Our Faculty
Division Head
Dr. SHISHIR KUMAR SHANDILYA
Office: 109, AB-1 First Floor
Email: dh.csdf@vitbhopal.ac.in,
shishirkumar.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Shishir Kumar Shandilya is the Division Head of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics in School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, a Cambridge University Certified Professional Teacher and Trainer and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has received IDA Teaching Excellence Award for distinctive use of technology in teaching by Indian Didactics Association, Bangalore (2016) and Young Scientist Award for two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006, by Indian Science Congress & MP Council of Science & Technology. He has authored seven books published in the USA, Denmark and India. His recently published book is on Advances in Cyber Security Analytics and Decision Systems by Springer.
Faculty
Dr. PRAVEEN LALWANI
Assistant Professor, SCSE
Email: praveen.lalwani@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Praveen Lalwani is an Assistant Professor in School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He completed his PhD from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad in 2018. His research interests include Cyber Security and Digital Forensics.
Dr.Azath.H
Assistant Professor Senior, SCSE
Email: azath.h@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr.H. Azath received his degrees Ph.D(2019), ME(2010), BE(2001@GCE) in the field of Computer Science & Engineering and M.TECH-IT(2003), MBA(2012) in Education Management. He has 19 years of academic experience under various capacities in India and Abroad. He has served as an Asstt. Professor in the department of Information Technology at Haramaya University, Africa. He is a reviewer for SCI/WoS indexed International Journals like Software: Practice and Experience, Software: Evolution and Process and Journal of Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems. He has also been a reviewer in International Conference at University of Missourie (UMKC), Kansas City, US. Dr. Azath has 5 patents to his credit and has more than 11 publications in SCI/Scopus indexed journals and proceedings. He has also authored 4 books and a book chapter.He has collaborated with a number of International faculty in Academics and Research and is a Member of ISTE since 2005.
Dr. Subhash Chandra Patel
Assistant Professor
Email: subhash.patel@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Subhash Chandra Patel received his PhD degree in CSE from IIT (BHU), Varanasi in 2018 and M.Tech. degree in Information Security from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashtha University, New Delhi in 2010. Currently,B.Tech in CSE in 2006. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at VIT University Bhopal. Dr. Subhash Patel has Four years of Experience in Teaching. He got published various research papers in National and international conferences and Journals also. He reviewed various paper for Transactions on Cloud Computing Journal. His research interests include Cloud Computing Security, Information Security, Internet of Things and Software Engineering.
Dr. S. Rajasoundaran
Assistant Professor,
Email: raja.soundaran@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. S. Rajasoundaran has completed his PH.D in College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai in the year of 2017. He has completed his B.E in Anna University Chennai. He has pursued M.Tech in Network Engineering. His research areas are Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks and Security. He has 10 years of teaching experience in various institutions. He has published 12 international journals and conference articles. Among these journals, he has published 5 articles in SCI and Scopus journals. In addition, he has filed two patents.
Dr. Nitish Andola
Assistant Professor
Email: nitish.andola@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Nitish Andola is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Science Engineering of VIT-Bhopal University. He completed his M. Tech-Ph.D. Dual Degree Programme from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad. His Master’s specialization was on Cyber Law and Information Security, followed by his Ph.D. in Cryptography and Blockchain Domain. He has many publications in reputed International journals and Conferences. His research focuses on the cryptographic protocols for provisioning identity privacy on the blockchain. His research also includes privacy-preserving algorithms for data storage on the cloud.
Dr. Rakesh
Assistant Professor
Email:rakesh.r@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Rakesh is a doctorate from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai. He has done his Masters in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hindusthan College, Tamil Nadu. He has 6 years of research experience and a year of teaching experience. He has publications in reputed international journals and conferences such as Springer and IEEE indexed by SCI and Scopus. During the tenure of his Ph.D. program, he has presented his findings in multiple conferences held all over India and has received the best research paper awards. His entire Ph.D. program was funded by the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai. His area of research interest includes Cyber Security, Web Security, and Machine Learning.
