• Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar [2022- till date]
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar [2014 – 2022]
• Senior Research Scientist, INFOSYS Labs, Bangalore [2012-2013]
• Researcher, Rigorous Software Validation Group at General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore [2011-12];
• Post-doctoral Researcher at CyberDNA Resarch Center, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA [2010-11]

Sponsored Projects:

Title: Automated Security Verification and Diagnosis of Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure – a formal analytics based approach Sponsoring Organization: SRIC, IIT Bhubaneswar Duration: 2 years (Cost: 9.95 Lakhs) [Completed]

Title: NetAssure: A Formal Configuration Compliance checking, Security Policy Verification and Threat Diagnosis Tool for Enterprise Computing and Network Infrastructure Funding Agency: SAG, DRDO, New Delhi Duration: 2 years (Cost: 27.84 Lakhs) [Completed]

Title: Design and Development of Tools for Detection and Prevention of Cyber Attacks in Smart Grid EMS, Sponsoring Agency: CPRI, Bangalore Duration: 3 years (Cost: 49.95 Lakhs) [Ongoing]

Title: Development of Formal Verification Tools for Proactive Assessment and Prevention of Security Threats in Enterprise Networks, Funding Agency: DRDO, New Delhi Duration: 3 years (Cost: 39 Lakhs) [ongoing]

Consultancy Projects:

Title: Distributed SDN Controller with End to End Security. Funding Agency: Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bengaluru Duration: 2 Years (Cost: 46.5 Lakhs) [Completed]

Title: Test case generation and Code Compliance using AI models. Funding Agency: ATHRV Cloud Pvt Ltd. Duration: 8 Months (Cost: 8.4 Lakhs) [Ongoing]

Title: Cyber Security Perimeter Defense for Safety Critical Infrastructure and Networks. Funding Agency: Whizhack Tech. Pvt. Ltd. Duration: 3 Years (Cost: 30.37 Lakhs) [Ongoing]

