Graduated PhD Students

Shelly Vishwakarma (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2015     Graduated: Feb 2020

Advisor: Dr. Shobha Sundar Ram

Post-PhD Employment: Research Fellow, University College London, UK

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE Radar Conference, IEEEE International Radar Conference, IEEE APMC, IEEE TAES, IEEE TGRS, IEEE ACCESS

Other visits/Internship : --

Monika Gupta (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2012     Graduated: Jan 2020

Advisor: Prof. Pankaj Jalote, Dr. Alexander Serebrenik

Post-PhD Employment: IBM Research, New Delhi

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution(2017) - Journal, ACM (2014), IEEE (2014) (2015) (2017)

Other visits/Internship : IBM Research, Bengaluru; Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; Infosys Labs, Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru

Megha Gaur (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2013     Graduated: Jan 2020

Advisor: Dr. Angshul Majumdar

Post-PhD Employment: --

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : --

Ambuj Mehrish
(ECE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2014     Graduated: Jan 2020

Advisor: Dr. A V Subramanyam

Post-PhD Employment: Post Doc Fellow, NTU, Singapore

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : --

N. Nalla Anandakumar
(CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jan 2016     Graduated: Jan 2020

Advisor: Dr. Somitra Sanadhya, Dr. M S Hashmi

Post-PhD Employment: Scientist, Society For Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS), Chennai

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-2020), ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS-2018), VLSID-2017

Other visits/Internship : NA

Jyoti Maggu (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: April 2016     Graduated: Dec 2019

Advisor: Dr. Angshul Majumdar

Post-PhD Employment: Lecturer in Education Department, Haryana

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : A3SI, LIGM, Universite de Paris(Research)

Vanika Singhal (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Dec 2015     Graduated: July 2019

Advisor: Dr. Angshul Majumdar

Post-PhD Employment: Research Scientist at GE Healthcare, Bangalore, Karnataka

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : Laboratry of Gasper Monge, ESIEE, Paris, France

Milan Jain (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2012     Graduated: Oct 2019

Advisor: Dr. Amarjeet Singh

Post-PhD Employment: Post Doctorate Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IMWUT 2019 (presented in UbiComp 2019), Energy Informatics 2018, Advances in Building Energy Research 2018, IMWUT 2017 (presented in UbiComp 2017), PerCom 2016

Other visits/Internship : PNNL, USA (IUSSTF BHAVAN Fellowship); MIT Media Lab, USA; University of Waterloo, Canada; IBM Research, India; Zenatix, India

Alvika Gautam (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2013     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. P B Sujit

Post-PhD Employment: Post-Doc, Department of BYU, Provo UTAH, USA

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : --

Anuj Shanker Saxena (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2011     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. Vikram Goyal, Dr. Debajyoti Bera

Post-PhD Employment: --

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:--

Other visits/Internship : --

Garvita Bajaj (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: June 2013     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. Pushpendra Singh

Post-PhD Employment: --

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:--

Other visits/Internship : --

Parag Aggarwal (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2014     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara

Post-PhD Employment: Senior Specialist, WIPRO

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:PNET(2019), IEEE Systems Journal (2018), IEEE Transactions on Communications(2018), IEEE Access(2017), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Shiju S (CB, Thesis)
Joined: June 2014     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. Sriram K

Post-PhD Employment: Post Doctoral Fellow, North Western University, Chicago, USA

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:PLoSONE(2019), ISSN(2019),BICOB(2018), PLoSONE(2017), ICMMDESCA-2016, VTC(2019), ANTS (2018), MOBICOM(2018)

Srishti Gupta (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Dec 2013     Graduated: 2019

Advisor: Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Post-PhD Employment: Researcher, Stealth Technovations

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:--

Other visits/Internship : --

Priya Aggarwal (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2013     Graduated: Apr 2019

Advisor: Dr. Anubha Gupta

Post-PhD Employment: Senior Research Engineer, Vehant Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Plos One-2018, Medical Image Analysis-2017, Computers in Biology and Medicine-2017, Brain Informatics-2017, Neurocomputing-2016, ICVGIP-2016, MICCAI-2015, GlobalSip-2015

Other visits/Internship : Research Intern at GE Global Research, Bangalore

Dheryta Jaisinghani (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Dec 2012     Graduated: Apr 2019

Advisor: Dr. Vinayak Naik, Dr. Sanjit Kaul

Post-PhD Employment: Postdoc at Genesys Lab, Northeastern University, Boston with Prof. Kaushik Chowdhury.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: WoWMoM 2019, Scientific Data (Crawdad) 2019, Mobiquitous 2018, Mobicom 2018, NCC 2017, WinMee-WiOpt 2015, MobiSys 2016.

