Varun Kumar K A

• Motivating Computer Science professional driven to inspire students to pursue academic and personal excellence. Consistently strive to create a challenging and engaging learning environment in which students become lifelong scholars and learners.
• A Strong research professional completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) as a full time scholar focused on Security and Malware Analysis from Anna University, Chennai.
• Exceptional track record of research success with multiple published articles.

• Experience with varied forms of practical data, including drone data, healthcare, logs& other high- dimensional data.
• Strong expertise in detecting intrusions via network scans and deep packet analysis.
• Hands-on experience in deploying cloud servers (OpenNebula, Openstack) and monitoring the Server Health status, backup management, update checklist and reports based on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Hands-on experience deploying Honeypot (Dionaea) and Malware analysissandboxes (Cuckoo) in production environment.
• Hands-on experience in deploying SIEM (OSSIM) to monitor real time security events (visualization using ELKB) using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats (ELKB).

1. S. Balaji, R. Pavithra, D. Arivudainambi, K.A. Varunkumar, A. Suresh, Marwan Marwan Omar and Ali Kashif Bashir "Towards Efficient Sensor Deployment in Internet of Things for Target Coverage and Sensor Connectivity," in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3335466.(SCIE)(Impact Factor. 1.583) 

2. Gnanasekaran, P, Varunkumar, K.A, Rajendran, N. “Optoelectronic-aided machine learning- based stable routing protocol for MANET and beyond massive MIMO systems in 5G networks” Opt Quant Electron 56, 480 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-06106-8.(SCIE)(Impact Factor. 1.583) 

3. K.A. Varun Kumar, Sree T. Sucharitha, R. Priyadarshini, and N. Rajendran “Comparative approach for discovery of cancerous skin using deep structured learning” International Journal of Nanotechnology 2023 20:5-10, 744-758. (SCIE) (Impact Factor. 1.583) 

4. Varun Kumar.K.A, Priyadarshini R., Kathik P.C., Madhan E.S., and Sonya A. 2022. “Self-Co-Ordination Algorithm (SCA) for Multi-UAV Systems Using Fair Scheduling Queue.” Sensor Review, September. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr-01-2022-0003.(SCIE)(Impact Factor. 1.583) 

5. Pavendan. R.T, Sankar.K and Varun Kumar K.A, "A graph theory based self-learning honeypot to detect persistent threats," Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 35, no.3, pp. 3331–3348, 2023. (SCIE) (Impact Factor. 3.5) 

6. Arivudainambi.D, Varun Kumar K.A, Suresh Satapathy “Correlation Based Malicious Traffic Analysis System”, International Journal of Knowledge Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, (IOS Press) 2021, Vol.25, Iss 2, pp. 195–200. (Scopus / WoS) 

7. Arivudainambi D, Mangaikaresi G,Varun Kumar K A "Spectrum prediction in Cognitive Radio Network using Machine Learning Techniques" Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, (SCIE)(Impact Factor. 1.583) 

8. R. Priyadarshini, Mukil Alagirisamy, N. Rajendran, K.A. Varunkumar, “Invalidation Of Tunnelling Attacks In Ubiquitous Iot & Wireless Sensor Enviroment Using Ml Methods,optik, 2022, 170163, ISSN 0030 4026,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2022.170163. (SCIE)(Impact Factor. 2.443) 

9. Arivudainambi.D, Varun Kumar K.A, Vinoth Kumar.R, Visu.P, “Ransomware traffic classification using deep learning models: Ransomware traffic classification, International Journal of Web Portals, 2020, 12(1), pp. 1–11. (Scopus / WoS) 

10. D.Arivudainambi, Varun Kumar.K.A, Sibi Chakkaravarthy.S, and Visu.P “Malware traffic classification using principal component analysis and artificial neural network for extreme surveillance”, Computer Communications, vol.147, 2019, pp. 50-57,( (SCIE), Impact Factor: 2.766). 

11. D.Arivudainambi, Varun Kumar K.A and S.Sibi Chakkaravarthy, "LION IDS: A meta- heuristic approach to detect DDoS attacks against Software Defined Networks", Neural Computing and Applications, 2018, pp.1-11. Springer, (SCIE). 

• Indian patent titled "Internet of Things Based Intelligent Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing" Appl No. 202141031458, Status - Published.
• Australian Patent titled "Internet of Things Based Intelligent Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing" status - Granted.
• Indian Patent titled "A Device for Early Detection of Oral Cavity Cancer and Method of Operation Thereof Appl No. 202141012866, status - Published.
• Indian Patent titled "A smart application for Multi-Food Recognition using Machine learning" status - Published
• Indian Patent titled "EARLY DETECTION OF SKIN CANCER USING HANDHELD LOW- COST SMART DEVICE" Appl. No. 202141048061, status - Published
• Indian Patent titled ": Dual Lateral Flow Assay with Gold Nanoparticle for Presumptive Identification of Oral Cancer" Appl. No.202141048740 status - Published

https://github.com/varunkumar

• Neural Computing and its Applications
• Plosone Journal (SCI)
• Wireless Personal Communication (SCI)
• KSII Transaction Internet and Information systems
• International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing
• Soft computing
• Computers and Electrical Engineering
• The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology