M.S. in Information Technology from Capella University, Minneapolis, USA in 2004
B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from University of Roorkee, India in 1997.
Research Interests
Computer Networks
Multimedia Systems
Mobile Applications
Professional Experience
Worked as Visiting Faculty in BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus from February 2011 to December 2017 and July 2018-December 2018
Worked as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad from March 2009 to February 2011
Worked as Principle Engineer at Motorola Global Software Group, Bangalore from December 2005 to March 2009
Worked as Principle Engineer at Motorola Inc. at Horsham, PA, USA from July 2004 to December 2005
Worked as Sr. Engineer at Motorola Inc. San Jose, CA, USA from February 2000 to July 2004
Worked as Wipro Global R&D, Bangalore from July 1997 to February 2000.
Achievements
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for DeitY funded project on "Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-peer Networks" from 2011-2015
Co-chair for ICDCIT: Student Symposium 2013 and Industry Symposium 2014
"Thomason Memorial Medal" for the Best Engineering Design (project) – 1997
Recent Publications
Journals
Thakur, Abhishek, R. Sathiyanarayanan, and Chittaranjan Hota. "STEEP: Speed and Time-based Energy Efficient Neighbor Discovery in Opportunistic Networks." Wireless Networks (2018): 1-22
Thakur, Abhishek, Arnav Dhamija, and Tejeshwar Reddy G. "VECTORS: VidEo Communication Through Opportunistic Relays and Scalable Video Coding." Accepted for publication in SoftwareX
Singh, Kamaldeep, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Abhishek Thakur, and Chittaranjan Hota. "Big Data Analytics Framework for Peer-to-peer Botnet Detection using Random Forests." Information Sciences 278 (2014): 488-497.
Conferences
Takawale, Harshvardhan C., and Abhishek Thakur. "Talos App: On-Device Machine Learning Using TensorFlow to Detect Android Malware." 2018 Fifth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. IEEE. 2018
Abhishek Thakur, Chittaranjan Hota. "Quality of Service Enforcing Centrally Optimized Routing for Delay Tolerant Networks." The 18th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2015). 2015
Abhishek Thakur, Ankesh Kumar "Improving Segmentation Accuracy for Motion Detection using Bidirectional Video Processing." The 18th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2015). 2015
Thakur, Abhishek, and Chittaranjan Hota. "Designing an Extensible Communication Platform for Rural Area." In ICACCI, pp. 1348-1355. 2014