Students


Research Students

Ph.D. Students Supervised/Under Supervision

Statistics


Current PhD Students


1. Prakash Tekchandani (Joined on July 2020) [PhD Comprehensive Viva: March 8, 2023]


2. Saurabh Agrawal (Joined on December 2020)  [PhD Comprehensive Viva: March 18, 2024]


3. Prithwi Bagchi  (Joined on December 2020)  [PhD Comprehensive Viva: September 7, 2023]


4. Abhishek Kumar Pandey (Joined on July 2022)


 5. Debjani Mallick (Joined on December 2022)


 6. Debnath Ghosh (Joined on July 2023)



Graduated PhD Students


9. Sourav Saha (Completed in 2024) [Post-doctoral fellow at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [2024 QS World University Ranking: 73] ]


8.  Vangala Anusha (Completed in 2023) [Post-doctoral fellow at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0350, USA]


7.  Basudeb Bera (Completed in 2022) [Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) [2024 QS World University Ranking: 8]; previously post-doctoral fellow at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD)]


6.  Palak Bagga (Completed in 2022) [Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Previously worked as Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, Hyderabad, India]


5. Soumya Banerjee (Completed in 2021) [Post-doctoral fellow at the Old Dominion University, Suffolk, VA 23435, USA]


4. Sandip Roy (Completed in 2019) [Post-doctoral fellow at the Old Dominion University, Suffolk, VA 23435, USA; previously worked as assistant professor at Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, India]


3. Anil Kumar Sutrala (Completed in 2018) [Principal Software Engineer at the CA Technologies -- A Broadcom Company, Hyderabad, India]


2. Mohammad Wazid (Completed in 2017) [Professor with Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India; previously worked as an assistant professor with Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal,  Mangalore and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Cyber Security and Networks Lab, Innopolis University, Innopolis 420500, Russia]


1. Santanu Chatterjee (Completed in 2016) [Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Hyderabad, India]




Significant PhD Advisory Role  (Not Official Supervisor) 


1. Vanga Odelu (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2016

2. Jayakrushna Sahoo  (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2016

3. Srinivas Jangirala (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2017

4. Durbadal Chattaraj (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2020



Detailed Information


PhD Student #1. Dr. Santanu Chatterjee [M.E. (Computer Science and Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India   

Dr. Jamuna Kanta Sing

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India            



Publications:


1. Ashok Kumar Das, Pranay Sharma, Santanu Chatterjee, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A dynamic password-based user authentication scheme for hierarchical wireless sensor networks," in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 1646-1656, 2012. [This article is one of the top 25 most downloaded articles during April 2012 to December 2012.] (2014 SCI Impact Factor: 2.229)


2. Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "An Enhanced Access Control Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (Old City Publishing), Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 121-149, 2014. (2013 SCI Impact Factor: 0.478)


3. Ashok Kumar Das, Santanu Chatterjee, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A novel efficient access control scheme for large-scale distributed wireless  sensor networks," in International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (World Scientific Publishing), Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 625-653, 2013, DOI: 10.1142/S0129054113500214. (2012 SCI Impact Factor: 0.42)


4. Ashok Kumar Das, Santanu Chatterjee, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A New Biometric-Based Remote User Authentication Scheme in Hierarchical Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks," in Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (Old City Publishing), In Press, 2014. (2013 SCI Impact Factor: 0.478)


5. Santanu Chatterjee and Ashok Kumar Das. "An effective ECC-based user access control scheme with attribute-based encryption for wireless sensor networks," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 8, No. 9, pp. 1752-1771, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/sec.1140. (2014 SCI Impact Factor: 0.720)


6. Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A novel and efficient user access control scheme for wireless body area sensor networks," in Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Elsevier), Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 181-201, 2014.


7. Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "Analysis and Formal Security Verification of Access Control Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Critical Survey," in Journal of Information Assurance and Security (Dynamic Publishers Inc., USA), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 33-57, 2013.


8. Ashok Kumar Das, Santanu Chatterjee, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "Formal security analysis and verification of a password-based user  authentication scheme for hierarchical wireless sensor networks," in International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and  Communications (Inderscience), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 78-102, 2014.


9. Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A survey on user access control in wireless sensor networks with formal security verification," in International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications (Inderscience), Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 259-295, 2014.


10. Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "A secure and effective access control scheme for distributed wireless sensor  networks," in International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (Inderscience), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 40-73, 2015.


11. Ashok Kumar Das, Santanu Chatterjee, and Jamuna Kanta Sing. "Formal Security Verification of A Dynamic Password-Based User Authentication Scheme for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks," in International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2013), CCIS 377, pp. 243-254, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2013.



