Department of Computer Science and Engineering
संगणक विज्ञान एवं अभियांत्रिकी विभाग

Dr. Sangram Ray

Associate Professor
Head of Department

sray.cse@nitsikkim.ac.in sangram.ism@gmail.com
+91-9635027654

Research Interest : Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Remote server authentication, Secure e/m-applications, Content Centric Network, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Post Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain Technology

Experience

Total Experience: 13Y 6M
Experience at NIT Sikkim: 8Y 5M

Teachings

Database Management System, Number Theory and Cryptography, Wireless Network Security, Cryptography and Network Security, Public Key Infrastructure and Trust Management, Advanced Topics in Cyber Security, Advance topic in database management system, Design and Analysis of Algorithm

Education

Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering) - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad - 2013
M.Tech. (Computer Science) - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad - 2009
M.Sc. (Mathematics and Computing) - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad - 2007
B.Sc. (Honors in Mathematics) - Burdwan Raj College, University of Burdwan - 2005
All India Rank - 49 in GATE - 2006

Contact Address :

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
National Institute of Technology Sikkim,
Barfung Block, Ravangla,
South Sikkim-737139

International Journals

Vivek Kumar and Sangram Ray. "Pairing-free identity-based digital signature algorithm for broadcast authentication based on modified ECC using battle royal optimization algorithm." Wireless Personal Communications 123, no. 3 (2022): 2341-2365. (SCI, 2021 Impact Factor - 1.563)

Anindya Kumar Biswas, Mou Dasgupta, Sangram Ray, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "A probable cheating-free (t, n) threshold secret sharing scheme with enhanced blockchain." Computers and Electrical Engineering 100 (2022): 107925. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 4.152)

Suman Majumder, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Mou Dasgupta. "ESOTP: ECC?based secure object tracking protocol for IoT communication." International Journal of Communication Systems 35, no. 3 (2022): e5026. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.047)

Diksha Rangwani, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Muhammad Khurram Khan and Mou Dasgupta, "A Robust Provable-Secure Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocol for Industrial Internet of Things", Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer, December 2020, (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.793)

Diksha Rangwani, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Muhammad Khurram Khan and Mou Dasgupta, "An Improved Privacy Preserving Remote User Authentication Scheme for Agricultural Wireless Sensor Network", Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley, December 2020, Published online (https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.4218) (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 1.594)

K Sowjanya, Mou Dasgupta and Sangram Ray, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Medical Things", Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, May 2021, vol. 58, Published online. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2021.102761). (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.327)

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mohammad S. Obaidat and Mou Dasgupta, "A Secure and Privacy Preserving Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Smart-grid Communication Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Journal of System Architecture, Elsevier, November 2020, Published online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2020.101938) (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.552)

Suman Mazumder, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Muhammad Khurram Khan and Mou Dasgupta, "ECC-CoAP: Elliptic Curve Cryptography based Constraint Application Protocol for Internet of Things", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2021, vol. 116, pp. 1867-1896 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07769-2). (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor -1.061

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, G.P. Biswas, M.K. Khan and Mou Dasgupta, "A Lightweight Remote User Authentication Scheme for IoT Communication Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2021, vol. 77, pp. 1114-1151. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-020-03318-7) (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.469)

Sharmistha Adhikari, Sangram Ray, M.S. Obaidat, and G.P. Biswas, "Efficient and Secure Content Dissemination Architecture for Content Centric Network using ECC-based Public Key Infrastructure", Computer Communications, Elsevier, May 2020, vol. 157, pp. 187-203. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 2.816)

K Sowjanya, Mou Dasgupta, Sangram Ray and M. S. Obaidat, "An Efficient Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based Without Pairing KPABE for Internet of Things", IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE, June, 2020, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 2154-2163. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 4.463)

K Sowjanya, Mou Dasgupta and Sangram Ray, "An Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based Enhanced Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Wearable Health Monitoring Systems", International Journal of Information Security, Springer, August 2019, vol. 19, pp. 129-146. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 1.822)

Sharmistha Adhikari, Sangram Ray, G. P. Biswas and M. S. Obaidat, "Efficient and Secure Business Model for Content Centric Network using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2019, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-25. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor - 1.319)

Sangram Ray, G. P. Biswas and Mou Dasgupta, "Secure Multi-purpose Mobile Banking using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2016, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 1-24. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor -1.061)

