About
Assistant Professor · Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology Raichur, Karnataka, India · Since September 2025
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Raichur. Before joining, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Secure UTM Systems Lab, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, working on secure unmanned traffic management.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, where I worked at the Design Innovation Centre (DIC) Lab. My doctoral work produced efficient computation-offloading frameworks for fog-computing environments; my postdoctoral work moved into lightweight, context-aware authentication for drone Remote ID.
Academic Background
2019 – 2024
Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Thesis: Design and Development of Efficient Task Offloading Framework for
Fog-Computing Environment.
2016 – 2018
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India
Department of Information Technology.
Career
Academic, research and industry positions in reverse chronological order. Detailed research roles are described on the research page, and teaching roles on the teaching page.
Sep 2025 –Present
Indian Institute of Information Technology Raichur India
Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Teaching, research supervision and institutional service, including Faculty In-Charge (Website) and Public Relations Officer.
Jun 2024 –Sep 2025
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Secure UTM Systems Lab. Worked on the project Zero trust-based secure, resilient and autonomous system for drone–UTM interaction (ZT-UTM) under Dr. Abdulhadi Shoufan.
Nov 2023 –Apr 2024
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Secure UTM Systems Lab. Worked with Dr. Abdulhadi Shoufan on drone authentication, remote identification and secure airspace management during my Ph.D. tenure.
Sep 2019 –Oct 2023
Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India
Design Innovation Centre (DIC) Lab, under Dr. Rakesh Matam and Prof. Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya. Research on the design and development of IoT-based tools, fog and edge computing, IEEE 802.11ah networks and drone communication systems.
Sep 2019 –Oct 2023
Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India
Teaching assistant for laboratory courses in computer networks, cloud computing, software engineering, computer programming, data structures, algorithms and database management systems.
Mar 2018 –Sep 2019
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Shillong
Implemented a Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) project for the Ministry of DoNER and then taught NIELIT courses.
Memberships
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Network
Associate Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Engineering Research Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center & Saint Louis University, USA
Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIIT Guwahati, India
Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIIT Guwahati, India
Post Doctoral Fellow, Lancaster University, UK
Faculty of Engineering, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kurnool, India
