🚀 Projects
This page highlights funded research projects, international collaborations, and academic & industrial projects in which I have been involved.
💰 Funded Research Projects (Current)
🛡 AI-enabled Indigenous Contactless Multimodal Biometric System for Secure Defence Access and Battlefield Surveillance
Principal Investigator
Co-PI: Dr. Indra Deep Mastan, IIT (BHU)
Overview
- AI-driven, contactless multimodal biometric authentication system
- Applications in secure defence access control and battlefield surveillance
Key Focus Areas
- Multimodal biometric sensing and fusion
- Edge AI devices for real-time inference
- UAV-assisted surveillance platforms
- Indigenous, scalable, and resilient system design
🔐 DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Overview
Independent research programme on Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, with emphasis on secure, robust, fair, and verifiable collaborative learning.
Research Focus
- Federated Learning
- Homomorphic Encryption & Secure MPC
- Differential Privacy
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Application Domains
- Finance
- Sensitive cross-organization data collaboration
🌍 International Research Collaborations & Consortia
🌐 Trustworthy AI for All
International consortium involving NTU Singapore, EPFL, CMU, Tel Aviv University, IIT Bombay, University of Glasgow, and other global partners.
- Research on Trustworthy AI foundations
- AI governance and digital public infrastructure
🔐 Mathematical Algorithms for Privacy-Preserving AI to Combat Global Scams
- Federated Learning and Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- Privacy-preserving scam detection
- Mathematical foundations of secure AI systems
🧪 Academic Research Projects (The Alan Turing Institute)
🔐 FAIR — Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services
- Privacy, integrity, and verifiability in collaborative ML for finance
- Private fuzzy name matching for cross-border entity resolution
- Robust aggregation with PETs
Technologies: Federated Learning, Homomorphic Encryption, Secure MPC, Differential Privacy
🪪 TDI — Trustworthy Digital Identity
- Privacy and fairness risks in biometric identity systems
- Private and fairness-aware biometric data sharing
Technologies: Homomorphic Encryption, Secure MPC, Fair ML
🏭 Industrial Projects — Diebold Nixdorf (2017–2019)
🔄 DevOps — Continuous Integration & Development
- Automated build, test, and packaging pipelines
- Jenkins CI pipelines and modular repositories
Technologies: Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, Gradle, NuGet, WIX
💳 NFC-EMV — Contactless ATM Transactions
- Secure NFC-based ATM transactions
- EMV-compliant device-host communication
Technologies: C++, Angular, HTML, CSS
🎯 1:1 Ad — Personalized ATM Marketing
- Customer-specific targeted ATM advertisements
- Responsive UI across ATM resolutions
Technologies: C++, Angular, HTML, CSS
📧 If you would like to collaborate or discuss any of these projects, feel free to get in touch.