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "A Certificate Authority (CA) Based Cryptographic Solution for HIPAA Privacy/Security Regulations", Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2014, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 170-180. (SCI, 2019 Impact Factor -1.897)

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Design of an Efficient Mobile Health System for Achieving HIPAA Privacy-Security Regulations", International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Inderscience, 2014, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 378-387. (Scopus)

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Design of Mobile Public Key Infrastructure (M-PKI) Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 25-37. (Scopus)

Sangram Ray, Urbi Chatterjee and G. P. Biswas, "Efficient and Secure Communication Architecture for E-Health System", International Journal of Emerging Trends and Technology in Computer Science, 2013, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 93-101. (Scopus)

Vivek Kumar, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Jayashree Karmakar and Mou Dasgupta, "Enhanced Pairing-free Identity-based Broadcast Authentication Protocol in WSN using ElGamal ECC", Security and Privacy, Wiley, 2022, e278.

Uddalak Chatterjee, and Sangram Ray, "Efficient and Secure e-voting scheme using elliptic curve cryptography", Security and Privacy, Wiley, 2022, e283.

Uddalak Chatterjee, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, and Mou Dasgupta, "An Improved Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Hierarchical IoT Network using Elliptic Curve Cryptography". (Communicated)

Uddalak Chatterjee, and Sangram Ray, "An improved authentication and key management scheme in context of IoT-based wireless sensor network using ECC". (Communicated)

Sharmistha Adhikari, Sangram Ray, M. S. Obaidat and G. P. Biswas, "ECC-based Efficient and Secure Access Control Scheme for Content Centric Network - A Next Generation Internet" (Communicated)

Suman Majumder, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, Ashok Kumar Das, Youngho Park, "IEEEECC-PDGPP: ECC-Based Parallel Dependency RFID-Grouping Proof Protocol using Zero Knowledge Property in Internet of Things Environment". (Communicated)

Suman Majumder, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, Ashok Kumar Das, Youngho Park,"ECC-EXONUM e-VOTING: A Novel Signature based e-Voting Scheme using Blockchain and Zero Knowledge Property". (Communicated)

Suman Majumder, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, Ashok Kumar Das, Youngho Park, "ECC-HLFB-eVOTING: A Novel ECC based e-Voting System using Hyperledger Fabric-Permissioned Blockchain with Zero Knowledge Property". (Communicated)

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta and Muhammad Khurram Khan, "Development of a Provably Secure and Privacy Preserving Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Roaming Services in Global Mobility Network". (Communicated)

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, and Joel J.P.C.Rodrigues, "CLAACS-IOD: Certificate-Embedded Lightweight Authentication and Access Control Scheme for Internet of Drones". (Communicated)

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, and Joel J.P.C.Rodrigues, "S2PAKEP: Signature based Anonymous Two-Party Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Environment". (Communicated)

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, "A Survey on Security and Performance of Authentication Schemes in Generic IoT Environment". (Communicated)

Rahul Kumar, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta and Muhammad Khurram Khan, "A Lightweight and Robust Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Smart Healthcare during Pandemic". (Communicated)

Priyanka Das, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Mou Dasgupta, Mahesh Chandra Govil, "LPSRUA-MIoT: Lightweight and Provable Secure Remote User Authentication Scheme for Multi-Gateway Internet of Things". (Communicated)

Mou Dasgupta, Anindya Biswas, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Ashok Kumar Das, YoungHo Park, "LCAM: Lightweight Certificate Authority for MANET and Securing DSR Routing Protocol". (Communicated)

Kundan Kanti Saha, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Mou Dasgupta, "ECC based Secure Handshake Protocol for Multicasting CCN-IoT Environment". (Communicated)

Jayashree Karmakar, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Mou Dasgupta, "Remote Patient Monitoring Scheme in the Context of CCN based IoMT (RPMS-CI)". (Communicated)

Shauraya Ranjan, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta, "A Novel Smart Contract based Communication Protocol for IoT and Blockchain Fusion". (Communicated)

Pubali Halder, Sangram Ray, Sharmistha Adhikari, "A Provably Secure Communication Protocol for Content Centric Network using Pairing-Free Identity-Based Cryptography". (Communicated)

Pubali Halder, Sangram Ray, Sharmistha Adhikari, "Securing Content-Centric Network without Trusted Third Party". (Communicated)

