Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, India
Former Member IEEE, IAENG, IEEE Sensors Council
Editorial Board Member - Research Reports on Computer Science
Ranked in Top 2% Scientists in the World by Stanford University, USA & Elsevier in (2024, 2023).
His current research interests include:
Communication security in the IoT (6LoWPAN security)
Lightweight cryptography solutions for IoT
Intrusion Detection in the IoT (RPL Security)
Smart grid and smart metering security
6TiSCH
Blockchain
Satellite communication security
Software-defined networking
Sensor Networks
He works on Contiki and Contiki-NG (Embedded OS for resource constrained devices), and Mininet
Highlights
About his PhD
He obtained a doctorate degree in Information Security from Department of Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India (An Institution of National Importance) under the supervision of Dr. Virender Ranga. His thesis title is "Design and Development of Intrusion Detection Systems for Internet of Things".
News
[June 2025] Our research article titled "LiSec-RTF: Reinforcing RPL Resilience Against Routing Table Falsification Attack in 6LoWPAN" accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE, Impact Factor: 9.2)
[June 2025] Shefali Goel Successfully defended her thesis "Security Solutions for RPL based Low Power & Lossy Networks".
[April 2025] Our research article titled "An Intelligent Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing and Management Model for Smart Cities" accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE, Impact Factor: 7.9)
[Feb 2025] Delivered an expert lecture on “Improving Resilience of Resource-constrained Networks against Cyber Attacks” in the Department of Computer Application, Integral University, Lucknow.
[Dec 2024] Our research article titled "Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Mitigation Solution for Addressing Network Partitioning Attack Against RPL Protocol" accepted for publication in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.9).
[Dec 2024] Chaired a session in in 7th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), to be held at IIIT Bhopal.
[Aug 2024] Our research article titled "FloRa: Flow Table Low-Rate Overflow Reconnaissance and Detection in SDN" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE, Impact Factor: 4.7).
[June 2024] Delivered an expert lecture in Short Term Course (in Hybrid Mode) on “Research and Industry Trends in Data Science for Cyber Security (RITDC-2024)” scheduled during June 10 – June 14, 2024, in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, Haryana.
[May 2024] Our research article titled "Li-MSD: A Lightweight Mitigation Solution for DAO Insider Attack in RPL-based IoT " accepted for publication in Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 7.5).
[May 2024] Call for Book Chapters for upcoming book titled "Machine Vision Analysis in Industry 5.0: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges" to be published by CRC Press. [Submission Link]
[Feb 2024] Call for Papers in 7th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), to be held at IIIT Bhopal, Dec 19th - 20th, 2024 (to be published by Elsevier*). [Submission Link]
[Feb 2024] I am Serving as a Conference Secretary in 7th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R), to be held at IIIT Bhopal. Consider submitting your papers to RTIP2R 2024!
[Feb 2024] Organized an expert lecture on "Resource Management in Cloud Environment" at BBAU.
[Oct 2023] Ranked in Top 2% Scientists in the World by Stanford University, USA & Elsevier in October 2023.
[July2023 2023] Prakhar Mishra (M.Tech Student) successfully defended his thesis titled "Sec-6LoWPAN: Securing 6LoWPAN-based IoT from ICMPv6 Echo-Request Flood using Dynamic Thresholding with Entropy".
[May 2023] Joined Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) Lucknow
[March 2023] Delivered an expert talk on "Security Issues in Resource-Constrained Internet of Things" in National Seminar on “Security Threats in IoT Communication” at Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology & Sciences, Jabalpur, M.P. sponsored by M.P. Council of Science & Technology (MPCST), Bhopal.
[August 2022] I am Serving as a Conference Secretary in FESTcon 2023, to be held at ABESIT Ghaziabad. Consider submitting your papers to FESTcon 2023!
[August 2022] Call for Papers under Special Session on “Energy Efficient Solutions for Cyber-Physical Systems” in 17th INDIACom; 2023 10th International Conference as INDIACom-2023 , March 15th - 17th, 2023 (to be published by IEEE).
[August 2022] I am Serving as a TPC member of 3rd International Conference on “Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems” (ETTIS-2023), to be held at CDAC Noida in association with the Automatic Control, Computers & Electronics Department, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania, and the University of Haute-Alsace, France . Consider submitting your papers to ETTIS-2023!
[July 2022] I am Serving as a TPC member of GMHPHCI 2022, to be held at IIIT Ranchi. Consider submitting your papers to GMHPHCI 2022!
[July 2022] Delivered an expert talk on "Introduction to Research Methodology and LaTeX" at SIRT Bhopal.
[July 2022] Sachin Kumar Verma (M.Tech Student) successfully defended his thesis titled "Lightweight Mitigation Solution for DAO Insider Attack in RPL-based IoT Networks".
[June 2022] Served as a TPC member of PCCDS 2022, held at MNIT Jaipur.
[May 2022] Our R&D project proposal titled “UAV-assisted Wi-Fi Geofencing for UAV Tracking and Activity Monitoring in Restricted Perimeter” accepted for funding by TiHAN - IIT Hyderabad.
[April 2022] Our paper titled "Addressing DAO Insider Attacks in IPv6-Based Low-Power and Lossy Networks" accepted for presentation in IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022) to be held at IIT Bombay.
[March 2022] Chaired a Session in 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal processing (MISP2022).
[March 2022] Delivered an expert talk on "Making Poster, Presentation in LaTeX" in STTP at NIT Kurukshetra.
[Feb 2022] Appointed as member of Advisory Board for IoT-Center of Excellence at SKIT, Jaipur
[Feb 2022] Chaired a Session in 5th International Conference on “Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering: Cognitive Computing and Intelligent IoT”.
[Dec 2021] Call for Papers under Special Session on “Computationally Intelligent Algorithms for Emerging Computing Paradigms” in 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP2022), March 12th - 14th, 2022 (to be published by Springer).
[Nov 2021] Delivered an expert talk on "Post-Quantum Cryptography" in ATAL FDP on "Emergence of Reversible and Quantum Logic Circuits" at ABESIT Ghaziabad.
[Only for German candidates] Currently accepting summer research internship applications on "Lightweight Security Solution for Industrial Internet of Things" under DAAD-RISE worldwide program [Deadline: December 15, 2021]
[Oct 2021] Served as a TPC member of MEDCOM 2021, held at Greater Noida.
[Aug 2021] Delivered an expert talk on "Research Confront and Document Preparation using LaTeX" in ATAL FDP at NIT Kurukshetra.
[June 2021] Appointed as an Editorial Board Member of Research Reports on Computer Science (RRCS).
[April 2021] Served as a TPC member of PCCDS 2021, held at NIT Kurukshetra.
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