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Cybersecurity Lab

Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Room no - 302, Academic Block - 2

Pioneering research in Malware Detection, Secure Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Lightweight Cryptography.

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Success Story Defense: Our PhD scholar Debasmita Manna have successfully completed her defense on 17th Aug 2026   |   New Lab Update: The Cybersecurity Lab welcomes a new batch of M.Tech by research students 2026.

About the Lab

Welcome to the Cybersecurity Research Lab at IIT Patna. Our mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in security through rigorous academic research and practical innovation. We explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, developing robust defenses against next-generation threats.

Cybersecurity for AI

Securing AI models against adversarial attacks and data poisoning.

AI for Cybersecurity

Leveraging artificial intelligence to detect and mitigate cyber threats.

Malware Analysis

Behavioral analysis and AI-driven detection.

Blockchain

Smart contract security and consensus protocols.

Cryptography

Lightweight crypto for IoT and edge devices.

News & Highlights

  • Success Story Defense: Our PhD scholar Debasmita Manna have successfully completed her defense on 17th Aug 2026 August 2026
  • New Lab Update: The Cybersecurity Lab welcomes a new batch of M.Tech by research students 2026. August 2026

Research Group

Dr. Somanath Tripathy

Dr. Somanath Tripathy

Professor

Dr. Tripathy leads the Cybersecurity Lab at IIT Patna. His research interests include Cybersecurity, Malware Detection, Secure Machine Learning, and Blockchain.