Chilukamari Rajesh, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta and Muhammad Khurram Khan, "A Lightweight Anonymity Preserving Authentication Scheme for Smart-Grid Environment". (Communicated)

International Conferences

Kundan Kanti Saha, Sangram Ray, and Dipanwita Sadhukhan, "A Lightweight and Precise Information Retrieval System for Organisational Wiki". (Accepted and Presented)

Mangalam Gupta,, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, and Sangram Ray. "IBDNA-An Improved BDNA Algorithm Incorporating Huffman Coding Technique." In International Conference on Network Security and Blockchain Technology, pp. 132-145. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Vivek Kumar, and Sangram Ray. "Continuous Behavioural Authentication System for IoT Enabled Applications." In International Conference on Network Security and Blockchain Technology, pp. 51-63. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Vivek Kumar,, and Sangram Ray. "Applying Efforts for Behavior-Based Authentication for Mobile Cloud Security." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Technologies, pp. 589-601. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Chatterjee, Uddalak, and Sangram Ray. "Security Issues on IoT Communication and Evolving Solutions." In Soft Computing in Interdisciplinary Sciences, pp. 183-204. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Divyanshi Verma, Sharmistha Adhikari and Sangram Ray, "Forwarding Strategy in SDN based Content Centric Network", In Proc. of International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Sciences (PCCDS 2021), National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, May 7-9, 2021, will be available online in Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer, (Accepted), vol. 686, pp. 11-22, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_2).

Uddalak Chatterjee and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of an Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Hierarchical IoT Network", In Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ICACA 2021), University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, March 27-28, 2021, will be available online in Advances in Intelligent Systems, Springer, vol. 686, pp. 11-22, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_2).

Suman Majumder, Sangram Ray, Chinmoy Ghosh and Shrayasi Dutta, "Usage of Internet of Things in Home Automation Systems: A Review", In Proc. of International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (CoMSO) 2020, NIT Silchar, India, August 3-5, 2020, available online on Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies, Springer, vol. 686, pp. 11-22, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_2).

Chinmoy Ghosh, Suman Majumder, Sangram Ray, Shrayasi Dutta and Satyendranath Mondal, "Different EDGE Detection Techniques: A Review", In proc. of 1st International Conference on Electronic Systems and Intelligent Computing (ESIC) 2020, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India, March 2-4, 2020, available online on Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, vol. 686, pp. 885-898, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7031-5_84).

Uddalak Chatterjee, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "An Improved Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Smart Healthcare System in the Context of Internet of Things Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", In Proceedings of International Conference on IoT Inclusive Life (ICIIL 2019), NITTTR Chandigarh, India, December 19-20, 2019, available online on Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, vol. 116, pp. 11-22, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_2).

Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of 2PAKEP: Provably Secure and Efficient Two-Party Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Environment", Proc. of 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2019), National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, March 3-4, 2019.

Diksha Rangwani, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of a Robust ECC Based Provable Secure Authentication Protocol with Privacy Preserving for Industrial Internet of Things", Proc. of 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2019), National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, March 3-4, 2019.

Sharmistha Adhikari and Sangram Ray, "A Secure Anonymous Mobile Handover Authentication Protocol for Content Centric Network", Proc. of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA-2018), University of Kalyani, Nadia, W.B, India, July 27-28, 2018, available online on CCIS, Springer, vol. 1031, pp: 360-373, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8581-0_29).

Debarpan Tribedi, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of a Secure and Privacy Preserving Mobile Wallet Scheme with Outsourced Verification in Cloud Computing", Proc. of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA-2018), University of Kalyani, Nadia, W.B, India, July 27-28, 2018, available online on CCIS, Springer, vol. 1031, pp: 411-424, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8581-0_33).

Sharmistha Adhikari and Sangram Ray, "A Lightweight and Secure IoT Communication Framework in Content Centric Network using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Proc. of International Conference on Recent Trends in Communication, Computing, and Electronics (IC3E-2018), University of Allahabad, Prayag Raj, U.P, India, April 13-15, 2018, available online on LNEE, Springer, vol. 524, pp: 207-216, (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2685-1_21).

Vivek Kumar and Sangram Ray, "A Smart Mobile Authentication Technique using User Centric Attributes Classifications", Proc. of International Conference on Computational Intelligence & IoT (ICCIIoT-2018), National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India, December 14-15, 2018, available online in SSRN, Elsevier, pp: 435-440, (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3355502).

Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of an elliptic curve cryptography based lightweight authentication scheme for smart grid communication", Proc. of 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT-2018), Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, March 15-17, 2018, available on IEEE Xplore, pp: 1-6, (DOI: 10.1109/RAIT.2018.8389040).

Prasanta Kumar Roy, Sangram Ray and Mou Dasgupta, "Energy Efficient Content Dissemination Architecture for Content Centric Network", Proc. of International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering and Science (IRES-2017), Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand, June 16-17, 2017, pp: 1-5.

Mou Dasgupta, G. P. Biswas and Sangram Ray, "Performance Enhancement by Traffic Re-scheduling of Network Nodes", Proc. of International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering and Science (IRES-2017), Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand, June 16-17, 2017, pp: 6-10.

Tarun Biswas, Anjan K. Ray, Pratyay Kuila, Sangram Ray, "Resource Factor-Based Leader Election for Ring Networks", Proc. of the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences (IC4S-2016), Aryabhatta College of Engineering and Research Center, Ajmer, India, August 12-13, 2016, available on ACCS, Springer, pp. 251-257.

Mou Dasgupta, G. P. Biswas and Sangram Ray, "Traffic Flow Modeling of Data Networks and its Solution using Goal Programming", Proc. of World Congress on Engineering 2016 (WCE-16), at Imperial College, London, U.K, Jun 29 - July 1, 2016, vol. 1, pp. 188-193.(http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCE2016/WCE2016_pp188-193.pdf).

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "An ECC based Public Key Infrastructure usable for Mobile Applications", Proc. of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2012), Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore, India, October 26-28, 2012, available on ACM Digital Library and DBLP, pp. 562-568 (DOI: 10.1145/2393216.2393310).

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Design of RSA-CA Based E-Health System for Supporting HIPAA Privacy-Security Regulations", Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Security (ICCCS-12), at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, October 6-8, 2012, available on Procedia Technology Elsevier, 6 (2012), pp. 954-961(DOI: 10.1016/j.protcy.2012.10.116).

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Establishment of ECC-based Initial Secrecy Usable for IKE Implementation", Proc. of World Congress on Engineering 2012 (WCE-12), at Imperial College, London, U.K, July 4-6, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 530-535. (http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCE2012/WCE2012_pp530-535.pdf).

Sangram Ray, Rachana Nandan and G. P. Biswas, "ECC Based IKE Protocol Design for Internet Applications", Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology (C3IT-12), at Academy of Technology, Hooghly, W.B, India, February 25-26, 2012, available on Procedia Technology Elsevier, 4 (2012), pp. 522-529 (DOI: 10.1016/j.protcy.2012.05.083).

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Design of Mobile-PKI for Using Mobile Phones in Various Applications", Proc. of First IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-11), at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, December 21-23, 2011, pp. 197-202, available on IEEE-Xplore (DOI: 10.1109/ReTIS.2011.6146885).

Shauraya Ranjan, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Integration of Blockchain to Internet of Things (IoT) Environment". (Communicated)

Priyanka Das, Sangram Ray, Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Mou Dasgupta, "5G-Enabled VANET Architecture Incorporating Security and Trust Management Mechanism". (Communicated)

Book Chapters

Dipanwita Sadhukhan, Sangram Ray, Mou Dasgupta "Data Fusion in Internet of Medical Things: Towards Trust Management, Security and Privacy." (Accepted)

Dhananjay Kumar, Sangram Ray and Sharmistha Adhikari, "Future Communication Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Mechanisms for Next Generation Internet", Emerging Technologies In Computing: Theory, Practices and its Advances, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, March 2021.

Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of 2PAKEP: Provably Secure and Efficient Two-Party Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Environment." Cloud Security (2021): 88-98.

Diksha Rangwani, Dipanwita Sadhukhan and Sangram Ray, "Cryptanalysis of a robust ECC-based provable secure authentication protocol with privacy preserving for industrial Internet of Things." In Cloud Security, pp. 76-87. CRC Press, 2021.

Sangram Ray and G. P. Biswas, "Internet Key Exchange protocol using ECC-based public key certificate", IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies, Springer, 2013, vol. 229, pp. 391-404.

