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Newsworthy is your go-to update on everything happening across our vibrant community — from welcoming new faces and celebrating student and faculty achievements to spotlighting key milestones and initiatives. Catch up, stay inspired, and be part of the journey as we continue building a more secure digital future together!
Shridhar Shukla Chairs in Digital Trust
Prof. Biswabandan Panda and Prof. Akshay S., faculty members of the IITB Trust Lab, have been awarded the Shridhar Shukla Chair in Digital Trust. The Chair position is named after Dr. Shridhar Shukla, the Founder Donor of IITB Trust Lab, with the vision of establishing IIT Bombay as a world leader in digital trust through excellence in research and development, student engagement, and industry collaboration. With three positions under its scope, the Chair was first awarded to Prof. Vinay Ribeiro in 2023.
Prof. Panda’s research focuses on computer architecture, particularly microarchitecture and in general computer architecture research. His well-known microscopic contributions are the state-of-the-art high performing cache compressors and multi-level hardware data prefetchers.
Prof. Akshay is broadly interested broadly in formal methods, with a focus on verification of timed, recursive and distributed systems, automated functional synthesis and formal modeling and analysis of probabilistic and dynamical systems.
Early Career Award 2024
Prof. Biswabandan Panda and Prof. Chaya Ganesh are the winners of the second IITB Trust Lab Early Career Award!
Instituted by IITB Trust Lab, this award honours early-career faculty making exceptional contributions to the field of Digital Trust spanning areas such as cryptography, hardware security, software systems security, networks, blockchai, formal methods, game theory, pedagogy, and public policy.
Each awardee receives a prize of INR 3 lakhs in recognition of their work.
With over 90 applications from 60+ institutions across India, this year’s edition was our most competitive yet.
Prof. Mainack Mondal (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) and Prof. Venkata Koppula (Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) were the recipients of the first edition of this award.
Distinguished Speaker Series
On 7th January 2025, Prof. Helen Nissenbaum from Cornell Tech delivered a thought-provoking talk titled “Privacy as Contextual Integrity: Definition and (a few) Applications” as part of the IITB Trust Lab’s Distinguished Speaker Series, co-hosted by the Infosys Science Foundation.
In her talk, Prof. Nissenbaum introduced the concept of Contextual Integrity as a novel framework for understanding privacy. She discussed its theoretical foundations, highlighted empirical evidence supporting its robustness, and shared examples of how the concept has been applied in technical research.
The session offered valuable insights into rethinking privacy in today’s data-driven world and sparked engaging discussions among attendees from academia and industry alike.
IITB Trust Lab also hosts periodic talks as part of its regular Colloquium Series. Visit this page for details of past sessions and speakers.
IITB Trust Lab at ISBI 2025
Our Pre-Doctoral researchers Kunal Deo and Tanurima Halder, alongside intern Sarang Galada, are heading to Houston this April with their paper “Privacy-preserving Inter-Site MRI Harmonization via Disentangled Representation Learning” which has earned a spot at the prestigious IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025).
This research, guided by Prof. Kshitij Jadhav (Koita Centre for Digital Health – KCDH (IIT Bombay) and Prof. Ram Prasad K (Associate Dean, Sai University, Chennai, Director at VisionCog R&D), promises to revolutionize how we handle multi-site MRI data while safeguarding patient privacy.
The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is a scientific conference dedicated to mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biological and biomedical imaging, across all scales of observation.
Check out the paper: link
Hardware and Cryptography Research Retreat
IITB Trust Lab organized a two-day Hardware and Cryptography Research Retreat on January 25-26 at the IIT Bombay campus.
Leading researchers from eminent institutes all over India – Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (IIT Madras), Prof. Chester Rebeiro (IIT Madras), Prof. Shweta Agarwal (IIT Madras), and Prof. Venkata Koppula (IIT Delhi), Prof. Angshuman Karmakar (IIT Kanpur), and Prof. Avik Chakraborti (TCG KREST) – presented their recent research in their domain, giving a brief overview to fellow professors. MS, Ph.D, and Pre-doctoral students from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) were also a part of this retreat.
Representing IITB Trust Lab were Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran, Prof. biswabandan panda, Prof. Chethan Kamath, Prof. Sayandeep Saha, Prof. Sruthi Sekar and Mr. Mukul Joshi (Program Director, IITB Trust Lab).
cLabs Platform Demo at PIWOT!
PULSE — our hands-on, auto-graded security labs, developed by Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu (Faculty Member & Co-Principal Investigator, IITB Trust Lab) — was showcased at PIWOT.
Built on the in-house cLabs platform, PULSE bridges theoretical knowledge with practical application to address real-world cybersecurity challenges.
Covering topics from web security to enterprise security, these scalable and cost-effective labs empower students to confidently navigate the evolving digital threat landscape.
The cLabs platform is currently powering the 10-week online Web Security Course by Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu for industry professionals, government employees, educators, and students.
