Teaching
- Blockchain
- Cryptography
- Data Compression
- Data Structures
- Information Theory and Coding
- Multimedia Systems and Security
- Theory of Computation
- Compiler Design
Designation: Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Email: arupkrpal[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in
Contact Number: 9471191835
Office Number: +91-326-223-5796
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About Me: Arup Kumar Pal is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. Before joining this institution, he held the position of Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Jamshedpur from April 2011 to December 2011. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore, India, in 2006. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad in 2011. With over fourteen years of experience in teaching and research, he has contributed to more than 100 research papers published in esteemed journals and international conference proceedings. Notably, he has served as the sole or principal guide for twelve Ph.D. students who successfully graduated under his supervision. The students have contributed significantly to various aspects of Information Security, like image security, data hiding, remote user authentication, Blockchain, and DNA computing. In addition, he has received several Best Paper Awards for his research presentations at various international conferences. He has also received several R&D projects from prestigious organizations such as ICMR, DST, MeitY, CSIR, and C3iHub IIT Kanpur. His primary research interests include Information Security, Blockchain, Multimedia Security, and Image Analysis. Moreover, he has organized several STC/FDPs in the areas of Cryptography and Image Processing. He has actively served as an Advisory Committee and Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member at various conferences and workshops. Orcid Id: 0000-0003-4229-0715 Scopus Id: 36096150700 Researcher Id: DYQ-6257-2022 Web of Science ResearcherID: JBJ-2242-2023 Google Scholar Id: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HuAXMmUAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Interest: Data Compression, Multimedia Security, Blockchain, DNA Computing, and Image Analysis using ML/DL
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Sl. No. |
Degree |
Year |
Subject |
University/Institution |
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1. |
Ph.D |
2011 |
Computer Science and Engineering |
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand |
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2. |
B.Tech |
2006 |
Computer Science and Engineering |
Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore, West Bengal |
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3. |
12th |
2002 |
Pure Science |
Bolpur N.N.B. High School,Birbhum, West Bengal |
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4. |
10th |
2000 |
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Bolpur N.N.B. High School,Birbhum, West Bengal |
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Sl. No. |
Position Held |
Name of the Institute |
From |
To |
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1. |
Associate Professor |
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad |
12.04.2021 |
Till Date |
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2. |
Assistant Professor |
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad |
27.12. 2011 |
11.04.2021 |
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3. |
Lecturer |
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur |
20.04.2011 |
26.12.2011 |
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Year |
Recognition |
Details |
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2026 |
Best Paper Award |
Ankur Mani Tripathi, Shukla Mondal, Arup Kumar Pal, and Manish Raj, “AGRT-Net: A Hybrid Attention-Guided Region Transformer for Osteoporosis Classification from Indian Femur Radiographs”, International Conference on Complex System Modelling and Artificial Intelligence (CSMAI 2026) held at Aleksandër Moisiu University, Durrës, Albania, Europe, May 21-22, 2026 |
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2026 |
Best Paper Award |
Shukla Mondal, Arup Kumar Pal, Pooja Mishra, and Manish Raj, “Deep Learning Approaches for Automated Osteoporosis Classification on Indian Hip X-Ray Data,” 12th IBS Conference on Marketing & Business Strategy (ICOMBS 2026) in Association with Centre of Sustainable Energy (IIT Roorkee), held at IBS Hyderabad, India, 13-14 March, 2026 |
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2025 |
Best Paper Award |
Gourab Roy, Arup Kumar Pal, Manish Raj, and Jitesh Pradhan, “Knee Osteoarthritis Detection and Categorization with Deep Learning Models,” International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI-2025), held at NIT Sikkim, India, 5-7 March, 2025 |
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2024 |
Best Paper Award |
Pramod Kumar, Arup Kumar Pal and SK Hafizul Islam, “LASKV: Lightweight Authenticated Session Key Agreement for Video Surveillance System,” Fifth International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP 2024) held at Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo (A.U.K), Kosovo, Europe, March 25-26, 2024. |
