Information Brochure

December, 2012

mission
The mission of IIIT-Delhi is to be a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research. Its twin objectives are: To carry out advanced research and development in information and software technologies, and in leveraging IT in specific domain areas. To train and educate, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, engineers of outstanding ability who can become researchers, innovators, and new product creators. The institute began with its first batch of 60 B.Tech students in 2008. Since then, it has come a long way with nearly 30 faculty members specializing in diverse areas of Computer Science and Electronics & Communications Engineering, and nearly 580 students consisting of 4 batches of B.Tech., 2 batches of M.Tech. and 4 batches of Ph.D. In a relatively short time, it has earned a good reputation in India and abroad for being a center of quality education and research in IT and allied areas.

IIIT Delhi was created as a State University by an Act of Delhi Government (The IIIT Delhi Act, 2007) empowering it to do research and development and grant degrees. The Institute is academically and administratively autonomous The Chancellor of the Institute is Honble Lt. Governor of Delhi, who also chairs the General Council of the Institute. Overall policy making and governance rests with the Board of Governors, which consists of four eminent persons, two Professors, two nominees of the government, the Director, and the Chairman. The Director is the principal academic and the chief executive officer of the Institute.

structure + governance

The Senate is the decision making body for academic policies and governance. It is comprised of faculty members, student representatives, external faculty (from IITs and other IIITs), and members from corporations, and is chaired by the Director. The Senate sets the academic framework and takes decisions for its implementation, and also recommends starting of new degree programs to the Board. All instruction, examination and evaluation are decided by the faculty.

research
Excellence in research is essential for an Institute to gain global stature. IIIT Delhi is a research-led Institute of higher education with strong focus on research. It has built strong research groups, some of whom are already amongst the largest in India. Currently the main research groups are: Circuits and Systems Computational and Systems Biology Image Analysis and Biometrics Information Management and Data Analytics Information Security and Privacy Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Software Engineering Theoretical Computer Science Strong PhD and Masters programs are a natural outcome of the strong research groups. The institute has also embedded research based project work in the undergraduate program. The institute faculty have received research projects from institutions like DIT, DST, Nokia, SAP, Microsoft, IKSL, National Geographic Society, TCS, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, etc.

research group Circuits and Systems

FOCUS AREAS
Computer Architecture, Performance Modeling, Low Power Design, Emerging Technology Architecture, NanoVLSI design - Error and Power optimization, Embedded Systems, Multi-band RF Circuits and Systems, Software Defined Radio, RF and Microwave Measurement Techniques, Power Amplifier Design and Modeling, Wireless Networks, Wireless Network-on-chip, High Speed Interconnects.

www.iiitd.edu.in/emersys/

Subhasis Banerjee Assistant Professor subhasis@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2006), IISc, Bangalore Sujay Deb Assistant Professor sdeb@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2012), Washington State University

FACULTY
Angshul Majumdar Assistant Professor angshul@iiitd.ac.in PhD(2012), University of British Columbia, Canada Mohammad S. Hashmi Assistant Professor mshashmi@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2009), Cardiff University P B Sujit Assistant Professor sujit@fe.up.pt PhD(2012), NTU, Singapore Saket Srivastava Assistant Professor saket@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2008), University of South Florida Sanjit K. Kaul Assistant Professor skkaul@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2011), Rutgers University

PhD STUDENTS

Clockwise (from top left): Rakhi Himani, Aijaz Mehdi Zaidi, Sonal Aggarwal, Varsha Maheshwari

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

M. S. Hashmi co-authored a book on Advanced Microelectronics published by Springer Netherlands. M. S. Hashmi is editor for the Hindawis International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology (special issue on RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits for 4G Applications). S. Srivastava is a member of Technical Program Committee at FIE (2012) and ISED (2011, 2012). S. Srivastava gave invited talks at Defense Research and Development Organisation, New Delhi Sept/Oct 2011 and Aug 2012.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A. Ganguly, K. Chang, S. Deb, P. Pande, B. Belzer, and C. Teuscher, Scalable Hybrid Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures for Multi-Core Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 60, issue 10, pp. 1485-1502, Oct 2011.

