Research interests
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, USA.
I completed my PhD from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, advised by Sandeep Kumar Shukla at IIT Kanpur and Biswabandan Panda at IIT Bombay. My research interests include cybersecurity, Android security, malware analysis and cyber forensics.
Before joining IIT Kanpur, I served as an Assistant Programmer with the Central Bureau of Investigation, India. In CBI, my work revolved around Cybercrime and Cyber Forensics along with the management of information technology related activities of the Department.
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Publications
IoT - FedMalDetect: Federated Learning Based Malware Detection for IoT Edge Devices
2025 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2025)
GLAMP: Generative Learning for Adversarially-Robust Malware Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC). [Q1]
Reinforcement-Learning Based Covert Social Influence Operations
The Web Conference (WWW-2025). [Core: A* Ranked]
SCRUBD: Smart Contracts Reentrancy and Unhandled Exceptions Vulnerability Dataset
22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-2025). [Core: A Ranked]