IITKGP
Currently serving on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. | Looking for a Ph.D. scholar to work in the field of computer security. Candidates with strong background in computer science and exceptionally good academic record may get in touch with me. |

Research Areas

  • Data and Application Security
My current research interests are in Computer Security and Data Science. Specifically, we work in the domain of access control including role-based and attribute-based access control models.
  • Performance analysis of dynamic ABAC systems using a queuing theoretic framework by Madkaikar G., Yelisetty K.S.M., Sural S., Vaidya J., Atluri V. Computers and Security 154 - (2025)
  • Generation of Optimized Solidity Code for Machine Learning Models using LLMs by Nikumbh S., Chakraborty S. , Sural S. IEEE ICBC 2025 - (2025)
  • InterAcct: Access Control for Permissioned Blockchain Interoperation by Sengupta T., Ghosh B. C., Chakraborty S. , Sural S. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) - (2025)
  • Efficiently Supporting Attribute-Based Access Control in Linux by Varshith H.O.S., Sural S., Vaidya J., Atluri V. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 21 2012-2026 (2024)
  • Towards Accurate and Stronger Local Differential Privacy for Federated Learning with Staircase Randomized Response by Varun M., Feng S., Wang H., Sural S., Hong Y. CODASPY 2024 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 307-318 (2024)
  • Poster: APETEEt - Secure Enforcement of ABAC Policies using Trusted Execution Environment by Godhani P., Bharadhwaj R., Sural S. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT 47-49 (2023)
  • RanSAM: Randomized Search for ABAC Policy Mining by Aggarwal N., Sural S. CODASPY 2023 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 291-293 (2023)
  • Tool/Dataset Paper: Realistic ABAC Data Generation using Conditional Tabular GAN by Rai R., Sural S. CODASPY 2023 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 273-278 (2023)
  • Enabling Attribute-based Access Control in NoSQL Databases by Gupta E., Sural S. , Vaidya J. , Atluri V. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 11 208-223 (2023)

Principal Investigator

  • Adversarially Robust and Privacy Preserving Foundation Models for Multi-Sensor Edge AI in Public Safety and Health Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Attribute-based Access Control for Emergency Healthcare Management CISCO University Research Program Fund
  • Internet of Blockchains (IoBC): Towards Standardizing Interconnecting Architecture for Siloed Blockchain Applications Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • Internet of Blockchains (IoBC): Towards Standardizing Interconnecting Architecture for Siloed Blockchain Applications Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • PLACEMENT AND ROUTING OF ANALOG TEST STRUCTURES National semiconductor corporation
  • Understanding and Predicting Opinion Dynamics In Collective Environment Using Deep Network Representation CISCO University Research Program Fund
  • Unrestricted Grant by Flipkart Flipkart Internet Private Limited

Ph. D. Students

Solomon Semahegn Kumlachew

Area of Research: IoT Security and Privacy

Tirthankar Sengupta

Area of Research: Computer Security

MS Students

Shailesh Kumar Sharma

Area of Research: Security and Privacy