Achievements :

Certificate of Merit for The 2012 International Conference of Information Security and Internet Engineering (ICISIE-2012) under World Congress on Engineering 2012 (WCE-2012), 04-06 July, 2012 at Imperial College, London, U.K.
ISM-JRF Fellowship funded by MHRD, Govt. of India, to pursue Ph.D. in Computer Sc. & Engg. at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India. (from 30.09.2010 to 13.11.13)
MHRD Scholarship funded by MHRD, Govt. of India, to pursue M.Tech.(Computer Application) at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India. (from 01.07.2007 to 30.06.2009)
Secured All India Rank - 49, Score - 483 and Percentile - 98.18% in All India GATE - 2006.
Silver Medal from Bhatar Block, West Bengal, India for scoring highest marks in Mathematics in 10th class board exam, 1999.

Membership of Professional Bodies:

Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Kolkata
Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), India
Life Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong-kong

External Funding Received (Rs. 1.2 Cr.)

MeitY, Govt. of India: Rs. 98 Lac(for two R&D projects)
DST, Govt. of India: Rs. 20 Lac(for one R&D projects)
AICTE: Rs. 1.86 Lac(for two ATAL FDP)

Administrative Responsibilities (Institute Level)

Head of the Department, Computer Science and Engineering - 08.09.2022 to present
Dean Student Welfare - 16.07.2019 to 07.09.2022
Head of the Department, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering - 18.09.2014 to 15.07.2019
Chairman, Institute Post Graduate Committee - 04.10.2016 to 19.02.2020
Chairman, Proctorial Board - 16.07.2019 to present
Chairman, Effective Publicity Team - 30.07.2019 to present
TEQIP Nodal Officer, Academic, TEQIP-III - 01.04.2017 to 31.03.2021
Chairman, Students' Mental Health Well Being Committee - 21.04.2020 to present
Convener, Departmental Post Graduate Committee (DPGC), CSE - 24.02.2020 to present
Convener, Curriculum Workshop CSE- 2019
Convener, Departmental Report Preparation, Convocation and Record Committee - 09.08.2021 to present
Coordinator, Training and Placement, CSE - 07.10.2017 to 23.02.2020
Program Coordinator, PhD, CSE - 07.10.2017 to 23.02.2020
Chairman, Departmental Academic Committee - 07.10.2017 to 23.02.2020
Chairman, Departmental Research Committee - 07.10.2017 to 23.02.2020
Member, The Board of Governors - 18.08.2017 to 29.02.2020
Member, The Senate - 05.12.2014 to present
Member, The Senate Standing Committee - 20.02.2020 to present
Member, The Standing Committee of the Senate - 09.05.2018 to 19.02.2020
Convener, Rules & Regulation Committee (UG & PG) - 09.05.2018 to present
Faculty In-charge, Training and Placement Cell - 22.04.2015 to 08.12.2016
Faculty In-charge, Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure - 04.10.2016 to 08.12.2016
Faculty In-charge, CCMT - 2017
Faculty In-charge, CCMT - 2015
Program Coordinator, Convocation - 2017
Program Coordinator, Convocation - 2018
Program Coordinator, Convocation - 2020
Program Coordinator, Convocation - 2022
Member, Proctorial Board - 05.12.2014 to 15.07.2019
Member, Publication and Web Information System - 05.12.2014 to present
Member, Training and Placement Cell - 08.12.2016 to present
Member, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan - 31.08.2018 to present
Member, Alumni Association and Resource Generation - 04.10.2016 to 08.12.2016
Member, Power and Energy Conservation Initiative - 05.02.2016 to 08.12.2016
Member, Academic Grievance Cell (COVID -19) - 05.05.2020 to present
Member, Academic Performance Evaluation Committee (APEC), CSE - 24.02.2020 to present
Member, Departmental Under Graduate Committee (DUGC), CSE - 24.02.2020 to present

Completed/Ongoing R&D Projects

Design of Efficient and Secure Internet of Things (loT) Communication Framework in context of Content Centric Network (CCN) using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) - A next generation smart communication technology, funded by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India, vide sanctioned order no: 13(19)/2020-CC&BT dated: 20.01.2021 of amount Rs. 67.69 lacs. (Ongoing).
Development of Efficient and Secure Content Centric Network (CCN) Architecture with Communication Protocols using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), funded by ICPS Division, DST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, vide sanctioned order no: DST/ICPS/CPS-Individual/2018/806(G) dated: 18.12.2018 of amount. Rs. 19.70568 lacs. (Completed).
Design of Efficient and Secure Key Management Scheme for Internet of Things (IoT) using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Seed grant funded by TEQIP-III, NIT Sikkim, NPIU, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India vide sanctioned order no: 233/NITS/DCR/Minor Res. Grant/TEQIP III/2019-20/RO/19-485 dated: 25.11.2019 of amount Rs. 2 lacs. (Completed).
Content Centric Network: Its Security Issues and Some Security Solutions Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography,funded by Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India, vide sanctioned order no: PhD-MLA-4(75)/2015-16/1 dated: 27.05.2015 of amount Rs. 30.00 lacs. (Completed).

