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Ashok Kumar Das

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Korea University, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Vidyasagar University, Old Dominion University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5196-9589
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Ashok Kumar Das received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering, an M.Tech. degree in computer science and data processing, and an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from IIT Kharagpur, India. He is currently a full Professor with the Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. He is a distinguished adjunct professor at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He also worked as a visiting research professor with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University, Suffolk, VA 23435, USA, in 2022 and 2024. His current research interests include cryptography, system and network security, including security in smart grids, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Drones (IoD), Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and cloud computing, intrusion detection, Blockchain, AI/ML security, quantum and post-quantum cryptography. He has authored over 540 papers in international journals and conferences in the above areas, including over 465 reputed journal papers. He was a recipient of the Institute Silver Medal from IIT Kharagpur. He has been listed in the Web of Science (Clarivate) Highly Cited Researcher 2022 and 2023 in recognition of his exceptional research performance. He was/is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Systems Journal, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer), Cyber Security and Applications (Elsevier), IET Communications, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and International Journal of Communication Systems
(Wiley). He also served as one of the Technical Program Committee Chairs of the first International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'19), Avila, Spain, June 2019, International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN'20), October 2020, Chennai, India, and second International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'20), L'Aquila, Italy, October 2020, and International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN'23), December 2023, Bangalore, India. His Google Scholar h-index is 100, and his i10-index is 373, with over 31,500 citations.
( https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=bToAUHMAAAAJ&hl=en ).

For more details, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/iitkgpakdas/, https://www.iiit.ac.in/faculty/ashok-kumar-das/.

Employment

  • Korea University Distinguished Adjunct Professor
    2025 - 2026
  • Old Dominion University Visiting Research Professor
    2024 - 2024
  • International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Full Professor
    2023 - Present
  • Old Dominion University Visiting Faculty
    2022 - 2022
  • International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad Associate Professor
    2017 - 2022
  • International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad Assistant Professor
    2010 - 2016
  • International Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar Assistant Professor
    2008 - 2010
  • Center for Development of Telematics Research Engineer
    2000 - 2004

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering)
    2004 - 2008
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur M.Tech. (Computer Science and Data Processing)
    1998 - 2000
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur M.Sc. (Mathematics)
    1996 - 1998
  • Vidyasagar University B.Sc. (Hons.) (Mathematics)
    1993 - 1996

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Publications (398)