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, Secure System Design, Hardware Accelerators, Securing IoT and ML deisgns, and Applications of Machine/Deep 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. [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. 76.4 Lakh.   Duration: July 2023 - July 2025. [Ongoing]

Key Publications:

• Patent Publications:
  • 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.
  • Munesh Singh and Vijaypal Singh Rathor, “Geofencing System for UAV Tracking and Activity Monitoring”, Indian Patent, Application 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, Application No No.: 202321045617, Filed: 07-07-2023, Published: 22-09-2023.
  • Shashidara R. and Vijaypal Singh Rathor, “Mutual Authentication Network in Mobility Network”, Indian Patent, Application No: 202011046288, Filed: 23 Oct 2020, Published: 04-12-2020.

• Book/Book Chapters:

  • Vijaypal Singh Rathor, Durgesh Singh and Akshat Rastogi, “Vulnerability Analysis of AI Models Against Adversarial Attacks,” in Book: The Emerging Role of AI-Based Expert Systems in Cyber Defense and Security, ISBN: 979-8-89113-841-4, https://doi.org/10.52305/UJIT8253, July 15, 2024.
  • Pandey, Avinash Chandra, Abhishek Verma, Vijaypal Singh Rathor, Munesh Singh, and Ashutosh Kumar Singh, eds. “Intelligent Analytics for Industry 4.0 Applications”. CRC Press, June 6, 2023, ISBN 9781032342412, 1st Edition. pp. 1-312.

•  Journal Publications:

  • Deepak Mishra, Anil Kumar, V. S. Rathor, “A Novel Hybrid Approach Based on SVSR and TQWT for Crop Image Compression”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 122, 2025, 110008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.110008. [SCIE].
  • V. S. Rathor, M. Singh, K. S. Sahoo and S. P. Mohanty, "GateLock: Input-Dependent Key-Based Locked Gates for SAT Resistant Logic Locking," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 361-371, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3340350. [SCIE].
  • Deepak Mishra, Anil Kumar, V. S. Rathor, G. K. Singh, “Hybrid Technique for Crop Image Compression using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Sparse Singular Vector Reconstruction”, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 215, Nov, 2023, 108391, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.108391. [SCIE]
  • V. S. Rathor, and G. K. Sharma, “A New Efficient ATPG and Online Checking Based Technique for Detecting Stealthy Trojans”, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, Volume 101, 2023,104903,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2023.104903. [SCI]
  • V. S. Rathor, Deepak Singh, Mohit Sajwan and Simranjit Singh, “Multi-Objective Optimization based Test Pattern Generation Technique for Hardware Trojan Detection”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Application. 39, 371–385 (2023). June 16, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-023-06071-w. [SCIE].  
  • Mukhtar Opeyemi Yusuf, Divya Srivastava, Deepak Singh and V. S. Rathor, Multiview deep learning-based attack to break text-CAPTCHAs. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 14, 959–972 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-022-01675-8. Published 3 October 2022. [SCI]. 
  • Simranjit Singh, Deepak Singh, Mohit Sajwan, V. S. Rathor, and Deepak Garg. Hyperspectral image classification using multi-objective optimization. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 81, 25345–25362 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12462-6. March 23, 2022. [SCI]. 
  • B. Garg, P.S. Rana, and V. S. Rathor, “Significance driven inverse distance weighted filter to restore impulsive noise corrupted X-ray image”. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 13, 2013–2024 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-02962-y [SCIE/SCOPUS]. 
  • Richa Sharma, V. S. Rathor; G.K. Sharma; Manisha Pattanaik, “A New Hardware Trojan Detection Technique Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network”, Integration: The VLSI Journal, Elsevier, Volume 79, Pages 1-11, July, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vlsi.2021.03.001. [SCI]. ISSN No.: 1872-7522
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg, Mandar Patil and G. K. Sharma, “Security Analysis of Image CAPTCHA using Mask R-CNN Based Attack Model”, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 36, No. 4, pp 238-247, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAHUC.2021.114108 . [SCIE]. 
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg and G. K. Sharma, “New lightweight Anti-SAT block design and obfuscation technique to thwart removal attack”, Integration: The VLSI Journal, Elsevier, Vol 75, pp. 178-188, Nov 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.vlsi.2020.05.001. [SCI]. 
  • V. S. Rathor and G. K. Sharma, "A Lightweight Robust Logic Locking Technique to Thwart Sensitization and Cone-Based Attacks," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 811-822, 1 April-June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TETC.2019.2935250. [SCIE]. 
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg and G. K. Sharma, "A Novel Low Complexity Logic Encryption Technique for Design-for-Trust," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 688-699, 1 July-Sept. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2018.2795706. [SCIE]. 
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg, and G. Sharma, “New Lightweight Architectures for Secure FSM Design against Fault Injection and Trojan Attacks”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Application (JETTA), vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 697–708, Nov 3, 2018. [SCIE].
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg, and G. Sharma, “New light weight threshold voltage defined camouflaged gates for trustworthy designs”, Journal of Electronic Testing, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 657–668, 2017. [SCIE].
  • V. S. Rathor, RK Pateriya, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, “An Efficient Virtual Machine Scheduling Technique in Cloud Computing Environment", International Journal Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol 7, no. 3, pp. 39-46, 2015. [SCOPUS]. 
  • V. S. Rathor, RK Pateriya, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, “Survey on Load Balancing through Virtual Machine Scheduling in cloud computing Environment", International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER), vol 3, no. 1, pp. 37-43, 2014.

• Conference Publications:

  • V. S. Rathor, Munesh Singh, Rahul Gupta, G.K. Sharma, Kshira Sagar Sahoo, Monowar Bhuyan, “Towards Designing an Energy Efficient Accelerated Sparse Convolutional Neural Network”, 2024 IEEE 36^th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). Herndon, VA, USA, 28–30 October 2024. [Accepted]
  • Mishra, A. Kumar, V. S. Rathor, H. S. Pal and G. K. Singh, "Color Crop Image Compression Technique using Singular Vector Sparse Reconstruction," 2023 IEEE 7th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Jabalpur, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/CICT59886.2023.10455585.
  • Mishra, A. Kumar and V. S. Rathor, "Performance of Interpolation Techniques for Compression of Crop Image: A Comparative Study," 2023 International Conference on Computer, Electronics & Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3), Srinagar Garhwal, India, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IC2E357697.2023.10262677.
  • Singh, V. S. Rathor, K. Sagar Sahoo and A. H. Gandomi, "Cooperative Geometric Scheme for Passive Localization of Target in an Indoor Environment," 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore, Singapore, Dec. 2022, pp. 238-245, doi: 10.1109/SSCI51031.2022.10022273.
  • Sajwan, D. Singh, V. S. Rathor and S. Singh, "Tolerance Satisfiability Sequences for Image Similarity," 2020 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication Control and Networking (ICACCCN), Greater Noida, India, 2020, pp. 1002-1007, doi: 10.1109/ICACCCN51052.2020.9362789.
  • V. S. Rathor, B. Garg and G. K. Sharma, "An Energy-Efficient Trusted FSM Design Technique to Thwart Fault Injection and Trojan Attacks," 31st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Pune, 2018, pp. 73-78.