PhD Student #2. Dr. Mohammad Wazid [M.Tech. (Computer Network Engineering), Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

[PhD Thesis Proposal Submitted: November 2016; PhD Thesis Proposal Defense: April 4, 2017; Final Thesis Submitted: April 2017; PhD Thesis Public Presentation: June 2017; Final PhD Thesis Defense: July 6, 2017]  


Publications:


1. Mohammad Wazid and Ashok Kumar Das. "An Efficient Hybrid Anomaly Detection Scheme Using K-means Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks,"  in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 90, No. 4, pp 1971-2000, 2016, DOI:10.1007/s11277-016-3433-3. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 0.951)


2. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Design of sinkhole node detection mechanism for hierarchical wireless sensor networks," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 4596-4614, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)


3. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, Xiong Li, and Fan Wu. "Provably secure biometric-based user authentication and key agreement scheme in cloud computing," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 4103-4119, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)


4. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, Xiong Li and Fan Wu. "Design of an efficient and provably secure anonymity preserving three-factor user authentication and key agreement scheme for TMIS," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 13, pp. 1983-2001, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)


5. Ashok Kumar Das, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Saru Kumari, Vanga Odelu, Mohammad Wazid and Xiong Li. "An efficient multi-gateway based three-factor user authentication and key agreement scheme in hierarchical wireless sensor networks," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 13, pp. 2070-2092, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)


6. Saru Kumari, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, Xiong Li, Fan Wu, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "On the design of a secure user authentication and key agreement scheme for wireless sensor networks," in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), 2016, In Press. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.133)


7. Maged Hamada Ibrahim, Saru Kumari, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, and Vanga Odelu. "Secure anonymous mutual authentication for star two-tier wireless body area networks," in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier), Vol. 135, pp.37–50, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 2.503)


8. Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Mohammad Wazid, and  Saru Kumari. "Secure anonymity-preserving password-based user authentication and session key agreement protocol for telecare medicine information systems," in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier), Vol. 135, pp. 167-185, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 2.503)


9. Dheerendra Mishra, Ashok Kumar Das, Sourav Mukhopadhyay, and Mohammad Wazid. "A Secure and Robust Smartcard-Based Authentication Scheme for Session Initiation Protocol Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography,"  in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 1361-1391, 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s11277-016-3533-0. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 0.951)


10. Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, and Mauro Conti. "Provably Secure Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Smart Grid," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016,  In Press. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 6.645)


11. Mohammad Wazid, Sherali Zeadally, Ashok Kumar Das, and Vanga Odelu. "Analysis of Security Protocols for Mobile Healthcare,"  in Journal of Medical Systems (Springer), Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 1-10, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 2.456)


12. Mohammad Wazid and Ashok Kumar Das. "A Secure Group-Based Blackhole Node Detection Scheme for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks,"  in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 1165-1191, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 0.951)


13. Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, Xinyi Huang, and Mohammad Wazid. "Provably secure authenticated key agreement scheme for distributed mobile cloud computing services,"  in Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Vol. 68, pp. 74-88, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.997)


14. Fan Wu, Lili Xu, Saru Kumari, Xiong Li, Jian Shen, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Mohammad Wazid, and Ashok Kumar Das. "A novel and efficient authentication and key agreement scheme for multi-gateway wireless sensor networks in IoT deployment,"  in  Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 89, pp. 72-85, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2016.12.008.  (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.500)


15. Sravani Challa, Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Authentication Protocols for Implantable Medical Devices: Taxonomy, Analysis and Future Directions," in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Accepted, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.153)


16. Sravani Challa, Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Alavalapati Goutham Reddy, Eun-Jun Yoon, and Kee-Young Yoo. "Secure Signature-Based Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Future IoT Applications," in IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 3028-3043, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.224) [This article is one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded documents for Popular Articles (May 2017)]


17. Ashok Kumar Das, Sherali Zeadally, and Mohammad Wazid. "Lightweight Authentication Protocols for Wearable Devices," in Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.03.008. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.570)


18. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Abdulatif Al-Dhawailie Al-Ghaiheb, Neeraj Kumar, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "Secure Authentication Scheme for Medicine Anti-counterfeiting System in IoT Environment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2706752.  (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 7.596)


19. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Vanga Odelu, Alavalapati Goutham Reddy, Kisung Park, and YoungHo Park. "Design of Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," in IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 14966-14980, 2017, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2723265. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.224)


20. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Mauro Conti, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "A Novel Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Implantable Medical Devices Deployment,"  in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Formerly, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2017.2721545. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.451)


21. Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, Neeraj Kumar, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, and YoungHo Park. "Design of Secure and Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Wearable Devices Environment,"  in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Formerly, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2017.2753464. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.451)


22. Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Secure Three-factor User Authentication Scheme for Renewable Energy Based Smart Grid Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2017. 2732999. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 6.764)




PhD Student #3. Dr. Anil Kumar Sutrala [M.C.A. (Computer Science), University of Hyderabad, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

[PhD Thesis Proposal Submitted: December 7, 2017; PhD Thesis Proposal Defense: April 30, 2018; Final Thesis Submitted: May 7, 2018; PhD Thesis Public Presentation: July 9, 2018; Final PhD Thesis Defense: July 14, 2018]   

Publications:

