Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: virenVirendra Singh, Ph.D(NAIST, Japan)

 

PROFESSOR

 

Department of Electrical Engineering, and

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Mumbai 400076 India

 

E-mail :

viren@ee.iitb.ac.in, viren@cse.iitb.ac.in

singhv@iitb.ac.in, virendra@computer.org

Tel :

+91-22-2576-9432 (O)

+91-22-2576-8432 (R)

Fax :

+91-22-2572-3707

Office :

122 D, EE Building


 

My Calendar

 

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Publications . Teaching . Funding . Professional Activities . Students . Visitors . RASDAT . IWPVTD . WHF

 

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Research Lab.: Computer Architecture and Dependable Systems Lab. (CADSL)

 

 

Coordinator: Indo-Japanese Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (IDCPS)

 

Coordinator (PI): Information Security Research and Development Centre (ISRDC)

 

 

Associated Lab: Gigabit Networking Lab. (GNL), CSE

 

Associated Lab: Centre of excellence for Blockchain research

 

Affiliation: Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science

 

Affiliation: IEEE Computer Society Bombay chapter

 

 

New:

Requirements: PDFs, Ph.D Aspirants, Project Associates/Assistants (experience in Cyber Security)

 

New Project: AI powered adaptive cyber defence framework (sponsored by NSCS, GoI), Trustable cyber physical cognitive system, Security of Futuristic technologies (AI/ML/AR/VR)

 

Announcements:

 

Funding: DST-JST funding, DRDO funding, SRC funding, NSCS funding

 

Papers: ISCAS`21 paper

 

Conferences: VDAT`22, ITC-India`22, RASDAT`22, ICISS-22

 

Received SP Sukhatme excellence in teaching award in 2021

 

Courses: [Current Semester- Spring 2022]: CS-230: Digital Logic Design & Computer Architecture, CS-232: Digital Logic Design & Computer Architecture Lab., EE-739: Processor Design, EE-309: Microprocessors

[Last Semester- Autumn 2021]: EE-748: Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture, CS-683: Advanced Computer Architecture, EE-677: Foundation of VLSI CAD

 

Debates at EE-748: End to VN Architecture, Is Microarchitecture dead ?

 

A note for students

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Research Interest:

 

 

 

Education:

 

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Kansai Science City, Nara, Japan

Advisor: Prof. Hideo Fujiwara

Co-Advisors: Prof. Kewal K. Saluja (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

and Prof. Michiko Inoue (NAIST)

Thesis: Instruction-Based Self-Testing of Performance Oriented Faults in Modern Processors

Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)

Jaipur (Rajasthan) India

Advisor: Prof. MS Gaur

Thesis: Simulation of ATM Networks with Heavy Tail Traffic Distribution

Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)

Jaipur (Rajasthan)

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Current Major Research Projects:

 

Security of Futuristic technology (AI/ML/AR/VR etc.) (2024 - 2029)

Sponsor: Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Funding: INR 4.7 Crores

 

         Using natural language for aligning reinforcement learning agents

Agency: Amazon (2024 - 2026)

 

Architecting Trustable Cyber Physical Cognitive Systems (with Tokyo University, Japan) (2023-27)

Sponsor: DST (India), and JST (Japan)

Funding: INR 6 Crores

 

AI Powered Adaptive Cyber Defence Framework (2021 – 2023)

Sponsor: National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Govt. of India, Funding: USD 16M (INR 1.2 Arab)

 

Architecting Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical System Targeting IoTs and Mobile Big Data Analysis (2017-2022)

Sponsor: JST & DST, Funding: INR 12.5 Crores (IITB: INR 5.1 Crores, and Tokyo Univ.: Yen 14.8 Crores)

 

Analyzing vulnerabilities in applications and device drivers in Linux and Windows OS platforms using symbolic execution

(with IIT Jammu and MNIT Jaipur)

 

 

 

Publications: List of my publications

 

Recent Publications:

 

Papers in 2025

 

·       Raghunandana K, Yogesh Prasad R, Matteo Sonza Reorda, and Virendra Singh, `GPD: Predictive control flow error detection leveraging data flow error detection methods`, Proc. of 31st International Symposium on Online Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS-25), Ischia, Italy, July, 2025.

 

·       Rushikesh Kawale, Sonali Shukla, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh, `HiPeR-SM: High Performance Reconfigurable Scalar Multiplier over NIST-P256 and CURVE25519`, 34th International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS 2025), Verona, Italy, June, 2025.

 

·       Varun Venkitaraman, Rishabh Ravi, Tejeshwar Thorawade, Nirmal Boran, and Virendra Singh, `SCAM: Secure shared cache partitioning to enhance throughput of CMPs`, Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025), Bilboa, Spain, June, 2025

 

·       Nikhil Kumar Parida, Sarath Babu, Neeraj Pawar, and Virendra Singh, `EDQKD: Enhanced-Dynamic Quantum Key Distributions with Improved Security and key rate`, Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025), Bilboa, Spain, June, 2025

 

·       Rushikesh Kawale, Sarath Babu, and Virendra Singh, `Stegoslayer: A robust browser integrated approach for Thwarting Stegomalware`, Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025), Bilboa, Spain, June, 2025

 

·       Prakhar Diwan, Nirmal Kumar Boran, and Virendra Singh, `Li-chen: Leveraging Coupled Heterogeneity`, Proc. of 38th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID-2025), Bangalore, India, Jan 2025