S. Deb, A. Ganguly, P. Pande, B. Belzer, and D. Heo, Wireless NoC as interconnection backbone for multicore chips: Promises and Challenges, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 228239. M. S. Hashmi, P. J. Tasker, and F. M. Ghannouchi, High Speed Device Characterization Enabler The Envelope Load-Pull system, (to appear) Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Taiwan, 4-7 Dec 2012. K. Rawat, M. S. Hashmi, F. Falcone, and F. M. Ghannouchi, Dual-band Phase-offset Line with Required Transmission Phases at Two Distinct Frequencies, IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2012. W. S. El-Deeb, M. S. Hashmi, N. Boulejfene, and F. M. Ghannouchi, Systematic Calibration of Two-port Network Analyzer for Measurement and Engineering of Waveforms at Radio Frequency, Progress in Electromagnetic Research, Vol. 28, pp. 209-222, April 2012. K. Rawat, M. S. Hashmi, and F. M. Ghannouchi, Dualband Doherty Power Amplifier Optimization, IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 69-82, April 2012. K. Rawat, M. S. Hashmi, and F. M. Ghannouchi, Dualband RF Circuits and Systems for Software Defined Radio Applications, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 12-32, Feb. 2012. M. Jain, A. Singh, S. Bali, and S. K. Kaul, Speed-Breaker Early Warning System, [accepted for publication] in 6th Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, 2012. R. Yates, and S. K. Kaul, Real-Time Status Updating: Multiple Sources, [accepted for publication] in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2012.

S. K. Kaul, R. Yates, and M. Gruteser, Status Updates Through Queues, in 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2012. S. K. Kaul, R. Yates, and M. Gruteser, Real-Time Status: How Often Should One Update?, IEEE Infocom (Mini Conference), 2012. S. K. Kaul, R. Yates, and M. Gruteser, On Piggybacking in Vehicular Networks, in Globecom, 2011. K. Kannan, and S. Banerjee Scissors: Dealing with Header Redundancies in Data Centers through SDN, (to appear) 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2012). S. Srivastava, and R. Singh Work in Progress: A quantitative study of effectiveness in group learning (to appear) Frontiers in Education, Seattle, USA, October 2012. S. Srivastava, A. Asthana, S. Bhanja, and S. Sarkar, QCAPro: An Error-Power Estimation tool for QCA Circuit Design, ISCAS-2011, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Rio de Janeiro, May 2011.

AWARDS+RECOGNITIONS+ACHIEVEMENTS
Saket Srivastava was awarded the international travel grant (INR 1, 74, 000) by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India to attend ISCAS 2011 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

research group Computational and Systems Biology

Focus areas
Systems biology, Modeling and bifurcation analysis of biological networks, Modeling the cell division cycle of eukaryotic systems, Modeling the circadian rhythms of humans and animals, Cognitive neuroscience, Bio-chemical modeling of hypothalamuspituitary-adrenal axis under post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

Publications

FACULTY
K. Sriram Assistant Professor sriramk@iiitd.ac.in Ph. D (2004) IIT, Madras

K. Sriram, M. R. Fernandez, F. J. Doyle III (2012), A detailed modular analysis of heat-shock protein dynamics under acute and chronic stress and its implication in anxiety disorders, PLoS ONE (in press). K. Sriram, M. R. Fernandez, F. J. Doyle III (2012), Mathematical model of cortisol dynamics of HPA axis distinguishes, normal, depressed, and post-traumatic stress disorders in humans, PLoS Comp. Bio. 8(2):e1002379. R. Yang, K. Sriram, F. J. Doyle III (2010) Control circuitry for fear conditioning associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 49 IEEE conference on Decision and Control, Dec 15-17, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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research group Image Analysis and Biometrics

Recognizing Face Surgically Altered Face Images for Security Applications, Supported by Department of Science and Technology (FAST Award), 2012-2015. Statistical Evaluation of Simultaneous Latent Fingerprint Impression, Supported by Department of Science and Technology (FAST Award), 2010 2013.

FOCUS AREAS

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Biometrics

FACULTY
Mayank Vatsa Assistant Professor mayank@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2008), West Virginia University Richa Singh Assistant Professor rsingh@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2008), West Virginia University

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

PhD STUDENTS

Anush Sankaran Bhatt

Gaurav Goswami

Himanshu S.

Praful Agrawal

Samarth Bharadwaj

Tejas I. Dhamecha

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Design algorithm for recognizing face images with variations due to pose, illumination and expression, Supported by Department of Information Technology, 2009-2012.

H.S. Bhatt, S. Bharadwaj, R. Singh, and M. Vatsa, Recognizing Surgically Altered Face Images using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2012 (Accepted). N. Kohli, R. Singh, and M. Vatsa, Self-Similarity Representation of Weber Faces for Kinship Classification, In Proceedings of International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012 (Accepted). G. Goswami, R. Singh, M. Vatsa, B. Powell and A. Noore, Face Recognition CAPTCHA, In Proceedings of International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012 (Accepted). S. S. Arora, M. Vatsa, R. Singh, and A. K. Jain, On Iris Camera Interoperability, In Proceedings of International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012 (Accepted). Sankaran, M. Vatsa, and R. Singh, Hierarchical Fusion for Matching Simultaneous Latent Fingerprint, In Proceedings of International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012 (Accepted). R. Singh and M. Pundir, On Entrance Test Criteria for CS and IT UG Programs, In Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2012 (Accepted). S. Srivastava and R. Singh, A quantitative study of effectiveness in group learning, In Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2012 (Accepted). H. Lamba, A. Sarkar, M. Vatsa, and R. Singh, Face Recognition for Look-Alikes: A Preliminary Study, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2011. T.I. Dhamecha, A. Sankaran, R. Singh, and M. Vatsa, Is Gender Classification Across Ethnicity Feasible using Discriminant Functions?, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2011.

