Dr. Abhishek Kumar Thakur
Assistant Professor
abhishekt(at)idrbt(dot)ac(dot)in
Educational Qualifications
- Ph. D. BITS-Pilani
- 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 (Now IIT-Roorkee).
Research Interests
- Computer Networks
- Multimedia Systems
- Mobile Applications
- 5G and Beyond
- IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Software Engineering
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 at Wipro Global R&D, Bangalore from July 1997 to February 2000.
Courses Taught
M. Tech.
PGDBT
M. Tech.
- Advanced Computer Networks
- Software Engineering
PGDBT
- IT and Business Management
Executive Education Offered in the Areas of
- Software Engineering and Dev-Sec-Ops
- IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Cyber Security
Ph.D. Guidance
In-Progress
In-Progress
- Arpit Tripathi, “Optimisations in 5G Networks”, IIT Hyderabad
- Neha Joshi, “Privacy in multi-domain 5G architecture”, IIT Hyderabad
Achievements
- Projects:
- Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for
- DeitY sponsored project on “Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-peer Networks” from 2011-2015
- MeitY sponsored projects in Distributed Ledger Technologies at IDRBT
- DoT sponsored project on “5G Use Cases Lab for Banking and Financial Services”
- Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for
- Co-chair for ICDCIT: Student Symposium 2013 and Industry Symposium 2014, Organizing committee and co-chair for multiple tracks in ANTS 2021, Session Chair and TEPC for ANTS 2024, Co-Chair for Industry track at SERI 2026
- TSDSI Outstanding Technical Contribution award for FY 2021-22
- “Thomason Memorial Medal” for the Best Engineering Design (project) – 1997
Memberships
- IEEE, Senior Member
- ACM Senior Member
Recent Publications
Journals
Conferences
Staff Papers
White Papers and Technical Reports
Journals
- “SORT: A System for Adaptive Transmission of Video Over Delay Tolerant Networks.” International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies (IJWNBT) 9.2 (2020): 115-142
- Narendra Kumar, N. V., Abhishek Thakur, G. Raghuraj, and S. Lalit Mohan. “The payment systems revolution: India’s story.” Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems 14, no. 4 (2020): 326-338.
- Thakur, Abhishek, Arnav Dhamija, and Tejeshwar Reddy. “VECTORS—VidEo Communication Through Opportunistic Relays and Scalable video coding.” SoftwareX 9 (2019): 55-60.
- Thakur, Abhishek, R. Sathiyanarayanan, and Chittaranjan Hota. “STEEP: Speed and time-based energy efficient neighbor discovery in opportunistic networks.” Wireless Networks 25, no. 6 (2019): 3275-3296.
- 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
- Tripathi, Arpit, Ashutosh Rajput, Ashit Kumar Subudhi, Koteswararao Kondepu, Abhishek Thakur, and Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma. “Denial of Service Attacks Targeting Layer 2 in 5G RAN.” In 2025 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2025.
- Agrawal, Sandeep Kumar, Abhishek Thakur, Paventhan Arumugam, Shruthi Koratagere Anantha Kumar, Kanwar Singh, and Phalguni Mathur. “Rural Broadband Architecture For Efficient Service Delivery.” In 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), pp. 813-818. IEEE, 2024.
- Tripathi, Arpit, Abhishek Thakur, Abhinandan S. Prasad, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. “MADE: An MEC Supported Platform Independent and Version Agnostic Framework for Mobile Application Deployment.” In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2024.
- Tripathi, Arpit, Abhishek Thakur, and Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma. “Attack Graphs for Standalone Non-Public 5G Networks.” In 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), pp. 158-163. IEEE, 2022.
- Joshi, Neha, Rishabh Kumar, Abhishek Thakur, A. Antony Franklin, and NV Narendra Kumar. “Ppas: Privacy-preserving resource discovery for multi-domain sfc orchestration.” In 2022 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2022.
Staff Papers
- White Paper on 5G Applications for Banking and Financial Services
White Papers and Technical Reports
- White Paper on Business of 6G (6G Flagship Univ. of Oulu)
- 6G white Paper on Validation and Trials for Verticals Towards 2030’s (6G Flagship Univ. of Oulu)
- Rural Broadband Services and Architecture (TSDSI)
- White Paper on FinTech Enabled by Nextgen Networks and Other Emerging Technologies (TSDSI)