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Biswarupa Murmu
Biswarupa Murmu
Cyber Security
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Shalini Singh
Shalini Singh
Cyber Security
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Sanaya Malik
Sanaya Malik
Cyber Security
#01
Ankur Jain
Ankur Jain
Blockchain Security
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Kushagra Mathur
Kushagra Mathur
M.Tech by Research
Futuristic Security
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Ajay Mundiyara
Ajay Mundiyara
M.Tech by Research
Futuristic Security
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Sakina Bohra
Sakina Bohra
M.Tech by Research
Futuristic Security
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Ayush Kayasth
Ayush Kayasth
M.Tech by Research
Futuristic Security
#04
Durjoy Majumdar
Durjoy Majumdar
Blockchain Security
#03
Ved Prakash
Ved Prakash
LLM security
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Vivekanand Pandey
Vivekanand Pandey
LLM security
#01
Abhyudaya Yadav
Abhyudaya Yadav
LLM security
#13
Debasmita Manna
Debasmita Manna
Class of 2026
Assistant Professor, S.R.M University Andhra Pradesh
Thesis: Designing Security and Privacy aware Deep Neural Network: Attacks and Defenses
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Dr. Narendra Singh Lodhi
Dr. Narendra Singh Lodhi
Class of 2025
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais Campus, Uttar Pradesh
Thesis: AI-Driven Techniques for Early-Stage Malware Detection Using Static and Dynamic Analysis
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Dr. Vivek Singh
Dr. Vivek Singh
Class of 2024
(Joint supervision of Dr. Kailash Chandra Ray)
Thesis: Development of an efficient signal processing method and embedded system for audio-based forest event monitoring
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Dr. Susmita Palmal
Dr. Susmita Palmal
Class of 2024
(Joint supervision of Dr. Sriparna Saha )
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ramgarh, Jharkhand.
Thesis: Development of Multi-View Machine Learning Models for Disease Causative Agent and Prognosis Prediction
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Dr. Partha Sarathi Chakraborty
Dr. Partha Sarathi Chakraborty
Class of 2024
Associate Professor, Inspiria Knowledge Campus [under MAKAUT], West Bengal
Thesis: Designing Security Techniques for Outsourced Data in Cloud Storage Services
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Dr. Srikanta Kumar Pradhan
Dr. Srikanta Kumar Pradhan
Class of 2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, S.R.M University Andhra Pradesh
Thesis: Optimal Task Offloading and Secure Data Dissemination in Vehicular Cloud Computing
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Dr. Susil Kumar Mohanty
Dr. Susil Kumar Mohanty
Class of 2023
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Secure Off-Chain Transactions for Blockchain-based Payment Channel Networks
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Dr. Harsh Kasyap
Dr. Harsh Kasyap
Class of 2023
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Thesis: Security and Privacy Preserving Techniques For Federated Learning
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Dr. Vikash Kumar Rai
Dr. Vikash Kumar Rai
Class of 2021
( Joint supervision of Prof. Jimson Mathew )
Assistant Professor, National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Delhi.
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Lightweight Cryptographic Techniques for IoT Devices
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Dr. Nemi Chand Rathore
Dr. Nemi Chand Rathore
Class of 2021
Associate Professor, Central University of South Bihar (Gaya).
Thesis: Some Techniques To Restrict Sensitive Data Leakage From Online Social Network
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Dr. Sumit Kumar Tetarave
Dr. Sumit Kumar Tetarave
Class of 2020
Assistant Professor II, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar.
Thesis: Techniques for Efficeint and Secure File-Sharing in Peer to Peer Mobile Networks
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Dr. Sanjeet Kumar Nayak
Dr. Sanjeet Kumar Nayak
Class of 2019
Assistant Professor, IIITDM Kancheepuram.
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Techniques for Secure Cloud Storage Services
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Dr. Rakesh Matam
Dr. Rakesh Matam
Class of 2014
Associate Professor, IIIT Guwahati.
Thesis: Secure Routing Techniques For Wireless Mesh Networks
#27 Anubhav Kant
Anubhav Kant
2026
Thesis: Eeg-Based Schizophrenia Classification With Post-Hoc Clinical Explainability
#26 Satyam Kumar
Satyam Kumar
2026
Thesis: Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks: Adversarial Threats and Countermeasures
#25 Ravi Paswan
Ravi Paswan
2026
Thesis: Reentrancy Attack Detection in Ethereum Smart Contracts via Transaction Execution Traces
#24 Abhishar Anand
Abhishar Anand
2026
Thesis: Control Flow semantics Based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection
#23 Megha Kumari
Megha Kumari
2025
Thesis: Trojan Detection
#22 Shivam
Shivam
2025
Thesis: Credit Card Fraud Detection
#21 Shubham Kumar
Shubham Kumar
2024
Thesis: Evasion attack against fraud detection system
#20 Nemichand Rinwa
Nemichand Rinwa
2024
Thesis: Adversarial attack against deep neural networks
#19 Omkar Santosh Gavhane
Omkar Santosh Gavhane
2023
Thesis: Privacy Preserving of Outsourcing Data in Cloud
#18 Ashutosh Abhishek
Ashutosh Abhishek
2023
Thesis: Honeypot on Linux based IoT systems
#17 Amar Pandey
Amar Pandey
2022
Thesis: Malware Detection using Machine Learning Technique
#16 B.Shravan Naik
B.Shravan Naik
2022
Thesis: Blockchain based Reliable Data Transfer for Intelligent Transport System
#15 Dhamendra Tiwari
Dhamendra Tiwari
2022
Thesis: Defending Poisoning Attack In Federated Learning
#14 Tama Ray Chowdhury
Tama Ray Chowdhury
2022
Thesis: Reverse Dialouge Generator for Chatbots
#13 Arpan Mana
Arpan Mana
2021
Thesis: Defending Poisoning Attack In Federated Learning
#12 Ranu Maurya
Ranu Maurya
2021
Thesis: Development of a chatbot followed by Automated functional validation and Manual security Validation of chat bot
#11 Narendra Singh Lodhi
Narendra Singh Lodhi
2020
Thesis: Collaborative Learning Based Effective Malware Detection System
#10 Sanjay Murmu
Sanjay Murmu
2020
Thesis: Password Generation, Guessing, Modelling and Strength Estimation
#09 Sunny Yadav
Sunny Yadav
2019
Thesis: Study of Zero day attack detection using one class classifiers
#08 Chanchal Suman
Chanchal Suman
2018
Thesis: Effective Unsupervised feature selection algortihm for Intrusion Detection system (Jointly Supervison of Dr. Sriparna Saha)
#07 A.K. Sinha
A.K. Sinha
2017
Thesis: Efficient Client side proxy for preventing session hijacking and cross site request forgery
#06 Aparna.C
Aparna.C
2017
Thesis: Malware Detection Using Machine Learning
#05 Praveen Kumar
Praveen Kumar
2017
Thesis: Preventing Session Hijacking and Cross Side Request Forgery using client side Proxy
#04 Basant Kumar Jha
Basant Kumar Jha
2016
Thesis: Privacy Preserving Technique for Smart Metering System
#03 Debapriya Chakraborty
Debapriya Chakraborty
2015
Thesis: Some Results in Quantum Information Theory
#02 Karunakar Saroj
Karunakar Saroj
2015
Thesis: Designing of Variable Length Block Cipher
#01 Subho Shankar Basu
Subho Shankar Basu
2015
Thesis: Secure Multicast Data transmission Technique For Internet of Things

Research Outcome

TitleRoleFunding AgencyAmountDuration
ISEA-III (Security Futuristic technologies) PI(Co-Lead) MeiTy 200 Lakh (Approx.) 60 Months
Development of an Intelligent Visual Query Response solution for Remote sensing Co-PI with PI (Dr. Suman Kumar Maji) SERB 26.67981 Lakh 36 Months (Commenced from 9th January 2023)
TitleRoleFunding AgencyAmountDuration
Collaborative learning for Early detection of Fraud in Fintech Application PI IIT Bhilai Innovation Technology Foundation 14.94 Lakh 36 Months
AI-based Tools for Women and Child Safety Co-PI Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Rs. 284.688 Lakh 24 Months
Privacy Preserving Smart Contract based Technique to Perform Secure Computation in Cloud Storage: Design and Analysis PI SERB (Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS)) Rs. 6.6 Lakh (2.2 Lakh per year) 36 Months (January 2020)
Development of Solution to Defend Against Collaborative Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Networks PI DEITY Rs. 35.4 Lacs 34 Months (Completed on July 2018)
Development of a Secure Routing Framework for P2P Networks using Gossip-based Protocols Co-PI DIT Rs. 59.64 Lacs 28 months (Completed On February 2014)
Development of Authentication and Key Management for Battle Field Communication Network PI DRDO, CAIR, Bangalore Rs. 9.6 Lacs 16 months (Completed on January 2013)