Other visits/Internship : LiveLabs, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Arista Networks (Then Mojo Networks)

Haroon Rashid Lone (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jan 2014     Graduated: Mar 2019

Advisor: Dr. Pushpendra Singh

Post-PhD Employment: Postdoc at the University of Virginia.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Scientific Data (Nature), Applied Energy (Elsevier), BuildSys (ACM), IEEE CIC, IEEE ICASSP, e-Energy (ACM)

Other visits/Internship : IIT Bombay, University of Strathclyde

Gaurav Goswami (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: May 2012     Graduated: Nov 2018

Advisor: Dr. Richa Singh, Dr. Mayank Vatsa

Post-PhD Employment: IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (Digital Business Group), AI/ML Expert.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE TIFS, AAAI, PR, Information Fusion, ICPR, IJCB, BTAS, FGCS, PloS One, IEEE Access, BTAS, IJCB, 3 Book Chapters, ISBA

Other visits/Internship : Dr. Afzel Noore @ West Virginia University, WV (May-July 2011), Dr. Nalini Ratha @ IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY (Jan-May 2016)

Jayaprakash Govindaraj (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2012     Graduated: Dec 2018

Advisor: Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Dr. Donghoon Chang

Post-PhD Employment: Lead Software Security Researcher / Architect at Intel (McAfee), Bengaluru

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: ADFSL 2018, JDFSL, IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2016, AISS 2015, IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2015, IEEE S & P 2014, IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2014, I-CARE 2013

Other visits/Internship : NA

Jyoti Leeka (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2011     Graduated: Dec 2018

Advisor: Dr. Srikanta Bedathur
Post-PhD Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: CIKM 2016, ICDE Workshops 2014

Other visits/Internship : NA

Robin Verma (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: May 2012     Graduated: Sep 2018

Advisor: Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Dr. Donghoon Chang
Post-PhD Employment: Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF, ADFSL, ACSAC, JDFSL

Other visits/Internship : NA

Tarun Kumar Bansal (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: June 2013     Graduated: Apr 2018

Advisor: Dr. Donghoon Chang
Post-PhD Employment: Information Security Specialist at REBI/ESY- BOSCH, Bangalore

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: --

Other visits/Internship : Paper presentation in 2015 at QUT, Brisbane. From April-2015 to Nov.2017 at QUT, Brisbane as part of Joint PhD.

Venkatesh Vinayakarao (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Oct 2013     Graduated: Aug 2018

Advisor: Dr. Rahul Purandare
Post-PhD Employment: Assistant Professor, IIIT Sri City

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: MSR, WSDM, PEPM and ESEC/FSE

Other visits/Internship : Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

Pandarasamy Arjunan (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2010     Graduated: Mar 2018

Advisor: Dr. Amarjeet, Dr. Pushpendra Singh
Post-PhD Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BEARS, Singapore. (yet to join)

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: NSDR 2011, COMSNETS 2012, BuildSys 2012, NSDI 2013, MOBIQUITOUS 2015, UIC 2015, BuildSys 2015, e-Energy 2016

Other visits/Internship : Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA for 8 months from Apr 2013 to Nov 2013, Intern at IBM Research Lab, Bangalore July 2014 to Oct 2014.

Naushad Ansari (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2013     Graduated: Mar 2018

Advisor: Dr. Anubha Gupta
Post-PhD Employment: PostDoc at NTU, Singapore

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE-Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE-TIP), IEEE Access, Journal of Acoustic Society of America (JASA), Elsevier Signal Processing, IEEE ICASSP-2015, ICASSP-2018, DCC-206, DSP-2015, OCEANS 2017, GlobalSip 2015.

