Honors & Awards
Recognition for excellence in research, pedagogy, and academic leadership
Excellence in Cybersecurity Pedagogy
Academic Advisory Council
Awarded for pioneering hands-on PCAP packet forensics and virtual lab simulations for postgraduate scholars.
Best Research Paper Award
International Cyber Forensics Symposium
Honored for research investigating anomaly triage within distributed SCADA telemetry protocols.
Ph.D. Doctoral Fellowship
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK)
Competitive doctoral grant support recognizing exceptional doctoral research in Information Security & Digital Forensics.
Professional Memberships & Services
Active contributions to international computer science and cybersecurity organizations
Senior Member
IEEEActive Senior Member
Professional Member
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)Since 2016
Fellow / Academician
Higher Education Academy (HEA UK)Fellowship
Member
Computer Society of India (CSI)Lifetime Member
Invited Talks, Seminars & Keynotes
Delivering expert perspectives on zero trust, cyber physical security & malware forensics
Zero Trust Architectures for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
Delivered keynote session analyzing identity perimeter challenges, hardware root-of-trust, and dynamic policy verification in microservices.
Deep Packet Inspection & Machine Learning in Modern PCAP Datasets
Presented algorithmic breakthroughs in classifying encrypted malware tunneling using lightweight neural feature extractors.
The Evolution of Digital Forensic Sciences in the Era of Cloud & IoT
Guest address discussing volatile memory triage, evidence preservation, and chain-of-custody protocols for multi-cloud infrastructures.
Conferences & Technical Workshops
Fostering academic discourse, peer collaboration, and student workshop training
International Conference on Cyber Defense & Forensics
Coordinated paper review committees, track allocations, and invited keynote presentations across 14 international institutions.
Hands-on Threat Hunting & PCAP Analysis Workshop
Conducted live forensic captures, Wireshark dissecting sessions, and threat actor behavior tracking for over 180 participants.
Journal & Conference Reviewer Duties
Upholding rigorous scientific peer-review standards across high-impact publishers