58. Ankur Jain, Abhishar Anand, Somanath Tripathy, SVACS: Smart Contract Vulnerability Analysis via Control Flow Semantics, IEEE Access, Volume: 14, 123386 - 123397, (2026)., https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3722527.
(IF:4.2, H5: 288)

57. Sanaya Malik, Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy, Semantic characterization of android malware through runtime system call analysis, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 98, 104406, (2026)., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2026.104406.
(IF:4.4, H5: 69)

56. Debasmita Manna, Somanath Tripathy, Bruhadeshwar Bezawada, Indrakshi Ray, “Just a Patch”: Imperceptible Image Patch Generation for Adversarial Inference, IEEE Access, Volume: 14, 51294 - 51307, (2026)., https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3680319.
(IF:4.2, H5: 288)

55. Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy, TraceX: Early-stage advanced persistent threat detection framework using semantic network traffic analysis, Computer Networks, Volume 282, 112288, (2026)., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2026.112288.
(IF:4.7, H5: 99)

54. Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Somanath Tripathy, SESIV: Secure and efficient smart contract based integrity verification of outsourced data, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 93, 104121, (2025)., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2025.104121.
(IF:4.4, H5: 69)

84. Piyush Jaiswal, Aaditya Pratap, Shreyansh Saraswati, Harsh Kasyap, Somanath Tripathy, Analysis of LLMs Against Prompt Injection and Jailbreak Attacks, LM-SHIELD '26, June 1 - 5, 2026, Bangalore India..

83. Debasmita Manna and Somanath Tripathy, NEXUS: Neuron Activation Scores Exploits for Unveiling Sensitive Attributes, 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2025), 16-20 December, 2025, IIT Indore, India..

82. Shivam Kushwaha, Ankur Jain and Somanath Tripathy, Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Dynamic Attention and Multi-View Graph Learning, The 9th International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning, December 4-5, 2025, (Online)..

81. Ankur Jain and Somanath Tripathy, EthAegis: Featured graph based Fraud Detection in Ethereum Transactions, 18th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, October 17th, 2025 - Taipei, Taiwan..

80. Debasmita Manna and Somanath Tripathy, Patch based backdoor attack on Deep Neural Networks, 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security, 16-20 December 2024, LNMIIT, Jaipur, India..

5. Harsh Kasyap, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Carsten Maple and Somanath Tripathy, 'Fairness-Constrained Optimization Attack in Federated Learning', arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.12143v1, 2025..

4. Chanchal Suman, Somanath Tripathy, and Sriparna Saha, 'Building an Effective Intrusion Detection System using Unsupervised Feature Selection in Multi-objective Optimization Framework', arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06562, 2019..

3. Nemi Chandra Rathore, Somanath Tripathy, 'InfoRest: Restricting Privacy Leakage to Online Social Network App', arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06403, 2019..

2. Sumit Kumar Tetarave, Somanath Tripathy, 'Robust Node ID Assignment for Mobile P2P Networks', arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05388, 2019..

1. Sumit Kumar Tetarave, Somanath Tripathy, and R K Ghosh, 'Enhancing Quality of Experience using DHT Overlay on Device-to-Device Communications in LTE-A Networks', arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02381, 2019..

Awards and Honours

2nd Position

Prof. Somanath Tripathy(Mentor), Mr.Harsh Kasyap(Teamlead), Mr.Narendra Singh, Mr.Bablu Kumar, Mr.Mukesh Kumar

National Level VJ Hackathon-Victory Joy in Smart Innovations (2021)

VNR VJIET in collaboration with Computer Society of India & AICTE under SPICES

Hyedrabad

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Best Technical Poster Award

Dr. Nemi Chandra Rathore and Prof. Somanath Tripathy.

ICACCI 2018

IEEE ComSoc

Bangalore

Best Technical Poster Award

Dr. Sanjeet Nayak and Prof. Somanath Tripathy

GCCS 2017

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

New Delhi

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IEEE Student Scholarship

INDIN 2006

IEEE

Singapore

Best Paper Award

Prof. Somanath Tripathy and Prof. Sukumar Nandi

OBCOMAPC 2004, Asia Pacific Conference

VIT, Vellore

Glimpses

Moments & milestones from the Cybersecurity Lab.

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Panoramic View of the Lab

Panoramic View of the Lab

Current Research Team

Current Research Team

The dedicated group of scholars collaborating on cutting-edge cybersecurity, cryptography, and secure systems research.

Workstations

Workstations

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Join Our Group

We are always looking for motivated Ph.D., M.Tech, and B.Tech students. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and want to work on cutting-edge research, we'd love to hear from you.

Note: We usually take interns during summer or winter breaks, but everyone is encouraged to reach out anytime.