Award(s)/ Funding/ Grant(s)

Recipient of Dr. K W Wong Best Article Award 2016-17, Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier USA for the article “AndroSimilar: Robust Signature to Detect Variants of Android Malware,” January 2017. cash prize US $ 2000.00

Recipient of Junior Research post Ph.D visit fellowship at Laboratoire Bordeles de researsche and Informatique (LaBRI), University of Bordeaux France during May-June 2018

Recipient of Marie-Sklowodoska Curie MSCA travel grant award for MSCA workshop at University of Padova, Italy, June 6-13, 2017

Best Ph.D Thesis award entitled "Techniques for Analysis & Detection of Android Malware",  International Conference on Smart System, Innovation & Computing (SSIC-2017), sponsored by CSIR, SERB, Computer Society of India (CSI), IoN, Secure meter Ltd. and CISCO 

Visiting researcher fellowship, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France May-June 2015

Short Research Visit fellowship @Taganrog Technological Institute, Southern Federal University, February 16-21, 2014, as a member of the joint project on “Countermeasures for Protocol Compliant Attacks in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks” under the DST-RFBR Scheme

Recipient of  $10,000 fellowship under the Canadian Commonwealth scholarship program by the CBIE, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, University of Saskatchewan Canada, June 2012

Awarded Faculty Development Refresher Programs on Security & Privacy funding, INR 9.21 Lacs by All India Council for Technical Education towards organizing faculty development programs for quality improvement & cyber security capacity building, 2020-2022

Awarded faculty capacity building ICT Tools & Techniques grant, INR 1.3 Lacs by the Ministry of Human Resource New Delhi and Electronics & ICT Academy MHRD, MNIT Jaipur, January 13-17, 2020

Best Paper award “Hybrid Solution for Android Ransomware Detection”, 2nd International Conference on Smart IoT Systems: Innovations in Computing (SSIC 2019) organized by the School of Computing and IT, MUJ, Rajasthan

Co-investigator of the Proejct grant, “Synergic App Framework for Analysis and Detection of Information Leakage in Smartphone Apps”, INR 8.85 Lac, National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU), MHRD funded under TEQIP Collaborative Research Scheme, 2019-2021

Recipient of Maulana Azad Ph.D National Fellowship 2013-'14

Chief contributor for the research study entitled “Building Cyber Security human resource and workforce through education, training, recruitment, and retention in local, national, and international context” at the Institute for International Studies in Education, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Best Paper award for paper “Machine Learning Techniques using Robust Statistical Signature to detect variants of malware families” at International IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence, IIT Kanpur, July 14-16 2013

Best Poster Award for the research entitled “API Call Graph as Call grams to Detect Malicious Windows Portable Executables ”at Security and Privacy Symposium, February March 28 - April 02, 2013, jointly organized by IIT Kanpur & IIIT Delhi (Best poster among 49 submissions)

Project co-investigator & Chief contributor in development of Droidanalyst, an automated Android malware analysis engine, SAFAL: Security Analysis Framework for Android Platform, grant INR 55.50 Lacs,  by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MeitY (E- Security Division), 2015-2020

Project Mentor (Newly sanctioned 2023): Towards Forensic Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using Federated Learning and Deobfuscation Techniques, SERB-SURE, India. INR 27 Lacs, Principal Investigator, Dr. Vinesh Jain, Assistant Professor CSE Engg College Ajmer Rajasthan,