Publications

Our group has published works in several prestigious conferences including, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE SECON, CPS Week,  ACM/IEEE ICCPS, IEEE VLSID, IEEE COMSNETS, and journals including, IEEE/ACM TON, IEEE TNSM, and ACM TOIT

Intellectual Property

• P4. Kurian Polachan, Soumick Majumdar, and Dilli Babu Porlapothula, System and Method for Providing Secure and Interference-Free Multi-Wearable Hub Communication, Indian Patent Application No. 202541046647, filed May 14, 2025. Patentee: International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

• [Patent Granted] P3. Pralay Chakrabarty, Ananya Lakshmi Ravi, and Kurian Polachan, System and Method for Identification of IoT Nodes Based on GPIO Pull-Up/Down Resistors, Indian Patent No. 563531, granted March 25, 2025. Patentee: International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

• [Patent Granted] P2. Kurian Polachan, Kavya Agarwal, Ritesh Lalwani, Abeena U, and Arul Vignesh, System and Method for Visible Light Communication, Indian Patent Application No. 202341048494, filed August 11, 2023. Patentee: International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

• [Published] P1. Meghna Roy, Kurian Polachan, Shreyas Sen, Sukriti S., Scott Allen Weigand, Yi Xie, and David Yang, Sensor Using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication, International Patent Application No. WO2024129792A1, Patentee: Eli Lilly and Company, USA, in 2023.

Recent Journals/Conferences (2025)

• (Preprint) Soumick Majumdar, Anshul Madurwar, Anmol Shetty, and Kurian Polachan, hbcLock+: Encrypted RF Communication Using Noise-Aware, Software-Defined, Body-Coupled Secret Keys for the Internet of Bodies. TechRxiv. August 03, 2025. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.175424409.94694182/v1

• Nagarajan S and Kurian Polachan, "An Autoencoder-Based TinyML Model for On-Device Arrhythmia Detection," 2025 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SmartNets65254.2025.11106907.

• Dilli Babu Porlapothula, and Kurian Polachan, "CapPUF: a Tamper-Resistant PUF Utilizing I/O Capacitances for IoT Nodes," 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, London, UK from May 25–28, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043582

• Soumick Majumdar, Anshul Madurwar, Anmol Shetty and Kurian Polachan, "hbcLock: Encrypted RF Communication Utilizing Body-Coupled Keys for the Internet of Bodies," VLSI Design, VLSID 2025, Bangalore, India. DOI: 10.1109/VLSID64188.2025.00023

• Kurian Polachan, and Bijeet Basak, "PyBlkSim: An Open-Source Block-Based Discrete-Time Simulator," 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, COMSNETS, Bangalore, India, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS63942.2025.10885688

• Phani Pavan Kambhampati, Jagan P, Kurian Polachan, Madhav Rao, "Murmur: A Secure and Low-Energy Audio Communication for the Internet of Bodies," 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, COMSNETS Bangalore, India, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS63942.2025.10885638 

Conferences

• C15. Nagarajan S and Kurian Polachan, "An Autoencoder-Based TinyML Model for On-Device Arrhythmia Detection," 2025 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SmartNets65254.2025.11106907.

• C14. Dilli Babu Porlapothula, and Kurian Polachan, "CapPUF: a Tamper-Resistant PUF Utilizing I/O Capacitances for IoT Nodes," 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, London, UK from May 25–28, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043582

• C13. Soumick Majumdar, Anshul Madurwar, Anmol Shetty and Kurian Polachan, "hbcLock: Encrypted RF Communication Utilizing Body-Coupled Keys for the Internet of Bodies," VLSID 2025, Bangalore, India. DOI: 10.1109/VLSID64188.2025.00023

• C12. Kurian Polachan, and Bijeet Basak, "PyBlkSim: An Open-Source Block-Based Discrete-Time Simulator," 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, Bangalore, India, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS63942.2025.10885688

• C11. Phani Pavan Kambhampati, Jagan P, Kurian Polachan, Madhav Rao, "Murmur: A Secure and Low-Energy Audio Communication for the Internet of Bodies," 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, Bangalore, India, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS63942.2025.10885638 

• C10. Pralay Chakrabarty, Ananya Lakshmi Ravi, Kurian Polachan, "ioPUF: A PUF-based IoT Node Identification Utilizing Pull-Up/Down Resistors on IO Pins," 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Portugal, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/MELECON56669.2024.10608748

• C9. Shab Naz, Ayesha Daniya Mulla, Sumayya H, Rifah Sameen Sarang, Kurian Polachan, "LED-PUF: Physical Unclonable LED Signatures For Unique Identification Of IOT Nodes," 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Portugal, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/MELECON56669.2024.10608587

• C8. Kavya Agarwal, Ritesh Lalwani, Abeena U, Kurian Polachan, "VLC-LE: Energy-Efficient And Secure Visible Light Communication For The Internet Of Bodies," IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking, USA, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/SmartNets61466.2024.10577745

• C7. Kurian Polachan, Chandramani Singh, T Venkata Prabhakar, "Decentralized Dynamic Gate Scheduling of IEEE 802.1Qbv Time Aware Shaper and a TSN Simulator for Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems," 17th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2021, Bordeaux, France. (DOI: Pending)

• C6. Kurian Polachan, Belma Turkovic, Chandramani Singh, T Venkata Prabhakar, Fernando A. Kuipers, "Dynamic Network Slicing for Tactile Internet," 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2020 at CPS Week 2020, Sydney, Australia. DOI: 10.1109/ICCPS48487.2020.00020

