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Gaurav Indra, Ph.D

Gaurav Indra, Ph.D

Academic Researcher
New Delhi

Summary

Passionate cryptanalyst and a seasoned Network Security academician creating pragmatic solutions for the security challenges in the quantum era with over 12 years of experience. Currently, seeking a research position to utilize my pragmatic research and innovative academic skills in a Research Institution of international repute that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Professor (Grade-II) of Network Security

Department Of Information Technology, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women, Delhi
Delhi
03.2018 - Current
  • Doctoral Research Supervision (Department of IT-IGDTUW)
  • Doctoral Research Co-Supervision (Department of CSE & IT-IGDTUW)
  • Post-Graduate Research Supervision and Co-Supervision (Department of IT & Department of AI-DS, IGDTUW)
  • Under-Graduate Research Supervision (Department of IT-IGDTUW)
  • Member-Departmental Research Committee (Department of AI-DS, CSE & IT-IGDTUW)
  • Member-University Doctoral Admissions Committee-IGDTUW
  • Incharge-Infrastructure (Department of IT, IGDTUW)

Teaching-cum-Research Fellow

Division Of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology, University Of Delhi
New Delhi
01.2015 - 02.2018
  • Academic Teaching of Undergraduate Students
  • Mentoring and Supervision of Post-Graduate Research Scholars
  • Setting and Marking for Examination Division-NSIT
  • Maintained high levels of confidentiality to protect data quality and project research

Doctoral Researcher

Doctoral Researcher Center For Application Of IT In Financial Systems (CAITFS-Lab, NSIT)
New Delhi
01.2015 - 02.2018

Under the Guidance of
Prof. Sanjay K. Dhurandher (Former HoD, Division of IT-NSIT, University of Delhi)

  • Proposed, designed and implemented "Secure Communication Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks"

Assistant Professor (Grade-Senior)

Department Of Information Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College Of Engineering, New Delhi
New Delhi
02.2012 - 02.2015
  • Academic Teaching, Mentoring, Supervision, Setting and Marking.
  • Co-Coordinator of Project “AICTE MODROBS -Microsoft Private Cloud for Academic and Faculty Research”. A Grant of INR. 8 Lakhs under MODROBS from AICTE, New Delhi, sanctioned during the financial year 2013-2014.

Summer Faculty Research Fellow

Department Of Mathematics, Indian Institute Of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi)
New Delhi
06.2013 - 07.2013

Under the Guidance of
Prof. R.K. Sharma (ConsenSys Blockchain Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics-IIT Delhi)

  • Proposed and designed "ECC-based Light Weight Cryptographic Protocol for Resource Constrained WSNs.

Senior Software Engineer

MphasiS
Bengaluru
07.2011 - 01.2012
  • Developed the Point-of-Sale (POS) System Application in Xcode for JPMorgan Chase unifying online payment with in-person sales.

Visiting Research Fellow

Scientific Analysis Group (SAG-Lab), Defence Research And Development Organisation (DRDO)
New Delhi
01.2011 - 06.2011
  • Designed a cryptographically secure Elliptic Curve Cryptography-based Time-Stamped Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks.
  • Deciphered the desynchronisation problem in distributed and decentralised WSNs; designed and implemented a Time-Stamped mechanism for logically synchronised secure and authenticated communication in Industrial Wireless Sensor N/Ws.
  • Evaluated the differential privacy and cryptographic security of the proposed ECC-TimeStamped-based crypto-framework substantiated by formal verification.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department Of Software Engineering (Delhi Technological University-DTU)
New Delhi
09.2009 - 06.2011
  • Academic Teaching: Conducted tutorial-lab sessions for undergraduate students.
  • Supported Teaching: Assisted in developing teaching materials, practical sessions, and assessments.
  • Mentoring and Supervision: Mentored and supervised undergraduate research students.

Visiting Research Scholar

Scientific Analysis Group, (SAG-Lab) Defence Research And Development Organisation (DRDO)
New Delhi
01.2009 - 06.2009
  • As a Visiting Research Scholar under the guidance of Prof. (Late) I.J. Kumar (Former-Head, SAG Lab DRDO), I statistically analysed the Triple DES and quantitatively evaluated the Side Channel Attacks and differential privacy of AES-based Authentication Frameworks for file and disk encryption substantiated by formal verification.