1. Ashok Kumar Das, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Saru Kumari, Vanga Odelu, Mohammad Wazid and Xiong Li. "An efficient multi-gateway based three-factor user authentication and key agreement scheme in hierarchical wireless sensor networks," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 13, pp. 2070-2092, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)

2. Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Mohammad Wazid, and  Saru Kumari. "Secure anonymity-preserving password-based user authentication and session key agreement protocol for telecare medicine information systems," in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier), Vol. 135, pp. 167-185, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 2.503)

3. Ashok Kumar Das, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Vanga Odelu and Adrijit Goswami. "A Secure Smartcard-based Anonymous User Authentication Scheme for Healthcare Applications using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks,"  in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 1899-1933, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 0.951)

4. Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Alavalapti Goutham Reddy, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "On the Design of Secure User Authenticated Key Management Scheme for Multi-Gateway Based Wireless Sensor Networks using ECC"  in International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), Vol. 31, No. 8, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/dac.3514. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.066)


PhD Student #4. Dr. Sandip Roy [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), Kolkata, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India   

Dr. Santanu Chatterjee

Defence Research and Development Organization, Hyderabad, India


Dr. Samiran Chattopadhyay

Department of Information Technology

Jadavpur University, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India          

[PhD Thesis Pre-submission Seminar: 30 October 2018; PhD Thesis Submission: 12 November 2018; Final PhD Thesis Defense: July 2, 2019]


Publications:

1. Santanu Chatterjee, Sandip Roy, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Neeraj Kumar, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "Secure Biometric-Based Authentication Scheme using Chebyshev Chaotic Map for Multi-Server Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 824-839, 2018. (2017 SCI Impact Factor: 4.410)


2. Santanu Chatterjee, Sandip Roy, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Neeraj Kumar, Alavalapati Goutham Reddy, Kisung Park, and YoungHo Park. "On the Design of Fine Grained Access Control with User Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems," in IEEE Access, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 7012-7030, 2017,  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2694044. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 4.098) 


3. Sandip Roy, Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Saru Kumari, and Minho Jo. "Chaotic Map-based Anonymous User Authentication Scheme with User Biometrics and Fuzzy Extractor for Crowdsourcing Internet of Things,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 2884 - 2895, 2018. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 9.515)


4. Sandip Roy, Santanu Chatterjee, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Neeraj Kumar, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "On the Design of Provably Secure Lightweight Remote User Authentication Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing Services," in IEEE Access, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 25808-25825, 2017,  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2764913. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 4.098) 


5. Sandip Roy, Ashok Kumar Das, Santanu Chatterjee, Neeraj Kumar, Samiran Chattopadhyay, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Provably Secure Fine-Grained Data Access Control over Multiple Cloud Servers in Mobile Cloud Computing Based Healthcare Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 457-468,  2019,  DOI: 10.1109/TII.2018.2824815. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 7.377)


PhD Student #5. Dr. Soumya Banerjee [M.E. (Software Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India   

Dr. Vanga Odelu

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India


Dr. Samiran Chattopadhyay

Department of Information Technology

Jadavpur University, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India          

 [PhD Thesis Pre-submission Seminar: 11 September 2020; PhD Thesis Submission: 2 Nov 2020; Final PhD Thesis Defense: November 17, 2021]


Publications:

1. Vanga Odelu, Soumya Banerjee, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Saru Kumari, Xiong Li, and Adrijit Goswami. "A Secure Anonymity Preserving Authentication Scheme for Roaming Service in Global Mobility Networks,"  in Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 2351-2387, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s11277-017-4302-4.. (2017 SCI Impact Factor: 1.200)


2. Soumya Banerjee, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Neeraj Kumar, YoungHo Park, and Sudeep Tanwar. "Design of an Anonymity-Preserving Group Formation Based Authentication Protocol in Global Mobility Networks," in IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.  20673-20693, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2827027. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 4.098)


3. Soumya Banerjee, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Jangirala Srinivas, Neeraj Kumar, Samiran Chattopadhyay, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. "A Provably-Secure and Lightweight Anonymous User Authenticated Session Key Exchange Scheme for Internet of Things Deployment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 8739-8752, October 2019, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2923373.  (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 9.515)


4. Soumya Banerjee, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park. "Physically Secure Lightweight Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for Internet of Things using Physically Unclonable Functions," in IEEE Access, 2019,  Vol. 7, pp. 85627-85644, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2926578. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 4.098) 


5. Soumya Banerjee, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, and YoungHo Park. "An Efficient, Anonymous and Robust Authentication Scheme for Smart Home Environments,"  in  Sensors,  Vol. 20, No. 4, Article No. 1215, pp. 1-19, 2020, DOI: 10.3390/s20041215.  (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 3.031)


6. Soumya Banerjee, Sandip Roy, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park. "Multi-authority CP-ABE-based anonymous user access control scheme with constant-size key and ciphertext for IoT deployment," in Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier),  2020. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 1.537)


