Anoop Kumar Pandey

Joint Director/Scientist 'E', C-DAC Bangalore

About

Joint Director/Scientist 'E'

  • Birthday: 1 February 1989
  • Website: www.cdac.in
  • Phone: +91-80-24485826
  • City: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  • Certifications: RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) - 2008
    EMC2 Proven Storage Professional: Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) - 2009
  • Degree: Ph.D. in CSE (Pursuing)
  • Email: anoop@cdac.in
  • Affiliation: C-DAC Bangalore
  • Professional Membership: IEEE Senior Member
  • Awards: University Gold Medalist (B.Tech) awarded by President Smt. Pratibha Patil, NIXI Fellowship 2011 & 2014, APAN Fellowship 2012, IIREF Fellowship 2019, EMC2 Award 2010

Publications
1 Patent, 19 Conference, 3 Journal, 1 Book Chapter

Projects
15 Completed, 4 in Progress, 3 Upcoming

Awards
4 Fellowships, 2 Awards

Training Hours
340 Hours Classroom, 90 Hours Public Training

Skills

Quantum Computing

Quantum Fundamentals, EPR, Teleportation, Entanglement Swapping, Communication, Cryptography

Languages

C/C++, Java, Swift, Python.

Public Key Infrastructure

Algorithms, Digital Signature, Encryption, Decryption, RSA, TLS, Elliptical Curve Cryptography

Databases

MySQL, MongoDB, FireBase

Web Design

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, JSON, XML, Apache Web Server

Platforms

Windows, Linux, iOS

Virtualization

VMware, vCentre, SRM

Professional Experience

Joint Director/Scientist 'E'

2022 - Present

C-DAC Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Scientist 'D'

2018 - 2022

C-DAC Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Scientist 'C'

2014 - 2018

C-DAC Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Scientist 'B'

2011 - 2014

C-DAC Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Project Engineer

2010 - 2011

C-DAC Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Education

Ph. D. (Computer Science & Engineering)

2021 -

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

CGPA: 9.25/10
Thesis title: Quantum Communication

MS By Research (Computer Science & Engineering)

2013 - 2016

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

CGPA: 3.7/4
Thesis title: Entity Resolution using Co-occurrence Graph and Continuous Learning

B. Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) University Gold Medalist

2006 - 2010

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, J&K

CGPA: 9.59/10

12th (Physics, Chemistry, Math, English, Computer Science)

2004 - 2005

Jesus & Mary Academy, Darbhanga, Bihar

Percentage: 88.2

10th

2002 - 2003

Gyan Bharti Public School, Darbhanga, Bihar

Percentage: 88.8

Projects

Upcoming Projects (1)

Quantum Algorithms for Analytics and Learning on Large Graphs

Chief Investigator

This collaborative project aims to work on three distinct research domains, quantum algorithms, quantum graph analytics, and quantum networking. The objectives focus on designing hybrid methods, applying them to real-world problems, and enabling reliable communication over quantum networks.

  • Funded by DST
  • 2026-2031

In Progress (5)

Building Developer Competence in the domain of Data Protection through Training, Simulation & Gamification

Chief Investigator

The primary aim is to build national capacity for effective implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 through comprehensive training, practical simulation, and gamification-based awareness programs. This is intended to create a privacy-aware digital ecosystem by strengthening the technical and behavioural competence of developers and related stakeholders, and by building experiential learning platforms using advanced pedagogical techniques.

  • Funded by Cyber Laws Division, MeitY
  • March 2026- March 2029

Next Generation Internet Names, Services and Standards (NGINSS)

Co-Investigator

Advancement of Internet Research, Development and Governance by providing access through the resource centre's and enabling international collaborations.

  • Funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
  • Dec 2025 - Dec 2027

National Centre for Digital Trust (NCDT)

Co-Investigator

Establishing a National Centre catering to multiple verticals of Research, Application Development, Promotions, Training and Certifications, International cooperation & Mutual recognition, etc. The centre will be known as the “National Centre for Digital Trust (NCDT)” and will support the R&D and Training activities of the office of CCA.

  • Funded by Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), MeitY
  • May 2025- May 2030

Sustaining and Enhancing DR operations of CERT-In

Co-Investigator

Phase - V: Establish the next generation DR infrastructure for CERT-IN to ensure resilient operations, and run the DR operations smoothly.

  • Funded by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY
  • January 2025 - December 2026

Development of Next Generation Honeypot Technologies and Sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence

C-DAC Banglore Site Incharge

National initiate on setting up Honeypot Clusters across the country.

