मालवीय राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान जयपुर (राष्ट्रीय महत्व का संस्थान)
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (An Institute of National Importance)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

4

Journal Publications

10

Conference Publications

3

Research Projects

3

PhD Research Supervised

Qualifications
  • Ph.D.(CSE) from MNIT Jaipur(2015)
    M.Tech.(CSE) from MNIT Jaipur(2012)
    B.E.(CSE) from University of Rajasthan(2005)
Research Interests

Information Security, Malware Analysis, Privacy Breach, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning.

Professional Background
  • Assistant Professor at MNIT Jaipur [04 March 2020 - Present].
    Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal [18 April 2018 - 03 March 2020].
    Assistant Professor at IIIT Kota [07 January 2016 - 16 April 2018].

  • Android Programming
  • Design and analysis of algorithms

    2021
  • Smita Naval, Akanksha Pandey, Shivam Gupta, Gaurav Singal, Vignesh Vinoba, Neeraj Kumar, "PIN Inference Attack: A Threat to Mobile Security and Smartphone-controlled Robots" , IEEE Sensors Journal (IEEE) Volume :1 / 1-10 / 2021
  • 2018
  • Shweta Bhandari, Rekha Panihar, Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Akka Zemmari, Manoj Singh Gaur, "SWORD: Semantic aWare andrOid malwaRe Detector" , Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier) Volume :42 / 46-56 / 2018
  • 2015
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Manoj Singh Gaur and Mauro Conti, "Employing Program Semantics for Malware Detection" , IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE) Volume :10 / 2591-2604 / 2015
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj S Gaur, Vinod P, "An efficient block-discriminant identification of packed malware" , Sadhana (Indian Academy of Sciences) Volume :40 / 1435-1456 / 2015

    2021
  • Shanmukha Sai Sumanth Yenneti, Riti Kushwaha, Smita Naval, Gaurav Singal, "Leading Athlete Following UAV Using Transfer Learning Approach" , International Advanced Computing Conference by :Springer at Panji, India / 424-433 / 2021 ISBN: 978-981-16-0401-0
  • 2017
  • Garima Modi, Vijay Laxmi, Smita Naval, Manoj Singh Gaur, "Improving Leakage Path Coverage in Android Apps" , 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-17) by :IEEE at Sydney, NSW, Australia / 355-362 / 2017
  • 2014
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, Sachin Raja, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Mauro Conti, "Environment-Reactive Malware Behavior: Detection and Categorization" , 7th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security (SETOP -14) Held in Conjunction With ESORICS by :Springer at Wroclaw, Poland / 167-182 / 2014
  • Neha Gupta, Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Gaur and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, " P-SPADE: GPU Accelerated Malware Packer Detection" , 12th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST). IEEE, Toronto, Canada by :IEEE at Toronto, Canada / 257-263 / 2014
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Neha Gupta, Manoj Singh Gaur, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, "Exploring Worm Behaviors Using DTW" , 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. by :ACM at Glasgow, UK / 379-384 / 2014 ISBN: 978-1-4503-3033-6
  • 2013
  • Vinod, P., Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, Smita Naval, and Parvez Faruki, "MCF: MultiComponent Features for Malware Analysis" , 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) by :IEEE at Barcelona, Spain / 1076-1081 / 2013
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Yogesh Meena, Vinod, P. , "Relevant Hex Patterns for Malcode Detection." , International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (ISSP), 2013 by :IEEE at Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat INDIA / 334-337 / 2013
  • 2012
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, M. S. Gaur, and P. Vinod, "ESCAPE: Entropy Score Analysis of Packed Executable" , 5th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2012) by :ACM at MNIT Jaipur / 197-200 / 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4503-1668-2
  • Smita Naval, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, and P. Vinod, "SPADE: Signature Based PAcker DEtection" , First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things by :ACM at Kollam India / 96-101 / 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4503-1822-8
  • 2011
  • Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, Parvez Faruki, and Smita Naval, "PEAL-Packed Executable Analysis" , International Conference on Advanced Computing , Networking and Security (ADCONS’ 11) by :Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg at Surathkal India / 237-243 / 2011

  • Book Chapter, "Fake Social Media Profile Detection" ISBN:9781119768852 published by - Machine Learning applications-John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Year: 2021 authors- Umita Deepak Joshi, Ajay Pratap Singh, Tushar Rajesh Pahuja, Smita Naval, Gaurav Singal

  • National level Workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, jaipur, India from 10-02-2021 to 14-02-2021

  • Member of IEEE

    Ongoing
  • Payal Awwal on Adversarial Machine Learning Year - 2020
  • Ankit Pulkit on Side-channel attacks Year - 2020
  • Karishma Yadav on Secure Blockchain Techology Year - 2020

    2022-2023
  • TOLUCHURI SHYAMILI SHANKER RAO on Vulnerability Detection in Application Binaries using Mutation-based and Generation-based Fuzzers Year - 2022-2023 (Ongoing)
  • JAYATI ASHOKBHAI KARIYA on Biometric Template Security Year - 2022-2023 (Ongoing)
  • 2021-2022
  • Shreya Chowdhury on A One Shot Approach To Recognize Your Voice Year - 2021-2022 (Completed)
  • Nishant Chaudhary on Phishing detection based on Normalized Compression Distance (NCD) Year - 2021-2022 (Completed)

Title Total Outlay
(In Lacs)
Year Funding Agency Role
A simulation and emulation oriented cyber testbed for training and defence in cybersecurity (RP0072)76.712022-2024IIT JammuPI
nalyzing Vulnerabilities in Applications and Device Drivers in Linux and Windows Platforms using Symbolic Execution91.392021-2023Indian Institute of Technology Jammu Co-PI
Detection of malicious sensory channels threatening users privacy using IoT devices5.002020-2020Research Seed Money - NIT WarangalPI

  • Member, Centralized PhD admission written test in MNIT Jaipur from - 16-12-2020 to Till Date
  • Co-cordinator, First year BTech/BArch in MNIT Jaipur from - 12-12-2020 to Till Date
  • PI Co-Incharge of CCMT-2021 in MNIT Jaipur from - 15-04-2021 to 30-09-2021
  • Additional Faculty Cordinator in NIT Warangal from - 23-08-2019 to 03-03-2020

SNo. Type Title Event Place Schedule
1TalkBehavior-based Malware Detectionfive Day International Workshop on Information and Network Security Challenges and Solutions using Artificial Intelligence ApproachesCochin University of Science and Technology, CochinDec-2020
2TalkAnalyzing binaries on Virustotal.comMobile Security & Cloud Computing Security Challenges : Trends and Future DirectionsComputer Engineering Department A.V. Parekh Technical Institute -RajkotDec-2020
3TalkEmploying Program sematics for malware detectionFDP on Information and Network Security ChallegesSCMS college of Engineering and Technology, Ernakulam, KeralaJul-2019
4TalkAdvanced Topic of AlgorithmsOne Week WorkshopIIIT KotaJan-2019
5TalkMalware Protection and Cyber SecurityFive day workshop on cryptography and coding theoryNIT WarangalJan-2019