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2024 |
Best Paper Award |
Mahesh Chaurasia, and Arup Kumar Pal, “A Blockchain-based Secure Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Tamper Detection,” International Conference on Sustainable Development & Management Practices (ICSDMP-2024), held at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India, 09-10 February 2024. |
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2022 |
Excellent Paper Award |
Shukla Mondal, Arup Kumar Pal, SK Hafizul Islam and Debabrata Samanta, “Objectionable Image Content Classification Using CNN-Based Semi-supervised Learning,” 5th International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA-2022), December 24-26, 2022, Virtual Conference |
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2019 |
Best Paper Award |
Srilekha Paul, and Arup Kumar Pal, “Active Forgery Detection in Grayscale Images using CRC-8 based Fragile Watermarking,” 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2019), held at NIT Kurukshetra, India, 3-4 March 2019. |
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Sl No. |
Author(s) |
Title |
Year of Publication |
Publisher |
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Chiranjeev Bhaya, Arup Kumar Pal, SK Hafizul Islam |
DNA-based Image Cryptosystem with Enhanced Security(Book Chapter) |
2023 |
Advances in Computers, Elsevier, Volume 129, 2023, Pages 129-172, ISSN 0065-2458, |
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SK Hafizul Islam, Arup Kumar Pal, Debabrata Samanta, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya |
Edited Book: Blockchain Technology for Emerging Applications: A Comprehensive Approach |
2022 |
Academic Press ISBN: 978-0-323-90193-2 |
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Jitesh Pradhan, Arup Kumar Pal, Haider Banka |
Medical Image Retrieval System using Deep Learning Techniques (Book Chapter) |
2021 |
Springer Publisher Print ISBN: 978-3-030-71675-2 Online ISBN: 978-3-030-71676-9 |
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Ashif Sheikh, Jitesh Pradhan, Arpit Dhuriya, Arup Kumar Pal |
Medical Image Fusion using Deep Learning (Book Chapter) |
2021 |
Springer PublisherPrint ISBN: 978-3-030-71675-2 Online ISBN: 978-3-030-71676-9 |
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SK Hafizul Islam, Arup Kumar Pal, Shiv Prasad, Soumitra Roy, Raunak Rungta, Shikha Vermal |
"Digital Watermarking Algorithms for Multimedia Data", Chapter 5: Authentication Technologies for Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data (Book Chapter) |
2019 |
IET Publisher ISBN: 978-1-7856-1556-6
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Sachin Tripathy, Arup Kumar Pal |
Edited Proceeding of 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), Vol.I&Vol.II
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2018 |
IEEE Publication ISBN: 978-1-5386-3039-6 |
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Sachin Tripathy, Arup Kumar Pal Dharavath Ramesh |
Edited Proceeding of 4th ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy (ISEA-ISAP2021), by IEEE Xplore digital library
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2021 |
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Sl. No |
Project Title
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Funding Agency |
Project Cost (₹ Lakhs) |
Date of Sanction and Duration |
Role as PI/Co- PI |
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1. |
Development of Low-Cost Artificial Intelligent System for Prediction of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) From Plain Radiographic Images in Osteoporosis Detection (Project No: SRDP1164G) |
ICMR |
219.00
IIT(ISM) Dhanbad Received 29.16828 |
01.02.2025 (03 Years) |
Site PI |
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2. |
Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project Phase-III (Project No: MeitY/2024-2025/1106/CSE) |
MeitY |
201.60 |
18.04.2024 (05 years)
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Co-PI |
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3. |
Indigenous Development of Hand-held Multigas Detector for underground coal mining for real time monitoring (Project No: SRDP 1304 I) |
CIL (CMPDI) |
44.63 |
23.03.2026 (02 Years) |
Co-PI |
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4. |
Design and Development of Al-Integrated Sensors for Continuous Monitoring of Ocean Environment and Microplastic Pollution to Enhance Seaweed and Fishery Production (Project No: SRDP 1342 G) |
MST
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76.92069 |
21.05.2026 (02 Years) |
Co-PI |
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5. |
Cloud based Smart Video Surveillance System with Application Layer Cyber Physical Systems Security (Project No: C3iHUB/2021-2022/820/CSE) |
C3iHUB IIT Kanpur |
31.28 |
29.09.2021 to 31.03.2025 |
Sole PI |
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6. |
Development of Content-Based Image Filtering Approach to Prevent Objectionable Image Retrieval from The Internet (Project No: CSIR(34)/2020-2021/754/CSE) |
CSIR |
18.60 |
21.12.2020 to 16.03.2024 |
Sole PI |
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7. |
