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College of Applied Science and Technology

Dr. Rudra Prasad Baksi

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
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Office
WIH Williams Hall 17f
Office Phone
(309) 438-5981office
phone
Email
rpbaksi@ilstu.eduemail
Website
https://www.rpbaksi.com/website
  • About
  • Education
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

IT 180.001 C++ Programming

IT 180.002 C++ Programming

IT 287.005 Independent Study

IT 351.001 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 351.002 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 351.001 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 451.001 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 180.001 C++ Programming

IT 180.002 C++ Programming

IT 180.003 C++ Programming

IT 299.009 Independent Honor Study

IT 287.003 Independent Study

IT 287.005 Independent Study

IT 351.001 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 351.002 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

IT 451.001 Practical Cryptography and Trusted Systems

Teaching Interests & Areas

Cryptography
Game Theory
Machine Learning
C++ Programming

Research Interests & Areas

AI for Security & Security for AI
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Game Theory
Hardware-assisted Security
Machine Learning
Malware Analysis

PhD Computer Science and Engineering

University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY, USA

MS Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

BE Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

KIIT University (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology)
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Grants and Contracts

Analysis of sophisticated APT type malware for designing detectionn and mitigation techniques
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
Malwation. January 2025
Detection and Mitigation of APT type Malware
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education (CCRE). July 1 2025
Mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats Ransomware
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
School of Information Technology. July 2024 - January 2026
School Research Grant (SRG): Privacy-Preserving Framework using Prognostic ML Models for Applications in Precision Medicine.
Nariman Ammar, Rudra Baksi.
School of Information Technology, Illinois State University. May 2023
University Research Grant (URG): Detection and Mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats Ransomware
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
College of Applied Sciences and Technology (CAST), Illinois State University. July 1 2023 - June 30 2024

Conference Proceeding

Apt Detection of Ransomware - An Approach to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats Using System Call Information
Rudra Prasad Baksi, Vishwas Nalka, Shambhu J Upadhyaya.
2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), (2023)
Game Theoretic Analysis of Ransomware: A Preliminary Study
Rudra Baksi, Shambhu Upadhyaya.
SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 242-251, (2022), 10.5220/0011006600003120

Journal Article

A Game Theoretic Approach to the Design of Mitigation Strategies for Generic Ransomware
Rudra Prasad Baksi, Shambhu J Upadhyaya.
A book in the CCIS Series published by Springer

Presentations

Detection and Mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) type malware
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
Infosecurity Europe 2024, Excel, London, UK, June, 2024
Quantum Technologies and Ransomware
Rudra Prasad Baksi.
XAVIER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (XICAI 2024), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (presented online), March 1, 2024
Apt Detection of Ransomware - An Approach to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats Using System Call Information
Rudra Prasad Baksi, Vishwas Nalka, Shambhu Upadhyaya.
2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Exeter, UK, November 1, 2023