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Research & Projects

Securing computation and data — from the silicon of a smart card to the distributed control plane of a software-defined network, and into the post-quantum era.

Research Focus

Areas of Expertise

A cohesive programme in applied cryptography and information security, with strong threads in hardware security, networks and emerging cryptographic paradigms.

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Applied Cryptography

Lightweight image encryption using cellular automata and chaotic maps (Logistic, Tinkerbell, Hénon) for resource-constrained IoT devices.

Side-Channel Attacks

Differential / higher-order power analysis on smart cards, and countermeasures via blinding, randomized exponents and secure modular exponentiation.

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Digital Forensics

Post-doctoral research at IIT Bhilai; forensic investigation models for QR-code and Android-app based identity fraud.

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SDN & Network Security

Secure, resilient distributed control planes, TCP-SYN flood detection, and compromised-switch detection in software-defined networks.

Cloud Data Integrity

Public data auditing with stub-, ZSS- and signature-based verification for storage-level integrity in cloud resource pools.

Quantum & Post-Quantum

Quantum-resistance for classical cryptographic keys, QKD protocol study, neural cryptography and McEliece-based blockchain security.

Funded Research

Sponsored Projects

Seven government-funded projects from DST, DeitY/MeitY and UGC, together exceeding ₹1.7 crore in research funding.

DST

Volume Minimization in 3D VLSI Physical Design Automation

2011 – 2013 · Completed
Principal Investigator₹ 5.95 Lakhs
DeitY

Study & Analysis of Power-Analysis Waveforms to Identify Cryptosystems for Cryptanalysis in Side-Channel Attacks

2014 – 2015 · Completed
Principal Investigator₹ 11 Lakhs
UGC

Carbon Nanotube & Graphene Nano-Ribbon Interconnect Model for VLSI Circuits

2015 – 2018 · Completed
Co-Principal Investigator₹ 11.79 Lakhs
DST

Intelligent System for Weather Forecasting, Smart Farming & Information Dissemination for the ST Community of Barak River Basin (Satellite Imaging, ML & IoT)

2 Years · Ongoing
Co-Principal Investigator₹ 78 Lakhs
DST

IoT & AI Based Cost-Benefit Analysis Platform for Sustainable Agriculture in Mizoram

2 Years · Ongoing
Co-Principal Investigator₹ 40.60 Lakhs
DST

Enhancing Agriculture Practices in Mizoram Towards Sustainable Development using Machine Learning & Deep Learning

2 Years · Ongoing
Co-Principal Investigator₹ 25.22 Lakhs
DST

Deep-Learning Model for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection in Mizoram

1 Year · Ongoing
Co-Principal Investigator₹ 7 Lakhs

Intellectual Property

Patent

System for Preparing and Investigating an English–Mizo Corpus

Granted German Patent in 2022 — advancing low-resource language technology and machine translation for the English–Mizo language pair, a step toward digital inclusion for the North-East.

German Patent · Application No. 202022104426 · Year 2022

Explore the published work

Over 88 peer-reviewed contributions across journals, conferences and book chapters.

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