Day 0 Co-Chair, ACM ARCS 2026
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IIT Kanpur · SETTLOR Lab
Dr. Urbi Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Hardware Security, Physically Unclonable Functions, Acoustic Side Channel Attacks
“The measure of what we are is what we do with what we have.”— Vince Lombardi
Recruiting Students
I am looking for self-motivated students with strong academic background to join our group and work on exciting projects related to hardware security, side-channel attacks, PUFs, approximate computing, and AI/ML security. Interested students can email their CV with a short description about their research interests.
Send your CVAbout
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since March, 2021. Previously, I was a member of Secure Embedded Architecture Laboratory (SEAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and have completed my Ph. D. under the supervision of Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty. My broad area of research is Hardware Security.
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Research Areas
Side Channel Attacks
Extracting secrets via unintended information leakage from hardware — acoustic, timing, and power/EM emissions.
AcousticTimingPower / EM
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
Hardware fingerprinting for device authentication, cryptographic key generation, and ML-attack resilience.
Reliability of AI/ML Hardware
Ensuring correctness and fault tolerance of neural network accelerators and AI chips against soft errors and adversarial bit-flips.
Approximate Computing
Security analysis of approximate arithmetic circuits for energy-efficient computation in ML and multimedia workloads.
FPGA-based AI Accelerators
Design and security evaluation of reconfigurable hardware platforms for efficient AI/ML inference and training.
Bio-Chip Security
Securing microfluidic biochips against tampering, IP piracy, and malicious attacks in lab-on-chip systems.
NoC Security
Investigating timing side-channel vulnerabilities in Network-on-Chip architectures for multi-core SoC platforms.
Recent News
TPC Co-Chair, ISEA International Conference 2026
Served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the Fifth ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy 2026, under the Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase III initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
Patent Published: Posit-based Mixed-Precision DNN Training
Patent titled 'System and Method for Training a Deep Neural Network Based On A Posit based Mixed-Precision Framework' published on 21/11/2025 (Application No. 202511076251, Journal Number 47/2025). Applicants: Mahendra Rathor, Urbi Chatterjee, Vishesh Mishra.
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2025
Received Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2025 for the proposal titled 'Mr. Minutes: A Framework for Analyzing the Security of Networks-on-Chip Against Timing Attacks', with Prof. Mainak Chaudhuri from IIT Kanpur.
TPC Co-Chair, SPACE 2025
Served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE) 2025.
Oswa Amro Graduates: PhD Thesis Submitted
Oswa Amro (2021–2025) submitted and defended his PhD thesis on 'Acoustic Side Channel Attacks and Evaluation: A Study of Instruction Set Disassembly and Privacy Leakage Assessment on IoT Devices and Smart Phones'. Currently working as Assistant Professor at Albalqa Applied University, Jordan.
Multiple Publications in Top Venues
Papers accepted at premier venues including ICCAD 2025 (SERA-Float), CODES+ISSS ESWEEK 2025 (Dual-Mode Rounding), ACM ASIACCS 2025 (N-Tracer), ISQED 2025 (i-Know What You Do), SPACE 2025 (two papers), and ACM TECS / Journal of Systems Architecture (SATGuard, Novel Hybrid Error Metrics).
Royal Society International Exchanges Award 2024
Received an International Exchanges Award 2024 from the Royal Society of London for the project 'Securing Future Electronic Chips Against Side Channel Attacks' with Prof. Amit Kumar Singh from the University of Essex.
C3iHub Associate Fellow 2024–25
Selected as C3iHub Associate Fellow for the year 2024–2025 by the C3I Innovation Hub, IIT Kanpur.
Teaching
New course introduced: System Level Data Formats and Representations for AI (2026-27 II)
CS666
Hardware Security for Internet of Things
2021-22-I, 2022-23-I, 2023-24-I, 2025-26-I
CS220
Computer Organisation
2021-22-II, 2022-23-II
CS422
Computer Architecture
2025-26-II
CS669
Design for Security
2023-24-II
ESC111/112
Fundamentals of Computing
2024-25-I
CS671
System Level Data Formats and Representations for AI
2026-27-II
Students
PhD Scholars
Acoustic Side Channel Attacks and Evaluation: A Study of Instruction Set Disassembly and Privacy Leakage Assessment on IoT Devices and Smart Phones
Graduated 2025. Currently Assistant Professor at Albalqa Applied University, Jordan.
