Our Faculty
Division Head
Dr. Pushpinder Singh Patheja
Office: AB-108, First Floor
Email: pushpinder.singh@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Pushpinder Singh Patheja is Division Head of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at the School of Computing Science & Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He has completed his Ph. D. and Post-Graduation from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal. He has more than 30 years of experience in different academic and administrative roles in the field of teaching and research. He has more than 50 National and International papers to his credit. He is a member of various research organizations and has a specialization in computer networks, ad hoc networks, cyber security, and network security. Recently he has Completed the Certification of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv10) of EC-Council and is a NASSCOM Certified Trainer for Security Analyst SOC (SSC/Q0909: NVEQF Level 7). He was appointed as an Expert at Smart India Hackathon, 2017 and 2020 organized by MHRD and AICTE, New Delhi. He initiated VIT Bhopal ACM Student Chapter and has been instrumental in facilitating the collaborations for certifications namely Red Hat Certification for Linux and Ethical Hacking Certification of EC Council.
Programme Chairs
Dr. R. Rakesh
Assistant Professor & Programme Chair
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.Azath.H
Assistant Professor Senior & Programme Chair
Email: azath.h@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. H. Azath, Senior Assistant Professor Grade 2, VIT Bhopal University, INDIA. Dr. H. Azath received his degrees Ph.D, ME, BE in the field of Computer Science & Engineering and M.TECH-IT, MBA in Education Management. He has 16+ years of academic experience under various capacities in India and Abroad. He is a reviewer for two international journals of SCI indexed. He has also been a reviewer in International Conference at University of Missourie (UMKC), Kansas City, US. Dr. Azath has 9 patents to his credit and 8 publications in SCI indexed journals. He has also authored 4 books and 2 book chapters. His areas of interest are Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, IoT. He has collaborated with a number of International faculty in Academics and Research and is a Member of ISTE since 2005.
Faculty
Dr. SHISHIR KUMAR SHANDILYA
Professor
Email: shishirkumar.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Shishir Kumar Shandilya is the Deputy Director of SECURE – Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security and Division Head of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at VIT Bhopal University. He is working as a Principal Consultant to the Govt. of India for Technology Development and Assessment in Cyber Security. He also holds the position of Executive Director of National Cyber Defense Research Centre, New Delhi. He is pursuing higher-doctorate research (D.Sc.) on ‘Nature-inspired Cyber Security (NICS)’. He is a Visiting Researcher at Liverpool Hope University-United Kingdom, a Cambridge University Certified Professional Teacher and Trainer, TEDx Speaker, ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a NASSCOM Certified Master Trainer for Security Analyst SOC (SSC/Q0909: NVEQF Level 7) and an Academic Advisor to National Cyber Safety and Security Standards, New Delhi. He has received the 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 and MP Council of Science and Technology. He has ten books published by Springer Nature-Singapore, IGI-USA, River-Denmark and Prentice Hall of India. His recently published book is on ‘Advances in Nature-Inspired Cyber Security and Resilience’ by Springer and his research paper on Cybertwin is recently published in IEEE Transactions having an impact factor of 10.2. He has international and national patents and copyrights granted on NICS and Adaptive Cyber Defense Methods.
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. 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 Muneeswaran V
Assistant Professor, Senior
Email: muneeswaran@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Muneeswaran V is working as Assistant Professor Sr. grade in the school of CSE, VIT Bhopal. He completed his B.E. (CSE) in the year 1999 from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, and his M.E. (CSE) from Annamalai University, Chidambaram in the year 2005. He completed his Ph.D during 2021 in the area of Information Security from Anna University, Chennai. He has served in different academic and administrative roles at various academic institutes for more than 18 years. His research interests include Information Security, Quantum Cryptography, Data Science and Machine Learning. He has published 37 research publications in reputed International Journals/Conferences. He was a part of one of the members in Simulation of Boiler Model Testing Project, ABB, Bangalore and Dynamic Simulation of CFBC Furnace, Corporate R & D, BHEL Hyderabad. He has very much passion in program debugging and coding. He got Life time membership affiliation in Computer Society of India (CSI).
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. D. Saravanan
Assistant Professor
Email: saravanan.d@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. D. Saravanan is Assistant Professor in the School School of Computer Science and Engineering of VIT-Bhopal University. He completed his doctorate on the fusion of V2V and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) have a cohesive nature to share the information among the vehicles that leads to safety in roads, navigation, and other emerging applications from Pondicherry University (A Central University). The research area includes Ad-hoc networks and security, Bio-inspired algorithms, SD-WAN published papers in reputed journals, Scopus, SCI. He is a permanent member of ISTE.
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. M. Thangavel
Assistant Professor
Email: thangavel.m@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. M. Thangavel serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University. He is Doctorate from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai under Anna University – Chennai. He graduated as a M.E. Computer Science and Engineering from J.J. College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy under Anna University – Chennai (University First Rank Holder & Gold Medalist) and as a B.E. Computer Science and Engineering from M.A.M College of Engineering, Trichy under Anna University – Chennai (College First Rank Holder & Gold Medalist). He presently holds 9+ years of Teaching and Research experience from various academic institutions. His research specialization is Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and Security Intelligence. His areas of Interest include DNA Cryptography, Ethical Hacking, Compiler Design, Computer Networks, Data Structures and High Performance Computing. He has published 10+ articles in International Journals, 15+ book chapters in International Publishers, 25+ in the proceedings of International Conferences and 3 in the proceedings of national conferences /seminars. He has attended 100+ Workshops / FDPs/Conferences in various Higher Learning Institutes like IIT, Anna University. He has organized 50+ Workshops / FDPs /Contests/Industry based courses over the past years of experience. He shows interest in student counseling, in motivating for better placements and in helping them design value-based life-style.
Suryakanta Panda
Assistant Professor
Email: suryakantapanda@vitbhopal.ac.in
Suryakanta Panda pursued his Ph.D from IIT Patna. He has earned his masters degree from NIT Rourkela. He has 3 publications in peer reviewed international journals and has 3 publications in various International Conferences. He has an academic experience of 8.5 years in which he worked 2.5 years as an Asst. Professor and 6 years as teaching assistant in NIT and IIT.
Mr. Vikas K Jain
Assistant Professor
Email: vikaskumar@vitbhopal.ac.in
Mr. Vikas K Jain is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University. Before joining VIT, Jain was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota under National Project Implementation Unit (TEQIP-III Project, a unit of MHRD). He has received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from RGPV University Bhopal and a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering from SGSITS, Indore. He is pursuing Ph.D. in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jaipur. His current research area includes Blockchain, Smart Contract and Cyber Security. He has achieved Network Security Associate Certification from Fortinet. He has qualified GATE Exam in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2017.