 A. Sankaran, T.I. Dhamecha, M. Vatsa, and R. Singh, On Matching Latent to Latent Fingerprints, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2011. H.S. Bhatt, S. Bharadwaj, R. Singh, M. Vatsa, A. Noore, and A. Ross, On Co-training Online Biometric Classifiers, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2011. H.S. Bhatt, S. Bharadwaj, M. Vatsa, R. Singh, A. Noore, and A. Ross, Quality Driven Biometric Classifier Selection Framework for Improved Performance, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2011. M. Vatsa, R. Singh, A. Noore, and K. Morris, Simultaneous Latent Fingerprint Recognition, In Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 4260-4266, 2011. S. Bharadwaj, H.S. Bhatt, M. Vatsa, and R. Singh, Quality Assessment based Denoising to Improve Face Recognition Performance, In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Biometrics Council Workshop on Biometrics at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2011. H.S. Bhatt, S. Bharadwaj, R. Singh, and M. Vatsa, Evolutionary Granular Computing Approach for Recognizing Face Images Altered due to Plastic Surgery, In Proceedings of International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011.

HONORS +AWARDS + RECOGNITION

Mayank Vatsa
Area Editor of IEEE Biometrics Compendium Journal Local Arrangement Chair for ICB 2012 Special Contribution Award, ICB 2012 Session Chair at CVPR Biometrics Workshop 2011 and 2012 PC Member: ICIP 2012, BTAS 2012, Biometrics Workshop at CVPR 2012, ICB 2012, and IJCB 2011

Richa Singh Editorial Board Member of Information Fusion Special Contribution Award, ICB 2012 Local Arrangement Chair for ICB 2012 Session Chair at IJCB 2011 DST FAST award, 2011 PC Member: ICIP 2012, FIE 2012, BTAS 2012, Biometrics Workshop at CVPR 2012, ICB 2012, and IJCB 2011 Students Himanshu received the IBM PhD fellowship, 2011-2013 Anush, Praful and Tejas received the TCS PhD fellowship Best poster award at IJCB 2011 (Himanshu and Samarth along with advisors)

research.iiitd.edu.in/groups/dbm/

research group Information Management and Data Analytics

FOCUS AREAS

Databases, Data Mining, Mobile-P2P data management using economic models, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence, Data Privacy and Access Control.

FACULTY Anirban Mondal Assistant Professor anirban@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2003), National University of Singapore Ashish Sureka Assistant Professor ashish@iiitd.ac.in Ph.D.(2005), North Carolina State University, Vikram Goyal Assistant Professor vikram@iiitd.ac.in
Anuj Saxena Trasha Gupta Jyoti Leeka

SPONSORED PROJECTS

How Should I Fix This Bug, DST Fast Track Project PI: Ashish Sureka Srikanta Bedathur to establish & head the Max Planck Partner Group on Large-Graphs with Prof. Gerhard Weikum of MPI-Informatics in IIIT D. Effective economy-based dissemination of information in a Mobile-P2P environment for providing valuable social services, DST Fast Track Project PI: Anirban Mondal User Controlled Information Dissemination for Privacy in Location-based Services, DST Fast Track Project PI: Vikram Goyal Data Mining for Cyber-Crime, DIT-funded Project PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, CO-PI: Ashish Sureka

PhD (2009), IIT Delhi Srikanta Bedathur Assistant Professor bedathur@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2005), IISc Bangalore PhD STUDENTS

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Nilesh Padhariya Denzil Correa Chhabra

Shruti

A. Anand, S. Bedathur, K. Berberich and R. Schenkel. Index Maintenance for time-travel text search, SIGIR 2012. S. K. Madria, A. Mondal. Dynamic data management in Mobile-P2P networks, MDM 2012 . S. Lal, A. Sureka. A Static Technique for Fault Localization Using Character N-Gram Based Information Retrieval Model, ISEC 2012. A. Sureka, S. Lal, L. Agarwal. Applying Fellegi-Sunter (FS) Model for Traceability Link Recovery between Bug Databases and Version Archives, APSEC 2011. N. Padhariya, A. Mondal, V. Goyal, R. Shankar, S. K. Madria. EcoTop: An Economic Model for Dynamic Processing of Top-k Queries in Mobile-P2P Networks, DASFAA 2011. A. Anand, S. Bedathur, K. Berberich and R. Schenkel. Temporal Index Sharding for Space-Time Efficiency in Archive Search, SIGIR 2011.

