Research Areas of Interest :

· Information & Communications Security & Privacy,

· Load Distribution and Failure Tolerance in Distributed Systems,

· Formal Software Engineering & Reliability,

· Algorithms and Computational Complexity

Ph D Scholars & Research Work under my Supervision :

Sr No	Name of the Research Scholar	Title/Area	Period
1.	Mrs Mayuri Mehta (PEC)	Load Distribution Algorithms in Distributed Systems	Dec 2009 – contd
2.	Ms Ami Choksi (PEC)	Resource Discovery using Ontological Specifications in GRID	Dec 2009 – contd
3.	Mrs Rashmi Phalanikar (PEC)	Ontologies in Software Engineering	Dec 2009 – contd
4.	Mrs Sankita Patel (PIS)	Privacy Preserving Data Mining	Dec 2009 – contd
5.	Mrs Vivaksha Jariwala (PEC)	Secure Data Aggregation and Link Layer Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks	Dec 2009 – contd
6.	Mrs Neelam Surti (PEC)	Intrusion and Detection Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks	Dec 2009 – contd
7.	Mrs Shivangi Chauhan (PEC)	Mining in Temporal Databases – jointly with Dr Sanjay Garg, Nirma University	Dec 2009 – contd
8.	Mr Pawan Baldare (PEC)	Privacy Preserving Data Mining	Dec 2009 – contd
9.	Mr Yatin Shukla (PEC)	Malware Detection & Avoidance	Dec 2009 - contd
10.	Mr Nishant Doshi (FIR)	Attribute Based Cryptography	July 2010 – contd
11.	Mrs Nirali Nanavati (PIS)	Privacy Preserving Data Mining	July 2010 – contd
12.	Mr Hasmukh Patel (PEC)	Security Protocols Verification	July 2010 – contd

* PEC – Part Time External Candidate, PIS – Part Time Institute Scholar