Faculty Profile

Dr. Umashankar Ghugar

Assistant Professor (Sr. Grade)

Ph.D (Berhampur University), M.Tech., B.E.

  umashankar.ghugar@opju.ac.in

  •  Ph.D. (Computer Science) in the Department of Computer Science from Berhampur University, Berhampur (Orissa), in 2021.
  •  M.Tech (Computer Science) in Dept. of ICT from Fakir Mohan University, Balasore (Orissa) in 2012.
  •  B.E. (Information Technology) from Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar under BPUT, Orissa, in 2006.
  •  Working as an Assistant Professor (Sr.Grade) in OP Jindal University, Raigarh (C.G), from Sep 2023 to till date.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor in GST, GITAM University, Vizag, from March 2022 to August 2023.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor at NIST.Berhampur, from August 2021 to March 2022.
  •  Worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Comp Sc, Berhampur University, from April 2016 to March 2021.
  •  Worked as a Faculty in IT at Imperial College, Bargarh, from August 2013 to May 2015.
  •  Worked as a Lecturer in PKACE, Bargarh, from Aug 2011 to Jun 2013.
  •  Worked as a Lecturer in SSEC, Balasore, from June 2008 to August 2010.
  •  Worked as FCSA in JNV, Jharsuguda, from July 2007 to April 2008.
  •  Computer Network
  •  IoT
  •  Network Security in WSNs
  •  Cyber Security
  •  • A Textbook on Automata Theory: 1st Edition Kindle Edition by Suman Swarnkar, Prashant Tamrakar, Umashankar Ghugar, Upasana Sinha, Publisher: INENCE, ISBN-979-8-3645-7297-4.
  •  • Utility patent published titled “SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYED THEREOF”, having application no: 202341048909, September 2023.
  •  • Design patent published and granted titled, “IOT BASED STREET CLEANING VEHICLE”, having application no- 388885-001, journal No-37/2023 dated 14.09.2023.
  • R Shial, U Ghugar, et al. "ANTMAC: Addressing Novel Congestion Technique Hybrid Model for Collision Control in IoT-Based Environments using Contention-Based MAC Protocol" International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security, (2023) (IJCNIS, MECS PRESS), (Scopus / Accepted and In Press).
  • Kaushik Mishra, Umashankar Ghugar,et. al. “A Collaborative Computation and Offloading for Compute-intensive and Latency-sensitive Dependency-aware Tasks in Dew-enabled Vehicular Fog Computing: A Federated Deep Q-Learning Approach",(2023) IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. (SCI / SCOPUS/ IF-5.3).
  • Minakshi Sahu, Nilambar Sethi, Susant Kumar Das, Umashankar Ghugar, "NDTRA-MAT: A Novel Technique for Evaluating the Data Transfer Rate, Reducing the False Alarm Rate, and avoiding Packet Droppings Rate against Malicious Activity in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Computer Networks and Applications (IJCNA), (2023),10(1), PP: 1-9, 2023, DOI: 10.22247/ijcna/2023/218507. (SCOPUS).
  • Ghugar, Umashankar, and Jayaram Pradhan. "Survey of wormhole attack in wireless sensor networks." Computer Science and Information Technologies, (2021). (UGC Listed).
  • Bikash Ranjan Bag, Umashankar Ghugar “HTBIDS: Hybrid Trust-Based Intrusion Detection System for Physical Layer in WSN”, International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 10, No.1, January - February (2021). (UGC Listed).