  • Funded by C-DAC Mohali, CERT-In & NSCS
  • April 2024 - March 2027

Completed (16)

Blockchain-Based Digital Signature Certificate Content Validation and Storage System

Chief Investigator

Develop a Blockchain-based Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) Content Validation and Storage System. Blockchain will record DSC issuance, revocation and usage

  • Funded by Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), MeitY
  • February 2024 - August 2025

Samiksha: Feedback Analyzer for Feedbacks on DPDP Act 2023

Chief Investigator

A Software for analyzing the feedbacks at multiple levels for the public feedbacks received on DPDP Act 2023 rules.

  • Funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
  • January 2025 - February 2025

Open Challenge Competition for Development of Indian Web Browser with built-in CCA Indian Root Certificate

Co-Investigator

To conduct an open challenge competition for Development of Indian Web Browser with built-in CCA India Root Certificate

  • Funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
  • July 2023 - March 2025

A Resilient DR for ICERT

Co-Investigator

Phase IV: Establish the next generation DR infrastructure for ICERT to ensure resilient operations, and run the DR operations smoothly.

  • Funded by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY
  • January 2022 - December 2024

Design and Development of intelligent honeypot and Development of National Proactive Threat Hunting and Incident Response System

C-DAC Banglore Site Incharge

The project envisages honeypot-based data collection with proposed system comprising of clusters of honeypots.

  • Funded by CDAC Mohali, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS)
  • November 2021 - March 2024

Video Life Certificate (VLC)

PoC Developer

Live Video Know Your Customer (KYC) application for issuing life certificate for pensioners using media server (Ant Media) featuring face verification, liveliness check, OCR and Aadhar authentication and multi-level authentications

  • Sought by State Bank of India (SBI)
  • June 2020 - December 2020

Confidenz - A Secure File Storage System

PoC Developer

A secure file system for storing files, collaborative editing and multi-level encryption & authorization

  • Sought by BSNL
  • June 2020 - December 2020

Next Generation Public Key Infrastructure for Smart Applicatins and Training

Co-Investigator

To bring out developments in the PKI spectrum. To carry out experiments and studies relating to use of PKI in IoT and Blockchain. To carry out direct and online training for users, developers, auditors and enthusiasts of PKI Applications.

  • Funded by Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), MeitY
  • September 2019 - June 2024

Centre of Excellence in DNS Security

Researcher, Trainer

Establishing a centre for excellence and conducting research for DNS Security

  • Funded by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), MeitY
  • 2018 - 2023

Development of Video KYC Application

iOS Developer, Web Designer, DBA

Development of Video KYC Application on all platforms (Web, Mobile)

  • Funded by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Ministry of Defence
  • 2018 - 2020

Extending and Strengthening ICERT-DR Operations

Co-Investigator

Phase III: Establish the next generation DR infrastructure for CERT-IN to ensure resilient operations, and run the DR operations smoothly.

  • Funded by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY
  • June 2018 - December 2021

IETF-Ecosystem

Researcher, Trainer

An initiative for spreading awareness to participate in IETF activities and research in Internet Engineering

  • Funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
  • 2016 - 2019

Running and Upgrading the Disaster Recovery Operations for ICERT

Site Manager

Phase II: Establish the next generation DR infrastructure for CERT-IN to ensure resilient operations, and run the DR operations smoothly.

  • Funded by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY
  • January 2015 - June 2018

PKI Body of Knowledge: Development & Disseminations

Researcher

An initiative for spreading awareness and conducting research in the area of PKI & Digital Signature

  • Funded by Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), MeitY
  • 2014 - 2018

Disaster Recovery for CERT-In

System Architect & Administrator

Phase I: Establish the next generation DR infrastructure for CERT-IN to ensure resilient operations, and run the DR operations smoothly.

  • Funded by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY
  • 2010 - 2015

SEEKHA: An Academic Networking Portal

Web Developer & DBA

Contextual Knowledge based Academic Assistant

  • Funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
  • 2010 - 2014

Publications

  1. A System and Method for Preserving the Privacy of the Participating Entities in Digital Payment. Patent No: 556731; Granted in 2024.

Book Chapter (1)

  1. S. Tanwar, S. Tyagi, and N. Kumar, Security and privacy of electronic healthcare records: Concepts, paradigms and solutions. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019.

