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Anand R Nair

Assistant Professor, TIFAC-CORE in Cybersecurity, School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Qualification: B Tech, M Tech, UGC NTA NET
r_anand@cb.amrita.edu
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Research Interest: Malware Analysis, Windows System Security, Android Security, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web

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Mr Anand R Nair currently serves as Assistant Professor at TIFAC-CORE in Cybersecurity, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. (since Nov 2022)

He is currently pursuing doctoral research as a part-time scholar at the Dept of CSE, Amrita School of Computing, Coimbatore under the supervision of Dr Gowtham R. His area of research includes systems security, malware analysis and knowledge representations. (Jan 2020 onwards)

Anand had qualified UGC NTA NET in Computer Science and Applications in June 2019. He had completed M Tech in Computer Science specializing in Cybersecurity from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Trivandrum in 2017. He had graduated his B Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India in 2012.

While at the department of TIFAC-CORE in Cybersecurity, he has been working on funded research projects such as software watermarking, Android security, phishing detection and APT analysis. He is experienced in handling courses such as Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Data Structures and Algorithms, Programming Languages, Soft Computing, Advanced Protocol Engineering and Security, as well as Web Application Security. The academic projects mentored by him for M Tech and B Tech students include a range of topics such as malware detection using Artificial Intelligence, Android security, Darknet and Tor network traffic detection, Enhanced Yara with fuzzy logic-based string matching for static malware detection, and secure exfiltration-resilient Android application for maintaining privacy and integrity of digital media on secondary storage. He is the Faculty Advisor and coordinates the club at the department for Capture the Flag (CTF) contests. He also actively involves in mentoring students for competitive programming contests such as ACM ICPC as well as hackathons.

Mr Nair has over 7 years of industrial experience working with state public sector undertakings (PSUs), research centres and private software development firms.

Anand is a member of Internet governance groups such as ICANN and ISOC since September 2021. He is a former Indian Fellow for India School of Internet Governance (inSIG 2021).

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2024

Ontology-Driven Behavioral Model for Ransomware Traceability

Cite this Research Publication : Gowtham ramesh, Anand R. Nair, Ontology-Driven Behavioral Model for Ransomware Traceability, 2024.

Year : 2024

Guard: Graph-Based Utility for Adversarial Ransomware Detection Using Structural and Behavioural Characteristics

Cite this Research Publication : Mathi S, Surendran A, Anand R Nair, Senthilkumar, Guard: Graph-Based Utility for Adversarial Ransomware Detection Using Structural and Behavioural Characteristics, 2024.

Year : 2024

Generating Bent Functions and Dynamic Filters: A Novel Equivalence-Based Approach

Cite this Research Publication : Joseph Nelson, Chungath Srinivasan, Anand R. Nair, Lakshmy Koduvayur Viswanathan, Generating Bent Functions and Dynamic Filters: A Novel Equivalence-Based Approach, Symmetry, 16(11), 1501, 2024.

Year : 2024

MAGIC: Malware behaviour analysis and impact quantification through signature co-occurrence and regression

Cite this Research Publication : Rohini S, Gowtham Ramesh, Anand R Nair, MAGIC: Malware Behaviour Analysis and Impact Quantification through Signature Co-occurrence and Regression, Computers & Security, Elsevier, 2024

Publisher : Elsevier

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2022

Ensemble Model Ransomware Classification: A Static Analysis-based Approach

Cite this Research Publication : Johnson S., Gowtham R., Nair, A. R, Ensemble model ransomware classification: a static analysis-based approach,Inventive Computation and Information Technologies: Proceedings of ICICIT 2021 (pp. 153-167). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Publisher : Springer

Education
  • M Tech in Cybersecurity from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Trivandrum
  • UGC NTA NET qualified in Computer Science and Applications
  • Currently pursuing PhD in Computer Science from Amrita School of Computing, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Experience
  • Former Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in a DST SERB-sponsored project on Behavioural Study of Ransomware investigated by Dr Gowtham R, Dept of CSE, Amrita School of Computing, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. (August 2019- June 2022)
  • Former Lead – Training and Knowledge Transfer for KELTRON Knowledge Services, Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd, Trivandrum. Member of teaching faculty for courses in Cyber Security and Internet of Things (IoT); Demonstrated experience in training professionals and academic scholars in courses related to Penetration Testing, Python Programming and Web Technologies. Experienced in teaching fundamental courses like Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Data Structures, Programming Languages, Cryptographic Protocols, Soft Computing, Artificial Neural Networks and training tools like Kali Linux, Burp Suite. (June 2017-August 2019)
  • Former Intern at Amrita Centre for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amritapuri in malware analysis and AI-based malware detection. Familiar with machine learning and data analytics tools like Weka and TensorFlow. (Jan 2017-May 2017)
  • Former Web Developer at Amrita University Web Services, Amrita CREATE, Amritapuri. (Aug 2013-Sep 2014)
  • Former Software Developer at Suyati Technologies, Infopark, Kochi. Experienced in Web Technologies like Python-Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Drupal for Application Development in accordance to Agile Development model. Adherence to industrial practices in Software Development. (Jun 2012-Dec 2012)
  • Former Intern at Amrita E-learning Research Labs, Amritapuri for iOS application development (Dec 2011-Apr 2012)
Membership
  • Member of India School of Internet Governance (inSIG)
  • Member of Internet Society (ISOC), Trivandrum
  • Member of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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