. 2012-Dec.2014)
§ Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Study of Hardware Malware Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Techniques for FPGAs” (completed)
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Co-PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Duration: 2 years (Sep. 2010-Aug.2012)
§ Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Project Title: “Design of Controller for Finite Field Arithmetic on FPGAs” (as co-PI)
PI: Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Co-PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 2 years (Oct. 2010-Sep.2012)
§ Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur
Project Title: “Hardware Security: Ensuring TRUST in Integrated Circuits”
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
Duration: 2 years (Sep. 2010-Aug.2012)