 A. S. Saxena, M. Pundir, V. Goyal, D. Bera. Preserving Location Privacy for Continuous Queries on Known Route, ICISS 2011. D. Correa, A. Sureka. Mining Tweets for Tag Recommendation on Social Media, SMUC 2011.

HONORS +AWARDS + RECOGNITION

S Bedathur: Heading Max Planck Partner Group. A Mondal: MDM 2012 conference PhD Colloquium Chair, WWW 2011 conference Publicity Chair, DataMASS 2012 workshop PC Co-chair . A Mondal: MDM 2012 advanced seminar (joint tutorial) invited speaker. A Sureka co-organized Software Engineering Education Workshop. Ayushi Rastogi: Second Runner-Up at Microsoft TechVista PhD Scholar Poster Session 2012. Shruti Chhabra: Awarded the TCS Research Fellowship. A Sureka providing consultancy services to Accenture in the field of Software Mining. System and Method for Verifying Credentials, Denzil Correa and Ashish Sureka, US Patent Application number 13/492,870. Members of the IMDA group served as PC members in the following conferences: PVLDB 2013,ISEC 2013, ISSRE 2012, APSEC 2012, BDA 2012, ICDE 2011, MDM 2011, PAKDD 2011, COMAD 2011, ODBASE 2011, EDBT 2011, WISE 2011, ICDE 2011.

research.iiitd.edu.in/groups/security/

research group Information Security and Privacy

PhD STUDENTS

FOCUS AREAS

Digital Forensics, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Theory and Practice of Cryptography, Cyber Crime, Privacy, Human Computer Interaction, Network Security, Traffic Analysis, Anonymity, Complex Networks, Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM), Usable Security. FACULTY A B Subramanyam Assistant Professor subramanyam@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2012), University of Texas (at Austin)

Aditi Gupta

Anupama Aggarwal

Mohona Ghosh

Paridhi Jain

Niharika Sachdeva

Prateek Dewan

Donghoon Chang Assistant Professor donghoon@iiitd.ac.in, PhD (2008), Korea University, Korea Gaurav Gupta Assistant Professor gauravg@iiitd.ac.in Ph.D. (2009), Jadavpur University, Kolkata Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Assistant Professor pk@iiitd.ac.in Ph.D. (2009), Carnegie Mellon University Somitra Kumar Sanadhya Assistant Professor somitra@iiitd.ac.in Ph.D. (2009), ISI, Kolkata
Robin Verma Jayaprakash Govindara

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Online Privacy and Senior Citizens - A SocioTechnical Multi-Perspective Framework for Trustworthy Operation, #0916612. 2012 - 2013. National Science Foundation, USA. International Supplement. U.S. PIs: H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, SUNY Buffalo. Indian PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Virtual Centre of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism. 2012 - 2017. 7th Framework Programme for Research (FP7). PI: Dr. Maura Conway, Dublin City University. Co-PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru along with 8 other universities around the world (2 in UK, 2 in Netherlands, 1 in the US, 2 in Denmark, 1 in Hungary). INR 41,56,58,928. Approved. Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-Peer networks. PI: Prof. Chittattaranjan Hota, BITS Pilani Hyderabad. INR 61,95,000. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru is an

 Department of Science and Technology, India. Under Indo-Ireland Cooperative Science Programme. An inter-disciplinary approach towards building ontology for online extremism. 2011 - 2013. Used only for travel. PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. INR 8,36,000. Hemant Bharat Ram Fellowship. To conduct research in the area of security and privacy. 2011 - 2015. To support one Ph.D. student for 4 years. PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. INR 14,00,000. International Development Research Centre, Canada and Privacy International, UK. Privacy in India. 2010 - 2012. PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. INR 18,00,000. Department of Information Technology, Government of India. Analyzing Online Content Using Data Mining Techniques to Counter Cyber Crime. 2010 - 2013. PI: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. INR 81,00,000. Naval Research Board, India. Design and analysis of some cryptographic primitives. 2012-2015. PI: Somitra Sanadhya. INR 25,20,000. CAIR, DRDO, India. Study of short random sequence generation systems. 2011-2013. PI: Somitra Sanadhya. INR 9,50,000.

