Faculty details

Prof.Arup Kumar Pal

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Email: arupkrpal[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 9471191835

Office Number: +91-326-223-5796

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About Me: Arup Kumar Pal is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. Before joining this institution, he held the position of Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Jamshedpur from April 2011 to December 2011. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore, India, in 2006. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad in 2011. With over fourteen years of experience in teaching and research, he has contributed to more than 100 research papers published in esteemed journals and international conference proceedings. Notably, he has served as the sole or principal guide for twelve Ph.D. students who successfully graduated under his supervision. The students have contributed significantly to various aspects of Information Security, like image security, data hiding, remote user authentication, Blockchain, and DNA computing. In addition, he has received several Best Paper Awards for his research presentations at various international conferences. He has also received several R&D projects from prestigious organizations such as ICMR, DST, MeitY, CSIR, and C3iHub IIT Kanpur. His primary research interests include Information Security, Blockchain, Multimedia Security, and Image Analysis. Moreover, he has organized several STC/FDPs in the areas of Cryptography and Image Processing. He has actively served as an Advisory Committee and Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member at various conferences and workshops. Orcid Id: 0000-0003-4229-0715 Scopus Id: 36096150700 Researcher Id: DYQ-6257-2022 Web of Science ResearcherID: JBJ-2242-2023 Google Scholar Id: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HuAXMmUAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interest: Data Compression, Multimedia Security, Blockchain, DNA Computing, and Image Analysis using ML/DL

Teaching

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptography 
  • Data Compression
  • Data Structures
  • Information Theory and Coding
  • Multimedia Systems and Security
  • Theory of Computation
  • Compiler Design

Academics

Sl. No.

Degree

Year

Subject

University/Institution 

Ph.D

2011

Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand

B.Tech

2006

Computer Science and Engineering

Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore, West Bengal

12th

2002

Pure Science

Bolpur N.N.B. High School,Birbhum, West Bengal

10th

2000

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Bolpur N.N.B. High School,Birbhum, West Bengal

Position

Sl. No.

Position Held

Name of the Institute

From

To

Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad

12.04.2021

Till Date

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad

27.12. 2011

11.04.2021

Lecturer

National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur

20.04.2011

26.12.2011

Awards and Honors

Received Best Paper Award: Gourab Roy, Arup Kumar Pal, Manish Raj, and Jitesh Pradhan, “Knee Osteoarthritis Detection and Categorization with Deep Learning Models”, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI-2025), held at NIT Sikkim, India, 5-7 March, 2025

Received Best Paper Award: Pramod Kumar, Arup Kumar Pal and SK Hafizul Islam, “LASKV: Lightweight Authenticated Session Key Agreement for Video Surveillance System”, Fifth International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP 2024) held at Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo (A.U.K), Kosovo, Europe,  March 25-26, 2024.

Received Best Paper Award: Mahesh Chaurasia, and Arup Kumar Pal, “A Blockchain-based Secure Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Tamper Detection”, International Conference on Sustainable Development & Management Practices (ICSDMP-2024), held at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India, 09-10 February 2024.

Excellent Paper Award: Shukla Mondal, Arup Kumar Pal, SK Hafizul Islam and Debabrata Samanta, “Objectionable Image Content Classification Using CNN-Based Semi-supervised Learning”, 5th International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA-2022), December 24-26, 2022, Virtual Conference

Received Best Paper Award: Srilekha Paul, and Arup Kumar Pal, “Active Forgery Detection in Grayscale Images using CRC-8 based Fragile Watermarking”, 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2019), held at NIT Kurukshetra, India, 3-4 March 2019.

Publications

Books Published

Sl No.

Author(s)

Title

Year of

Publication

Publisher

Chiranjeev Bhaya, Arup Kumar Pal, SK Hafizul Islam

DNA-based Image Cryptosystem with Enhanced Security(Book Chapter)

2023

Advances in Computers,

Elsevier,

Volume 129,

2023,

Pages 129-172,

ISSN 0065-2458,

SK Hafizul Islam, Arup Kumar Pal, Debabrata Samanta, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

Edited Book: Blockchain Technology for Emerging Applications: A Comprehensive Approach

2022

Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-323-90193-2

Jitesh Pradhan, Arup Kumar Pal, Haider Banka

Medical Image Retrieval System using Deep

Learning Techniques (Book Chapter)

2021

Springer Publisher Print ISBN: 978-3-030-71675-2

Online ISBN: 978-3-030-71676-9

Ashif Sheikh, Jitesh Pradhan, Arpit Dhuriya, Arup Kumar Pal

Medical Image Fusion using Deep Learning (Book Chapter)

2021

Springer PublisherPrint ISBN: 978-3-030-71675-2

Online ISBN: 978-3-030-71676-9

SK  Hafizul Islam, Arup Kumar Pal, Shiv Prasad, Soumitra Roy, Raunak Rungta, Shikha Vermal

"Digital Watermarking Algorithms for Multimedia Data", Chapter 5: Authentication Technologies for Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data (Book Chapter)

2019

IET Publisher

ISBN: 978-1-7856-1556-6

Sachin Tripathy,

Arup Kumar Pal

Edited Proceeding of 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), Vol.I&Vol.II