7. Soumya Banerjee, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues.  "Private blockchain-envisioned multi-authority CP-ABE-based user access control scheme in IIoT,"  in Computer Communications (Elsevier), 2021.  (2019 SCI Impact Factor: 2.816)




PhD Student #6. Dr. Palak Bagga [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

[PhD Thesis Proposal Submitted: May 31, 2021; PhD Thesis Proposal Defense: October 20, 2021; Final PhD Thesis Submitted: November 12, 2021; Final PhD Thesis Defense: April 8, 2022]


Publications:


1. Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, and YoungHo Park. "On the Design of Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol in Internet of Vehicles-Enabled Intelligent Transportation System," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 1736-1751, February 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3050614. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.978)


2. Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, Anil Kumar Sutrala, and Pandi Vijayakumar. "Blockchain-based batch authentication protocol for Internet of Vehicles,"  in Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier), Vol. 113, pp. 1-23, Article No. 101877, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2020.101877. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.777)


3. Anil Kumar Sutrala, Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Pascal Lorenz. "On the Design of Conditional Privacy Preserving Batch Verification-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Vehicles Deployment," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 5535-5548, May 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2020.2981934. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.978)


4. Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park. "Authentication Protocols in Internet of Vehicles: Taxonomy, Analysis, and Challenges," in IEEE Access,  Vol. 8, pp. 54314-54344, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981397. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.367)


5. Mohammad Wazid, Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park.  "AKM-IoV: Authenticated Key Management Protocol in Fog Computing-Based Internet of Vehicles Deployment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 8804-8817, October 2019, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2923611. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


6. Palak Bagga and Ashok Kumar Das. "Blockchain for Smart Transport Applications," in Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems, editors Y. Maleh, L. Tawalbeh, S. Motahhir, and A. S. Hafid, Springer "Internet of Things" Series, pages 125-154, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93646-4_6.


7. Palak Bagga, Ashok Kumar Das, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Bilinear pairing-based access control and key agreement scheme for smart transportation," in Cyber Security and Applications (Elsevier), 2022.




PhD Student #7. Dr. Basudeb Bera [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Data Processing), IIT Kharagpur, India; M.Sc. (Maths and Computing), IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  


Publications:


1. Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Pascal Lorenz, and Mamoun Alazab. "Blockchain-Envisioned Secure Data Delivery and Collection Scheme for 5G-Based IoT-Enabled Internet of Drones Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  Vol. 69, No. 8, pp. 9097-9111, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2020.3000576. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 5.339)


2. Shobhan Mandal, Basudeb Bera, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, and Youngho Park.  "Certificateless Signcryption-Based Three-Factor User Access Control Scheme for IoT Environment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 3184-3197, April 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2966242.  (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 9.515)


3. Basudeb Bera, Durbadal Chattaraj, and Ashok Kumar Das.  "Designing secure blockchain-based access control scheme in IoT-enabled Internet of Drones deployment,"  in Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 153, pp. 229-249, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2020.02.011.  (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 2.766)


4. Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Walter Balzano, and Carlo Maria Medaglia.  "On the design of biometric-based user authentication protocol in smart city environment," in Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier),  Vol. 138, pp. 439-446, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2020.08.017. (2019 SCI Impact Factor: 3.255) 


5. Mohammad Wazid, Basudeb Bera, Ankush Mitra, Ashok Kumar Das, and Rashid Ali. "Private Blockchain-Envisioned Security Framework for AI-Enabled IoT-Based Drone-Aided Healthcare Services," in 26th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2020) Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond (DroneCom 2020), London, United Kingdom, 21-25 September, 2020.


6. Soumya Banerjee, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues.  "Private blockchain-envisioned multi-authority CP-ABE-based user access control scheme in IIoT,"  in Computer Communications (Elsevier), 2021.  (2019 SCI Impact Factor: 2.816)


7. Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Pandi Vijayakumar, Kuei-Fang Hsiao, and YoungHo Park. "AI-Enabled Blockchain-Based Access Control for Malicious Attacks Detection and Mitigation in IoE," in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 82-92, Sept. 2021, DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2020.3040541. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.789) [This article listed as Theme article: AI-Driven Security Solutions for the Internet of Everything]


8. Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sahil Garg, Md. Jalil Piran, and M. Shamim Hossain. "Access Control Protocol for Battlefield Surveillance in Drone-Assisted IoT Environment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 2708-2721, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3049003. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


9. Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, and Anil Kumar Sutrala.  "Private blockchain-based access control mechanism for unauthorized UAV detection and mitigation in Internet of Drones environment,"  in Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 166, No. 15, pp. 91-109, 2021.  (2019 SCI Impact Factor: 2.816)


10. Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos.  "Designing Blockchain-Based Access Control Protocol in IoT-Enabled Smart-Grid System,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 5744-5761, April 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3030308. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


11. Ankush Mitra, Basudeb Bera, and Ashok Kumar Das. "Design and Testbed Experiments of Public Blockchain-Based Security Framework for IoT-Enabled Drone-Assisted Wildlife Monitoring," in  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops: DroneCom 2021: Drone-Assisted Smart Backhaul Solutions for 5G and Beyond, 2021.


