Lab Lead & Advisor

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Dr. Susil Kumar Mohanty

Assistant Professor, CSE Dept., IIT Jodhpur

Dr. Susil Kumar Mohanty directs the Security, Privacy and Trust Lab (SPriT Lab) at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Patna under the supervision of Prof. Somanath Tripathy.

Before joining IIT Jodhpur, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Cryptography and Blockchain Group at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research specializes in secure payment channels, off-chain blockchain scaling, zero-knowledge implementations, and cryptographic threat modeling.

Primary Research Focus

Blockchain and Off-chain Payment Channel Networks Zero-Knowledge Proofs Security and Privacy Applied Cryptography Decentralized AI/ML

M.Tech Scholars

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Harshvardhan Pandey

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • Deloitte

Research: Federated Learning, Zero Knowledge Proof, DeepFake Audio Detection

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Janmejoy Rout

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • Jio Platforms Limited

Research: Federated Learning, Crop Diseases detection

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Lakshya Vashisth

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • SAP Labs India

Research: Secure Healthcare System, Federated Learning, Data Privacy

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Sanket Salunkhe

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • Jio Platforms Limited

Research: DeepFake Image Detection

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Syed Mustafa Ali

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • Tonbo Imaging India Limited

Research: Secure UAV, Decentralized Federated Learning, Digital Twin

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Shashank Jaiswal

M.Tech. Scholar (Executive) • Scitara Corporation

Research: Federated Unlearning, Decentralized Federated Learning

Research Interns

Aadarsh Nath

Aadarsh Nath

Research Intern (SLIET Punjab)

Research: Cybersecurity, IDS, Malware Analysis

Akriti Mall

Akriti Mall

Research Intern (DIAT Pune)

Research: Hash Encoding, Deep Learning

Bodala Murali Anshith

Bodala Murali Anshith

Research Intern (SRM University AP)

Research: Cybersecurity, IDS, Malware Analysis

Ishaan Kulkarni

Ishaan Kulkarni

Research Intern (NSUT Delhi)

Research: Applied Cryptography, Anonymous Credentials, Applied Zero Knowledge Proofs.

Jeny Bhatt

Jeny Bhatt

Research Intern (NIT Surat)

Research: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Federated Learning

Laxminarayan Sahu

Laxminarayan Sahu

Research Intern (NIT Karnataka)

Research: Cybersecurity, LLM, ZKPs, Cryptography, RAG

Mahek Kureshi

Mahek Kureshi

Research Intern (NIT Surat)

Research: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Federated Learning

Princy Pandey

Princy Pandey

Research Intern (DIAT Pune)

Research: Feature Grid Representation, ANN

Satyam Krishna

Satyam Krishna

Research Intern (NFSU Delhi)

Research: Cybersecurity, ZKPs, Blockchain

Shashank Bhati

Shashank Bhati

Research Intern (JIET Jodhpur)

Research: Secure Healthcare System, Federated Learning, Data Privacy

Sunny K Sebu

Sunny K Sebu

Research Intern (Silicon Inst. of Tech.)

Research: Genomic Data Privacy, Applied Zero-Knowledge Proof

Tanush Lukha

Tanush Lukha

Research Intern (IIIT Bhopal)

Research: Wi-Fi Sensing, Data Privacy