Other visits/Internship : None

Naveen Gupta (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2013     Graduated: Jan 2018

Advisor: Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara
Post-PhD Employment: Asst. Professor, VIT, Vellore.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE TCCN, IEEE ACCESS, WPC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, CROWNCOM, ANTS, ICACCI, EUCNC, TENSYMP

Other visits/Internship : None

Sweta Mishra (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2012     Graduated: Jan 2018

Advisor: Dr. Donghoon Chang, Dr. Somitra Kumar Sanadhya
Post-PhD Employment: Foreign Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Password Hashing Design, Time-Memory Tradeoff Analysis of Password Hashing Designs, Password Database Breach Detection Techniques, Analysis on Second-factor Authentication Technique, U2F. PASSWORDS 2014, Inscrypt 2014, Latincrypt 2017.

Other visits/Internship : None

Anuprriya Gogna (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2013     Graduated: Apr 2017

Advisor: Dr. Angshul Majumdar
Post-PhD Employment: Researcher at GE (GRC, Bengaluru).

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: KBS 2017, IS 2017, IEEE TBME 2016, IEEE Access 2015, APSIPA TSIP 2015, ESWA 2015, Sensors 2014, ICONIP 2016, DCC 2016, COMAD 2016,  IEEE DSP 2015, ICASSP 2015, ICAPR 2015, COMAD 2014, ICIP 2014, ICPR 2014

Other visits/Internship : None

Anush Sankaran (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2010     Graduated: Aug 2017

Advisors: Dr. Mayank Vatsa, Dr. Richa Singh
Post-PhD Employment: IBM Research, India.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Image and Vision Computing, Pattern Recognition, Information Fusion, IEEE Access, 2 book chapters, BTAS 2016, BTAS 2015, IJCB 2014, BTAS 2013, BTAS 2012, IJCB 2011

Other visits/Internship : Dr. Afzel Noore, Lane Department of Computer Science, WVU (5 Months), Dr. Ajay Kumar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (3 months)

Ayushi Rastogi (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2011     Graduated: Aug 2017

Advisors: Prof. Pankaj Jalote, Dr. Nachiappan Nagappan
Post-PhD Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Irvine.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: ISSRE'16, SANER'16, ESEM'15, APSEC'14, OSS'14

Other visits/Internship : 3 months Summer Internship at Microsoft Research, Redmond

Damodaram Kamma (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2010     Graduated: Aug 2017

Advisor: Prof. Pankaj Jalote
Post-PhD Employment: Architect at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore, India.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: APSEC' 2015, APSEC' 2014, AST' 2014, ICSE-DS' 2014, ISEC' 2013, ISEC' 2013

Other visits/Internship : NA

Hemant Kumar Aggarwal (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Aug 2012     Graduated: Dec 2016

Advisor: Dr. Angshul Majumdar
Post-PhD Employment: Postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of ECE at the University of Iowa, USA.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: JSTAR, LGRS, JEI, Signal Processing, IJCNN-2016, IGARSS-2016, IGARSS-2015, IGARSS-2014, ICPR-2014, ICASSP-2015, ICIP-2014, ChinaSIP 2014, SIP-2013

Other visits/Internship : Three month internship inTRDDC Pune

Hemanta Kumar Mondal (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Jan 2013     Graduated: Aug 2017

Advisor: Dr. Sujay Deb
Post-PhD Employment: CNRS Lab-STICC, University of Southern Brittany in Lorient, France

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: TMSCS, TSUSC, DATE 2016, MWSCAS 2017, ISQED-2016, ISVLSI-2014, SOCC-2014, RSP-2014, IGSC-2015, VLSID-2015, VLSID-2017, VDAT-2016, IDT-2013.
Other visits/Internship : 2 months at ST Microelectronics

Md. Ayatullah Maktoomi (ECE, Thesis)
Joined: Feb 2013     Graduated: Oct 2016

Advisor: Dr. M S Hashmi
Post-PhD Employment: Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar at iRadio Lab, University of Calgary, Canada

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE MWCL, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE TCPMT, PIER; Conferences: IEEE MTTS IMaRC, IEEE APMC, IEEE MWSCAS

Other visits/Internship: Visiting PhD Student at iRadio Lab, University of Calgary, Canada (Oct 15- April-16

Niharika Sachdeva (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Dec 2011     Graduated: July 2017

