Dr. Mahabub Hasan Mahalat

B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Technology

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Mahabub Hasan Mahalat is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu since November 2025.

Education

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, in 2022. He completed his M.Tech. (CSE) and B.Tech. (CSE) degrees from Aliah University, Kolkata, in 2016 and 2014, respectively.

Experience

Before joining SSN, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Technology at the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), Siksha ’O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, from 2021 to 2025. He has over 4 years of teaching experience. He also worked as a Full-time Institute-sponsored Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant at NIT Durgapur from 2016 to 2021.

Research Interests and Achievements

He works in the areas of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), IoT security, security of cyber-physical systems, FPGA-based design, lightweight cryptography, hardware Trojan detection, and hardware-oriented security. He qualified GATE in 2016 and 2018 and cleared UGC-NET in 2018. He has delivered invited talks in faculty development programmes on topics related to embedded and IoT security. He also contributes to the research community as a reviewer for leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Scientific Reports (Nature), as well as several Elsevier and Springer publications.

Subjects Taught

He has taught a range of undergraduate courses, including Introduction to Computer Programming using Java, Data Structures and Algorithms, and Full Stack Development. He has also handled associated laboratory courses such as Data Structures using Java, Full Stack Development Lab, and Programming in C. During his tenure as a Teaching Assistant at NIT Durgapur, he conducted lab sessions for Digital Logic Design, Computer Organization and Architecture, and Embedded Systems.

He has authored and co-authored 23 Journal Articles and conference proceedings, including 10 SCI-indexed journals. 

Publications:

Journals:

