Mahendra Pratap Singh

Date of Joining at NITK:

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Length of Professional Experience:

16 + Years at NITK.

Contact Details

E-mail:

mp_singh@nitk.edu.in

Telephone:

+91-824-2473402

Author Identifiers

Academic Background

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)- Computer Security, Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur

Master of Engineering (M.E.) – Computer Science and Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) – Computer Science and Engineering

Areas of Interest

Cyber Security:

Computer Security.
Information and System Security.
Network Security.
Database Security.
5G Security.

Smart Agriculture/Aquaculture:

IoT and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning Based Technology Blended Agriculture/Aquaculture.

Significant Projects

Funded/Sponsored Projects (Ongoing):

1. Project Title: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security Scientific Awareness Creation in Children through UX/UI
Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology
Sanction Number: CO/B/FP/G150/2021 (C) & CO/B/FP/G150/2021 (G)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh
Co-investigator: Dr. Alwyn R. Pais
Project Duration: 2024-2027
Funding Amount: ₹ 25,99,400/-

2. Project Title: Intrusion Detection in Network Slices and Software-Defined Networking
Funding Agency: IHUB NTIHAC Foundation, IIT Kanpur
Sanction Number: IHUB-NTISAC/2024/01/4
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh
Co-investigators: Dr. Alwyn R. Pais, Dr. Radhika B S
Project Duration: 2024-2027
Funding Amount: ₹ 36,32,726/-

3. Project Title: 100 5G Use Case Labs for Higher Educational Institutions
Funding Agency: Dept. of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India.
Principal Investigators: Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh, Prof. Ashvini Chaturvedi
Co-investigators: Dr. Prabu K, Dr. Saumya Kamat, Dr. Gita, Dr. Kiran
Project Duration: 2023-2028
Funding Amount: ₹ 60,37,617/- (Excluding GST)

4. Project Title: Information Security Education Awareness (ISEA) Phase III
Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt of India.
Sanction Number: L-14017/1/2022-HRD Dated 16-10-2023
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alwyn Roshan Pais
Co-investigator: Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Radhika B S, and Prof. P. Santhi Thilagam
Project Duration: 2024-2029
Funding Amount: ₹ 2,20,00000/-

Funded/Sponsored Projects (Completed):-

1. Project Title: Smart Campus Navigation System-Application
Funding Agency: Boeing Higher Education Relation Grants
Sanction Number: 1.20/NITKBoeing/SJ/ItOD-MECFll2023-241A9
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh
Co-investigator: Dr. Mervin
Project Duration: 2024-2025
Funding Amount: ₹ 1,00,000/-

2. Project Title: CP-ABE Scheme with Decryption Keys of Constant Size using ECC with Expressive Threshold Access
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology-Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (DST-ICPS)
Sanction Number: DST/ICPS/CPS-individual/2018/902(G)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Alwyn R. Pais
Co-investigator(s): Dr. P. Santhi Thilagam, Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh
Project Duration: 2018-21
Funding Amount: Rs. 33,26,000/-

3. Project Title: Development of Tool for Detection of Application Layer DDoS Attacks on Web Applications
Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Principal Investigator: Dr. P. Santhi Thilagam
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Alwyn R. Pais, Dr. Mahendra Pratap Singh
Project Duration: 2017-19
Funding Amount: Rs. 29,78,000/-
Link: https://www.indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in/research/development-tool-d...

Consultancy Work (Ongoing):

1. Title: Intrusion Detection
Company/Organization: Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd.
Proposal No: NITK/CO/2024-25/0003
Duration: 12 Months
Amount: ₹ 35,40,000/-

Consultancy Work (Completed):

1. Title: OBE
Organization: The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka.
Proposal No: NITK/CO/2024-25/0001
Duration: 03 Months
Amount: ₹ 1,88,800/-

Supervision of Ph.D

QIP Scholar
1. Scholar Name: Mr. Dileep M Ramakrishna
Research Topic: AI-Based Smart Aquaculture Using 5G
Duration: 2024-2027

ICCR Scholar
1. Scholar Name: Mrs. Megha Dhar
Research Topic: AI-Based Smart Agriculture Using 5G
Duration: 2024-2027

Project Scholar
1. Scholar Name: Mr. Gaurav Pal
Research Topic: AI-Assisted Smart Interoperability Framework for IoT & IIoT
Duration: 2025--2028

Significant Publications

Book Chapter:

1. “Role of Access Control in Information Security: A Security Analysis Approach”, published in the book Titled “Information Security and Privacy in the Digital World- Some Selected Topics,” ISBN 978-1-83768-196-9by IntechOpen, London, 2023. (https://www.intechopen.com/books/11547)