Sole Supervision of Post Doctoral Fellow with Topic

Dr. Jayashree Karmakar, "Secure IoT Communication in context of CCN"

Sole Supervision of Ph.D. Students with Thesis Title/Topic

Sharmistha Adhikari - "Content Centric Network (CCN): Its Security Aspects and Design of Some Security Solutions Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)", Awarded in 2022.
Suman Majumder - "Design of Provable Secure Communication Protocol for Internet-of-Things and Blockchain based e-Voting Systems", Awarded in 2022.
Vivek Kumar - "Design of Efficient and Secure Authentication Schemes using Identity based Cryptography (IBC) and Behavioural Biometric", Thesis submitted in 2022.
Dipanwita Sadhukhan - "Development of Efficient and Secure Remote User Authentication Schemes for Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Applications using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)", Thesis submitted in 2022.
Uddalak Chatterjee - "Development of Lightweight Authentication and Key Management Schemes for Internet of Things Framework and its Application using Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Thesis submitted in 2022.
Dhananjay Kumar - "Development of Efficient and Secure Content Centric Network (CCN) Architecture and Communication Protocols using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)", Ongoing.
Kundan Kanti Saha - "Secure IoT Communication in context of CCN", Ongoing.
Madhusmita Samal - "Authentication and Blockchain Technology", Ongoing.

Joint Supervision of Ph.D. Students with Thesis Title/Topic

Priyanka Das - "Remote Server Authentications and Blockchain Technology", Ongoing.

Sole Supervision of M.Tech. Students with Dissertation Title

Mudasir Ahmad Dar - Network Security, Awarded in 2017.
Tasso Rilung - Network Security, Awarded in 2017.
Debarpan Tribedi - "Secure and Efficient Communication Protocols for Information Sharing using Elliptic Curve Cryptography" Awarded in 2018.
Diksha Rangwani - "Lightweight Robust and Secure Privacy Preserving Mutual Authentication And Session Key Negotiation Protocols For Internet Of Things", Awarded in 2019.
Rahul Kumar - "A Lightweight and Provably Secure Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Smart Healthcare in Smart City Environment",Awarded in 2019.
Chilukamari Rajesh - "An ECC Based Lightweight Anonymity Preserving Authentication Scheme for Smart-Grid Environment", Awarded in 2019.
Kundan Kanti Saha - "A Lightweight and Precise Information Retrieval System for Organisational Wiki", Awarded in 2021.
Pubali Halder - "Secure Content Centric Network Using Paring-free IBC and MAC-OTP", Awarded in 2022.
Shauraya Ranjan - "A Novel Smart Contract based Communication Protocol for IoT and Blockchain Fusion", Awarded in 2022.

Sole Supervision of B.Tech. Students with Project Title

Sakkir Alam - Awarded in 2015.
Tenzin G. Bhutia - Awarded in 2015.
Ajit Prasad - Awarded in 2015.
Priyatam Singh - Awarded in 2016.
Abhijeet Singh - Awarded in 2016.
Dikesh Gupta - Awarded in 2016.
Ankaj Shah - Awarded in 2016.
Vaishali Gupta - Awarded in 2017.
Niraj Biswakarma - Awarded in 2018
Alina Bhutia - Awarded in 2018.
Mangalam Kumar - Awarded in 2019.
Shivendra Saxena - Awarded in 2019.
Aman Bansal - Awarded in 2020.
Divyanshi Verma - Awarded in 2020.
Abinesh Kumar - Awarded in 2020.
Bivek Rai - Awarded in 2021.
Vipin Yadav - Awarded in 2021.
Nishant Kumar - Awarded in 2022.
Avinash Gautam - Awarded in 2022.
Manisha Ranjan - Awarded in 2022.
Pallavi Gupta - Awarded in 2022.
Achira Raichaudhuri - Awarded in 2022.
Dheeraj Upadhaya - Awarded in 2022.