  • M. H. Mahalat, S. Mandal, A. Mondal, B. Sen, and R. S. Chakraborty. "Implementation, Characterization and Application of Path Changing Switch based Arbiter PUF on FPGA as a lightweight Security Primitive for IoT." ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 27, no. 3 (2021): 1-26. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2, H-Index: 60).
  • M. H. Mahalat, D Karmakar, A. Mondal and B. Sen, "PUF based Secure and Lightweight Authentication and Key-Sharing Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network," ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC) 18, no. 1 (2021): 1-23. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.6, H-Index: 50).
  • M. H. Mahalat, S. Subba, A. Mondal, B. K. Sikdar, R. S. Chakraborty, and B. Sen. "CAPUF: Design of a configurable circular arbiter PUF with enhanced security and hardware efficiency." Integration 95 (2024): 102113. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.5, H-Index: 50)
  • S. Roy, M. H. Mahalat, B. Sen. "Design and Implementation of Cost-Effective End-to-End Authentication Protocol for PUF-Enabled IoT Devices." IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1055-1067, July-Sept. 2025. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.1, H-Index: 67)
  • A. Mondal, A. Ghosh, S. Karmakar, M. H. Mahalat, S. Roy, and B. Sen. "Identification of Hardware Trojan in Gate-Level Netlist.” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 33, no. 09 (2024): 2430005. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.0, H-Index: 43)
  • A. K. Pramanik, M. H. Mahalat, J. Pal, S. S. Ahmadpour, and B. Sen. "Cost-effective synthesis of QCA logic circuit using genetic algorithm." The Journal of Supercomputing 79, no. 4 (2023): 3850-3877. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.7, H-Index: 92). 
  • S. Roy, D. Das, A. Mondal, M. H. Mahalat, B. Sen, B. Sikdar, "PLAKE: PUF based secure  Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for IoT," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 8547-8559, 15 May 2023. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 9.5, H-Index: 208).
  •  A. Mondal, S. Karmakar, M. H. Mahalat, S. Roy, B. Sen, and A. Chattopadhyay, "Hardware Trojan Detection using Transition Probability with Minimal Test Vectors," ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst., Vol 22, Issue 1, (2022). (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.6, H-Index: 67 ).
  •  A. Mondal, R.K. Biswal, M. H. Mahalat, S. Roy and B. Sen, "Hardware Trojan Free Netlist Identification: A Clustering Approach," J Electron Test, Vol 37, 317-328, (2021). (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.9, H-Index: 38).
  • M. Goswami, A. Mondal, M. H. Mahalat, B. Sen, B. K. Sikdar, "An efficient clocking scheme for quantum-dot cellular automata." International Journal of Electronics Letters. 2019 Feb 6:1-4. (SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.4, H-Index: 16).
  • M. H. Mahalat, A. F. Mollah, S. Basu and M. Nasipuri, 2017. "Design of novel post-processing algorithms for handwritten Arabic numerals classification." International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition, 4(4), pp.342-357. (Web of Science, ESCI)
  • M. H. Mahalat, Md S. Anwar, S. Kumar, and B. Sen. "Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) a Lightweight Security Primitive for IoT: Scope and Challenges." In 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning, Computer Systems and Security (MLCSS), pp. 368-373. IEEE, 2022.  (Scopus Indexed)
  • M. H. Mahalat, S. Mandal, A. Mondal and B. Sen, "An Efficient Implementation of Arbiter PUF on FPGA for IoT Application," 2019 32nd IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), Singapore, 2019, pp. 324-329, doi: 10.1109/SOCC46988.2019.1570548268 (Scopus Indexed)
  • M. H. Mahalat, S. Saha, A. Mondal and B. Sen, "A PUF based Light Weight Protocol for Secure WiFi Authentication of IoT devices," 2018 8th International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design (ISED), Cochin, India, 2018, pp. 183-187. doi: 10.1109/ISED. 2018.8703993. (Scopus Indexed)
  • M. H. Mahalat, N. Ugale, R. Shahare and B. Sen, "Design of Latch based Configurable Ring Oscillator PUF Targeting Secure FPGA," 26th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Verona, Italy, 2018, pp. 261-266. doi: 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2018.864473. (Scopus Indexed)
  • D. Das, S. Roy, M. H. Mahalat, and B. Sen. "A Novel Cross-Platform Physically Unclonable Function for Emerging FPGA-based IoT Devices." 2022 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), Singapore, Singapore, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AsianHOST56390.2022.10022185. (Scopus Indexed)
  • S. Roy, A. Maji, M. H. Mahalat and B. Sen, "PUF based Authentication and Key Sharing Protocol for Smart Water Monitoring System," 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENSYMP54529.2022.9864376. (Scopus Indexed)
  • S. Roy, D. Das, A. Mondal, M. H. Mahalat, S. Roy and B. Sen (2021). "PUF based Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for IoT," In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-524-1, pages 698-703. DOI: 10.5220/0010550906980703. (Scopus Indexed)
  • A. Mondal, M. H. Mahalat, S. Mandal, S. Roy and B. Sen, "A Novel Test Vector Generation Method for Hardware Trojan Detection," 2019 32nd IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), Singapore, 2019, pp. 80-85, doi: 10.1109/SOCC46988.2019.1570548271. (Scopus Indexed)
  • A. Mondal, M. H. Mahalat, A. R. Medapati, S. Roy and B. Sen, "XOR based Methodology to Detect Hardware Trojan utilizing the Transition Probability," 2018 8th International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design (ISED), Cochin, India, 2018, pp. 215-219.doi: 10.1109/ISED. 2018.8704062 (Scopus Indexed)
  • K. B. Rekha, B. P. Singh, P. Kaur, M. H. Mahalat, G. Ahluwalia and P. R, "The Role of Flexible Batteries in Enabling Electric Vehicle Adoption," 2025 International Conference on Automation and Computation (AUTOCOM), Dehradun, India, 2025, pp. 798-803, doi: 10.1109/AUTOCOM64127.2025.10957008. (Scopus Indexed)

M. H. Mahalat, M. Goswami, S. Mondal, A. Mondal and B. Sen, "Design of fault tolerant nano circuits in QCA using explicit cell interaction," 2017 IEEE Calcutta Conference (CALCON), Kolkata, 2017, pp. 36-40. doi: 10.1109/CALCON.2017.8280691 (Scopus Indexed)

  • M.H. Mahalat, S.B.B. Priyadarshini, S. Swain, S. Sahoo, A. Mohapatra, M. Das, (2024). A Comparative Study of Various Machine Learning (ML) Approaches for Fake News Detection in Web-based Applications. In: Khamparia, A., Pandey, B., Pandey, D.K., Gupta, D. (eds) Microbial Data Intelligence and Computational Techniques for Sustainable Computing. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 47. Springer, Singapore. (Scopus Indexed)

 

Research Citations

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