Vijaypal Singh Rathor did his M.Tech. from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, and PhD from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. At present, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of IT at ABV IIITM, Gwalior, India. Prior to joining IIITM Gwalior, he worked as an Assistant Professor at IIITDM, Jabalpur, India from 2021 to 2024. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Thapar University, Patiala, and Bennett University, Greater Noida, India. He has received grants of more than 90 lakhs from various funding agencies for four research projects. His research interests include Hardware Security, Trustworthy Circuit Design, Hardware Trojan, Hardware Accelerators, IoT Security, and Machine Learning. He has authored many research articles in international journals/conferences of repute, including IEEE Transactions.

Sponsred Research Projects:

• HT-Pred: A complete defensive machine learning tool for Hardware Trojan Detection. Sponsored by Data Security Council of India (DSCI), Amount: 4.8 Lakh Duration: October 28, 2020 to September 17, 2022. [Status: Completed] 
• UAV-assisted Wi-Fi Geofencing for UAV Tracking and Activity Monitoring in Restricted Perimeter. Sponsored by TiHAN-IIT Hyderabad. Amount: 15.7 Lakh Duration: July 2022-July 2024. [About to Close]
• A Lightweight Hardware Logic Locking based Data Encryption Model for Securing IoT Devices from Hardware and Cyber Attacks. Sponsored by Data Security Council of India (DSCI), Amount: 7.08 Lakh. Duration: April 2023-December 2024. [Ongoing]
• Techniques and Toolkit for Analysis of Multifactor Authentication.  Sponsored by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Govt. of India. Amount: Rs. 7638515/-.   Duration: July 2023 - July 2025. [Status On Going]

Publications:

• Patent Publications:
  • Munesh Singh and Vijaypal Singh Rathor, “Geofencing System for UAV Tracking and Activity Monitoring”, Indian Patent No.: 202421007285, Filed: 02-02-2024, Published: 01-03-2024.
  • Munesh Singh and Vijaypal Singh Rathor, “An Automated Ammonia Testing System for Freshwater Aquaculture”, Indian Patent No.: 202321045617, Filed: 07-07-2023, Published: 22-09-2023.
  • Vijaypal Singh Rathor, Munesh Singh, Bharat Garg “System and Method for Implementing Input Dependent Key-based Logic Locking to Secure Integrated Circuit”, Indian Patent No: 202221031928, Filed: 03 June, 2022, Published: 17-06-2022., Granted: 14-03-2024.
  • Shashidara R. and Vijaypal Singh Rathor, “Mutual Authentication Network in Mobility Network”, Indian Patent No: 202011046288, Filed: 23 Oct 2020, Published: 04-12-2020.
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