FIST- 2018 (Project No: DST-FIST(208)/2018-2019/606/CSE) |
DST |
52.00 |
10.08.2018 to 09.08.2023 |
Co-PI |
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8. |
Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase-II (Project No: MCIT(3)/2015-16/419/CSE) |
MeitY |
148.10 |
30.06.2015 to 31.12.2023 |
Co-PI |
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S. N. |
Name of Student |
Title of the Dissertation |
Sole or Joint |
Status
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Remarks |
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1. |
Dr. Kshiramani Naik (2012DR0115) |
Design of Some Transform Domain based Image Cryptosystem, Steganography, and Watermarking Schemes |
Sole |
Awarded (29-MAR-2017) |
Assistant Professor VSSUT, Burla |
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2. |
Dr. Naushad Varish (2013DR0252) |
Content-Based Image Retrieval Techniques in Transform Domain |
Sole |
Awarded (15-FEB-2018) |
Faculty at a Private University |
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3. |
Dr. Soumitra Roy (2015DR1132) |
Irreversible and Reversible Watermarking Schemes of Digital Images |
Sole |
Awarded (26-FEB-2018) |
Faculty at a Private University |
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4. |
Dr. Rifaqat Ali (2014DR0026) |
Remote User Authentication Schemes Based on Cryptographic Approach |
Sole |
Awarded (09-OCT-2018) |
Assistant Professor at NIT Hamirpur
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5. |
Dr. Jitesh Pradhan (2015DR0263) |
Image Feature Extraction and Classification in CBIR |
Joint |
Awarded (17-AUG-2021) |
Assistant Professor at NIT Jamshedpur |
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6. |
Dr. Shiv Prasad (2013DR0157) |
Data Hiding and Protection using Steganography and Fragile Watermarking Techniques |
Sole |
Awarded (18-SEP-2021) |
Working at Govt. Organization |
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7. |
Dr. Kuntal Chowdhury (2014DR1078)
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Some Clustering and Classification Techniques for Images |
Joint |
Awarded (7-OCT-2021) |
Faculty at a Private University |
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8. |
Dr. Sumit Kumar (2015DR0056) |
Design of Content-Based Image Retrieval Schemes and Their Applications |
Sole |
Awarded (25-JUL-2022) |
Faculty at a Private University |
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9. |
Dr. Pooja Mishra (2016DR1120) |
DNA Coding for Error Correction, Data Storage, and Image Cryptosystem |
Joint |
Awarded (05-SEP-2022) |
Assistant Professor at IIIT Vadodara |
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10. |
Dr. Mukul Majhi (2015DR0082) |
Design of Security Schemes for Content Based Image Retrieval |
Sole |
Awarded (17-OCT-2022) |
Assistant Professor at NIT Hamirpur
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11. |
Dr. Preeti Soni (17DR000395) |
Design of Attack-Resilience Authentication Protocols for Internet Applications |
Joint |
Awarded (09-FEB-2023) |
Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal
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12. |
Dr. Soumya Mukherjee (18DP000411) |
Design of Efficient Forgery Detection Techniques in Digital Images |
Sole |
Awarded (25-NOV-2024) |
Assistant Professor at LNMIIT, Jaipur |
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13. |
Ms. Vandana Rathore (16DR000109) |
Development of Chaotic Maps Based Cryptosystems for Digital Images and Videos |
Sole |
Awarded (16-MAR-2026) |
Assistant Professor at University of Allahabad |
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14. |
Mr. Pramod Kumar (18DR0097) |
Design and Analysis of Authentication Based Data Security Protocols for Securing Video Surveillance Systems |
Sole |
Thesis Submitted 21.05.2026 |
Faculty at a Private University |
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15. |
Mr. Shukla Mondal (PhD/R/21007/655) |
Design of Multi-Stage CBIR Framework with Feature Fusion for Objectionable Content Filtering |
Joint |
Thesis Submitted 24.06.2026 |
Part-Time Scholar |
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16. |
Mr. Mahesh Chaurasia (21DR0088) |
Currently working on Blockchain |
Sole |
Ongoing |
Full-Time Scholar |
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17. |
Mr. Chiranjeev Bhaya (23DP0051) |
Currently working on DNA Computing and its Applications |
Joint |
Ongoing |
Part-Time Scholar
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18. |
Mr. Ankur Mani Tripathi (24DP0125) |
Currently Working on Medical Imaging |
Sole |
Ongoing |
Part-Time Scholar
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19. |
Ms. Neha Srivastava (25DP0076) |
Currently Doing Course Work |
Joint |
Ongoing |
Part-Time Scholar
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20. |
Mr. Vibhav Kumar (25DP0093) |
Currently Doing Course Work |
Joint |
Ongoing |
Part-Time Scholar
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21. |
Mr. Arkaprabha Laha (25DR02980) |
Currently Doing Course Work |
Sole |
Ongoing |
Full-Time Scholar |
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22. |
Mr. Bishad Shukla (25DR0303) |
Currently Doing Course Work |
Joint |
Ongoing |
Full-Time Scholar |