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Prof. Chittaranjan Hota  

Senior Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Graduated PhD Students

  1. Kasturi Sai Anirudh, Design and Implementation of Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Algorithms, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Co-supervisor: N L Bhanumurthy, Examiners: Prof B S Panda (IIT, Delhi), Prof Somanath Tripathy (IIT, Patna), Prof Debasis Das, (IIT, Jodhpur) (2024). Currently working as Founding Engineer (alloan.ai). 
  2. Col. Soumya Prakash Otta, Multi-factor Authentication for Cloud Computing Systems, Supervisor: S. Panda, Co-supervisor: C. R. Hota, Examiners: Prof. Priyadarsi Nanda (UTS, Sydney), Prof Rajiv Misra (IIT, Patna) (2023). Currently working as Deputy Director, Cyber Security & IT, Indian Army.  
  3. Saibharath Sivakumar, QoS in Next-Gen Networks: Investigating Resource Management in Network Slicing and Co-existence with WiFi, Supervisor: Sudeepta Mishra (IIT, Ropar), Co-supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof Aurobinda Gupta (IITKgp), Prof Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam (IITM) (2023). Currently working as Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Bangalore. 
  4. Vijayalakshmi V, BITS, Pilani Off Campus Center, Pune, Crowdsourcing and Machine Computation for Social Media Applications, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof. C Krishna Mohan (IIT, Hyderabad), Prof. Salil Kanhere (UNSW, Sydney) (2021). Currently at BITS, Pilani Off Campus Center, Pune.
  5. Sanket Mishra(TCS PhD Fellow), BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Cognitive and Resilient Framework for IoT Data Streams, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof. Shrisha Rao (IIIT, Bangalore), Prof. Yogesh Simmhan (IISc, Bangalore) (2021). Currently at VIT University, Andhra Pradesh.
  6. Gokul Kannan Sadasivam, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Identification of Malicious SSH Network Activities using Honeynet, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Co-supervisor: Anand Bhojan (NUS, Singapore), Examiners: Prof. M. Rajarajan (City Uni, London), Prof. Balasubramanian R (IIT, Roorkee) (2020). Currently as Associate Professor at PES University, Bangalore. 
  7. Rajesh Kumar Shrivastava, BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Code Tamer-proofing using Return Oriented Programming on IoT Devices, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof. Sushanta Karmakar (IIT, Guwahati), Prof. Salil Kanhere (UNSW, Sydney) (2020). Currently working as Associate Professor at Bennett University, Noida.
  8. Abhishek Thakur, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Optimization of Video Delivery Over Opportunistic Networks, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof. Swades De (IIT, Delhi), Prof. Huzur Saran (IIT, Delhi) (2019). Currently at IDRBT, Hyderabad. 
  9. M. K. Kaushik, BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Investigations on Building Robust Cognitive Radio Based Networks, Supervisor: Prof. Y. Yoganandam, Co-supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota (2018). Currently CEO, Vishnu Foundation TBI, Hyderabad. 
  10. Jagan Mohan Reddy (TCS PhD Fellow), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Peer-to-Peer Network Traffic Classification using Statistical and Behavioral Analysis, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Examiners: Prof. Debabrata Das (IIIT, Bangalore), Prof. D. P. Vidyarthi (JNU, New Delhi) (2017). Currently at Cognier Inc, Georgia, USA.  
  11. V. Balaji, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radios, Supervisor: Prof. G Raghurama, Co-supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota (2016). Founder, Radiance Technologies, Bangalore. 
  12. Pratik Narang, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Mechanisms for Intrusion Detection in Peer-to-Peer Networks, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, Co-Supervisor: Venkat Venkatakrishnan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Examiners: Prof. Siba Kr. Udgata (UoH, Hyderabad), Prof. Sudip Misra (IIT, Kharagpur) (2016). Currently working as Associate Professor at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. 
  13. Sunita Singhal, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Design and Development of Scheduling Algorithms for Grid Computing Systems (2015). Currently working as Associate Professor at Manipal University, Jaipur. 
  14. Murali Parameswaran, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Quality of Service Aware Routing and Resource Management in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (2014). Currently working as Professor at Presidency University, Bangalore. 
  15. K. Haribabu, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Methods for Efficient, and Secure Service Availability in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks, Examiners: Prof Huzur Saran (IIT, Delhi), Prof Hrushikesha Mohanty (UoH, Hyderabad) (2013). Currently working as Associate Professor at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus.

 

Current PhD Students:
  1. Shreea Bose (MS, Computer Sc., St. Xaviers, Kolkata): Machine learning area, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota, On-campus PhD scholar at BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Started Aug 2024. 
  2. Mini Tt (MTech, BITS Pilani): End-to-End Device Security - Enhanced by Hardware, Supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota (Off-campus Ph.D. student), Currently working at Dell Technologies, Bangalore. Started in 2022.
  3. Sanjeet Srivastava (ME, BITS Pilani): Machine Learning based Microfluidic Process Optimization, Supervisor: Sanket Goel, Co-supervisor: Chittaranjan Hota (Off-campus Ph.D.), currently working as Managing Director at Accenture, Houston, USA. Started 2021.