My interests sit at the intersection of systems security and software engineering: authentication for resource-constrained devices, detection engineering, and software testing.
Design of Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Low Power Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Power Control and Renewable Energy (ICSPCRE), Rourkela, India, pp. 1–6
A hash- and XOR-based mutual authentication and key-agreement scheme for resource-constrained medical IoT sensors, formally verified with ProVerif, with lower computation and communication cost than comparable schemes.
Research intern, UIUC+ Crowd Research Program — advisor: Prof. Darko Marinov
Worked on large-scale mutation testing: automated the building and testing of 1,500+ Java mutant branches with Maven and Bash, and organized and analyzed the results for a study on human- versus machine-labeled mutants.
Research assistant — advisor: Prof. Sujata Mohanty
Designed and formally verified a lightweight authentication and key-agreement scheme for IoMT sensors using ProVerif, published at ICSPCRE 2024; surveyed authentication protocols for IoT environments, including the Internet of Drones.
A virtualized SOC environment: Wazuh SIEM with custom detection rules, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned attack simulation with Atomic Red Team, endpoints deployed with Terraform, and an open-source MCP server connecting SIEM alerts to LLM applications.
Behavioral malware classifiers over Linux system-call sequences (ADFA-LD) using TF-IDF features with XGBoost, logistic regression, and linear SVM; 96.8% accuracy with logistic regression.