12. Basudeb Bera, Ankush Mitra, Ashok Kumar Das, Deepak Puthal, and YoungHo Park. "Private Blockchain-Based AI-Envisioned Home Monitoring Framework in IoMT-Enabled COVID-19 Environment," in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2021.3137104. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.789) [This article listed as Feature Article: Blockchain Technology to Combat COVID-19]


13. Mohammad Wazid, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sahil Garg, Dusit Niyato, and M. Shamim Hossain. "Secure Communication Framework for Blockchain-Based Internet of Drones-Enabled Aerial Computing Deployment," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 120-126, September 2021,DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.1001.2100047.


14. Durbadal Chattaraj, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sourav Saha, Pascal Lorenz, and YoungHo Park. "Block-CLAP: Blockchain-assisted Certificateless Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Vehicles in Smart Transportation," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 8, pp. 8092-8107, Aug. 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3091163. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.978)


15. Basudeb Bera, Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Securing Internet of Drones Network using AI-envisioned Smart-contract Based Blockchain," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 68-73, December 2021, DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.001.2100044.


16. Durbadal Chattaraj, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park. "Designing Fine-grained Access Control for Software Defined Networks using Private Blockchain," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1542-1559, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3088115. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


17. Ashok Kumar Das, Basudeb Bera, and Debasis Giri. "AI and Blockchain-Based Cloud-Assisted Secure Vaccine Distribution and Tracking in IoMT-Enabled COVID-19 Environment," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 26-32, June 2021, DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.0001.2100016. [This article was included under the Popular Documents - November 2021]


18. Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sahil Garg, Md. Jalil Piran, and M. Shamim Hossain. "Access Control Protocol for Battlefield Surveillance in Drone-Assisted IoT Environment," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 2708-2721, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3049003. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)




PhD Student #8. Dr. Vangala Anusha [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

Publications:


1. Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Ankush Mitra, Sajal K. Das, and YoungHo Park. "Blockchain-Enabled Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Mobile Vehicles-Assisted Precision Agricultural IoT Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3231121. (2021 SCI Impact Factor: 7.231)


2. Anusha Vangala, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, and Minho Jo. "Smart Contract-Based Blockchain-Envisioned Authentication Scheme for Smart Farming,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 8, No. 13, pp. 10792-10806, July 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3050676. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


3. Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, and Jong-Hyouk Lee. "Provably-secure signature-based anonymous user authentication protocol in an IoT-enabled intelligent precision agricultural environment,"  in  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley),  2021; e6187. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.6187. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 1.536)


4. Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and Mamoun Alazab. "Smart Secure Sensing for IoT-Based Agriculture: Blockchain Perspective," in IEEE Sensors Journal,  Vol. 21, No. 16, pp. 17591-17607, August 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3009382. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.301)


5. Anusha Vangala, Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and YoungHo Park. "Blockchain-Enabled Certificate-Based Authentication for Vehicle Accident Detection and Notification in Intelligent Transportation Systems," in IEEE Sensors Journal,   Vol. 21, No. 14, pp. 15824-15838, July 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3009382. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.301)


6. Anusha Vangala and Ashok Kumar Das. "Blockchain-based Fog Computing," in Security Issues in Fog Computing from 5G to 6G - Architectures, Applications and Solutions, editors C. Bhatt, Y. Wu, S. Harous, and M. Villari, 2021, Springer.


7. Basudeb Bera, Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Pascal Lorenz, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Private blockchain-envisioned drones-assisted authentication scheme in IoT-enabled agricultural environment," in Computer Standards & Interfaces (Elsevier), Vol. 80, Article No. 103567, pp. 1-18, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2021.103567. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 2.487)


8. Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Vinay Chamola, Valery Korotaev, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Security in IoT-enabled Smart Agriculture: Architecture, Security Solutions and Challenges," in Cluster Computing (Springer), 2022, DOI: 10.1007/s10586-022-03566-7. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 1.809)


9. Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, YoungHo Park, and Sajjad Shaukat Jamal. "Blockchain-based Robust Data Security Scheme in IoT-enabled Smart Home Envisioned Ubiquitous Computing Environment," in CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 3549-3570, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025660. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.772)


10. Anusha Vangala, Sandip Roy, and Ashok Kumar Das. "Blockchain-Based Lightweight Authentication Protocol for IoT-Enabled Smart Agriculture," in IEEE International Conference on Cyber-physical Social Intelligence (ICCSI 2022), Nanjing, China, 21-24 October, 2022.


11.  Anusha Vangala and Ashok Kumar Das. "Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based Authentication in Smart Energy Systems," in 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2022) Workshop: Fourth ACM International Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2022), November 6-9, 2022, Boston, MA, USA.