Neelofar HassanPMRF Fellow
Machine Learning Attacks on Physically Unclonable Functions
Joint supervision with Prof. Ramesh Karri and Prof. Purushottam Kar. Joint PhD of IIT Kanpur and New York University Brooklyn.
Power Side Channel Attacks on Intel Processors
M.Tech Students
Showing 28 students
| # | Student Name | Project Title | Solo / Joint Supervision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hirak Mondal | Security Evaluation of Authentication Protocols for Unmanned Air Vehicle Infrastructure | Sole Supervision |
| 2 | Chandan Kumar | Sorting Attacks Resilient Authentication Protocol for CMOS Image Sensor Based PUF – I | Sole Supervision |
| 3 | Swapnil Gade | Designing a Physically Unclonable Function Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Keyless Automotive Entry System | Sole Supervision |
| 4 | Pushpraj Naik | Network Data Remanence Side-Channel Attack on SPREAD, H-SPREAD and Reverse AODV | Sole Supervision |
| 5 | Anuj Shrivastava | Lightweight Group Authentication Protocol for Swarm of Drones using SRAM PUF | Sole Supervision |
| 6 | Manthan Kojage | Machine Learning Attacks on Low-Cost Reconfigurable XRRO and XRBR PUF Designs | Sole Supervision |
| 7 | Prajwal P. Thakare | Secure Secret Sharing Protocol Against Network Data Remanence Side Channel Attacks | Sole Supervision |
| 8 | Mayuresh Shandilya | Design of Approximate Floating-Point Computing Format | Sole Supervision |
| 9 | Deepak Kumar | RStopper: Deception-Based Ransomware Detection | Sole Supervision |
| 10 | Akash Panzade | Vigilantly Watching Ransomware for Robust Trapping and Containment | Sole Supervision |
| 11 | Abhishek Revskar | Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency Assisted Acoustic Side Channel Attack to Retrieve Dialled Call Log | Sole Supervision |
| 12 | Akash Shriwas | Toolkit for Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing – I | Prof. Subhajit Roy |
| 13 | Lavkush Mani Tripathi | Toolkit for Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing – II | Prof. Subhajit Roy |
| 14 | Aditya Sunilkumar Kankriya | SRAM PUF-Based Secure Communication and Recognition in Drone Swarms | Sole Supervision |
| 15 | Amit Kumar | SAC Assisted Machine Learning Attacks on Feed Forward PUF Compositions | Sole Supervision |
| 16 | Anurag Kamal | Sorting Attacks Resilient Authentication Protocol for CMOS Image Sensor Based PUF – II | Sole Supervision |
| 17 | Ashee Jain | Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Virtual Keyboard on Smartphones | Sole Supervision |
| 18 | Kapilkumar Kathiriya | Security Protocol Analysis of Trezor Wallet | Prof. Debapriya Basu Roy |
| 19 | Pratik Patil | Developing Test Bed for Far-Field Side Channel Attack on Mixed Signal Chip | Prof. Debapriya Basu Roy |
| 20 | Subhajit Panday | Machine Learning Attacks on the WiSARD PUF | Prof. Purushottam Kar |
| 21 | Shubhashish Moitra | Integer Exfiltration via Hamming-Weight Measurements – II | Prof. Purushottam Kar |
| 22 | K Vamsee Krishna | Developing Test Bed for Screen Gleaning Attack on Smartphones for OTP Retrieval | Prof. Debapriya Basu Roy |
| 23 | Kush Shah | TEASE: A Leak-Resilient Protocol for Strong PUFs | Prof. Purushottam Kar |
| 24 | Anshul Purohit | Intelligent Method for Smart Platform Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing – User Interface Design | Prof. Subhajit Roy |
| 25 | Himanshu Karnatak | Formal Verification and AI for Proof Assistant | Prof. Indranil Saha |
| 26 | Pratibha Gupta | Intelligent Method for Smart Platform Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing – ML Model Building for APKs | Prof. Subhajit Roy |
| 27 | Ruby Prajapati | Intelligent Method for Smart Platform Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing – LLM-Based Report Generation | Prof. Subhajit Roy |