2018

IEEE Publication

ISBN: 978-1-5386-3039-6

Sachin Tripathy,

Arup Kumar Pal

Dharavath Ramesh

Edited Proceeding of 4th ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy (ISEA-ISAP2021), by IEEE Xplore digital library

2021

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Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Sl. No

Project Title

Funding Agency

Cost in Lakh

Date of sanction and Duration

Role as

PI/Co- PI

Development of Low-Cost Artificial Intelligent System for Prediction of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) From Plain Radiographic Images in Osteoporosis Detection (Project No: SRDP1164G)

ICMR

219.00

01.02.2025

(03 Years)

Site PI

Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project Phase-III

(Project No: MeitY/2024-2025/1106/CSE)

MeitY

201.6

18.04.2024

(05 years)

Co-PI

Cloud based Smart Video Surveillance System with Application Layer Cyber Physical Systems Security

(Project No: C3iHUB/2021-2022/820/CSE)

C3iHUB IIT Kanpur

31.28

29.09.2021

(3 Years)

Sole PI

Development of Content-Based Image Filtering Approach to Prevent Objectionable Image Retrieval from The Internet

(Project No: CSIR(34)/2020-2021/754/CSE)

CSIR

18.60

01.11.2020

(3 Years)

Sole PI

FIST- 2018

(Project No: DST-FIST(208)/2018-2019/606/CSE)

DST

52.00

08 June 2018

(05 years)

Co-PI

Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase-II

(Project No: MCIT(3)/2015-16/419/CSE)

MeitY

148.10

30 June 2015

(05 years)

Co-PI

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

S. N.

Position Held

From

To

Departmental Faculty Screening Committee (DFSC) of the Dept. of CSE for Assistant Professor position

01.12.2021

Till Date

DUGC Convener

25.01.2024

Till Date

Associate Dean (Automation)

22.06.2021

20.10.2023

Guidance

S. No

Name of Student

Title of the Dissertation

Sole or Joint

Status

Remarks

  1.  

Dr. Kshiramani Naik

(2012DR0115)

Design of Some Transform Domain based Image Cryptosystem, Steganography and Watermarking Schemes

Sole

Awarded

Assistant Professor

Department of IT,
VSSUT, Burla

  1.  

Dr. Naushad Varish

(2013DR0252)

Content-Based Image Retrieval Techniques in Transform Domain

Sole

Awarded

Faculty at Private University

  1.  

Dr. Soumitra Roy

(2015DR1132)

Irreversible and Reversible Watermarking Schemes of Digital Images

Sole

Awarded

Faculty at Private University

  1.  

Dr. Rifaqat Ali

(2014DR0026)

Remote User Authentication Schemes Based on Cryptographic

Approach

Sole

Awarded

Assistant Professor at NIT Hamirpur

  1.  

Dr. Jitesh Pradhan

(2015DR0263)

Image Feature Extraction and Classification in CBIR

Joint

Awarded

Assistant Professor at NIT Jamshedpur

  1.  

Dr. Shiv Prasad

(2013DR0157)

Data Hiding and Protection using Steganography and Fragile Watermarking Techniques

Sole

Awarded

Working at Govt. Organization

  1.  

Dr. Kuntal Chowdhury

(2014DR1078)

Some Clustering and Classification Techniques for Images

Joint

Awarded

Faculty at Private University

  1.  

Dr. Sumit Kumar

(2015DR0056)

Design of Content based Image Retrieval Schemes and Their Applications

Sole

Awarded

Faculty at Private University

  1.  

Dr. Pooja Mishra

(2016DR1120)

DNA Coding for Error Correction, Data Storage, and Image Cryptosystem

Joint

Awarded

Faculty at IIIT Vadodara

  1.  

Dr. Mukul Majhi

(2015DR0082)

Design of Security Schemes for Content Based Image Retrieval

Sole

Awarded

Assistant Professor at NIT Hamirpur

  1.  

Dr. Preeti Soni

(17DR000395)

Design of Attack-Resilience Authentication Protocols for Internet Applications

Joint

Awarded

Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal

  1.  

Dr. Soumya Mukherjee

(18DP000411)

Design of Efficient Forgery Detection Techniques in Digital Images

Sole

Awarded

Assistant Professor at LNMIIT, Jaipur

  1.  

Ms. Vandana Rathore

 (16DR000109)

Currently working on Image/Video Security

Sole

Thesis Submitted

Part-Time Scholar

  1.  

Mr. Shukla Mondal

Currently working on Image Filtering

Joint

Ongoing

Part-Time Scholar

  1.  

Mr. Mahesh Chaurasia (21DR0088)

Currently working on Blockchain

Sole

Ongoing

Full-Time Scholar

  1.  

Mr. Pramod Kumar

(18DR0097)

Currently working on Video Surveillance System

Sole

Ongoing

Full-Time Scholar

  1.  

Mr. Chiranjeev Bhaya

(23DP0051)

Currently working on DNA Computing and its Applications

Sole

Ongoing

Part-Time Scholar

  1.  

Ankur Mani Tripathi

(24DP0125)

Currently Working on Medical  Imaging

Sole

Ongoing

Part-Time Scholar