PhD Student #9. Dr. Sourav Saha [M.S. by Research (Computer Science and Engineering), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sri City, India; Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  


Publications:


1. Sourav Saha, Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues. "On the Design of Blockchain-Based Access Control Protocol for IoT-Enabled Healthcare Applications," in 54th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020), Dublin, Ireland, 7-11 June 2020.


2. Sourav Saha, Durbadal Chattaraj, Basudeb Bera, and Ashok Kumar Das. "Consortium blockchain-enabled access control mechanism in edge computing based generic IoT environment,"  in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley), Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 1-34, Article No. e3995, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/ETT.3995.  (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 2.638)


3. Durbadal Chattaraj, Sourav Saha, Basudeb Bera, and Ashok Kumar Das. "On the Design of Blockchain-Based Access Control Scheme for Software Defined Networks," in  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops: BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020, pp. 237-242, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162669.


4. Ashok Kumar Das, Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Neeraj Kumar, Ilsun You, and Han-Chieh Chao. "AI-Envisioned Blockchain-Enabled Signature-Based Key Management Scheme for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems,"  in  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 6374-6388, May  2021, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3109314. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471) 


5. Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos.  "Designing Blockchain-Based Access Control Protocol in IoT-Enabled Smart-Grid System,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 5744-5761, April 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3030308.  (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 9.471)


6. Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, and Debasis Giri. "Private Blockchain Enabled Security Framework for IoT-Based Healthcare System," in 9th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2023), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, January 6-8, 2023, Springer.


7.  Anusha Vangala, Basudeb Bera, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and YoungHo Park. "Blockchain-Enabled Certificate-Based Authentication for Vehicle Accident Detection and Notification in Intelligent Transportation Systems," in IEEE Sensors Journal,  Vol. 21, No. 14, pp. 15824-15838, July 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3009382. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 3.301)


8. Anil Kumar Sutrala, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, Mamoun Alazab, and YoungHo Park. "Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme with User Anonymity and Untraceability for 5G-Enabled Softwarized Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 2316-2330, March 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3056704. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 6.492)


9. Durbadal Chattaraj, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sourav Saha, Pascal Lorenz, and YoungHo Park. "Block-CLAP: Blockchain-assisted Certificateless Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Vehicles in Smart Transportation," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 8, pp. 8092-8107, Aug. 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3091163. (2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.978)


10. Dharminder Dharminder, Ashok Kumar Das,  Sourav Saha, Basudeb Bera, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "Post-Quantum Secure Identity-Based Encryption Scheme using Random Integer Lattices for IoT-enabled AI Applications,"  in  Security and Communication Networks (Wiley-Hindawi), Vol. 2022, Article ID: 5498058, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5498058. (2021 SCI Impact Factor:  1.968) 


11. Durbadal Chattaraj, Sourav Saha, Basudeb Bera, and Ashok Kumar Das. "On the Design of Blockchain-Based Access Control Scheme for Software Defined Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops: BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020, pp. 237-242, DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162669.


12. Sourav Saha, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, YoungHo Park, Sahil Garg, and Mubarak Alrashoud. "Smart Contract-Based Access Control Scheme for Blockchain Assisted 6G-Enabled IoT-Based Big Data Driven Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2024.3391667. (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 4.3) 




PhD Student #10. Prakash Tekchandani [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Gwalior, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

Prof. Neeraj Kumar 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Thapar University, Patiala, India


Publications:


1. Prakash Tekchandani, Indranil Pradhan, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, and Youngho Park. "Blockchain-Enabled Secure Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things Smart Applications," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3227162. (2021 SCI Impact Factor: 10.238)


2. Prakash Tekchandani, Abhishek Bisht, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Marimuthu Karuppiah, Pandi Vijayakumar, and  Youngho Park. "Blockchain-Enabled Secure Collaborative Model Learning using Differential Privacy for IoT-Based Big Data Analytics," in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2024.3394700. (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 7.2)




PhD Student #11. Saurabh Agrawal [M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Gwalior, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

Prof. Neeraj Kumar 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Thapar University, Patiala, India


Publications:


1. Anusha Vangala, Saurabh Agrawal, Ashok Kumar Das, Shantanu Pal, Neeraj Kumar, Pascal Lorenz, and Youngho Park. "Big Data-Enabled Authentication Framework for Offshore Maritime Communication Using Drones," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3367945. (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 6.8)


2. Saurabh Agrawal, Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Sachin Shetty, and Sajal K. Das. "Secure Location-Based Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Maritime Communication," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2024), Denver, CO, USA, 9-13 June, 2024, pp. 1-6. [Rank: B]



PhD Student #12. Prithwi Bagchi [M.Sc. in Mathematics, Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  


Publications:


1. Prithwi Bagchi, Raj Maheshwari, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Youngho Park, Pascal Lorenz, and David K. Y. Yau. "Public Blockchain-Envisioned Security Scheme using Post Quantum Lattice-Based Aggregate Signature for Internet of Drones Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3260579. (2021 SCI Impact Factor: 6.239)


2. Prithwi Bagchi, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, Pandi Vijayakumar, and Marimuthu Karuppiah. "Post Quantum Lattice-Based Secure Framework using Aggregate Signature for Ambient Intelligence Assisted Blockchain-Based IoT Applications," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 52-58, March 2023, DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.001.2100215.