Recent Publications

Gupta, A., Joshi, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Identifying and Characterizing User Communities on Twitter during Crisis Events. Data-driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from Social Media, Colocated with CIKM (2012). Malhotra, A., Totti, L., Meira, W., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida, V. Studying user footprints in different online social networks. Accepted at International Workshop on Cybersecurity of Online Social Network (CSOSN) (2012). Gupta, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events. Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Colocated with WWW (2012). Asthana, S., Singh, P., Kumaraguru, P., Singh, A., and Naik, V. Tring! tring! - An exploration and analysis of interactive voice response systems. IndiaHCI (2012). Chang, D., Dworkin, M., Hong, S., Kelsey, J., and Nandi, M. A Keyed Sponge Construction with Pseudorandomness in the Standard Model, The Third SHA-3 Candidate Conference (2012). Jain, P., Rodrigues, T., Magno, G., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida, V. Cross-pollination of information in online social media: A case study on popular social networks. Third International Conference on Social Computing (2011). Chhabra, S., Aggarwal, A., Benevenuto, F., and Kumaraguru, P. Phi.sh/$oCiaL: The Phishing Landscape through Short URLs. Accepted at 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, AntiAbuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011). Best Paper Award.

Ion, I., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P., and Capkun, S. Home is Safer than the Cloud! Privacy Concerns for Consumer Cloud Storage. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) (2011). Gupta, A., Viswanathan, K. K., Joshi, A., Finin, T., and Kumaraguru, P. Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks. In Proceedings of the Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), Co-located workshop at WWW (2011). Khot, R., Kannan, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Marasim: A Novel Jigsaw Based Authentication Scheme using Tagging. In Proceedings of the 29th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2011. ACM. Masoume Safkhani, Nasour Bagheri, Majid Naderi, Somitra Sanadhya, Security Analysis of LMAP++, an RFID Authentication Protocol, 3rd International workshop on RFID/USN Security and Cryptography 2011, December 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nasour Bagheri, Masoumeh Safkhani, Somitra Sanadhya, Majid Naderi, Hamid Behnam, On the Security of Mutual Authentication Protocols for RFID Systems: The Case of Wei et al.s Protocol 6th International workshop on Data Privacy Management, Co-located with ESORICS, September 2011, Leuven, Belgium. Gupta Gaurav, Verma, Robin Forensically Important Artifacts Resulting from Usage of Cloud Client Services in Cse Study Track of ACM ACSAC 2012, Florida.

Honors + Awards + Recognition

Received Best Paper Award for Chhabra, S., Aggarwal, A., Benevenuto, F., and Kumaraguru, P. Phi.sh/$oCiaL: The Phishing Landscape through Short URLs. Accepted at 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011). Received Best Poster Award in Research Category in the Research Showcase at IIIT-Delhi.Swetank Kumar Saha, DakshaYadav, SudipMittal, Mayank Gupta, PonnurangamKumaraguru. Privacy in Open Government Data. PhishGuru 3.0 Wins PC Magazines Editors Choice for Anti-Phishing Products. Wombat Security Technologies selected as finalists in the Golden Bridge Innovation award for IT Training and Education for the security training platform. Best Poster award in Development Category in the Research Showcase at IIIT-Delhi, Gaurav Saluja and Somitra Sanadhya, Authentication in low cost mobile banking system. Best Poster award in Idea Category in the Research Showcase at IIIT-Delhi, Swethank Kumar Saha, Mobile-based early assault detection and alert dissemination. Participation to the SHA-3 project at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, for the internal evaluation (2009-2012)

research group Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

http://muc.iiitd.edu.in/muc/

FOCUS AREA

Mobile Computing, Middleware, Distributed Systems, Communication Networks, Sustainability, Healthcare, Human Sensing, Transportation, Technologies for Developing Regions FACULTY Amarjeet Singh Assistant Professor amarjeet@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2009), University of California Los Angeles Hrishikesh B. Acharya Assistant Professor acharya@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2012), CS, University of Texas Pushpendra Singh Assistant Professor psingh@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2004), INRIA (Universit de Rennes), France Raja Sengupta Associate Professor rsengupta@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2000), University at Carbondale, USA Sanjit K. Kaul Assistant Professor skkaul@iiitd.ac.in

Vinayak Naik Assistant Professor naik@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2006), Ohio State University PhD STUDENTS

Kuldeep Yadav

Pandarasamy Arjunan

Siddhartha Asthana

Madhur Hasija

Nipun Batra

Jayaprakash Govindaraj

Madhvi Gupta

Sweta Mishra

SPONSORED PROJECTS

PhD (2011), Rutgers University

Technology review of voice based value add services for farmers by Iffco Kisaan Sanchaar Limited. Research Proposal to Use Mobile Phones for Day- to- Day Routine Activities by Masses in India, Nokia Research, Palo Alto, USA. Health Monitoring and Reporting using Cellphones, Nokia Research, Finland.