1. Rojalini Tripathy, Jigyasa Meshram, Padmalochn Bera, “HalfFedLearn: A Secure Federated Learning with Local Data Partitioning and Homomorphic Encryption”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 171, 107858, 2025. 
2. Mitali Sinha, Padmalochan Bera, Manoranjan Satpathy, Kshira Sagar Sahoo, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues: “DDoSBlocker: Enhancing SDN security with time-based address mapping and AI-driven approach” Comput. Networks, Elsevier 259: 111078 (2025)
3. Kasturi Routray, Abhiram Monikonda, Padmalochan Bera: “Secure Blockchain Assisted Attribute-Based Keyword Search for Collaborative E-Healthcare”, ACM Transactions on Distributed Ledger Technologies 2024, https://doi.org/10.1145/3699967
4. M. Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera, S. Das, M. A. Rahaman: A Security Enforcement Framework for SDN Controller using Game Theoretic approach, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) , 20(2), pp. 1500-1515, 2023
5. Sai Prasath S, Dinesh Mohanty, Kamalakanta Sethi, P. Bera, S. R. Samantarary: Analysis of Continual Learning Models for Intrusion Detection Systems, IEEE Access DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3222715, 2022
6. Kamalakanta Sethi, Ankit Pradhan, Padmalochan Bera, PMTER-ABE: a practical multi-authority CP-ABE with traceability, revocation and outsourcing decryption for secure access control in cloud systems, Cluster Computing 24(2): 1525-1550 , 2021
7. Madhukrishna Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera: Software defined networking architecture, traffic management, security, and placement: A survey, Computer Networks 192:108047 ,2021
8. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Shailesh Kumar, Padmalochan Bera, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, An energy-efficient load distribution framework for SDN controllers. Computing 102(9): 2073-2098 , 2020
9. Kamalakanta Sethi, Ankit Pradhan, Padmalochan Bera: Practical traceable multi-authority CP-ABE with outsourcing decryption and access policy updation. J. Inf. Secur. Appl. 51: 102435 , 2020
10. Bata Krishna Tripathy, Swagat Kumar Jena, Padmalochan Bera, Satyabrata Das: An Adaptive Secure and Efficient Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Wirel. Pers. Commun. 114(2): 1339-1370 , 2020
11. Kamalakanta Sethi, E. Sai Rupesh, Rahul Kumar, Padmalochan Bera, Venu Madhav Yatam: A context-aware robust intrusion detection system: a reinforcement learning-based approach. Int. J. Inf. Sec. 19(6): 657-678, 2020
12. Madhukrishna Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera, “Traffic Management in SDN – A Roadmap to Research”, Scholars’ Press , 2019
13. Kamalakanta Sethi, E Sai Rupesh Rahul Kumar, Y Venu Madhav, Padmalochan Bera, “A Context-aware Robust Intrusion Detection System: A Reinforcement Learning based Approach”, International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Springer, 2019
14. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Joy Chandra Mukherjee, Padmalochan Bera, Shailesh Kumar, AHM Jakaria, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, “An Adaptive Load Balancing Scheme for Software Defined Network Controllers”, Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 164 , 2019
15. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Shailesh Kumar, Padmalochan Bera, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, “An energy-efficient load distribution framework for SDN controllers”, Journal of Computing, Springer, pp. 1-26, 2019
16. Bata Krishna Tripathy, Swagat Kumar Jena, Padmalochan Bera, Satyabrata Das “A New Mobility Control Approach for Improved Route Availability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” , Journal of Science and Engineering, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s13369-019-03899-3, 2019
17. Madhukrishna Priyadarssini, Padmalochan Bera , “A Secure Virtual Controller for Traffic Management in SDN”, IEEE Letters of Computer Society, vol 2(3), pp. 24-27 , 2019
18. Batakrishna Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera , Debiprosad Das, Risk based Security Enforcement in Software Defined Network, Journal of Computer and Security, Elsevier, vol 78: 321-335 , 2018
19. Soumya Maity, Padmalochan Bera, S. K. Ghosh and Ehab Al-Shaer. Formal integrated network security analysis tool: formal query-based network security configuration analysis. IET Networks vol. 4(2):137-147 , 2015
20. Santosh Majhi, Padmalochan Bera, OHMF: A Query Based Optimal Healthcare Medication Framework, International Journal of Information Processing , 2014.
21. M. Ashiqur Rahaman and Ehab Al-Shaer, Padmalochan BeraA Noninvasive Threat Analyzer for Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid In IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid vol 4(1), pp. 273-287 , March 2013
22. Padmalochan Bera, S. K. Ghosh and Pallab Dasgupta, A WLAN Security Management Framework based on Formal Spatio-Temporal RBAC Model, Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Wiley InterScience, vol 4(9): 981-993 , August 2011.
23. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, Policy based Security Analysis in Enterprise Networks- A formalapproach, IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, vol. 7(4): pp. 231-243 , December 2010.
24. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, Integrated Security Analysis Framework for an Enterprise Network-A Formal Approach, IET Information Security Journal, vol. 4(4): 283-300 , December 2010.
25. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, Formal Analysis of Security Policy Implementations in EnterpriseNetworks. International Journal of Computer Network and Communications (IJCNC), Vol. 1(2): 56-73 , July 2009.

