Dr Karm Veer Arya
Education:
 M. E. (Integrated) in Electrical Engineering from
Indian Institute of Science (I. I. Sc.), Bangalore, India
 Ph. D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology (I.I.T. Kanpur), Kanpur, India.
Teaching Experience:
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Presently at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management (IIITM),
Gwalior from Sept. 2008 till date.
Institute of Engineering & Technology, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly Aug. 1996 –
Aug. 2008.
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad Dec. 1992 – July 1996.
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani Sept. 1991- Nov. 1992.
Academic Achievements:
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Guided 40 M Tech. dissertations and 02 Ph. D. thesis, and presently guiding 06 Ph. D
scholars and 16 M. Tech. dissertations.
Published more than 100 journal and conference papers in the area of fault tolerance
computing, image processing, biometrics, wireless ad hoc networks and information
security.
Delivered number of invited talks and seminar presentations in India, Thailand,
Singapore, Sri Lanka and South Korea.
Reviewer of following journals
o IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part-B;
o IET Image Processing
o Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters, Applied Softcomputing, Neurocomputing;
o International Journal of Biometrics; and
o ACTA Press Journal of Computers and Applications
Prof. Bezawada Bruhadeshwar
Bruhadeshwar has received his PhD in the Dept. of Computer
Science and Engineering at Michigan State University in 2005.
His thesis topic was "Adaptive Key Management for Secure
Group Communication".
He has been working as an Assistant Professor at the
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
since 2005.
He has been on the technical program committee of the International Conference on
Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2010, 2011) and the International
Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2006 to 2012).
He is reviewer for several journals including IEEE Transactions series and Elsevier journals in
the areas of distributed systems and security. He has been mentor for the "Active Honeypot
Project" administered by CDAC-Mohali since 2010.
Research Interests:
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Security and dependability of network protocols
Privacy Preserving Algorithms and Protocols
Authentication Techniques
Malware Analysis
P.R.Lakshmi Eswari
Mrs P.R.Lakshmi Eswari is currently working as Joint Director
(e-Security) at C-DAC Hyderabad.
She did her Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Computer Science
and Engineering. She has 15 years of experience in Research and
teaching at C-DAC as well as NIT Warangal.
Research Interests:
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End Point Security
Malware Detection & Prevention
Network Security
Operating Systems, Linux
Data Structures, Algorithms
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Prof. Manoj Gaur
I did my Bachelors from Jodhpur, Masters from IISc
Bangalore and PhD from University of Southampton UK.
My current research interests are in Malware Analysis,
Vulnerability and Exploits Assessment, Network and Attack
Simulation/Emulation, Simulation of Networks on Chip
(NoC). Till date, I have produced five PhDs and three are
under submission. Currently, four PhD scholars are working
in the domain of Information and network Security.
Within our group we have published large number of peer
reviewed international conferences and journals and contributed chapters in Information
and Network Security. We have completed five projects from various funding agencies and
currently have three projects from International collaborators/agencies.
Research interests:
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Malware Analysis
Vulnerability and Exploits Assessment
Network and Attack Simulation/Emulation
Simulation of Networks on Chip (NoC)
Prof. Chittaranjan Hota
Chittaranjan Hota did his PhD in Computer Science and
Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science,
Pilani.
He has been teaching and researching in Computer Science
and Engineering area since past twenty-three years. He was
the founding Head and currently he is an Associate Professor
and Faculty In-charge of Information Processing Center (a.k.a
Unit Chief) at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.
He has been a visiting researcher and visiting professor at several universities abroad over
past few years. He has current research funding from organizations like UGC, DIT, Intel, and
TCS. He has guided PhD students and currently guiding PhD students in the area of P2P
Overlays, Information Security, Wireless Networks, and Distributed Computing.
He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has also edited
one LNCS volume. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IE, and ISTE.
Research Interests:
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Peer-to-Peer Overlay Security
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Access control in cloud
Secure MANET routing
Anand Kashyap
Anand Kashyap is a Researcher in the Core Research group of
Symantec Research Labs in Pune, India. His current research is in
the area of mobile security. Earlier, he worked extensively in the
area of wireless networking, and built models for estimating
interference in WiFi networks in his doctoral thesis.
Anand received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
from IIT Kanpur in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Stony Brook University in 2008. He has done
research internships at NEC Labs and Microsoft Research, and
has worked as an R&D engineer at Tejas Networks.
Research Interests:
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Mobile Security
Mobile Computing
Computer Networking
Data Mining
Dr Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) is an Assistant Professor at
the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
(IIIT), Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. from the School of
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
His research interests include developing technological
and inter-disciplinary solutions to detect and prevent
computer crime, information security, and human computerinteraction.
PK has won a research grant from Department of IT.
Of late, PK has been working on Open Source Intelligence and analyzing online usergenerated content to detect cyber crime. He is serving as a PC member in WWW 2013,
AsiaCCS 2013 and he is also serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Information
Security and ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). PK’s Ph.D. thesis work on
anti-phishing research at Carnegie Mellon University has contributed in creating a successful
start-up company, Wombat Security Technologies. PK co-ordinates PreCog, a research group
at IIIT-Delhi.
Research Interests:
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Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM)
Cyber Crime
Privacy
Usable Security
Dr Srinivas Padamanabhi
Dr Srinivas Padmanabhuni is Associate Vice President at
Infosys Labs, the research and innovation arm of Infosys
Limited. He supervises the software engineering and security
research as part of the labs.