 Development and Evaluation of Mobile Learning Techniques for Indian Masses, Department of Science and Technology, India.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Automation (ICRA), 2010, Anchorage, Alaska. V. Naik and A. Arora. ExScal: Designing with Scale. Invited book chapter to appear in Wireless sensor networks: Deployments and Design Frameworks (Designing and Deploying Embedded Sensing Systems), Springer Publications, 2010.

K. Yadav, P. Kumaraguru, A. Goyal, A. Gupta, and V. Naik. SMSAssassin : Crowdsourcing Driven Mobilebased System for SMS Spam Filtering. Accepted at The 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile11) Phoenix, Arizona on March 1-2, 2011. Singh, V. Naik, S. Lal, R. Sengupta, D. Saxena, P. Singh, and A. Puri. Improving the Efficiency of Healthcare Delivery System in Underdeveloped Rural Areas. Workshop in Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth), Third International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India January 4-8, 2011. K. Yadav, V. Naik, P. Singh, and A. Singh. Alternative Localization Approach for Mobile Phones without GPS. Demo paper, (ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference), Bangalore, India Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2010. K. Yadav, V. Naik, A. Singh, P. Singh, P. Kumaraguru, and U. Chandra. Challenges and Novelties while using Mobile Phones as ICT Devices for Indian Masses, Short paper at The Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR10) workshop, 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services from June 15-18, 2010 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Singh, A., Ramos F., Durrant-Whyte H. and Kaiser, W. Modeling and decision making in spatitemporal processes for environmental surveillance, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and

HONORS + AWARDS + RECOGNITION

Vinayak Naik was a program committee member of Sensing Technology at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK on 27 - 28 Sept, 2010. Vinayak Naik was a program committee member of Networks track at The Seventeenth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011) held in IISc, Bangalore on 28 - 30 Jan, 2011. Vinayak Naik was Program Committee member of PhD Forum and Nethealth workshop, COMSNET2011, Bangalore. Pushpendra Singh was publicity chair for Middleware 2010 (ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference) Amarjeet Singh co-organized Workshop on Sensor Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA) in ICDCN, January 2, 2011, Bangalore, India. Amarjeet Singh was one of the panelist in the panel on Bridging the Connectivity Divide, COMSNETS, 2011. Amarjeet Singh co-organized International Symposium for Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2010, Delhi, India. PhD student Kuldeep was selected to present in the PhD Forum at COMSNETS2011.

research.iiitd.edu.in/groups/software

research group Software Engineering

Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Pages 146-153, (2011) Mining Tweets for Tag Recommendation on Social Media, Denzil Correa and Ashish Sureka, International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011) co-located with 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011)

Software quality, software process, quantitative techniques like focused metrics, empirical and experimental methods, statistical process control, performance prediction, negotiation, and issues related to composition, software as a service, mining software process data for knowledge extraction.

FOCUS AREA

FACULTY
Pankaj Jalote Professor & Director jalote@iiitd.ac.in PhD (1985), CS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Ashish Sureka Assistant Professor ashish@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2005), CS, North Carolina State University

Sponsored ProjectS
How Should I Fix This Bug by Department of Science & Technology PI: Ashish Sureka, Funding: Rs. 342,000/- Duration: Three years Providing consultancy services to Accenture in the field of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) and Automated Software Engineering PI: Ashish Sureka Funding: Rs. 300,000 Duration: 8-10 months. Reengineering existing applications for Multicore Servers PI: Pankaj Jalote Funding: Rs. 31.76 lacs Duration: Three years.

PhD STUDENTS

Participation in National and International Conferences

Ayushi Rastogi Damodaram Kamma

Sathish V

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A Report on Software Engineering Education Workshop, Rakesh Shukla, Ashish Sureka, Rushikesh Joshi, Rajib Mall, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 37 Issue 3, Pages 26-31, May (2012). http://dl.acm.org/citation. cfm?id=2180930 A Static Technique for Fault Localization Using Character N-Gram Based Information Retrieval Model, Sangeeta Lal and Ashish Sureka, Fifth India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Pages 109-118, (2012). http://dl.acm.org/citation. cfm?id=2134274 Applying Fellegi-Sunter (FS) Model for Traceability Link Recovery between Bug Databases and Version Archives, Ashish Sureka, Sangeeta Lal and Lucky Agarwal, the Eighteenth

A. Sureka; The 5th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Pages 109-118, (2012) in February 22-25, 2012. A Sureka; The 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Pages 146-153, (2011) in December 5-8, 2011 A. Sureka; The 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011) in October 24th 29th 2011