1. Kasturi Routray, Padmalochan Bera: ZTAAC : Zero Trust Adaptive Authorization with CP-ABE for Context-Aware Data Protection. COMSNETS 2025: 814-816, Bangalore, India, Jan 2025
2. Kasturi Routray, Padmalochan Bera: Secure and Expressive Authorized Keyword Search in Cloud-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems. ICDCN 2025: 390-395, Hyderabad, India, Jan 2025
3. Mitali Sinha, Padmalochan Bera, Manoranjan Satpathy: SYN-Monitor: An Energy Efficient Defense System against TCP-SYN Flooding Attacks in SDN. ICDCN 2025: 346-351, Jan 2025
4. Kasturi Routray, Satyansh Shukla, Padmalochan Bera, Multi-Client Searchable Encryption with Granular Access Control for Cloud-Assisted IoT, 30th ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington, D.C., USA,  November 18-22, 2024
5. Kasturi Routray Padmalochan Bera, Efficient and Secure Cloud Data Sharing Using CP-ABE Supporting Dynamic Attributes, 15th S3 Workshop, 30th ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington, D.C., USA,  November 18-22, 2024
6. Kasturi Routray Padmalochan Bera, Lightweight and Decentralized Access Control for Cloud-Assisted Industrial Control Systems, RICSS workshop, 31st ACM CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. October 14-18, 2024
7. Kasturi Routray Padmalochan Bera, Fine-Grained Access Control with Efficient Range Comparison for Outsourced Data, 38th ACM SIGCOMM 2024, Sydney, Australia, August 4 – 8, 2024
8. Kasturi Routray Padmalochan Bera, Risk-Aware Lightweight Data Access Control for Cloud-Assisted IIoT: A Zero-Trust Approach,  ZTA Next-Gen workshop, 38th ACM SIGCOMM 2024, Sydney, Australia, August 4 – 8, 2024
9. Rojalini Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera: A Cost-effective Framework for Privacy Preserving Federated Learning. ICDCN 2024: 298-303
10. Kasturi Routray, Padmalochan Bera: Fog-Assisted Dynamic IoT Device Access Management Using Attribute-Based Encryption. ICDCN 2024: 346-352
11. Madhukeishna Priyadarsini, Pooja Mittal, J. C. Mukherjee, P. Bera, Budget-constrained Controller Placement in Software-defined Network, ACM ICDCN , pp. 217-226, Kharagpur, India, 2023
12. Kasturi Routray, Padmalochan Bera, RLT-CPABE: Revocable Location and Time Aware Ciphertext Policy Attribute-Based Encryption, IEEE ANTS 2022 , Gandhinagar, India (Accept)
13. Aniket Agarwal, Kamalakanta Sethi, Padmalochan Bera, “Inviolable e-Question paper via QR code Watermarking and Visual Cryptography”, IEEE ANTS 2021 pp. 266-271, Hyderabad, India, 2021.
14. Aniket Agarwal, Kamalakanta Sethi, Padmalochan Bera, “IoT-Based Aggregate Smart Grid Energy Data Extraction Using Image Recognition and Partial Homomorphic Encryption”, IEEE ANTS 2021 , pp. 408-413, Hyderabad, India, 2021.
15. Madhukrishna Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera, “An SDN Implemented Adaptive Load Balancing Scheme for Mobile Networks”, ICDCIT, Springer vol. 13145, pp. 127-139, 2022
16. Dinesh Mohanty, Kamalakanta Sethi, Sai Prasath, Rashmi Ranjan Rout, Padmalochan Bera: “Intelligent Intrusion Detection System for Smart Grid Applications” IEEE CyberSA: 1-8 , London, UK, 2021
17. Mitali Sinha, Padmalochan Bera, Manoranjan Satpathy: “An Anomaly Free Distributed Firewall System for SDN”. IEEE CyberSA : 1-8 , London, UK, 2021
18. Shobhit, Padmalochan Bera, “ModCGAN: A Multimodal Approach to Detect New Malware” IEEE CyberSA: 1-2 , London, UK, 2021
19. Kamalakanta Sethi, Rahul Kumar, Padmalochan Bera, ” Deep Reinforcement Learning based Intrusion Detection System for Cloud Infrastructure “, IEEE COMSNETS , Bangalore 2020
20. Kamalakanta Sethi, Rahul Kumar, Padmalochan Bera, “A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System using Benford’s law and Network Flow Size Difference”, IEEE COMSNETS , Bangalore 2020
21. Madhukrishna Priyadarshini, Pooja Mittal, Padmalochan Bera, “Smart City Renovation using SDN Framework”, IEEE COMSNETS , Bangalore 2020
22. Kamlakanta Sethi, Ankit Pradhan, Padmalochan Bera, “Attribute-based Data Security with Obfuscated Access Policy for Smart Grid Applications”, IEEE COMSNETS , Bangalore 2020
23. Madhukrishna. Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, “A Signalling Game-Based Security Enforcement Mechanism for SDN Controllers”, IEEE ICCCNT , IIT Kanpur, July 2019.
24. Kamalakanta Sethi, Rahul Kumar, Lingaraj Sethi, Padmalochan Bera, ‘A Novel Machine Learning Based Malware Detection and Classification Framework’, IEEE Cyber Science 2019 , Oxford, UK, June 3-4 2019
25. Kamalakanta Sethi, Punith R, Ankit Pradhan, Padmalochan Bera, ‘A Scalable Attribute Based Encryption for Secure Data Storage and Access in Cloud’, IEEE Cyber Science 2019 , University of Oxford, UK, June 3-4 2019
26. Ankit Pradhan, Kamalakanta Sethi, Shrohan Mohapatra Padmalochan Bera , “Distributed Multi-authority Attribute-based Encryption Using Cellular Automata”, 18th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS) , Fuzhou, China 2019
27. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, “A New Approach for Energy Efficiency in Software Defined Network”, 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Networks (CN 2018) , Gliwice, Poland, June 19-22, 2018.
28. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera , “A New Approach for SDN Performance Enhancement”, IEEE Software Defined Systems (SDS-2018) Barcelona, Spain, April 23-26, 2018. (Best Paper Award)
29. Kamalakanta Sethi, Anish Chopra, Padmalochan Bera, Bata Krishna Tripathy: Integration of role based access control with homomorphic cryptosystem for secure and controlled access of data in cloud. ACM SIN: 194-199 , NY, USA, 2017
30. Kamalakanta Sethi, Shankar Kumar Chaudhary, Bata Krishna Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera : A novel malware analysis for malware detection and classification using machine learning algorithms. ACM SIN: 107-113 , NY, USA, 2017
31. Kamalakanta Sethi, Shankar Kumar Chaudhary, Bata Krishna Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera: A Novel Malware Analysis Framework for Malware Detection and Classification using Machine Learning Approach. 19th ACM ICDCN 2018: 491-494 , Hyderabad, India
32. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, Rohan Bhampal, “Performance Analysis of SDN controller architecture- A Simulation Based Survey “, IEEE WisPNET 2017 (IEEE COMSOC) , Chennai, India, 22-24 March 2017
33. Bata Krishna Tripathy, Ashray Sudhir, Padmalochan Bera , “Formal Modelling and Verification of Requirements of Adaptive Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network”, 41st IEEE COMPSAC , pp. 548-556, Turin, Italy, July 2017.
34. Kamalakanta Sethi, Amartya Majumdar, Padmalochan Bera , “A Novel Implementation of Parallel Homomorphic Encryption for Secure Data Storage in Cloud”, Cyber Security 2017) , pp-1-7, London, UK, June,2017.
35. Bata Krishna Tripathy, Ananta Gopal Sethy, Padmalochan Bera and Mohammed Ashiqur Rahman, A Novel Secure and Efficient Policy Management Framework for Software Defined Network, 40th IEEE COMPSAC, pp. 423-430 , Atlanta USA, 2016
36. Bata Krishna Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman: Analysis of trust models in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A simulation based study. IEEE COMSNETS 2016: 1-8 , Bangalore, India 2016
37. Santosh Majhi and Padmalochan Bera “A Security Enforcement Framework for Virtual Machine Migration Auction”. ACM Safeconfig, ACM CCS , pp. 47-53, Denver, USA, October 2015
38. Santosh Majhi, Padmalochan Bera Designing an Adaptive Firewall for Enterprise Cloud, International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing , India, December 2014.
39. Santosh Majhi, Padmalochan Bera. VM migration auction: Business oriented federation of cloud providers for scaling of application services, International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing , India, December 2014.
40. Santosh Majhi, Padmalochan Bera, Swapnil Kumar, Ehab Al-Shaer, Manoranjan Satpathy. Synthesizing Optimal Security Configurations for Enterprise Networks – A formal Approach. IET System Safety and Cyber Security Conference , Manchester UK, October 2014
41. Padmalochan Bera, S. K. Ghosh, A Query Driven Security Testing Framework for Enterprise Network, SECTEST, IEEE ICST , Luxembourg, March 2013
42. Padmalochan Bera and A. Pasala, A Framework for optimizing effort in Testing System-of-Systems, IEEE ICSEM 2012 , Mysore, India, December 2012
43. M. Ashiqur Rahaman, Padmalochan Bera, E. Al-Shaer, A Non-invasive Security Threat Analyzer for AMI Smart Grid, 31st IEEE INFOCOM 2012, pp. 2255-2263 , Florida, USA, March 2012
44. Saeed Al-Haj, Padmalochan Bera and Ehab Al-Shaer, Build and Test Your Own Network Configuration, 7th SecureComm 2011) , London, UK, September 2011
45. Padmalochan Bera, Soumya Maity, S. K. Ghosh and PallabDasgupta, Generating Policy based Security Implementations in Enterprise Networks. SafeConfig, ACM CCS 2010 , Chicago, USA, October 2010.
46. Padmalochan Bera, Soumya Maity, S. K. Ghosh and Pallab Dasgupta, A Query based Formal Security AnalysisFramework for Enterprise LAN, 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2010 (CIT 2010), pp. 407-414 , Bradford, UK, June 2010
47. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, A Spatio-temporal Role-based Access Control Model for WirelessLAN Security Policy Management, ICISTM-10, LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp 76-88 , Bangkok, Thailand, March 2010.
48. Soumya Maity, Padmalochan Bera and Soumya Kanti Ghosh, A Mobile IP based WLAN Security management framework with reconfigurable hardware acceleration, ACM SIN 2010, pp. 218-223 , Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Russia , 2010
49. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, Fault Analysis of Security Implementations in EnterpriseNetworks, IEEE International Conference on Network and Communication Systems (NetCom 2009),DOI: 10.1109/Netcom.2009.82, pp. 240-245 , Chennai, India, December 2009.
50. Padmalochan Bera, Pallab Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh, Formal Verification of Security Policy Implementations inEnterprise Networks, International Conference on Information Systems and Security (ICISS 2009), LNCS 5905, pp. 117-131 , Kolkata, India, December 2009.