2. “An Artificial Intelligent Framework for Malware Detection”, published in the book Titled “Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection Systems (1st ed.)” by Chapman and Hall/CRC on 16-10-2023. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003346340

In Journal:

Mahendra Pratap Singh, Haimashreelakshmi, Virendra Pratap Singh, and Maanak Gupta. “Enhancing the Security of SDN in 5G: A Hybrid Feature Selection Based Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Classification of Cyber-Attacks.” SN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Vol. 6(3), 233 (2025).
Virendra Pratap Singh, Mahendra Pratap Singh, Saumya Hedge, and Maanak Gupta, “Security in 5G Network Slices: Concerns and Opportunities”. IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 52727 – 52743, 2023. (Impact Factor-3.9) (Scopus & SCIE) (Q1)
Abhilash Kumar Das, Nirmalya Kar, Subhrajyoti Deb, and Mahendra Pratap Singh, “bFLEX-γ: A Lightweight Block Cipher utilizing Key Cross Approach via Probability Density Function”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47, pp. 10563–10578,2022. (Impact Factor-2.8) (Scopus)
Mahendra Pratap Singh, Shamik Sural, Jaideep Vaidya and Vijayalakshmi Atluri, “A Role-Based Administrative Model for Administration of Heterogeneous Access Control Policies and its Security Analysis”, Information Systems Frontiers, 2021. (Impact Factor-6.2) (Scopus)
Mahendra Pratap Singh, Shamik Sural, Jaideep Vaidya and Vijayalakshmi Atluri, “Managing Attribute-Based Access Control Policies in a Unified Framework using Data Warehousing and In-Memory Database”, Computers & Security, vol. 86, page no. 183-205, June 2019. (Impact Factor-3.6) (Scopus)

In Conference:

Virendra Pratap Singh, Mahendra Pratap Singh, and Saumya Hedge, “Securing 5G Network Slices Using Federated Learning”. 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ICMLBDA), 2024.
Mahendra Pratap Singh, Virendra Pratap Singh and Maanak Gupta, “Early Detection and Classification of Zero-Day Attacks in Network Traffic Using Convolutional Neural Network”. 5th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, (ICDLAIR), 2023. (Received Best Paper Award)
M. P. Singh, A. Anand, L. A. Prateek Janaswamy, S. Sundarrajan and M. Gupta, "Trusted Federated Learning Framework for Attack Detection in Edge Industrial Internet of Things". Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), 2023, pp. 64-71, doi: 10.1109/FMEC59375.2023.10305910.
M. P. Singhand H. K. Khan, "Malware Detection in Android Applications Using Machine Learning". International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Communication, Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICAECIS), 2023, pp. 105-110, doi: 10.1109/ICAECIS58353.2023.10170311.
M. P. Singhand Y. Karkhur, "Portable Executable Header Based Ransomware Detection using Power Iteration and Artificial Neural Network". In the Proceedings of the6th International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks (ISCON),2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCON57294.2023.10112186.
Awanit Ranjan, Pintu, Vivek Kumar, and Mahendra Pratap Singh, “Artificial Intelligence Based Model for Detecting Inappropriate Content on the Fly”. In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2022), pp. 2022. (Best Paper Award)
Mahendra Pratap Singh, Shamik Sural, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, and Jaideep Vaidya,“Security Analysis of Unified Access Control Policies”, International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era, Page no. 126-146, December 21-22, 2019.
Mahendra Pratap Singh, Sudharsan S and Vani M., “ARBAC: Attribute-Enabled Role Based Access Control Model”, 2 nd International Conference on Security and Privacy, Page no. 97-111, January 9-11, 2019.

Patents

1. Title of Invention: Provisioning of eSIM and Secure Slice-Level Authentication
Inventors: Mahendra Pratap Singh, Nirdosh Thakur, Shaym Lal, Sandhya
Application No.: 202441052642
Date of Filing: 10/07/2024

Achievements

Awards Received:

BITES Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2021, April 2, 2024 .
InSc Young Researcher Award, 2023.
Best Paper Award in ICDLAIR 2023 Conference, December 7-9, 2023.
Best Paper Award in FICTA 2022, June 18-19, 2022.
IEEE ComSoc Bangalore Protsahan Award 2021.
Elevated as IEEE Senior Member, 2020.

Fellowship/Scholarship Received:

Awarded QIP Ph.D. Fellowship, MHRD, Government of India, 2013-2016.
Nominated for Mexican Government Fellowship, 2010.
AwardedYuan Ze University, Taiwan, Fellowship, 2010.

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