Service Contribution

Program Committee (PC) Member of ISSRE 2012, APSEC 2011 and APSEC 2012, ISEC 2013 and BDA 2012 Reviewer of ATVA 2012 Co-organizer of SEEW 2012 and SEEW 2013 (colocated with ISEC series of conferences) Session Chair for APSEC 2011 Publicity Chair for ISEC 2012

research group Theoretical Computer Science

FOCUS AREAS
Logic, Process Algebra, Reactive Systems, Verification, Cryptology, Cryptography, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Complexity Theory, Quantum Computation, Algorithms

research.iiitd.edu.in/groups/theory/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

FACULTY
Ashwin Srinivasan Professor ashwin@iiitd.ac.in Ph.D. (1991), University of New South Wales Astrid Kiehn Associate Professor astrid@iiitd.ac.in PhD (1989), Technische Universitat Munchen Debajyoti Bera Assistant Professor dbera@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2009), Boston University Rajiv Raman Assistant Professor rajiv@iiitd.ac.in PhD (2007), University of Iowa, USA

A. Kumar, S. Sanadhya, P. Gauravaram, M. Safkhani and M. Naderi, Cryptanalysis of Tav-128 Hash function, Indocrypt 2010, December 2010. A. S. Saxena, M. Pundir, V. Goyal, D. Bera: Preserving Location Privacy for Continuous Queries on Known Route, 7th International Conference of Information Systems Security (ICISS 2011): 265-279, 15-19 December 2011, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. D. Bera. A lower bound method for quantum circuits Information Processing Letters, 111(15), 2011. F. Esposito, I. Matta, D. Bera, P. Michiardi. On the impact of seed scheduling in peer-to-peer networks in Computer Networks 55(15), 2011. M. Safkhani, N. Bagheri, M. Naderi, S. Sanadhya, Security Analysis of LMAP++, an RFID Authentication Protocol, 3rd International workshop on RFID/USN Security and Cryptography 2011, December 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE. N. Bagheri, M. Safkhani, S. Sanadhya, M. Naderi, H. Behnam, On the Security of Mutual Authentication Protocols for RFID Systems: The Case of Wei et al.s Protocol 6th International workshop on Data Privacy Management, Colocated with ESORICS, September 2011, Leuven, Belgium.

PhD STUDENTS

Monalisa Jena

innovative programs
Information Technology (IT) is a broad area which uses Computing and Communication technologies to solve problems. The two major disciplines to nurture these are Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) which covers computing science and its applications, and Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) which covers science and engineering of communication technologies and computing systems. IIIT Delhi currently offers the following programs: BTech in CSE and ECE, specialized postgraduate programs with MTech in Mobile Computing, Information Security, Data Engineering, and VLSI & Embedded Systems, as well as doctoral programs in CSE and ECE.

B.Tech.
These programs prepare students for careers centering around innovation and problem solving in CSE and ECE, and for pursuing advanced studies for research careers in these areas. The curriculum for the CSE program focuses on the fundamentals of the computer science, as well as the application of these fundamentals in a modern context. Students start with core CS courses, with the possibility of doing science courses later. The curriculum for the ECE program is directed to applications in major areas such as telecommunications, energy and electronics sectors, while encouraging development of necessary skills for integration of hardware and software components.

We believe that many creative opportunities exist at the boundaries of traditional CSE and ECE, and have accordingly planned for cross-training of students across disciplinary boundaries. ECE and CSE students initially have many courses in common. Thereafter, the program in the third and fourth years, is structured to allow customization by individual students based on their own personal interests. Humanities and social sciences is an integral part of each curriculum. The programs allow motivated students to graduate with a BTech (Honors) by doing extra units. Students interested in research can take up independent studies and independent projects under the guidance of faculty members to further their research career.

M.Tech.
A Masters degree in IIIT Delhi is primarily industry-focused, but can also be used as a stepping stone for research. Masters students are given the option of pursuing their degree without assistantship so they can focus full time on the program, and possibly finish the program sooner. To address the needs of the industry, which today requires more specialized manpower as each field is getting more complex, the institute provides the option of doing MTech with a specialization in either Information Security, Data Engineering, Mobile Computing, or VLSI and Embedded Systems. Students can opt for a thesis, or in lieu of that, extra courses and a scholarly paper.

