Our Faculty
Division Head-Cyber Division
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.
Program Chair – CSDF
Dr. Rudra Kalyan Nayak
Senior Assistant Professor
Email: rudrakalyan.nayak@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Rudra Kalyan Nayak is an Assistant Professor (Grade-2) in the School of Computing Science & Engineering at VIT Bhopal University. He has served recently in KL (Deemed to be University), Andhra Pradesh. He has 12+ years of experience in teaching, mentoring and research. He did his research in the domain of Financial Engineering and earned his Doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering from Siksha ’O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He completed his M.Tech in Information Technology from the same University. Dr. Nayak has 7 numbers of Patents including 2 granted Australian Patents. He has authored 2 books and 1 book chapter. To his credit, he has more than 34 international publications in reputed journals and IEEE/Springer conference proceedings. He has also authored an article in IEEE India Council Newsletter. He has been Research Progress Assessment Committee (RPAC) Member and active PhD-review panel member in the Dept. of CSE in the former University. Dr. Nayak has been an expert speaker in one Faculty Development Programme. He has been a Reviewer in several peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences. His research area includes Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Financial Engineering, Bioinformatics and Computer Vision. He has received various awards such as: 100 Eminent Academicians of 2021, Dynamic Teacher of the Year 2019, I2OR Preeminent Researcher Award 2019 and Green ThinkerZ Bright Educator Award 2019. Dr. Nayak is a professional member of ACM, CSTA, IAENG, ICSES, the IRED, SDIWC and life member of ISTE. He has also been Honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press.
Faculty
Dr. S. Hariharasitaraman
Senior Assistant Professor
Email: hariharasitaraman.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. S. Hariharasitaraman is currently serving as the Head -The office of IQAC at VIT Bhopal University and Senior Assistant Professor in the Division of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, under the Faculty of Computing Science and Engineering, at VIT Bhopal University. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering, and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has more than 30 publications indexed in SCI/WoS/SCIE/Scopus databases, 2 book Chapters, Author of 4 technical books with 1 national Patent and 1 Australian Patent granted. He is a recognized PhD research supervisor and Supervised 15 M.E/Mtech Thesis. He gained teaching experience from ABET(6 years)and NBA Accredited department for about 18 years and served 2 years as a Lead Quality Analyst. in Software Industry He is instrumental as a coordinator/Mock Assessor/Data Aggregator at both University and Programme levels for major Accreditation and Ranking frameworks like AICTE, AISPHE, AQAR, NAAC(3 Cycles), NBA(2 Cycles), ABET(2 Cycles), QS, ARIIA, TH, NIRF Ranking, GreenMetric Ranking. He is a known resource person, technical trainer, Session Chair, Publication Chair, and Organiser for conducting Technical workshops/Webinars/Industrial Seminars/FDPs/Conferences in technical, research, and quality domains targeted at various levels of audiences at national and international levels. He is the recipient of the Elsevier Publons certified journal reviewer Award, and a reviewer for the Springer-Journal of Super Computing, MDPI, Wiley, Emerald, and IEEE publication house. He is a Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP), EMC2 Cloud Infrastructure Services Associate (CIS), and Microsoft Certified Cloud Associate (MTA). He achieved a 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)”, a Project funded by MHRD and DST, Govt. of India under the IMPRINT 2 scheme, IIT Bombay, Synerg, Department of CSE. He is the recipient of Best Paper Awardee- INCODS Security Conference- Session Chaired by Dr Rajkumar Buyya, Doyen in Security Domain. He is the recipient of Best teacher awardee, Best Mentor- Project Guidance, and Best Faculty Advisor(Proctor) for two consecutive academic years. He successfully headed various administrative positions in organizations he worked as the University level IQAC Coordinator-Academic Quality Assurance, Coordinator for Extension Activities, Coordinator for Outreach Activities Outreach, Programme Coordinator for Corporate Relations, Programme Director for Industry Relations and Interfaces, and University level Admission Coordinator. He is an active member of various technical national and international bodies like the Information Security Awareness Council-MeitY, GoI, ACM-Professional, IEEE-Student member, ISTE-Life Member, CSI, and IAEng- Life Member. His research area is Security, Software Testing, and Healthcare Data Analytics.