| 28 | Abhinandan Singh Baghel | Privacy Attacks on RAG-Enabled Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models | Sole Supervision |
B.Tech Students
Showing 12 students
| # | Student Name | Project Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shubhankar Gambhir | Breaking PCBChain: Side Channel Assisted Attack Framework on Hardware Primitive for IoT-Friendly Blockchain Mining | 2021-22 |
| 2 | Ketan Chaturvedi | Formal Analysis of Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) using Tamarin | 2021-22 |
| 3 | Aman Jaiswal | Security Analysis of MAVLINK Protocol | 2021-22 |
| 4 | Aman Jaiswal | Practical DDoS and Jamming Attacks on COTS Drone | 2022-23 |
| 5 | Shubhankar Gambhir | Power Side Channel Attacks on Hardware Wallet to Recover PINs – I | 2022-23 |
| 6 | Atharv Singh Patlan | Power Side Channel Attacks on Hardware Wallet to Recover PINs – II | 2022-23 |
| 7 | Neelabh Singhania | Developing a Framework for Serial Port Communication in Basys 3 FPGA using MicroBlaze | 2023-24 |
| 8 | Aakash Om Trivedi | Implementation of Chinese Remainder Theorem Based Threshold Changeability Algorithm for Secret Sharing Scheme | 2023-24 |
| 9 | Aakash Om Trivedi | Reinforcement Learning-Based Detection of Hardware Trojans in Approximate Adders | 2023-24 |
| 10 | Maurya Aryan Swaminath | Analyzing Mobile Screen Electromagnetic Emanations to Leak One-Time Passwords | 2024-25 |
| 11 | Mahaarajan J | Acoustic Side Channel Attack PIN Retrieval in Google Pay – I | 2024-25 |
| 12 | Wattamwar Akanksha Balaji | Acoustic Side Channel Attack PIN Retrieval in Google Pay – II | 2024-25 |
Publications
Showing 16 journal publications
- 1
Dual-Mode Rounding Algorithms and Hardware for Posit-based DNN Training: The Future of Mixed Precision Frameworks
Vishesh Mishra, Mahendra Rathor, Urbi Chatterjee
- 2
SATGuard: SAT-driven Countermeasures for Protecting Approximate Circuits from Hardware Trojan
Vishesh Mishra, Dipesh, Sparsh Mittal, Urbi Chatterjee
- 3
Novel Hybrid Probabilistic-Statistical Error Metrics for Approximate Adders
Vishesh Mishra, Sparsh Mittal, Urbi Chatterjee
- 4
Door Knock: Reverse Engineering the MPSoC Layout through Timing Attack on NoC
Dipesh and Urbi Chatterjee
- 5
VADF: Versatile Approximate Data Formats for Energy-Efficient Computing
Vishesh Mishra, Sparsh Mittal, Neelofar Hassan, Rekha Singhal, Urbi Chatterjee
- 6
CPU-Doctor: when a device's heart-beat can be an acoustic side-channel disassembler
Oswa Amro, Vishesh Mishra, Rohit Negi, Urbi Chatterjee
- 7
Birds of the Same Feather Flock Together: A Dual-Mode Circuit Candidate for Strong PUF-TRNG Functionalities
Kuhali Pratihar, Urbi Chatterjee, Manaar Alam, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
- 8
CheckShake: Passively Detecting Anomaly in Wi-Fi Security Handshake using Gradient Boosting based Ensemble Learning
Anand Agrawal, Urbi Chatterjee, Rajib Ranjan Maiti
- 9
PAKAMAC: A PUF-based Keyless Automotive Entry System with Mutual Authentication
Swapnil Gade, Urbi Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
- 10
Safe is the New Smart: PUF-Based Authentication for Load Modification-Resistant Smart Meters
Boyapally Harishma, Paulson Mathew, Sikhar Patranabis, Urbi Chatterjee, Umesh Agarwal, Manu Maheshwari, Soumyajit Dey, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
- 11
Physically Related Functions: Exploiting Related Inputs of PUFs for Authenticated Key Exchange
Durba Chatterjee, Harishma Boyapally, Sikhar Patranabis, Urbi Chatterjee, Aritra Hazra, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
- 12
3PAA: A Private PUF Protocol for Anonymous Authentication
Urbi Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
- 13
Machine-Learning Assisted PUF Calibration for Trustworthy Proof of Sensor Data in IoT
Urbi Chatterjee, Soumi Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
- 14