Summer Research Intern

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
New Delhi
06.2008 - 07.2008
  • Interned as a Research Trainee and quantitatively evaluated the differential privacy and cryptographic security of 3G/UMTS Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol substantiated by formal verification.
  • Qualitatively analysed the security and performance metrics of Small Region-based Handover Authentication and Session Key Management Procedures in 3G/UMTS-based Mobile Communication Systems and tried to identify the cryptographic security threats along with active and passive network attacks.



Education

Ph.D. - Beyond-5G Network Security

Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi
New Delhi
08.2015 - 02.2022

Prof. Certification On "Advanced Cyber Security" - Cyber Security

Stanford University
California, US
10.2020 - 10.2021

Master of Technology - Software Engineering

Delhi Technological University
New Delhi
08.2009 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering
New Delhi
08.2005 - 06.2009

Skills

    Applied Research

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Accomplishments

  • Qualified in First Attempt-"UGC-CBSE Net 2015" in Computer Science and Applications (Assistant Professor)
  • 96.70 Percentile in GATE-2008 and A.I.R 575 in Computer Science Stream
  • Secured Merit Rank 1 in Selection Process for M-Tech (S.E) program in COE Department in D.T.U

Affiliations

  • Member-IEEE, IEEE-Communication Society, ACM, IACR and AAAI

Certification

Certification in "Core & Advance Java Technologies" by MphasiS Learning Academy, Mangalore

Interests

Post Quantum Cryptography

Light Weight Cryptography

Zero Trust Architecture

Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols

Beyond-5G/6G Secure Network Architecture

5G-AKA EAP-TLS

Quantum Information Science

Selected Publications

International Patents - Status: Granted

  • G.Indra et. al "Designing Imperceptible-High Payload Capacity Steganography Framework in Post Quantum Encrypted Domain using Deep Advanced Hierarchical Feature Learning"

      AU 2021107185 · Issued Nov 24, 2021


  • G.Indra et. al "Simultaneous spectrum and energy allocation algorithm for cognitive internet of things"

      AU 2021106006 · Issued Nov 3, 2021


  • G.Indra et. al "SYSTEM & METHOD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO LINK MONITORING & CONTROLLING IN AN OFDM BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING COGNITIVE RADIO-BASED INTERNET OF THINGS"

      AU 2021105611 · Issued Oct 27, 2021


US Patents in Collaboration with International Universities - Status: Published

  • G.Indra et. al "Character and symbol recognition system for vehicle safety"

      US 17809443 · Filed Jun 28, 2022


  • G.Indra et. al "Method for COVID-19 detection to spread prevention and medical assistance using machine learning"

      US 17551376 · Filed Dec 15, 2021


Indian Patents from Doctoral Research in CAITFS LAB (NSIT) - Status: Published

  • G.Indra et. al "CONVERGENCE OF DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS IN CRN ARCHETYPES"

      IND 202211015334 · Filed Mar 21, 2022


  • G.Indra et. al "LOGICAL CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK ARCHETYPES"

      IND 202211004096 · Filed Jan 24, 2022


International Journals (as Doctoral Supervisor) - Status: Communicated (and Under Review)

  • R.Verma; G.Indra "ZAIA: NIST-ZTA based 6G-native Anonymity Preserving Identity Attestation Framework for Next-Gen Consumer-IIoTs in Smart Manufacturing Industry 5.0"
  • Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE CTSoc, ISSN: 0098-3063, Impact factor: 4.300 (2022), SCI Indexed


  • Vaishali; G.Indra "5G-ZASP: NIST-ZTA and LWC Standard ASCON based 5G-native Privacy Preserving Cybersecurity Framework for AI-driven Health Informatics in Smart Prosthetics"
  • Journal Name: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE EMBS, ISSN: 2150-6974, Impact factor: 7.7 (2022), SCI Indexed


  • R.Verma; G.Indra "A Security and Privacy Enhancement Scheme for DLT-enable Industrial Internet of Things"
  • Journal Name: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN: 1024123X, 15635147, Impact factor: 2.600

      (2022) SCIE and Scopus Indexed


International Journal (as Doctoral Researcher in CAITFS Lab, NSIT) - Status: Published

