Dr. Manas Khatua

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

For Prospective Students

  • Internship: Bright students may contact with CV for possible internship positions. Also, you have to apply here.

  • PhD Aspirant: Aspiring applicant may write to me with a copy of your updated CV. However, the applicant has to clear the departmental PhD recruitment process. Minimum requirements to work in my group:
    • Strong programming skill using C/C++ and Matlab; Strong foundation on Data Structure and Algorithm.
    • Basic knowledge of Computer Networks. Suggested to read the following books before applying:
      • Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach; by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross; 6th Edition, 2017.
      • Data and Computer Communications; by William Stallings; 10th Edition, 2017.
    • Basic knowledge of IoT. Suggested to read the Chapters 1-8 in the following book before applying in IoT:
      • IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things; by David Hanes et al.; 1st Edition, 2017.
    • Good writing and communication skill in English.
    • Having basic knowledge on Probability, Stochastic Process, Matrix, and Optimization will be preferable.
    • Having knowledge on Network Simulator (NS3 / Mininet / Cooja / 6TiSCH, etc.) will be preferable.
  • Syllabus: PhD Entrance Test & Interview in CSE, IIT Guwahati

  • PhD or Postdoc positions in my research group:

  • Research Profile: If you join in my group, you will be working in any of these research domains:
    • Machine Learning / Deep Learning based scheme for IoT applications and security
    • Performance analysis and improvement of IoT Protocols (e.g. IEEE 802.15.4, 6TiSCH-MC, MSF, CoJP, 6P, 6LoWPAN, RPL, CoAP, MQTT)
    • Different applications of IoT in Agriculture, Healthcare, Transportation, Smart Grid, and Manufacturing Industry
    • IoT Security -- Authentication, Access Control, Intrusion Detection and Mitigation, Secured Communication, etc.
    • Different access technologies in IoT: 6TiSCH, ZigBee, 5G, WiFi6, LoRaWAN

PostDoc Research Scholar

Sl. No. Name of Student Project Title Duration Co-guide and/or Remarks
Dr. Habila Basumatary Cyber Security in Smart Micro-Grid –- Attack Detection and User Authentication Dec' 2022 - Dec'2024 Dr. Shabari Nath, Dept. of EEE, IIT Guwahati

PhD Students

Sl. No. Name of Student Thesis Title Graduation Year Co-guide and/or Remarks
Sreeparna Das -- Jul' 2022 - Till date -
Saurabh Kumar Srivastava -- Jan' 2022 - Till date
(Registered in IIT (BHU))		 Dr. Prasenjit Chanak, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Surja Sanyal A Lightweight and Scalable IDS for Host Oriented Mimicry Attack Detection in Industrial IoT Networks Jul' 2021 - Till date Dr. Pratik Chattopadhyay, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Soumya Nandan Mishra Adaptive Routing in Low Power and Lossy Networks for Mission-Critical IoT Applications Jul' 2020 - Till date -
Karnish Nasrin Ahmed Tapadar Adaptive Link Scheduling in 6TiSCH Network for Resource Efficient Data Communication Jan' 2019 - Till date Dr. T. Venkatesh
Alakesh Kalita Adaptive Resource Allocation for Faster Formation of 6TiSCH IoT Network Jan' 2018 - May' 2022 (Graduated) Publications from PhD: 2 IEEE Transactions, 2 ACM Transactions, 3 IEEE Journal, 2 International Conference
Status after PhD: PostDoc in NUS, Singapore

M.Tech. Students

Sl. No. Name of Student Project Title Specialization Graduation Year Co-guide and/or Remarks
Singarapu Pavan Kumar -- CSE Pursuing --
Pratik Manoj Rana -- CSE Pursuing --
Aditya Kumar Sakre Vulnerability in Cell Scheduling Function and its Countermeasure for 6TiSCH Networks CSE 2023 Work is published in INDICON'23 Conference
Sanket Sonowal Implementation and Verification of PUF based User Authentication in IoT using FPGA CSE 2023 --
Vikash Raghuwanshi Man-In-The-Middle Attack Prevention in OCPP Protocol CSE 2022 --
Naladala Jeshwanth Supporting DiffServ in Distributed Link Scheduling for 6TiSCH Networks CSE 2022 --
Aditya Tandon Low-Latency Cell Relocation in Distributed Link Scheduling for 6TiSCH Networks CSE 2022 --
Priya Undirwade CNN-BiLSTM and Encoder Model for Network Intrusion Detection Data Science 2021 Dr. Shabari Nath, EEE Dept.
Arunav Saikia Designing Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection System for IoT Network Data Science 2021 Dr. Shabari Nath, EEE Dept.
Priyanshu P. R. Singh Designing a Distributed Scheduling Function for Adapting Traffic in 6TiSCH Network CSE 2021 Work is published in ICSET'23 Conference
Shiva Verma Adaptive and Distributed Cell Scheduling Function for 6TiSCH Networks CSE 2020 --
Sushant Yadav Collision Detection and Mitigation in Distributed Scheduling of 6TiSCH Networks CSE 2020 --

B.Tech. Students

Sl. No. Name of Student Project Title Graduation Year Remarks
Pradeep Kumar -- Pursuing --
Pauras Manoj Tarle -- Pursuing --
Aviral Gupta Flow-based botnet detection using machine learning 2021 --
Sunny Kumar A comparative Analysis of ECC and RSA 2021 --
Shubham Kumar Machine Learning and Deep Learning approach for Intrusion Detection Systems 2021 --
Mayank Chandra Exploring Decentralized Group Communication 2021 --
Baddu Hari Security in IoT based on Smart Contracts 2020 --
Durgesh Yadav Lightweight and Distributed Access Control for IoT Devices 2020 --
Sachin Chouhan Smart Lighting 2020 --
Tamilselvan S Intelligent System for Efficient Power Management in an Organization 2019 --
B Sree Siddharth, G Sravan Development of System based Firewall and Monitoring the system through web Application 2018 in IIT Jodhpur
Vivek Dwivedi, Sarvesh kumar Development of eRikshaw Charging Mobile App 2018 in IIT Jodhpur
M. Jagadeesh Network Anomaly Detection using Online Laplacian Component Analysis 2017 in IIT Jodhpur