3.  Prithwi Bagchi, Basudeb Bera, Raj Maheshwari, Ashok Kumar Das, David K. Y. Yau, and Biplab Sikdar. "An Efficient and Secure Post-Quantum Multi-Authority Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Method Using Lattice," in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops: Second International Workshop on Network Science for Quantum Communication Networks (NetSciQCom 2023), May 17-20, 2023, New York, USA, pp. 1-6. [Rank: A*]




PhD Student #13. Abhishek Kumar Pandey [M.Sc. in Cyber Security (M.C.S.) from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  


Publications:


1. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Ashok Kumar Das, Rajeev Kumar, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues. "Secure Cyber Engineering for IoT-Enabled Smart Healthcare System," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 2023.



PhD Student #14. Debnath Ghosh


Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  




Significant PhD Advisory Role (Not Official Supervisor) 


1. Vanga Odelu (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2016


2. Jayakrushna Sahoo  (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2016


3. Srinivas Jangirala (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2017


4. Durbadal Chattaraj (Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur), 2020





MS Students Under Supervision/Supervised


MS Student #1. C. Sravani [M.Sc. (Tech) in Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India; M.S. by Research (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

[Thesis submission: May 2017; MS by Research Thesis - Public Presentation: 13 July 2017; MS Thesis Defense: 14 July 2017] 

Currently, working as Research Engineer at Siemens Technology, Bangalore, India


Publications:


1. Sravani Challa, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, Vanga Odelu, Fan Wu, and Xiong Li. "Provably secure three-factor authentication and key agreement scheme for session initiation protocol," in Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 9, No. 18, pp. 5412-5431, 2016. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.067)


2. Sravani Challa, Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Authentication Protocols for Implantable Medical Devices: Taxonomy, Analysis and Future Directions," in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 57-65, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2017.2720193. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.153)


3. Sravani Challa, Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Alavalapati Goutham Reddy, Eun-Jun Yoon, and Kee-Young Yoo. "Secure Signature-Based Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Future IoT Applications," in IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 3028-3043, 2017. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.224)


4. Sravani Challa, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Neeraj Kumar, Saru Kumari, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "An efficient ECC-based provably secure three-factor user authentication and key agreement protocol for wireless healthcare sensor networks," in Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.08.003. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.570)


5. Sravani Challa, Ashok Kumar Das, Prosanta Gope, Neeraj Kumar, Fan Wu, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme in Cloud-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems,"  in Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), 2018, In Press, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.04.019. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 3.997)



MS Student #2. Abhishek Bisht [B. Tech. in Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, 2021; M.S. by Research (Computer Science and Engineering),  International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), India]

           Dr. Ashok Kumar Das

           Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research

                International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  

Publications:


1. Abhishek Bisht, Ashok Kumar Das, Dusit Niyato, and YoungHo Park. "Efficient Personal-Health-Records Sharing in Internet of Medical Things using Searchable Symmetric Encryption, Blockchain and IPFS," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Vol. 4, pp. 2225-2244, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3316922. (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 7.9)


2. Abhishek Bisht, Ashok Kumar Das, and Debasis Giri. "Personal Health Record Storage and Sharing using Searchable Encryption and Blockchain: A Comprehensive Survey," in Security and Privacy (Wiley), 2023, DOI: 10.1002/spy2.351. (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 1.9)


Supervised

M.Tech. Students Supervised [Incomplete List...]


1. Indranil Pradhan (IIIT Hyderabad, 2020), CSIS

Project Title: Big Data Security and Analysis using Blockchain and AI in IoT


2. Shobhan Mandal (IIIT Hyderabad, 2018), CSIS

Project Title: Design and Analysis of Linear Polynomial-based Key Management in Hierarchical Access Control and Application in Wireless Sensor Network


3. Vamsi S (IIIT Hyderabad, 2015), CSIS

Project Title: Detection of wormhole attack in wireless sensor networks


4. N. H. S.  Harsha Varbhan (IIIT Hyderabad, 2015), CSIS

Project Title: Detecting & preventing black hole attack in MANET


5. Geetika Chauhan (IIIT Hyderabad, 2015), CSIS

Project Title: Biometric-based authentication scheme using smart cards


6. Sayanti Bandyopadhyay (IIIT Hyderabad, 2015), CSIS

Project Title: Password-based authentication scheme using smart cards


7. Trilok Sharma (IIIT Hyderabad, 2014), CSIS

Project Title: Biometric Based Novel and Dynamic Remote User Access control scheme for WBAN


