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In the realm of academia, Shiva Agarwal currently serves as an Assistant Professor within the Computer Science and Engineering department at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan. Simultaneously, he is engaged in pursuing his doctoral studies at the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, IIT Kharagpur, under the mentorship of Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Ayantika Chatterjee. The focus of his Ph.D. research lies in Secure Machine Learning, where a pivotal aspect involves the implementation of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) on embedded devices, coupled with the development of static and dynamic frameworks for ransomware detection.

Shiva Agarwal holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Nit Silchar, where his academic journey culminated in a noteworthy thesis supervised by Dr. Naresh Babu Muppalaneni. The subject of his M.Tech research delved into Stock Market Price Prediction and Portfolio Optimization, employing mean-variance optimization and efficient frontier strategies.

Throughout his M.Tech tenure, Shiva demonstrated scholarly prowess by contributing to the academic discourse with the publication of a journal article and a conference paper. His commitment to academic excellence is further underscored by his commendable performance in the Gate Exam, having qualified on two occasions with a remarkable percentile achievement of 95%.