  • Ghugar, Umashankar, et al. "LB-IDS: Securing wireless sensor network using protocol layer trust-based intrusion detection system." Journal of Computer Networks and Communications (2019) (ESCI/SCOPUS/IF-2.0).
  • Ghugar, Umashankar, and Jayaram Pradhan. "A Review on Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Information Communication Technology and Digital Convergence June 2019(UGC Listed).
  • Ghugar, Umashankar, et al. "PL-IDS: physical layer trust-based intrusion detection system for wireless sensor networks." International Journal of Information Technology, Springer (2018): 489-494. (SCOPUS, DBLP)
  • Nanda, Sameer, and Umashankar Ghugar. "Approach to an efficient vulnerability management program." International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, IJIRCCE (2017).
  • Ghugar, Umashankar, Jayaram Pradhan, and Monalisa Biswal. "A novel intrusion detection system for detecting black hole attacks in wireless sensor network using AODV Protocol." IJCSN-International Journal of Computer Science and Network 5.4 (2016) (UGC LISTED).
  • Bhoi, Ashok Kumar, U. Ghugar Satya Prakash Sahoo, and Manas Ranjan Kabat. "Core Based Group Communication with QoS Support.", IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE), July– Aug- 2013(UGC LISTED).
  • • Shanmuk Srinivas Amiripalli, Praveen Gupta, Rakesh Nayak, Umashankar Ghugar, “Exploring Land Distribution Patterns and Network Structures in Indian Tribal Communities”. Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science series (CCIS), 2023(SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • U. Ghugar, G. Sivanarayan, G. Rajareddy, K. S. Varma and G. Lakshmeeswari, "TBSMFA: Trust-Based Security Mechanism for SYN Flooding Attack at Transport Layer using DRICC technique in WSN," 2022 OPJU International Technology Conference on Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development (OTCON), Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/OTCON56053.2023.10113952. (SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • P. Gupta, U. Ghugar, C. V. Vardhan, R. Nayak and C. S. Rajpoot, "A Novel Design and Development model for people counting in a Closed Environment with Machine Learning Approach," 2022 OPJU International Technology Conference on Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development (OTCON), Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/OTCON56053.2023.10114007. (SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • Minakshi Sahu, Nilambar Sethi, Susant Kumar Das, *Umashankar Ghugar, “MANDS: Malicious Node Detection System for Sinkhole attack in WSN using DRI and Cross Check Method”. Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition. LNNS, Springer, Singapore, 2022(SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • Umashankar Ghugar,Jayaram Pradhan,"NL-IDS: NL-IDS: Trust-Based Intrusion Detection System for Network Layer in Wireless Sensor Networks",5th IEEE International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing(PDGC-2018), 20-22 Dec, 2018, Solan, India.(SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • Umashankar Ghugar,Jayaram Pradhan,"ML-IDS: MAC Layer Trust Based Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Sensor Networks",(ICCIDM-2018 Published in AISC series, Springer(SCOPUS INDEXED).
  • • Ghugar, Umashankar, and Jayaram Pradhan. "A study on black hole attack in wireless sensor networks." IJACTA 5.1 (2017).