 

·       Aditi Gupta, Adeiza James Onumanyi, Satyadev Ahlawat, Yamuna Prasad, and Virendra Singh, `B-CAVE: A robust online time series change point detection algorithm based on between-class average and variance evaluation approach`, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 37, no. 1, Jan 2025

 

Selected Publications (Before 2025):

 

·       Suma Sri Mandru, Srikanth Yadav Chakka, Tikaram Sanyasi, and Virendra Singh, `MALAI: ML-based attack on learning with error (LWE) problem`, Proc. of 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2024), Jaipur, India, Dec 2024

 

·       Tarun Bisht, Sarath Babu, and Virendra Singh, `Critical behaviour sequence monitoring for early malware detection`, Proc. of 17th International Conference on Security of Information Networks (SINConf-2024), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2024

 

·       Tejeshwar Thorawade, Prajakta Yeola, Varun Venkitaraman, and Virendra Singh, `S-Cflush: Securing against flush-based cache timing side channel attacks`, Proc. of 36th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024), Hawaii, USA, Nov 2024

 

·       Samiksha Verma, and Virendra Singh, `SMS: Solving many RowHammer`, Proc. of 11th International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS-24), Washington DC, Oct 2024

 

·       Tikaram Sanyasi, Nirmal Kumar Boran, and Virendra Singh, `Secure KNN Computation on Cloud`, Proc. of 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2023), Raipur, India, Dec 2024

 

·       Neha Hooda and Virendra Singh, “Brutector: A probabilistic detection model for Bruteforce attacks in SSH servers”, Proc. of 16th International Conference on Security of Information Networks (SINConf-2023), Jaipur, India, Dec 2023

 

·       Varun Venkitaraman, Ashok Sathyan, Shrihari Deshmukh, and Virendra Singh, “Novel efficient synonym handling mechanism for virtual real cache hierarchy”, Proc. of IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’23), Antwerp, Belgium, April 2023

 

·       Chandramani Chaudhary, Nirmal Kumar Boran, N Sangeeth, and Virendra Singh, “GNNDLD: Graph neural network with directional label distribution”, Proc. of 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2024), Feb 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Funding:

 

·      Project: AI Powered Adaptive Cyber Defence Framework (2021 – 2023)

PI: Virendra Singh

Sponsor: National Security Council Secretariat, Govt. of India, Funding: USD 16M (INR 1.2 Arab)

 

Project: Architecting Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical System Targeting IoTs and Mobile Big Data Analysis

PI: Virendra Singh, IITB and Prof. Masahiro Fujita, The University of Tokyo

Funding: INR 12.5 Crores (IITB: INR 5.1 Crores, and TU: Yen 14.8 Crores)

 

·      Project: Blockchain-enabled universal healthcare system with privacy preserving HER (2019 to 2022)

Agency: Ministry of Human Resource Development

PI: Virendra Singh, Co-PI: Prof. RK Shyamasundar

Funding: INR 59 Lakhs

 

·      Indo Russian (DST-RMES) Joint Project (2017 to 2022)

Project: Technologies and Toolset for Reliable Control of Production Areas of Internet of Things

PI: Prof. RK Shyamasundar, Co-PI: Virendra Singh, IITB, and Prof. Vsevolod Kotlyarov, SPBSTU, Russia

Funding: INR 60 Lakhs (IITB)

 

Agency: MCIT, Govt. of India, Funding: INR 7.2 Crores

PI: Prof. Shalabh Gupta, Co-PI: Virendra Singh

 

Agency: MCIT, Govt. of India

PI: Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar & Virendra Singh

 

Teaching:

 

Current Semester (Jan-Apr 2022)

 

 

Recent Past (at IIT-B)

 

 

 

 

Past (at IISc)

 

 

 

 

 

(VLSI Testing and Formal Verification)

 

 

Other Activities/ Courses:

 

 

 

Professional Activities

 

Convener, Computer Architecture & Dependable Systems Lab., IITB (2011 - till date)

Convener, Computer Design and Test Lab., SERC, IISc (2007-2011)

Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (DCC), SERC, IISc (2007-2011)

 

Steering Committee member

 

General Co-Chair - RASDAT (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

Vice General Chair: VLSI Design Conference 2014, Embedded Systems Conference 2014

Program Co-Chair: VLSI Design Conference 2014, Embedded Systems Conference 2014

Program Co-Chair - WRTLT 2011, VDAT 2013, VDAT 2016, VDAT 2017

Finance Chair - ATS 2011

Program Co-Chair - DRV 2011

General Co-Chair - IWPVTD 2011, IWPVTD 2012

General Co-Chair – ATS 2015

 

Technical Program Committee Member

 

 

Current Students (at IITB)

 

Suryakant Toraskar (Ph.D)

Jaidev Shenoy (Ph.D)

Rohini Gulve (Ph.D)

Rajkumar Chaudhary (Ph.D)

Newton (Ph.D)

Antara Ganguly (Ph.D)

Varun Venkitaraman (Ph.D)

Avinash Kumar (Ph.D)

Raghunandan K.K (Ph.D)

Sonali Shukla (Ph.D)

Anusha (Ph.D)

Tejeshwar Thorawade (Ph.D)

Yogesh Gholap (Ph.D)

Prokash Ghosh (Ph.D)

Ngamba THockchom (Ph.D)

 

Full list of current and former students

Collaborators

 

Visitors

 

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