Book:

M. Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera, “Traffic Management in Software Defined Network – A Roadmap to Research”, Scholars Press, Germany, 2019 SDN- A Road map to Research : Padmalochan Bera: Amazon.in: Books

Book Chapter(s):

• Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, “Case Study: Developing Edge Intelligence in Electric Vehicles (EVs)”, Edge Intelligence and Analytics for Internet of Things, Chapter 13, CRC Press, 2025 (Accepted)
• Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, “SDN Deployed Secure Application Design Framework for IoT using Game Theory”, AI-Based Advanced Optimization Techniques for Edge Computing, Chapter 12, Wiley, 2025
• Kasturi Routray and Padmalochan Bera. “Privacy-Preserving Spatio-Temporal Attribute-Based Access Control for Collaborative E-Healthcare”. In: Gountia, D., Dalei, D.K., Mishra, S. (eds) Information Technology Security. Springer Tracts in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Springer, Singapore. 2024.
• M. Priyadarshini, Padmalochan Bera, “An Effective Deployment of SDN Controller in Smart City Renovation”, Chapman Hall, CRC Press, 2020
• P. Bera, S. K. Ghosh, E. Al-shaer, “Formal Analysis of Policy based Security Configurations in Enterprise Network”, In Handbook on Securing Cyber Physical Critical Infrastructure, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

Patent(s):

• Padmalochan Bera, A. Pasala., Method and System for Generating stateflow models from software requirements. US patent no: 9965252, 2018.
• Padmalochan Bera, A. Pasala., Methods and System for optimizing testing efforts in System of System Testing, US patent no: 9208046, 2015

Senior Research Scientist in INFOSYS Labs, Bangalore [2012-2013]

Researcher in Rigorous Software Validation Group at General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore [2011-12];

Post-doctoral Researcher at CyberDNA Resarch Center, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA [2010-11]

Professional Experience