He is a passionate researcher with interests in enterprise
architecture, software engineering and cloud security. He has
four granted patents and several patents under process. He
has published a book on distributed system security by wiley,
and written several refereed conference and journal articles.
He is the vice president of acm india.
He has a Phd in artificial intelligence from Univeristy of Alberta, Canada, and M Tech and B
tech in CS from IIT Mumbai and Kanpur respectively.
Research Interests:
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Enterprise architecture
Software engineering
Cloud security
Prof Alwyn Roshan Pais
Alwyn Roshan Pais received his B.Tech degree in Computer
Engineering from Mangalore University, Karnataka and M. Tech
Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay. He
is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at NITK, Surathkal.
He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at NITK-Surathkal , Mangalore, India. His research interests include
Information Security, Network Security, Cryptography and Computer Vision.
He has 8 International Journal Publications (Peer reviewed) and around 40 International
Conference Publications to his credit. He has also edited one LNCS volume. He is the Chief
investigator of ISEA Project at NITK, Surathkal.
Research Interests:
 SQL Injection Vulneration Detection in Web Applications
 Split Personality Malware
 DDoS attack detection and mitigation in web servers.
 Financial Security
Prof Dhiren Patel
Dr. Dhiren Patel is currently a Professor of Computer
Engineering at NIT Surat (India) and leads a Security
Research group there. He is in academia and research since
over 20 years.
He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and has associations with IIT
Gandhinagar (Visiting Professor/Adjunct Professor - CSE),
with City University London and BT UK (Visiting Scientist –
Cyber Security), with C-DAC Mumbai (Research Advisor –
Cyber Security).
Prof. Dhiren has authored a book on Information Security (published by Prentice Hall in
2008). As a general chair, he has successfully hosted 6th IFIP Trust Management conference
(IFIPTM2012) at Surat, India in May 2012.
Research interests:
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Cloud Computing Security
PKI & Trust Management
Large Scale Identity Management
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
Affordable and Green IT
Prof. Shyam Sundar
R K Shyamasundar is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow ACM,
Distinguished ACM Speaker, served as IEEE Distinguished
Speaker.
He is currently Senior Professor and JC Bose National
Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
He has more than 300 publications, 8 books, 8
international patents & 3 Indian patents.
Thirty five students have completed Ph.D. under his
guidance, has served on IEEE Standards and served as
consultant to ESPRIT projects. He did post doctoral work under the legendary Turing
Laureate Professor Dr. Edsgar Dijkstra and was a Distinguished Visiting fellow under Royal
Academy of Engineering at the Computing Laboratory of University of Cambridge.
He has served as Faculty/Staff at IBM TJ Research, Eindhoven University, State University of
Utrecht, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, University of California, San
Diego, IRISA, Max Planck Institute , IBM Research India etc.
He was Founding Chair of FSTTCS and founding President of IARCS. He serves on the
Governing Council of IIIT Allahabad, IIIT, Jabalpur, CSIR Centre CMMACS, Bangalore and
serves on the Technical Advisory Board of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange). He has served on
IEEE Esterel Standards Committee.
He is a Fellow of: Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National
Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Academy of
Sciences of the Developing world (TWAS), Trieste, Italy. He is also a Fellow of the Computer
Society of India.
Research interests:
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Behavioural approach for Modelling Malware (including metamorphic)
Interacting with untrusted environments
Distributed Information Flow Control for avoiding information Leak.
Security in Cloud Computing
Organisers
Dr T Ramasami
Dr Thirumalachari Ramasami is currently Secretary to the
Government of India, Department of Science and
Technology.
A doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Leeds, U.K,
Dr. Ramasami has been the Secretary of the Department
for the past four years.
He assumed charge of the post in May 2006, after over a
two-decade-long stint at the Chennai-based Central
Leather Research Institute under the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research. He recently has been given an
extension of a further two years to continue with his present assignement.
He joined the CLRI as a scientist in 1984 and rose to become its Director. He served as the
Director of the institute for over 10 years before moving over as the DST Secretary. Before
joining the CLRI, he had worked at the Wayne State University and the Ames Laboratory in
the United States. He worked on energy research in Ames Laboratory Iowa, USA and on
electron transport phenomena in the Wayne State University, USA prior to returning to India
for undertaking his scientific career.
An expert in leather technology, Dr. Ramasami has a large number of publications and
patents to his credit. His research experience spans over several fields and areas in both
basic and applied sciences. He has made some important contributions in the fields of
inorganic chemistry as well as chemical and leather related technologies. His contributions to
the understanding of the chemistry and applications of chromium as well as leather science
and environment related technologies have earned him several professional recognitions in
both India and abroad including the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. He was
bestowed with Padma Shri in 2001.
He is a product of Madras University. He did his masters in leather technology from the
university.
Dr Ramasami has actively been part of all the UK-India Science and Innovation Councils.
Dr S K Varshney
Dr S K Varshney is a Scientific Officer with Government of India working in the Ministry /
Department of Science & Technology since 1990.
He is presently working as Scientist F in the International
Division of the Department responsible for facilitating
bilateral scientific cooperation of India with select group of
countries.
He has worked as Counsellor (S&T) with Embassy of India in
Moscow to facilitate bilateral scientific cooperation
between India and Russia during April 2008 – June 2011.
He has developed several scientific activities as well as
inter-governmental documents to facilitate bilateral
scientific cooperation of India with Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Maldives,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovak, Slovenia, Sri Lanka,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Ukraine and Uzbekistan and multilateral scientific
cooperation under SAARC, NAM and STEPAN programme. He has also developed
documentation to promote scientific – industrial cooperation.