Odelu Vanga

Odelu Vanga

Associate Professor
vanga.odelu@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Odelu Vanga received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Computer Science (Cryptography and Network Security) and M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Data Processing, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He received a CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship during his M.Tech. degree. He also completed his Master of Science (MSc) degree in Applied Mathematics from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India.

He was in the Organizing Chair of the International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE-2019). Also, was in the Track Chair for the Intelligent Security Systems (MIKE-2017 & 2018), and a Member of the Advisory Committee for MIKE-2018.

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Ph.D.

  • Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Computer Science (Cryptography and Network Security)

M.Tech.

  • M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Data Processing, from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.

Master of Science (MSc)

  • Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Applied Mathematics from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana

B.Sc.

  • B.Sc. (M.P.Cs), Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India

Experience

  • Associate Professor of the CSE department, Mahindra University, July 2025- Present.
  • Assistant Professor IIIT, Sri City, Chittoor, Feb 2020 to 2025
  • Assistant Professor, BITS, Hyderabad, May 2018 to Feb. 2020
  • Research Professor, Korea University, Dec 2017 to Feb. 2018
  • Assistant Professor, IIIT, Sri City, Chittoor, June 2016 to Nov. 2017
  • Lecturer, Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar, June 2011 to Dec. 2013

Publications

2013-2024

  • Raghavendra Narayan KG, Rakesh G, Sai Somasekhar T, Srijanee M, Odelu V, Rajendra P, Goutham Reddy A, “Attenuating majority attack class bias using hybrid deep learning based IDS framework”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, ISSN 1084-8045), Vol. 230, pp. 103954, 2024. DOI:10.1016/j. jnca.2024.103954. (IF: 7.7)
  • Narayan KGR, Mookherji S, Odelu V, Prasath R, Turlapaty AC, Das AK, “IIDS: Design of Intelligent Intrusion Detection System for Internet-of-Things Applications”, In 2023 IEEE 7th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/CICT59886.2023.10455720. [Popular Documents - September 2024: Includes the top 50 most frequently accessed documents for this conference according to the usage statistics.]
  • M. Srijanee, V. Odelu, P. Rajendra, A. K. Das, and Y. Park, "Fog-Based Single Sign-On Authentication Protocol for Electronic Healthcare Applications," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023. (2021 SCI Impact Factor: 10.238)
  • AG Reddy, PR Babu, V Odelu, L Wang and SAP Kumar, "V2G-Auth: Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for V2G Environment Leveraging Physically Unclonable Functions," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE, ISSN: 2832-7004), Vol. 1, pp. 66-78, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TICPS.2023.3290539. [This article is one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded documents for Popular Article (Popular Documents - December 2023)]
  • Vanga Odelu, Sherali Zeadally, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, and Debiao He, "A Secure Enhanced Privacy-Preserving Authentication in Wireless Mobile Networks," in Telecommunication Systems (Springer), Vol. 69(4), pp.431-445, 2018, In Press, DOI: 10.1007/s11235-018-0446-0. (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 1.542)
  • Soumya Banerjee, Sandip Roy, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and YoungHo Park. "Multi-authority CP-ABE-based anonymous user access control scheme with constant-size key and ciphertext for IoT deployment," in Journal of Information Security and Applications(Elsevier), Vol. 53, pp. 102503, 2020. (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 1.537)
  • Vanga Odelu, "IMBUA: Identity Management on Blockchain for Biometrics-based User Authentication", International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'19 congress), VOl. 1010, pp. 1-10, Avila (Spain), 26th-28th June, 2019, Springer.
  • Vanga Odelu, "An Efficient Two-Server Password-only User Authentication for Consumer Electronic Devices", 37th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2019), January 11-13, 2019, Las Vegas, USA.
  • Soumya Banerjee, Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Jangirala Srinivas, Neeraj Kumar, Samiran Chattopadhyay, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. "A Provably-Secure and Lightweight Anonymous User Authenticated Session Key Exchange Scheme for Internet of Things Deployment,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6(5), pp.8739-8752 DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2923373. (2019 SCI Impact Factor: 9.515)
  • Vanga Odelu, Sourav Saha, Rajendra Prasath, Lakshminarayana Sadineni, Mauro Conti, Minho Jo, "Efficient privacy preserving device authentication in WBANs for industrial e-health applications", Computers & Security(Elsevier), Vol. 83, Pages 300-312, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2019.03.002. (Impact Factor: 3.062)
  • Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Neeraj Kumar, and Willy Susilo, "Secure Remote User Authenticated Key Establishment Protocol for Smart Home Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 17(2), pp. 391-406, (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 4.41)
  • Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Neeraj Kumar, Mauro Conti, and Minho Jo, "Design of Secure User Authenticated Key Management Protocol for Generic IoT Network,"  in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5(1), pp.269-282, (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 7.596)
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Y. Sreenivasa Rao, Saru Kumari, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, "Pairing-based CP-ABE with constant-size ciphertexts and secret keys for cloud environment," Special Issue on Cloud Computing Security and Privacy: Standards and Regulationsin Computer Standards & Interfaces (Elsevier), Vol. 54, Part 1, pp. 3 - 9, 2017. (2015 SCI Impact Factor: 1.268)
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, Xinyi Huang, and Mohammad Wazid, "Provably secure authenticated key agreement scheme for distributed mobile cloud computing services,"  in Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Vol. 68, pp. 74 - 88, 2017. (2015 SCI Impact Factor: 2.430)
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, and Mauro Conti, “Provably Secure Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Smart Grid,” inIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016. In Press. (2014 SCI Impact Factor: 4.252)
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Adrijit Goswami, “SEAP: Secure and Efficient Authentication Protocol for NFC Applications Using Pseudonyms,” inIEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 30-38, 2016. (2015 SCI Impact Factor: 1.120) [This article is one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded documents for Popular Articles (April - July 2016)]
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Adrijit Goswami, “A Secure Biometrics-Based Multi-Server Authentication Protocol using Smart Cards,” inIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 1953 - 1966, Sept. 2015. (2014 SCI Impact Factor: 2.408) [This article is one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded documents for Popular Articles during Jun. 2015 - June. 2016]
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Adrijit Goswami, “An efficient ECC-based privacy-preserving client authentication protocol with key agreement using smart card,” in Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 21, pp. 1-19, 2015. (2023 SCI Impact Factor: 5.6). [This article is one of the top 25 most downloaded articles during February 2015 to December 2015. Also, one of the Most Cited Journal of Information Security and Applications Articles.]
  • Vanga Odelu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Adrijit Goswami, “A secure effective key management scheme for dynamic access control in a large leaf class hierarchy,” in Information Sciences(Elsevier), Vol. 269, No. C, pp. 270 - 285, 2014. (2014 Impact Factor: 4.038) [This article has been downloaded or viewed 468 times since publication during the period October 2013 to September 2014]

His current research interests include cryptography, network security, Internet of Things, and blockchain technology. He has authored over 70 papers in international journals and conferences.

Achievements:

Some of his achievements include being elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member in 2022. He was listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists Rankings in 2022, 2023, and 2024 (Stanford University and Elsevier). He has been awarded Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) by BITS-Pilani, India. He was selected as an Outstanding Young Foreign Scholar “Korean Research Fellowship (KRF-2017)” by the Korean Government (Global competition amongst 15 participants.