Security, Privacy and Data Analytics

Recent Advancements on Energy-Saving LEACH Protocol in Wireless Sensor Network-Review.- Slow TCP PortScan Detection Using Flow Data.-An Exploration of Digital Forensic Techniques: A Brief Survey.- PersonalityBased Friends Recommendation System for Social Networks.- Analysis of Different Sampling Techniques for Software Fault Prediction.

Udai Pratap Rao (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (Gujarat), India, in 2014. He has been working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Patna since 10th Nov 2022. Before joining the National Institute of Technology Patna, he was associated as an Assistant Professor with Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from 07-08-2007 to 09-11-2022. His research interests include information security & privacy, privacy in location-based services, big data privacy, security, and trust management in online social networks (OSNs), security and privacy in IoT and cyber-physical systems, and distributed computing. He has published about 90 papers extensively in journals, book chapters, and refereed conference proceedings. He has supervised 05Ph.D. theses in the fields of data privacy, IoT security, and Security and Trust Management in OSN. He has also supervised a Post Doctoral Fellow (PDF) under ISEA Project Phase II in the Department of Computer Engineering at SVNIT Surat.  He is currently the PI of the research project entitled "Design and Implementation of Secure Service and Attribute-based Authorization Model in Dynamic and Constrained-specific IoT Environment" funded by IHUB NTIHAC Foundation, IITK, under the aegis of the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical System (NM-ICPS), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Micro Research project entitled "Investigating Light-Weight Cryptography Algorithms and Its Application to Various IoT Devices" funded by TEQIP-III from July 2019 to Jan 2021. He also acted as the Chief Investigator of the  "Information Security Education and Awareness Project Phase II" project from July 2018 to Dec2019, funded