• C5. Kurian Polachan, T Venkata Prabhakar, Chandramani Singh, Deepak Panchapakesan, "Quality of Control Assessment for Tactile Cyber Physical Systems," 16th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, IEEE SECON 2019 at Boston, USA. DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2019.8824814

• C4. Kurian Polachan, T Venkata Prabhakar, Chandramani Singh, Fernando A. Kuipers, "Towards an Open Testbed for Tactile Cyber Physical Systems," 11th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, COMSNETS 2019 at Bangalore, India. DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2019.8711100

• C3. Arjun N, Ashwin S M, Kurian Polachan, T V Prabhakar, and Chandramani Singh, "An End To End Tactile Cyber Physical System Design," 4th International Workshop on Emerging Ideas and Trends in Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems at CPS Week 2018 at Porto, Portugal. DOI: 10.1109/EITEC.2018.00007

• C2. Kurian Polachan, and Vibheesh B, "Automated CapSense Testing with Active Capacitance Simulation Circuit," Cypress International Technical Conference (CITEC) 2011. 

• C1. Shivendra Kumar Singh, Kurian Polachan and Vibheesh B, "Automated Testing for CapSense Products," Cypress International Technical Conference (CITEC) 2009.

Journals

• J5. Kurian Polachan , Joydeep Pal, Chandramani Singh and Prabhakar T. Venkata, "Assessing Quality of Control in Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2022 

• J4. Kurian Polachan , Chandramani Singh and Prabhakar T. Venkata, "Decentralized Dynamic Scheduling of TCPS flows and a Simulator for Time-Sensitive Networking", ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2022 

• J3. Kurian Polachan , Joydeep Pal, Prabhakar T. Venkata , Chandramani Singh , and Fernando A. Kuipers, "TCPSbed: A Modular Testbed for Tactile Internet based Cyber-Physical Systems", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2021

• J2. Kurian Polachan, Baibhab Chatterjee, Scott Weigand, and Shreyas Sen. 2021. "Human Body–Electrode Interfaces for Wide-Frequency Sensing and Communication: A Review" Nanomaterials 11, no. 8: 2152. 

• J1. Daniël Van Den Berg , Rebecca Glans , Dorian De Koning , Fernando A. Kuipers, Jochem Lugtenburg, Kurian Polachan , Prabhakar T. Venkata , Chandramani Singh , Belma Turkovic , And Bryan Van Wijk , "Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet", IEEE Access 2017

Preprints

• P3. Soumick Majumdar, Anshul Madurwar, Anmol Shetty, and Kurian Polachan, hbcLock+: Encrypted RF Communication Using Noise-Aware, Software-Defined, Body-Coupled Secret Keys for the Internet of Bodies. TechRxiv. August 03, 2025. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.175424409.94694182/v1

• P2. (Preprint) [Co-First Author] Shreeya Sriram, Kurian Polachan, Shreyas Sen  "On the Interaction of Biopotential Sensing and Right Leg Drive System with Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication, 2022, (Link)

• P1. Kurian Polachan, Joydeep Pal, Chandramani Singh, and Prabhakar T. V. “Quality of Control Assessment for Tactile Internet Based Cyber-Physical Systems.” arXiv (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08743. 

Articles

• A7. Sachin Gupta, Prakhar Goyal, and Kurian Polachan “Designing Reliable Touch Interfaces for White Goods", Cypress Semiconductors, 2013.

• A6. Kurian Polachan [Main Contributor] "AN66269 CapsSense Design Guide for the CY8C20x34 family of devices", Cypress Semiconductors, 2012

• A5. Sachin Gupta, Prakhar Goyal, and Kurian Polachan “Designing Reliable Capacitive Touch interfaces”. Published in EETimes, Goliath, NXT Book and DSP Embedded, 2011

• A4. Kurian Polachan "Application note AN2397 on CapSense Data Viewing Tools", Cypress Semiconductors, 2011

• A3. Kurian Polachan [Main Contributor] "CY3280-BK1 Universal CapSense® Controller Basic Kit 1 User Guide ", Cypress Semiconductors, 2011

• A2. Kurian Polachan [Main Contributor] "CY3280-SmartSense™ CapSense® Auto-Tuning Kit Guide ", Cypress Semiconductors, 2010

• A1. Kurian Polachan  "Application note AN56007 on I2C Enhanced Slave Operation", Cypress Semiconductors, 2009

Thesis

• T1. Kurian Polachan. "Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems: A Testbed, A Performance Metric and Network Resource Allocation Protocols." PhD diss., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2021.

Demonstrations

• D2. TCPS Demonstration @ Dutch Technology Demonstration at Taj West End, Bangalore, 2018

• D1. TCPS Demonstration @ Cyber Physical Systems Symposium at RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore, 2017

Open-Source Contributions

• An open-source model-based simulator for discrete-time simulations, 2024, https://github.com/dr-polachan/pyblksim

• A python-based network simulator for time-sensitive networking, 2021, https://github.com/dr-kurian-polachan/PYTSN

• A testbed for tactile-cyber physical systems, 2019, https://github.com/dr-kurian-polachan/TCPSbed

Grants/Funds

• SERB travel support offer for IEEE MELECON 2024, Porto, Portugal

• Student travel support for CPSWeek 2018, Porto, Portugal 2018

• Research support of 30L from E-Health Research Center (EHRC), 2025

• Research support of 60L from Machine Intelligence and Robotics COE (MINRO)

• Research support grant from Center for Internet of Ethical Things (CIET)

• Research support of 5L from IIIT-Bangalore