Ph.D.
The overall PhD program requires students to do limited course-work followed by the doctoral thesis. Students can enter the PhD program after a BTech or MTech degree and are expected to choose their coursework accordingly. For candidates with work experience, relevant experience may be counted as advanced knowledge in the area(s) of expertise and experience. Courses may be done in other recognized institutes or independently, after approval for credit. A PhD candidate must give an open seminar in a chosen topic followed by a viva by a committee. Passing this viva successfully will formally make the candidate a PhD scholar. This is equivalent to the qualifiers or comprehensives in many other places. After this open seminar, the focus is on the PhD thesis work. A scholar is expected to make annual presentations about the work done that year. IIIT Delhi has also started a collaborative PhD program with several globally renowned labs and universities. Key features of this program are: The main supervisor of the PhD scholar will be from IIIT Delhi; there may be a co-supervisor in the partner institution. After doing the course work and starting the research, the scholar can spend 3 months to one year with the co-supervisor at the partner institution. An attractive stipend is paid while the scholar is on campus. When the scholar is at the partner institution, the partner will pay the stipend as per their norms. Institute will provide support for presenting papers in national and international conferences.

world-class faculty

IIIT Delhi has nearly 30 full-time faculty members all of them have a Ph.D. Most of them have done their PhD from USA and Europe. In addition, adjunct faculty from industry and other institutions supplant our regular faculty in academics and research. We also have a panel of educators for humanities and social science courses that are part of the curriculum. In the last two years, IIIT Delhi faculty members have published 40 papers in national and international journals and conferences. They have participated in nearly 30 conferences. Faculty members have also received 5 prestigious awards for their contributions. IIIT Delhi faculty has established a close connection with the Industry. As a result, we currently have externally funded R&D projects worth approx. Rs. 45 million.

students
Students are inevitably the converging point of all dynamism at IIIT Delhi. A majority of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level are selected by a non-conventional aptitude test along with their previous merits. One of the main goals of the institute is to provide flexibility to students for motivated learning through elective courses. Being a research-led institute, students participate in research projects through internships. Even UG students are encouraged to coauthor research papers. They are also given opportunities to work for real-life systems (like ERP and PRS) for applied learning. The inter-disciplinary approach to education helps students to grow as better human beings through compulsory community work and humanities courses. An open and friendly culture has evolved in the institute which facilitates interaction and discussion. A student council is elected by students to articulate their views and ideas in functioning and governance of the institute. Every year, sporting events such as Joga Bonito, the intra-college futsal tournament, cricket tournament, table tennis tournament and pool tournament are organized. In 2012, Esya, IIIT Delhis technical festival was held for the second time. An ACM Student Chapter gives opportunities to students to get exposure to knowledge and trends in computing. Several student clubs like music, quizzing, robotics, dance, literary, and ethical hacking clubs enable them to enhance talents in areas besides academics.

campus
Since 2008, IIIT Delhi had been operating out of its transit campus, at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology from September 2008 to July 2012. But as of August 2012, the permanent campus is now operational. This campus is spread over 25 acres of land allocated in the G.B. Pant Polytechnic compound, in Okhla. Phase I of the construction is complete, with 30,000 sq.m. of building space for its functioning, including a Faculty and Research Building for 50 faculty members and 8 research centres, several Lecture Halls for a total capacity of approximately 500, a Recreation Centre, one Boys Hostels, and a Girls Hostel. The Academic Complex has a total of ten lecture halls. There are two lecture halls with a capacity to seat 179, one of capacity 159, two of capacity 60 and five of capacity 30. The administrative offices and the finance department is also housed within the Academic Complex, along with the Directors office, conference rooms, a board room, a formal seating and discussion area and faculty offices. The Faculty and Research wing of the Academic Complex has a capacity of 50 faculty members and 8 research labs, along with the PhD rooms and MTech labs. There are also seating areas to foster discussions and sharing of thoughts. The Library and Information Center has a common study area for students on the ground floor, the library on the first floor and several labs on the upper floors. The Dining and Recreation Centre contains the students mess which is spread over two floors, a cafeteria and facilities for extra-curricular activities, such as Music Room and Gymnasium.

Prof. John Hopcroft, Cornell University (Turing Award Winner): It is great that India has created another first rate educational institution. I hope others will follow your example of striving for excellence in education and research. Prof. Satish K. Tripathi, Provost, SUNY Buffalo: I am confident, given the leadership and the high quality faculty the Institute has already recruited, that IIIT-Delhi will be one of the top Institutes within a few years. S. N. Maheshwari, Ex-Dean, IIT Delhi: IIIT-Delhi stands out for the planning, attention to detail, provided the Institute does not lose sight of the objectives and goals. Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIIT Hyderabad: I see IIIT-Delhi coming up in right earnest with innovative programs also addressing all round development of the student .... Sanjeev K Aggarwal, Dean, IIT Kanpur: IIIT-Delhi has done an excellent job of recruiting high quality faculty in a very short time, .... M. Balakrishnan, Deputy Director, IIT Delhi: ...IIIT-Delhi is championing the model of self-sustainability, which has huge potential for scalability. .. Krithi Ramamritham, ex-Dean, IIT Bombay: In a short time IIIT-Delhi has brought together a strong internationally-trained multidisciplinary faculty with varied experience ...

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