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Dr. Pranav Mothabhau Pawar

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

AI/ML for Cyber Security, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT/Cyber Security, Network Security
BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus Dubai International Academic City  P. O. Box No. - 345055, Dubai, UAE Room no: 204

PhD Students

Ongoing PhD Students

  1. Shini Girija, Digital privacy in smart healthcare systems using federated learning with integrated approaches to prevent inference attacks, 2023-till date
  2. Haseeba Neyyan, Federated Learning for Enhancing Privacy and Robustness for Detecting and Severity Assessment of Plant Disease, 2024-till date. (Supervisor: Prof. Pranav M Pawar, Cosupervisor: Prof. Mithun Mukherjee)

  3. Kashyap Shah, 2026-till date.
  4. Jasmita Vijay Malik, Securing Machine Learning Systems Against Adversarial Attacks under Realistic Threat Models, 2022-till date (Supervisor: Prof. Raja M, Cosupervisor: Prof. Pranav M Pawar)

Completed PhD Students

  1. Dr. Shalaka Mahadik, Thesis Title: Machine Learning based Security Mechanisms to Protect Heterogeneous IoT (HetIoT) from DDoS attack, 2021-2024. (Supervisor: Prof. Pranav M Pawar, Coupervisor: Prof. Raja M)
  2. Dr. Diana Susane Joseph, Thesis Title: An Intelligent Plant Leaf Disease Detection and Prognosis using Deep Learning Techniques, 2021-2024. 
  3. Dr. Sapna Sadhwani, Thesis Title: Enhancing IoT Security against DDoS Attacks using Machine Learning Techniques, 2020-2025 (Supervisor: Prof. Raja M, Cosupervisor: Prof. Pranav M Pawar)