Dr. S. Hariharasitaraman
Assistant Professor
Email: hariharasitaraman.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. S. Hariharasitaraman is presently serving as Assistant Professor Grade-II in the School of Computer Science and Engineering. He completed his doctorate on the topic of analyzing data integrity schemes in cloud computing from KARE. His doctorate dissertation outlines various research directions and opened up future avenues in designing secure data integrity protocols. He completed his Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University in the year 2005, in master’s dissertation outlines in Designing and analyzing software infrastructures for the internetworking environment. He has completed a Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Computer Science & Engineering in the year 2003. He has more than 28 publications and 1 book chapter in National, International Conference, and peer-reviewed International Journal proceedings indexed in Scopus, SCIE, and SCI databases. He has more than 13 years of teaching experience and 2 years of Industry experience as a Lead Quality Analyst from top NIRF-ranked Institutions. He is a Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP), EMC2 Cloud Infrastructure Services Associate (CIS), and Microsoft Certified Cloud Associate (MTA). He is a resource person and technical trainer for conducting hands-on workshops/Industrial Seminars/FDPs in technical, research, and quality domains targeted for various levels of audience. He is the recipient of Elsevier Publons certified journal reviewer Award, and reviewer for Springer-Journal of SuperComputing, Achieved Grand Master position in Jedis rank towards generating open-sourced data to support speech and language technologies in Indian languages for “Crowdsourcing for Language Processing (CLAP)”, Project funded by MHRD and DST, Govt. of India under the IMPRINT 2 scheme, IIT Bombay, Synerg, Department of CSE along with that he is the recipient of Best Paper Awardee- INCODS security Conference, Best teacher awardee, Best mentor, Best faculty advisors for two consecutive academic years. He successfully headed various administrative positions in organizations he worked like University level IQAC Coordinator – Academic Quality Assurance, Coordinator for Extension/ Outreach Activities, and Programme Coordinator for Corporate Relations. He is an active member of various technical national and international bodies like the Information Security Awareness Council, MeitY, GoI, ACM, IEEE, ISTE, CSI, and IAEng. His research area of interest is Computing, Security, Ambient, and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. R. Ganeshan
Assistant Professor, Senior
Email: ganeshan.r@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. R. Ganeshan is Assistant Professor senior grade 2 in the School of Computer Science and Engineering of VIT-Bhopal University. He is having experience in different colleges and University. He was completed his doctorate degree in Anna University in the field of Information and Communication Engineering with specialization of Computer Science and Engineering. The research area includes Network Security and Forensics, Ethical Hacking, and Cyber Security. He has published various research papers which are indexed by Scopus and SCI journals. He is having various Professional Society membership cards like CSI, IAEng, SDIWC and ICSES.
Dr. Rizwan ur Rehman
Assistant Professor
Email: rizwan.ur@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Rizwan ur Rehman completed his Doctorate and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal. Previously, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Information Technology, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. He has publications in reputed SCI Journals like Computers & Security – Journal – Elsevier, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation- Elsevier, Journal of Computer Virology, and Hacking Techniques- Springer etc. His research interest includes Cyber Security, Web Security, Digital Investigation, and Data Mining. He has over 10 years of teaching experience. His programming experience includes C/C++, C#, SQL, Python, ASP, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET; Win Forms, Web Forms, and Java. He has also worked as Assistant Professor (on contract) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Bhopal.
Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastav
Associate Professor
Email: ashishkumar@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Srivastava has served in different academic and administrative roles at various academic institutes for more than 17 years. Most recently he served MITS Madanapalli Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Srivastava holds a PhD in Information Technology from MANIT Bhopal, M.Tech in Information Technology from Tezpur Central University Assam and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bharathiar University Coimbatore Tamil Nadu. He has supervised around 28 M. Tech. Thesis. He is an active researcher in the field of wireless sensor networks and Network Security Dr. Ashish is a Life member of ISTE.