Dr. Geeta
Assistant Professor @ CSE, IIT Ropar | Post-doc @ IIT Kanpur | PhD @ IIT Delhi | R&D @ Samsung Electronics| B.Tech @ MNIT Jaipur
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Research Interests
Cyber-Physical systems security
IIoT security
Vulnerability risk assessment
Penetration testing
Education
Ph.D, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi , 2016 - 2022
B.Tech, Computer Science, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, 2009-2013
Biography
Geeta is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Ropar. Before joining IIT Ropar, she worked as Cybersecurity Researcher at Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru and as Post-doctoral Research Fellow at C3i Hub, IIT Kanpur. She has done Ph.D. from the Khosla School of Information Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. She is advised by Prof. Kolin Paul. Her research interests are vulnerability risk assessment, patch prioritization, IIoT security, Cyber-Physical Systems, Graphical anomaly detection and Micro-architectural attack mitigation.
A part of her research during Ph.D. was under JST-DST SICORP Project in collaboration with Prof. Koji Okamura Kyushu University, Japan.
She has secured first place in the Challenges of the 2020 edition of the Indian Dutch Cyber Security School organised by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), Netherlands. She did a research internship at TCS Innovation Labs, Gurgaon, India in collaboration with Dr. Praveen Gauravaram (TCS Australia) and Arun Kumar Jindal (TCS Gurgaon). She received ACM Mobicom 2020 Student Research Competition grant for poster SmartPatch: A patch prioritization framework for SCADA chain in Smart grid. She was awarded IEEE IES-SYPA for paper "PatchRank: Ordering updates for SCADA systems" at ETFA 2019.
Before joining Ph.D., she worked as a Project Assistant with Prof. Kolin Paul and Prof. Sanjiva Prasad at IIT Delhi on the project PrasavGraph: Android based Labour Monitoring. She worked as a R&D engineer in Samsung India Pvt. Ltd. from June 2013- July 2015 on project SPlanner. She received a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India in 2013.