Specialization

Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Computer Networks

Email

subhrendu.chattopadhyay@thapar.edu

Personal Website
https://subhrendu1987.github.io/ 

Education
1.    PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati
o    Title – SDN for Large-scale IoT Networks
o    http://gyan.iitg.ernet.in/handle/123456789/1854 
2.    M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati.
3.    B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology (now MAKAUT). 

Awards
1.    Fellowship: Recipient of TCS Research scholarship (Cycle 10) and Fellowship from MHRD
2.    Travel Grants:
a.    Received conference travel grant from IDRBT (2023)
b.    Received conference travel grant from IEEE COMSNETS and LRN foundation (2019).
c.    Recipient of travel grant from Microsoft India, Research and Development (2019)
3.    Best paper awards:
a.    IEEE INFOCOM 2019 (in a session)
b.    IEEE COMSNETS 2016
c.    IEEE ANTS 2013

Experience
1.    Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University Patiala, India (Jan, 2025 - present)
2.    Assistant Professor, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), India (Apr, 2022 – Dec, 2024)
3.    Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, SRM University, Amarabati, India (Jul, 2021 – Apr, 2022)
4.    Temporary Project Staff, Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, India (Sep, 2020 – Mar, 2021)
5.    Automation Test Engineer (Programmer Analyst Trainee) in Cognizant Technology Solution India Pvt. Ltd. (July,2010 - July,2011)
 

Journal Publications
1.    Shubha Brata Nath, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Raja Karmakar, Sourav Kanti Addya, Sandip Chakraborty, and Soumya K. Ghosh. Containerized deployment of micro-services in fog devices: A reinforcement learning-based approach. The Journal of Supercomputing (JSUP), Springer, 78(5):6817–6845, 2022.
2.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Sukumar Nandi, and Sandip Chakraborty. Aloe: Fault-tolerant network management and orchestration framework for IoT applications. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 17(4):2396–2409, 2020.
3.    Sandip Chakraborty, Sukumar Nandi, and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. Alleviating hidden and exposed nodes in high-throughput wireless mesh networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications, 15(2):928–937, 2016.

Conference Publications
1.    Neha Chowdhary, Utkalika Satapathy, Theophilus Benson, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sayandeep Sen, Palani Kodeswaran, and Sandip Chakraborty. BeeGuard: Explainability-based Policy Enforcement of eBPF Codes for Cloud-native Environments. In Seventeenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems NETworkS (COMSNETS), volume 17, Bangalore, IN, (Accepted) 2025.
2.    Tanmoy Dutta, Neha Chowdhary, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, and Sandip Chakraborty. AutoPAC: Exploring LLMs for Automating Policy to Code Conversion in Business Organizations. In Seventeenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems NETworkS (COMSNETS), volume 17, Bangalore, IN, (Accepted) 2025.
3.    Arpit Tripathi, Abhishek Thakur, Abhinandan Sridhara Rao Prasad, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. MADE: An MEC Supported Platform Independent and Version Agnostic Framework for Mobile Application Deployment. In Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), volume 16, Guwahati, IN, (Accepted) 2024.
4.    Utkalika Satapathy, Rishabh Thakur, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, and Sandip Chakraborty. Disprotrack: Distributed provenance tracking over serverless applications. In Forty First IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), volume 41, NewYork, US, 4-6 May 2023.
5.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Nandi, Sandip Chakraborty, and Abhinandan Prasad. Amalgam: Distributed network control with scalable service chaining. In Nineteenth IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), volume 19, pages 519–523, Paris, FR, 22-25 June 2020.
6.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Sukumar Nandi, and Sandip Chakraborty. Aloe: An elastic auto-scaled and self-stabilized orchestration framework for IoT applications. In Thirty Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), volume 38, Paris, FR, 29 April - 2 May 2019.
7.    Shubha Brata Nath, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Raja Karmakar, Sourav Kanti Addya, Sandip Chakraborty, and Soumya K. Ghosh. PTC: Pick-test-choose to place containerized micro-services in IoT. In 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pages 1–6, Waikoloa, US, 9-13 December 2019.
8.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Samar Shailendra, Sukumar Nandi, and Sandip Chakraborty. Improving MPTCP performance by enabling sub-flow selection over a SDN supported network. In Fourteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), volume 14, Limmasol, CY, 15-17 October 2018.
9.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Nandi, Samar Shailendra, and Sandip Chakraborty. Poster: Primary path effect in multi-path TCP: How serious is it for deployment consideration?, 10-14 July 2017.
10.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Niladri Sett, Sukumar Nandi, and Sandip Chakraborty. Flipper: Fault-tolerant distributed network management and control. In Fifteenth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), volume 15, Lisbon, PT, 8-12 May 2017.
11.    Pranav Kumar Singh, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Pradeepkumar Gajendra Bhale, and Sukumar Nandi. Fast and secure handoffs for v2i communication in smart city wi-fi deployement. In Fourteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT), volume 14, Bhubaneswar, IN, 13-16 January 2017.
12.    Sandip Chakraborty and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. ES2: Managing link level parameters for elevating data rate and stability in high throughput wlan. In Eighth International Conference on COMmunication System & NETworks (COMSNET 2016), volume 8, Bangalore, IN, 5-9 January 2016.
13.    Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sandip Chakraborty, and Sukumar Nandi. Leveraging the trade-off between spatial reuse and channel contention in wireless mesh networks. In Eighth International Conference on COMmunication System & NETworks (COMSNET 2016), volume 8, Bangalore, IN, 5-9 January 2016.
14.    Niladri Sett, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, and Sukumar Nandi. A time aware method for predicting dull nodes and links in evolving networks for data cleaning. In Fourteenth IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), volume 14, pages 304–310, Omaha, US, 13-16 October 2016.
15.    Sushanta Karmakar and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. A trigger counting mechanism for ring topology. In Thirty Seventh Australasian Computer Science Conference-Volume (ACSC 2014), volume 37, pages 81–87, Auckland, NZ, jan 2014.
16.    Sandip Chakraborty, Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Suchetana Chakraborty, and Sukumar Nandi. Defending concealedness in IEEE 802.11n. In Sixth IEEE International Conference on COMmunication System & NETworks (COMSNET 2014), volume 6, pages 1–8, Bangalore, IN, 7-10 January 2014.
17.    Sandip Chakraborty, Sukumar Nandi, and Subhrendu Chattopadhyay. Surpassing flow fairness in a mesh network: How to ensure equity among end users? In Seventh IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS 2013), volume 7, Chennai, IN, 15-18 December 2013

Projects
1.    5G Usecase Lab for BFSi: Funded by DoT and DFS (GoI), PI: Prof. V.N. Sastry, Co-PI: Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Abhishek Thakur, INR. 1.05 Cr.
2.    Consultancy on Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Review: A Public sector Bank, Co-PI: Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Radha V, N.P. Dhavale, Dipanjan Roy, INR. 28,500,00
3.    Consultancy on SIEM Solutions: A Private sector Bank, Co-PI: Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Dipanjan Roy, INR. 3,00,000