Advisor: Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Post-PhD Employment: Philips Research India.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: JCS 2017, CSCW, ICWSM, SocInfo, HCI, HCII, ECSCW, ASIACCS, ISC, APCHI, SOUPS

Other visits/Internship : Visiting researcher for 5 Months at University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

Nipun Batra (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jan 2012     Graduated: Mar 2017

Advisors: Dr. Amarjeet Singh, Dr. Kamin Whitehouse
Post-PhD Employment: Postdoc. researcher at University of Virginia.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: AAAI, KDD, SenSys, e-Energy, Buildsys, ICMLA, ISSNIP

Other visits/Internship : 10 months visiting researcher at University of Virginia

Prateek Dewan (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Feb 2012     Graduated: Nov 2017

Advisor: Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Post-PhD Employment: Data Scientist at Apple.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals:Springer, ASONAM, SNAM, PST, eCRS, SocInfo, CoDS, WWW,

Other visits/Internship : Dublin City University, Ireland (May - July, 2012), Symantec Research Labs, Pune, India (Dec. 2013 - May 2014), Dublin City University, Ireland (Jan - March, 2015), IBM IRL, Bangalore, India (May - July, 2017)

Siddhartha Asthana (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2010     Graduated: Sep 2017

Advisor: Dr. Pushpendra Singh
Post-PhD Employment: Researcher & Senior Manager Analytics, Optum (United Health Group)

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: ACM CHI, CHINZ, IFIP NTMS, HCII, ICTD, ACM/SPEC ICPE, ACM DEV, India HCI

Other visits/Internship : Developed and Managed 181-Chief Ministers Helpline for approximately 2.5 yrs

Swati Agrawal (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2013     Graduated: Jun 2017

Advisors: Dr. Ashish Sureka and Prof. Vikram Goyal.
Post-PhD Employment: Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IJWET2017, PAKDD2017, ADMA2016, EISIC2016, ISI2014, HT2014

Other visits/Internship : 3 months internship at IIIT-Hyderabad

Tejas Indulal Dhamecha (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: Jul 2010     Graduated: Nov 2017

Advisors: Dr. Richa Singh and Dr. Mayank Vatsa
Post-PhD Employment: Research Scientist at IBM Research Labs, India.

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Pattern Recognition, PLoS One, 2 book chapters, IJCB 2011, ICIP 2012, CVPR-Workshop 2013, ICB 2013, ICPR 2014, ICB 2015, BTAS 2015, WACV 2016.

Other visits/Internship : Dr. Afzel Noore, Lane Department of Computer Science, WVU (5 Months), Dr. Ajay Kumar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (3 months)

Mohona Ghosh (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2012     Graduated: May 2016

Advisors: Dr. Somitra Sanadhya, Dr. Donghoon Chang
Post-PhD Employment: Post-Doc at SPMS, NTU, Singapore

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: Inscrypt 2015, ICISC 2015, INDOCRYPT 2015, ICISC 2014, Mobile HCI 2013

Other visits/Internship : Attend winter school in Bar-ilan University, Israel

Paridhi Jain (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2010     Graduated: May 2016

Advisor: Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Post-PhD Employment: Post-Doc at Xerox Research Centre India

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IEEE ASONAM 2015, HT 2015, COSN 2013, WWW Companion 2013, COMAD 2012, SocialCom/PASSAT 2011

Other visits/Internship: Internship at UMBC(6 months), Internship at Adobe (3 months)

Samarth Bharadwaj (CSE, Thesis)
Joined: July 2009     Graduated: Aug 2015

Advisors: Dr. Mayank Vatsa, Dr. Richa Singh
External Co-Advisor: Dr. Afzel Noore 
Post-PhD Employment: Researcher at IBM-IRL

Publications @ International Conferences & Journals: IJCB 2014, IEEE BTAS 2013, CVPR Workshop 2013, IEEE ICIP 2013, IEEE ICIP 2012, CVPR Workshop 2011, IEEE AFGR 2011, IJCB 2011, ICEB 2010, IEEE BTAS 2010, ICPR Workshop 2010, IEEE TIFS, PR(Elsevier), JIVP(Springer)

Other visits/Internship :Internship at West Virginia University, USA (6 months)