Nanda Rani is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and working with Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla. Her research focuses on Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Attribution. She also worked with Prof. Davide Balzarotti during her visit to the Digital Security Department at Eurecom Institute in Sophia Antipolis, France, as part of her PhD research. 

Before joining IIT Kanpur, she completed her Master’s in Cybersecurity (Computer Science & Engineering) from Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Sunita Vikrant Dhavale. Additionally, she gained industry experience as a Senior Software Engineer at Persistent Systems (Pune) and worked as a research intern at National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC, New Delhi). 

📖 Cyber Threat Attribution

📖 Sophisticated threat detection

📖 Threat intelligence 

📖 Natural Language Processing for cybersecurity

📖 Intrusion Detection system

📖 Cyber-Physical System

📖 Anomaly Detection

📢 [13 Jan 2025] Recent paper titled "MaLAware: Automating the Comprehension of Malicious Software Behaviours using Large Language Models (LLMs)" is accepted at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025) (Core A).

📢 [21 Dec 2024]  The paper titled "Automated Classification of Cybercrime Complaints using Transformer-based Language Models for Hinglish Texts" is up on Arxiv. [Paper]

📢 [20 Oct 2024] Recent paper titled "MAD: A Meta-Learning Approach to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats using Provenance Data in Industrial IoT" is accepted at Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence (WAITI) 2024 co-located with the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC24).

📢 [26 Sept 2024] Recent paper titled "Chasing the Shadows: TTPs in Action to Attribute Advanced Persistent Threats" is up on Arxiv. [Paper]

📢 [19 Sept 2024] Recent survey titled "A Comprehensive Survey of Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution: Taxonomy, Methods, Challenges and Open Research Problems" is up on Arxiv. [Paper]