  • G.Indra; S. Dhurandher "Conjoint belief adaption functionality for statistically secure communication paradigm for CR‐IIoTs"
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, ISSN: 1074-5351, Impact factor: 2.1 (2022), SCIE Indexed


  • G.Indra; S. Dhurandher "VTE‐AKA: an optimum vector time encoding scheme for synchronising authenticated key agreements in cognitive radio ad hoc networks"
  • Journal Name: IET Communications, Institution of Engineering and Technology, ISSN: 1751-8636, Impact factor: 1.345 (2022), SCIE Indexed


  • G. Indra et. al "Cryptographically secure privacy-preserving authenticated key agreement protocol for an IoT network: A step towards critical infrastructure protection"
  • Journal Name: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal, Springer, ISSN: 1936-6450, Impact factor: 3.488 (2022), SCIE Indexed


International Journal and Conference (as Graduate Researcher in Delhi Technology University, DTU) - Status: Published/Presented

  • G. Indra; R. Taneja "A time stamp-based elliptic curve cryptosystem for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks"
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, Inderscience, ISSN: 2044-4907, Impact factor: 1.978 (2022), ESCIE Indexed


  • G. Indra; R. Taneja “An ECC-Time Stamp based Mutual Authentication and Key Management Scheme for WSNs”
  • Conference Name: The 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), March 25-28, 2013-Barcelona, Spain

Awards & Accolades

  • First Prize in "ISTE - Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematical Competitive Examination, 2012" at the Zonal Level (Teachers Category) conducted by ISTE, New Delhi on 01/12/2012.


  • Conferred"Award of Excellence in Research" under the category of "Information Technology" during the academic year 2021-2022 in National Faculty Award 2021-2022 by Novel Research Academy, Puducherry, India on 07/08/2021.


  • Conferred "Commendable Research Award" for research excellence in the academic year 2021-2022 by the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women on 15/03/2023.

Professional References

Prof. Sanjay K. Dhurandher 

  • Executive Director, NIELIT (Delhi Centre), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
  • Former Head and Professor, Department of Information Technology at NSUT (Formerly NSIT, University of Delhi)
  • Email ID: dhurandher@nielit.gov.in
  • Contact: +91 9868554349


Prof. A. K. Mohapatra

  • Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology, IGDTUW, Kashmere Gate, Delhi
  • Former Chief Technical Advisor and CISO, Delhi Police
  • Email ID: akmohapatra@igdtuw.ac.in
  • Contact: +91 9810381423

      

Quote

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

Timeline

Prof. Certification On "Advanced Cyber Security" - Cyber Security

Stanford University
10.2020 - 10.2021

Assistant Professor (Grade-II) of Network Security

Department Of Information Technology, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women, Delhi
03.2018 - Current

Ph.D. - Beyond-5G Network Security

Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi
08.2015 - 02.2022

Teaching-cum-Research Fellow

Division Of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology, University Of Delhi
01.2015 - 02.2018

Doctoral Researcher

Doctoral Researcher Center For Application Of IT In Financial Systems (CAITFS-Lab, NSIT)
01.2015 - 02.2018

Summer Faculty Research Fellow

Department Of Mathematics, Indian Institute Of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi)
06.2013 - 07.2013

Assistant Professor (Grade-Senior)

Department Of Information Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College Of Engineering, New Delhi
02.2012 - 02.2015

Certification in "Core & Advance Java Technologies" by MphasiS Learning Academy, Mangalore

10-2011

Senior Software Engineer

MphasiS
07.2011 - 01.2012

Visiting Research Fellow

Scientific Analysis Group (SAG-Lab), Defence Research And Development Organisation (DRDO)
01.2011 - 06.2011

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department Of Software Engineering (Delhi Technological University-DTU)
09.2009 - 06.2011

Master of Technology - Software Engineering

Delhi Technological University
08.2009 - 06.2011

Visiting Research Scholar

Scientific Analysis Group, (SAG-Lab) Defence Research And Development Organisation (DRDO)
01.2009 - 06.2009

Summer Research Intern

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
06.2008 - 07.2008

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering
08.2005 - 06.2009
Gaurav Indra, Ph.DAcademic Researcher