Building PUF based Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for IoT without Explicit CRPs in Verifier Database
Urbi Chatterjee, Vidya Govindan, Rajat Sadhukhan, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Debashis Mahata, Mukesh Prabhu
- 15
A PUF-based Secure Communication Protocol for IoT
Urbi Chatterjee, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
- 16
Theory and Application of Delay Constraints in Arbiter PUF
Urbi Chatterjee, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Hitesh Kapoor, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Laboratory
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SETTLOR
Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory
The Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory (SETTLOR) at the C3I Center of IIT Kanpur, established in March 2021, focuses on critical research in hardware and embedded system security, addressing challenges posed by emerging technologies. Dr. Urbi Chatterjee is the lab-incharge, and Dr. Debapriya Basu Roy serves as Co-Incharge. The lab consists of seven PhD students, including one international student, supported through prestigious fellowships like PMRF and TCS Research Fellowship. SETTLOR collaborates with funding agencies including IIT Kanpur, C3i Hub, DRDO, SRC, ISEA, IITK-NYU Research Grant, and Royal Society, London.
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SETTLOR
Secure Embedded and Smart Things Laboratory
Incharge
Dr. Urbi Chatterjee
Co-Incharge
Dr. Debapriya Basu Roy
Project Officer
Sunil Dixit
Honors & Service
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2025 for the proposal: Mr. Minutes: A Framework for Analyzing the Security of Networks-on-Chip Against Timing Attacks (with Prof. Mainak Chaudhuri, IIT Kanpur)
International Exchanges Award 2024 from the Royal Society of London for: Securing Future Electronic Chips Against Side Channel Attacks (with Prof. Amit Kumar Singh, University of Essex)
Technical Program Co-Chair, Fifth ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy (ISEA-ISAP 2026), MeitY India
Day 0 Co-Chair, ACM Annual Research Conference on Security (ARCS 2026)
Technical Program Co-Chair, Fourteenth International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE 2025)
TPC Member: ACM CCS (2022-2025), DAC (2022-2024), CHES 2025, DATE (2022-2024), HOST 2026, AsianHOST (2020-2025), ICCAD (2023-2025), CODES+ISSS (2024-2026), VLSID 2024 (Track Chair), and other premier venues
C3iHub Associate Fellow (2022-23, 2024-2025), C3I Innovation Hub, IIT Kanpur
Best Reviewer Award, ACM CCS 2022
Member of Indian Radio Software Architecture Standardisation Team, Directorate of Standardization (DoS), Ministry of Defence, India
Paper 3PAA: A Private PUF Protocol for Anonymous Authentication listed in Top 50 most popular papers in IEEE TIFS
Two ACM TECS papers highlighted as ACM Papers For Practitioners: A PUF-Based Secure Communication Protocol for IoT and Machine-Learning Assisted PUF Calibration for Trustworthy Proof of Sensor Data in IoT
Second prize, ATS Best Doctoral Thesis Award (Semifinal for TTTC McCluskey Doctoral Thesis Award), 28th IEEE Asian Test Symposium, Kolkata
IEEE Computer Society Conference Participation Grant for Young Women Researchers
PhD Forum at Design Automation Conference 2019 (30% acceptance rate)
Best paper award, Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), IEEE HOST 2017, McLean, VA, USA
Most creative project award, Blockchain Spirit Hackathon, NTU Singapore
International Travel Support from SERB, Govt. of India for DATE 2018
1st position in Applied Research Competition, 2nd in Embedded Security Challenge, Cyber Security Awareness Week, IIT Kanpur
Grade A project award, Grand Challenge: Smart Embedded Applications and IoT, IIT Patna
2nd position in Applied Research Competition, Cyber Security Awareness Week, IIT Kanpur