2023

  • Certified by Coursera Project Network “Getting started with Azure IOT Hub” on dated 26th June 2023.
  • Certified by Coursera Project Network “Access an EC2 instance shell from the AWS console” on dated 26th June 2023.
  • Certified by Coursera Project Network “Automize Business Communication using Power Automate” on dated 26th June 2023.

2022

  • Participate in Online FDP on “INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC ESSENTIAL CYBER SECURITY” by HACKERSERA from 23th May 2022 to 1st July 2022.
  • Participate in 5 days of Online FDP on “CYBER SECURITY AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES” conducted by Amity University, Kolkata from 25th July 2022 to 29th July 2022.
  • Participated in 10 days of Online FDP on “SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND APPLICATION IN SMART CITIES” sponsored by Meity, E&ICT, NIT, WARANGAL, and VSSUT, Burla during 07th – 16th February 2022.

2021

  • Certified By International Cyber Security Institute (ICSI) as a “CERTIFIED NETWORK SECURITY SPECIALIST(CNSS)”.

2020

  • Participated in 8 days of Online FDP on “CLOUDE AND FOG COMPUTING PLATFORMES FOR INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS” sponsored by Meity,E&ICT and NIT,WARANGAL during 16th – 23rd December 2020.
  • AICTE Sponsored ATAL Academy Online FDP on “ARTIFICIAL INTELLINGENCE “conducted by the NIT, WARANGAL during 22th May 2020 -26th May 2020.
  • AICTE Sponsored ATAL Academy Online FDP on “CYBER SECURITY “conducted by the NITTTR, CHANDIGARH during 28th May 2020 -1st June 2020.

2018

  • Participated in “AWARENESS GENERATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS” workshop held on 28th march 2018 at Berhampur University (Odisha), sponsored by DST, govt. of India.

2017

  • Participated in one week workshop on “RECENT TRENDS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING” held on 24th July 2017 to 28th July 2017 at Parala maharaja Engineering College,Berhampur,Odisha.
  • STTP on “Elements of Research & Hands-on Session on Selection of Research Area, Reading and Writing of Research Paper” at NIT, Raipur during Dt.20.03.2017 to Dt.24.03.2017.
  • Participated in “IGNITING YOUTH INNOVATION” workshop held on February 23, 2017 at Berhampur University (Odisha).
  • Participated in the 4th “International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM)” held from 11th to 12th November 2017 at the Department of CA, CSE&IT, VSSUT, Burla.

2016

  • STTP on “Matlab Application in Engineering” at NITTTR, Kolkata Extension Centre, Bhubaneswar during Dt.17-10-2016 to Dt.21-10-2016.

2013

  • AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on “RECENT TRENDS IN ADVANCED COMPUTING (RTAC-2013) “conducted by the Department of Computer science and Engineering, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha from 29th April 2013 -to 11th May 2013.
  • Sponsored by the Collaboration of NIT, Rourkela, and C-DAC, Hyderabad Workshop on “INFORMATION SECURITY” conducted by the Department of Computer Science, Silicon Institute of Technology (Silicon West), Sambalpur on 15th Dec 2013.
  •  BERHAMPUR UNIVERSITY SCIENTIST RANKINGS 2023(https://www.adscientificindex.com/?university=Berhampur+University+Berhampur) By World Scientist and University Rankings (Sort by last 6 years H Index) 2023 AD Scientific Index.
  •  Best Paper Presentation Award (OTCON 2.0) entitled “TBSMFA: Trust-Based Security Mechanism for SYN Flooding Attack at Transport Layer using DRI-CC technique in WSN” by OP Jindal University, Ragarh,CG,India.
  •  Research Scholar for outstanding research publication-2019 (Professional Stream) at Berahmpur University, Bhanja Bihar,Orissa.
  •  Research Scholar for outstanding research publication-2018 (Professional Stream) at Berahmpur University, Bhanja Bihar,Orissa.
  •  Research Scholar for outstanding research publication-2017 (Professional Stream) at Berahmpur University, Bhanja Bihar,Orissa
  •  Research Scholar for outstanding research publication-2016 (Professional Stream) at Berahmpur University, Bhanja Bihar,Orissa.
  •  Fellowship (UGC), to pursue regular and full-time Ph.D. Degree for the year 2014-15.
  •   IEEE MEMBER ID: 98576394
  •  CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) has a membership number is 2973661.
  •  IACSIT (International scientific association of Computer Science and Information Technology.)
  •  theIRED (INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ENGINEER AND DOCTERS) having Membership No- AM1009909.
  •  IAENG (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS) having Membership No- 179584.
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Transaction on Education
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • Security And Privacy (Wiley)
  • International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley)
  • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
  • International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IGI Global).
  • International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IGI Global).
  • Computer standards & interfaces (ScienceDirect)
  • Computer Sciences
  • 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS-2022), VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
  • ICCIDM-2018-Published in AISC series (Springer, Indexing by Scopus), VSSUT, Burla, Odisha.
  • International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (ICCSEA-2022, Published in IEEE and indexing by Scopus) and Conducted by GIET University, Gunupur.
  • International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR-2019-Published in AISC series (Springer) and indexing by Scopus), IIEST, SHIBPUR, West Bengal.
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