8. Ankit Choudhary (IIIT Hyderabad, 2014), CSIS

Project Title: Biometric Based Novel and Dynamic Remote User Access control scheme for WBAN


9. Neeraj Chiktey (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: Hierarchical access control for broadcast network using symmetric key


10. Vislesh Kodurupaka (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: Privacy Preserving RFID Authentication


11. Trilok Sharma (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: Hierarchical access control for broadcast network using symmetric key


12. Abhinay Sareddy (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: Hierarchical access control for broadcast network using symmetric key


13. Nisar Shaik (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: Privacy Preserving RFID Authentication


14. Ankit Choudhary (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: PKI++ with Emergency Message Verification


15. Parul Lakkad (IIIT Hyderabad, 2013), CSIS

Project Title: PKI++ with Emergency Message Verification


16.  Abhishek Abraham Varghese (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

 Project Title: Dynamic Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks


17.  Sindhusha Yalamati (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

 Project Title: Dynamic Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks


18. Pallavi Matani (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Security in Cloud Computing 


19. Vagesha Mathapathi (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSE

 Project Title: Secure Cloud Storage Scheme using ECC-based Key Management in a User Hierarchy


20.  Bhavani Shankar Y (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSE

Project Title: Secure Cloud Storage Scheme using ECC-based Key Management in a User Hierarchy


21.  Hariprasad (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Efficient Key Management Scheme based on One-way Hash Function for Hierarchical Access Control 


22.  Rishabh Shukla (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Efficient Key Management Scheme based on One-way Hash Function for Hierarchical Access Control 


23.  Tejas Joshi (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: idMAS-SQL: Intrusion Detection based on MAS to Detect and Block SQL Injection through Data Mining 


24.  Rohit Dahauliya (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: idMAS-SQL: Intrusion Detection based on MAS to Detect and Block SQL Injection through Data Mining 


25. Darshan Runwal (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Study of Data Mining Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic in Anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems 


26. Himalaya Jain (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSE

Project Title: Study of User Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks


27. Syamala Chandrasekhar (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Study of User Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

 

28. S. K. Manoj  (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSIS

Project Title: Study of User Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks


29. P. Sravan Kumar Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad, 2011), CSE

Project Title: Performance Analysis of Authentication protocols in VANETs


30. Brijesh Pandey (IIIT Hyderabad, 2011), CSE

Project Title: Performance Analysis of Authentication protocols in VANETs


31. Shardool Desai  (IIIT Hyderabad, 2011 ), CSE

 Project Title: Performance Analysis of Authentication protocols in VANETs


32. M. Soujanya (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2010), CSE

Project Title: Personalized IVR system in Contact Center


33. Sarun Kumar (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2010), CSE

Project Title: Personalized IVR system in Contact Center


34. Binakay Kar (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2010), CSE

Project Title:  Cryptanalysis and Design of Proxy Signature Schemes


35. Pritam Prava Sahoo (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2010), CSE

Project Title:  Cryptanalysis and Design of Proxy Signature Schemes


36. Chandrashekar Pattanayak (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2010), CSE

Project Title:  Security in E-Governance Project


37. Nayan Ranjan Paul (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2009), CSE

Project Title:  Analysis and Improvement of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

(Selected as best project work among all M.Tech. students at IIIT Bhubaneswar, July 2009)

 

38. Laxminath Tripathy (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2009), CSE

Project Title: Analysis and Improvement of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

 

39. Pankajini Panda (IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2009), CSE

Project Title:  An Analytic Study of Key Distribution Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

 

B.Tech. Students Supervised [Incomplete List...]

1. Ashish Massand (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSE (B.Tech. Project)

Project Title: Cryptanalysis, Design and Implementation of Proxy Signature Schemes

2. Sagar Patil (IIIT Hyderabad, 2012), CSE (B.Tech. Project)

Project Title: Cryptanalysis, Design and Implementation of Proxy Signature Schemes

3. A. Ramya Keerthana (IIIT Hyderabad, 2016-17), CSE (B.Tech. (Hons.) Project)

Project Title: Formal Security Verification of Authenticated Key Agreement Schemes for Smart Grid

4. Aman Bansal (IIIT Hyderabad, 2019), CSE (B.Tech. Hons. Project)

Project Title: Intrusion Detection in IoT

5. Animi Reddy Yannam (IIIT Hyderabad, 2019), CSE (B.Tech. Hons. Project)

Project Title: Device Authentication and Key Agreement in IoT

6. Aman Bansal (IIIT Hyderabad, 2018-19), CSE (B.Tech. Hons. Project)

Project Title: Device Authentication in IoT

7. Animi Reddy Yannam (IIIT Hyderabad, 2018-19), CSE (B.Tech. Hons. Project)

Project Title: Key Agreement and Key Protection for Mobile Device User Authentication

8. Vallabhaneni Jaswanth (IIIT Hyderabad, 2018), CSE (B.Tech. Project)

Project Title: Intelligent Resource Allocation for Ubiquitous Vehicular Communication