Keynote Speakers / Invited Talks / Expert Lectures

Invited Talks in National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh on 21.03.22 in AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training (STTP) in "Emerging Information and Cyber Security Trends".
Invited Talks in Pasighat Smart City, Arunachal Pradesh on 21.01.22 on "Data Security Awareness".
Invited Talks in Savarmati University on 24.12.2021 on "Cyber Security, Do and Don't".
Invited Talks in National Institute of Technology Goa on 26.10.21 in One Week Elementary ATAL FDP on "Internet of Things and Human Computer Interaction".
Invited Talks in National Institute of Technology Goa on 08.11.21 in One Week Advanced ATAL FDP on "Internet of Things and Human Computer Interaction".
Keynote Lecture in JNU on 26.10.21 on "Mathematics for Cyber Security" in 27th International Conference on International Academy of Physical Sciences on Recent Advances in Mathematical and Computational Optimizations (RAMCO-2021).
Keynote Lectures in Six Days STTP on "Deep Learning Applications in Cyber Security for Engineering and Science" MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune, India, during June 14-19, 2021.
Invited Talks in National Institute of Technology Raipur on 14.6.21 in a One Week ATAL FDP on "Cyber Security in Smart City".
Invited Talks in National Institute of Technology Raipur on 14.6.21 in a One Week ATAL FDP on 17.6.21 on "Cyber Security in Smart City".
Invited Talks in BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangaluru on 2.6.21 in One Week Student Development Workshop on Cyber Security and Blockchain Technology on Public Key Infrastructure.
One Expert Lecture in One Week ATAL FDP on "Cyber Security" at National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar, India, December 7-11, 2020..
One Expert Lecture on "Cyber Security" at Brainware University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, October 10, 2020.
One Expert Lecture in the webinar on "Research Oriented International Webinar Series" at Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh, India, September 11, 2020.
Four Expert Lectures in One Week ATAL FDP on "Cyber Security" at National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chattisgarh, India, October 14-18, 2019.
One Expert Lecture in One Week Short Term Training Program on "Advanced Computational Techniques in the field of Mining Engineering" at National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chattisgarh, India, November 13-17, 2017.
Keynote Speech International Seminar on "Emerging Trends in Information Science and Technology" at Raiganj University, Raiganj, W.B, India, January 13, 2017.
Keynote Speech in One Day Seminar on "Network Security" at Siliguri Institute of Technology, W.B, India, November 06, 2015.

FDP/STC/Workshop Organized

One Week Faculty Development Program on Cyber Security: Challenges and Evolving Solutions at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, December 7-11, 2021 funded by ATAL Academy, AICTE, Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India. (Role - Coordinator)
One Week Induction Program - 2021 at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, December 14-18, 2021 funded by TEQIP-III. (Role - Coordinator)
One Week Faculty Development Program on Strategies in Modern Pedagogy at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, February 16-20, 2021 funded by TEQIP-III, NPIU, Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India. (Role - Coordinator)
One Week Faculty Development Program on Cyber Security at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, December 1-5, 2020 funded by ATAL Academy, AICTE, Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India. (Role - Coordinator)
One Week Induction Program - 2020 at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, December 1-5, 2020 funded by TEQIP-III. (Role - Coordinator)
Three Weeks Induction Program - 2018 at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, August 13-31, 2018 funded by TEQIP-III. (Role - Convener)
One Week Workshop on Staff Development at National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Sikkim, India, February 21-25, 2018 funded by TEQIP-III. (Role - Coordinator)

Session Chair in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP- 2022), National Institute of Technology Raipur, March 12-14, 2022
International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering (ICSTACE-2021), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, November 11-12, 2021
International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Sustainable Technologies (ICoCIST-2021), jointly organized by National Institute of Technology Silchar, and National Institute of Technology Sikkim on October 28-30, 2021.
International Conference on Recent Advances in Statistics Operations Research (CONIAPS- XXVII), National Institute of Technology Sikkim on October 26-28, 2021.

