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Dr. Ankush Soni

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Institute of Engineering & Technology

Biography

Dr. Ankush Soni holds a PhD from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, in the area of IoT Security with a focus on UAV Security and Applied Cryptography. His research is anchored around designing secure and efficient communication protocols for UAVs using cryptographic primitives, including lightweight variants of AES built on SHA-3 based key derivation and their integration into TLS 1.3 and QUIC transport stacks. His research contributions have been published in leading national and international conferences, including IEEE SMC and IC3. During his PhD he assisted as a teaching assistant in courses such as Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Programming, and Cryptography, and his efforts were recognised through the Best Teaching Assistant Award 2023 by BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus.

Education

  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

    PhD, 2025

    Focus: Investigation of Hash Functions for Secure and Efficient Communication in IoT Devices

  • Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

    BTech, 2018

    Major: Computer Science and Engineering

  • Network Security, IoT Security
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Blockchain
  • Wireless Networks

  • Efficient Certificate Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Secure UAV–GCS Communication. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. Accepted, ICTCS, Springer, LNNS, 2025. [Scopus]
  • PSKA-UAV: A Pre-Shared Key-Based Authentication Protocol for Secure and Efficient Communication between UAV and GCS. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. Springer, CCIS (icSoftComp), Vol. 2874, pp. 134–146, 2025. [Scopus]
  • A Secure and Efficient Implementation of TLS and QUIC for Secure Satellite Based Communication in UAVs. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. Springer, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 1756, pp. 367–376, 2025. [Scopus]
  • A Novel Protocol for the Secure Communication between UAV and Ground Control Station. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. IEEE Xplore, IEEE International Conference on Modern Sustainable Systems (ICMSS), pp. 670–677, 2025. [Scopus]
  • SATCOM-UAV: Efficient and Secure Satellite Based Communication for UAV Swarms with QUIC and TLS. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. IEEE, 17th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, pp. 1–7, 2025. [Scopus]
  • On the Security and Efficiency of Different Secure Hash Algorithm. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. IEEE Xplore, IEEE CCNCPS, pp. 125–131, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/CCNCPS66785.2025.11135672. [Scopus]
  • Hash Based Message Authentication Code Performance with Different Secure Hash Functions. Ankush Soni, Sanjay K. Sahay and Vaishali Soni. IEEE Xplore, IEEE ICSC, pp. 104–109, 2025. [Scopus]
  • AESHA3: Efficient and Secure Sub-Key Generation for AES Using SHA-3. Ankush Soni, Sanjay K. Sahay and Parit Mehta. Springer, BROADNETS, LNICST, Vol. 601, pp. 42–53, 2025. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81168-5_5. [Core-C]
  • SEASHA3: Secure and Efficient Encryption for the IoT Data by Replacing Subkeys of AES with SHA3. Ankush Soni and Sanjay K. Sahay. IEEE Xplore, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10831459. [Core-B]

  • Programming - I and II
  • Operating Systems
  • Database Management Systems

  • Cyber Security
  • Cryptography
  • DBMS
  • Operating Systems
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
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  • Bachelor of Technology B.Tech

  • Bachelor of Design B.Des

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Fintech)

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Honours)

  • Bachelor of Business Administration

  • Master of Design M.Des

  • Master of Technology M.Tech

  • Master of Business Administration MBA

  • Doctor of Philosophy PhD

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