Journal (3)

  1. A. K. Pandey, B. Rajendran, and V. K. Roshni, “Autoadd: Automated bootstrapping of an iot device on a network,” SN Computer Science, vol. 1, pp. 1–5, 2020.
  2. A. K. Pandey, “Concept identification using co-occurrence graph,” International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 27–38, 2018.
  3. A. K. Pandey and S. Srinivasa, “Entity resolution using co-occurrence graph and continuous learning,” 2015.

Conference (19)

  1. A. K. Pandey, B. R. Tamma and M. V. P. Rao, "Servicing Demands between Multiple Pairs of Nodes on Heterogeneous Quantum Networks," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2025, pp. 948-957, doi: 10.1109/QCE65121.2025.00106.
  2. A. K. Pandey, “Quantum Communication Applications: Beyond QKD” in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA), IEEE, 2025, pp. 1–13.
  3. A. K. Pandey, B. R. Tamma, and M. P. Rao, “Quantum network routing with heterogeneous nodes,” in 2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS), IEEE, 2025, pp. 1056–1061.
  4. A. K. Pandey, B. R. Tamma, and M. Rao, “Mixing entanglement swapping and hop-by-hop transmission on heterogeneous quantum networks,” in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2025, pp. 84–93.
  5. A. K. Pandey, A. Banati, B. Rajendran, S. D. Sudarsan and K. K. S. Pandian, "Cryptographic Challenges and Security in Post Quantum Cryptography Migration: A Prospective Approach," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/PKIA58446.2023.10262706.
  6. A. K. Pandey, A. Srivastava, S. Handoo, B. R. Tamma, and M. P. Rao, “Greedy algorithms for finding entanglement swap paths in quantum networks,” in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2023, pp. 237–244.
  7. L. Palani, A. K. Pandey, B. Rajendran, B. Bindhumadhava, and S. D. Sudarsan, “A study of pki ecosystem in south asian and oceania countries,” in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA), IEEE, 2022, pp. 1–5.
  8. A. K. Pandey, B. Rajendran, B. Bindhumadhava, and S. Sudarsan, “Pramanik-cloud based certificate repository,” in 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications (ICCCMLA), IEEE, 2022, pp. 297–301.
  9. B. Rajendran and A. K. Pandey, “Pki ecosystem for reliable smart contracts and nft,” in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA), IEEE, 2022, pp. 1–5.
  10. A. K. Pandey, S. Kumar, B. Rajendran, and B. Bindhumadhava, “E-parakh: Unsupervised online examination system,” in 2020 IEEE region 10 conference (TENCON), IEEE, 2020, pp. 667–671.
  11. B. Rajendran, A. K. Pandey, and V. Kumari Roshni, “Finrep: A blockchain approach for financial reputation,” in Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on FICTA (2018), Volume 2, Springer, 2020, pp. 37–46.
  12. A. K. Pandey, B. Rajendran, and B. Bindhumadhava, “Digital token based remote administration,” in 2017 International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA), IEEE, 2017, pp. 63–66.
  13. B. Rajendran, A. K. Pandey, and B. Bindhumadhava, “Secure and privacy preserving digital payment,” in 2017 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/ UIC/ATC/ CBDCom/ IOP/SCI), IEEE, 2017, pp. 1–5.
  14. A. K. Pandey, A. Kumar, N. Malviya, and B. Rajendran, “A survey of storage remote replication software,” in 2014 3rd International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems, IEEE, 2014, pp. 45–50.
  15. A. K. Pandey, A. Kumar, and B. Rajendran, “Contextual model of recommending resources on an academic networking portal,” in Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Information Technology, CCSIT, 2013, pp. 421–429.
  16. B. Rajendran and A. K. Pandey, “Contextual strategies for detecting spam in academic portals,” in Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology. Computer Science and Engineering: Second International Conference, CCSIT 2012, Bangalore, India, January 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Part II 2, Springer, 2012, pp. 250–256.
  17. A. K. Pandey and C. P. Rangan, “Mitigating denial of service attack using proof of work and token bucket algorithm,” in IEEE Technology Students’ Symposium, IEEE, 2011, pp. 43–47.
  18. A. K. Pandey, K. Ranjan, A. Agarwal, and N. Kumar, “Distributed pkg id based signcryption,” in IEEE Technology Students’ Symposium, IEEE, 2011, pp. 39–42.
  19. A. K. Pandey, K. Ranjan, A. Agarwal, and N. Kumar, “Latency aware real time cryptographic communication model for manet,” in 2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym), IEEE, 2010, pp. 181–185.

Contact

Address

C-DAC, 68, Electronics City, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Call

+91 80 2448 5826

+91 88800 96993

Email

anoop@cdac.in

anoopmis@gmail.com