Reviewer of International Journals

IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in BioMedicine.
IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
IEEE Transaction on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management
IEEE Systems Journal.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Access
IETE Journal of Research.
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer.
International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley.
Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Wiley.
IETE Journal of Research, Taylor & Francis.
International Journal of Innovation Science, Emerald.
Indian Journal of Science and Technology.
Security and Communication Networks, Hindawi.
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Inderscience.
International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Inderscience.
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer.
Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier.
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier.
CSI Transaction on ICT, Springer.
Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Elsevier.
Journal of Medical Systems, Springer.
Journal of Supercomputing, Springer.
SN Computer Science, Springer.
Journal of Network and System Management, Springer.
Artificial Intelligence in agriculture, Elsevier.
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Elsevier.
IGI Global
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences
Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier
PLOS ONE Journal
TELKOMNICA
Peer J Computer Science
Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics
Frontiers in Computer Science
Frontiers in Big Data

2^nd International Conference on Networks and Communications-2014, Australia.
Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications-2015 (JSE-2015), Zurich, Switzerland.
International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems-2015 (I3CS ’15), North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India.
Third International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE-2015), Dubai, UAE.
International Conference on Software Engineering (SOFE-2015), Bangalore, India.
Second International Conference on Computer Science & Engineering (CSEN-2015), August 28-29, 2015, Dubai, UAE.
6^th IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC-2016), February 27-28, 2016, SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.
SecondIEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT-2016), February 13-14, 2016, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India.
2^ndIEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE– 2016), December 23-25, 2016, Poornima University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
1^stIEEE International Conference on Engineering, Management and Application-2017, February 10-12, 2017, Pune, India.
1st Springer International Conference on Emerging Trends and Advances in Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy (ETAEERE-2016), December 17-18, 2016, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India.
1^stInternational Conference on Accessibility to Digital World (ICADW-2016), December 16-18, 2016, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Second International Conference in Information Science (ICIS-2016), August 12-13, 2016, College of Engineering, Cherthala, Kerala, India.
ACM International Conference on Pervasive Computing Advances & Applications (PerCAA-2017), December 15-17, 2017, IIIT Kota, Rajasthan, India.
Asia Security and Privacy conference – 2017, January 29-31, 2017, NIT Surat, India.
1^st International Conference on Computing, Analytics and Networks, 2017 & 2018, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India.
International Conference on Industry Interactive Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology-2016 (I3SET-2016), October 25-26, 2016, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, W.B, India.
International Conference on Data Science Analytics and Applications (DaSAA-2017), January 4-6, 2017, Anna University, Chennai, India.
International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI-2017), February 24-26, 2017, Zeal College of Engineering and Research, Pune, India.
International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, February 18-19, 2017, Lyallpur Khalsa College of Engineering, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
International Conference on Data Security, December 11-13, 2017, Kalasalingam University, Tamil Nadu, India.
International conference onLatest Advances in Machine Learning and Data Science (LAMDA-2017), May 24-26, 2017, National Institute of Technology Goa, Goa, india.
International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovation and Computing (SSIC-2017), April 15-16, 2017, Manipal University, Jaipur, India.
3^rd International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT-2017), October, 2017, School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research In Humanitarian Technology (ICIRHT-2017), June 23-24, 2017, Sri Sai College of Engineering & Technology, Badhani, Punjab, India.
7^th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet2017), November 24-27, 2017, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan.
International Conference onComputing: Communication, Networks and Security – 2018, College of Engineering and Technology, Mody University of Science and Technology, India.
2^ndInternational Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation-2018 (ICDAMI-2018), January 19-21, 2018, Pune, India.
International Conference on Computer Network, Security and Computing – 2018 (ICCSC-2018), May 25-26, 2018, Sri Venkateshwar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
International Conference on Advances in Computer Applications -2018 (ICACA-2018), February 26-27, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India
1^st Online Conference on Green Communication, Network and Systems - 2018, July 7, 2018, Sikkim University, India.
2^nd International conference on Intelligent Information Technologies -2017 (ICIIT 2017), December 20 -22, 2017, Anna University, Chennai, India.
International Conference on Next Generation Computing and Information Systems -2017 (ICNGCIS2017), December 21-23, 2017, Model Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), Jammu, India.
14^thIEEE India Council International Conference 2017 (INDICON-2017), December 15-17, IIT Roorkee, India.
1^st International Conference on Applications of Computing and Communication Technologies (ICACCT-2018), March 9-10, 2018, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi, India.
International Conference onIngenious Computing and Smart Communication (ICSC-2018), March 24-25, 2018, THDC-Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, Uttarakhand, India.
International Conference onNext Generation Computing and Information Systems (ICNGCIS-2017), December 21-23, 2017, M