Research Guidance

Current Ph.D. and M.S. Students

§  Ph.D.: B. V. Sreekanth (joint supervisor), Rijoy Mukherjee, Akashdeep Saha (joint supervisor), Kuheli Pratihar (joint supervisor), M. Sivappriya (joint supervisor).

§  M.S.: Pallavi Anand, Sumitava Biswas (joint supervisor), Sneha Swaroopa.

Graduated Ph.D. and M.S. Students

§  Ph.D.

1. Pranesh Santikellur (2022) - (currently Senior Embedded Security Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.). Thesis: “Design and Analysis of Machine Learning based Modeling Attacks on Strong Physically Unclonable Functions”.

2. Diangarti Bhalang Tariang (2022) – (currently Post-doctoral researcher at Image Processing Research Group of University Frederico II of Naples, Italy). Thesis: "Deep Learning–Based Multimedia Forensics and Malware Classification".

3. Urbi Chatterjee (2020, co-supervisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay) – (currently Assistant Professor at Dept. of CSE, IIT Kanpur, India). Thesis: “Design, Analysis and Implementation of Physically Unclonable Function based Authentication Frameworks for Internet-of-Things”.

4. Durga Prasad Sahoo (2017, co-supervisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay) – (currently R & D Engineer (staff) at Synopsys Inc., Bangalore, India). Thesis: “Design and Analysis of Secure Physically Unclonable Function Compositions”.

5. Anju Johnson (2016, co-supervisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay) – (currently Senior Lecturer at University of Huddersfield, U.K.). Thesis: “Remote Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for Emerging IoT Applications: Threats and Countermeasures”.

6. Ruchira Naskar (2014) – (currently Assistant Professor at Dept. of IT, IIEST Shibpur, India). Thesis: “Reversible Watermarking for Digital Images: Algorithms and Implementations”.

§  M.S.

1. Vidya Govindan (2019) – (currently Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, Bangalore, India). Thesis: “FPGA based Hardware Trojan: Design, Implementation and Detection”. 

2. Pallabi Ghosh (2019) – (currently Ph.D. student at University of Florida at Gainesville, U.S.A.). Thesis: “Counterfeit Integrated Circuit Detection using Image Processing Techniques”.  

3. Aniket Roy (2018) – (currently Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.). Thesis: “Multimedia Security Through Reversible Image Watermarking and Digital Image Forensics”.  

4. Sayandeep Saha (2016, co-supervisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay). Thesis: “Improved ATPG Techniques and Testability Based Metric for Hardware Trojan Horses”.

5. Ayan Palchaudhuri (2014). Thesis: “Architecture and Design Automation of High Performance Integer Arithmetic Soft Cores on Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays”.

6. Indrasish Saha (2013, co-supervisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay) – (currently Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm, Bangalore, India). Thesis: “Attacks on FPGA-based System Implementations”.