Dr. Sanjay K. Sahay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus. He is also a Visiting Associate of IUCAA, Pune. He has extensive research interests in Information Security, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Malware Analysis, Blockchain Technology, Applied Cryptography and Gravitational Waves. He has over 75 academic international publications, and under his supervision, four students received PhD degrees. He successfully completed a sponsored project. He has been a general chair of the 8th International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in the Artificial Intelligence Era and member of the technical program committees, advisors and session chairs for about 15 international conferences. He also serves as an editor of SKM-2019 proceedings and its special issue published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer) and Information Systems Frontiers journal respectively. He also publ
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Information Security, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Malware Analysis, Blockchain Technology, Applied Cryptography and Gravitational Waves
RL-MAGE: Strengthening Malware Detectors Against Smart Adversaries Adarsh Nandanwar, Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Mohit Sewak Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 2023
NS-CBM: Neuro-Symbolic Concept Bottleneck for Interpretable Melanoma Diagnosis A Kushanoor, SK Sahay Pattern Recognition Letters , 2026 2026
PSKA-UAV: A Pre-shared Key-Based Authentication Protocol for Secure A Soni, SK Sahay Soft Computing and Its Engineering Applications: 7th International … , 2026 2026
PSKA-UAV: A Pre-shared Key-Based Authentication Protocol for Secure and Efficient Communication Between UAV and GCS A Soni, SK Sahay International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications … , 2025 2025
A Secure and Efficient Implementation of TLS and QUIC for Secure Satellite Based Communication in UAVs A Soni, SK Sahay World Conference on Information Systems for Business Management, 367-376 , 2025 2025
A Novel Protocol for Secure Communication Between a UAV and Ground Control Station A Soni, SK Sahay 2025 International Conference on Modern Sustainable Systems (CMSS), 670-677 , 2025 2025
SATCOM-UAV: Efficient and Secure Satellite Based Communication for UAV Swarms with QUIC and TLS A Soni, SK Sahay 2025 Seventeenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 1-7 , 2025 2025
A Hardware Security Review of RISC-V J Mishra, SK Sahay, A Pathak International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, 409-422 , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Cache and Speculative Side Channel Attacks: A Comprehensive Review J Mishra, SK Sahay, A Pathak International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, 219-233 , 2025 2025
Explainable Skin Cancer Detection via Hybrid CNN and Adaptive Post-hoc Explanations A Kushanoor, SK Sahay National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image … , 2025 2025
AI-Driven Dermatology: Enhancing Melanoma Detection with XAI and Deep Learning A Kushanoor, SK Sahay National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image … , 2025 2025
On the Security and Efficiency of Different Secure Hash Algorithms A Soni, SK Sahay 2025 International Conference on Communication, Computing, Networking, and … , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Hash based message authentication code performance with different secure hash functions A Soni, SK Sahay, V Soni 2025 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication … , 2025 2025 Citations: 9
Modern hardware security: A review of attacks and countermeasures J Mishra, SK Sahay arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04394 , 2025 2025 Citations: 28
MSF-CAM: Meta-Aware Multi-Scale Focused Class Activation Mapping for Trustworthy Skin Lesion Diagnosis A Kushanoor, SK Sahay 2025 IEEE 37th International Conference on Tools with Artificial … , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
An Investigation of Deep Learning Techniques for the Robust Detection of Melanoma Cancer A Kushanoor, SK Sahay International Conference on Emerging Technology and Sustainable Solutions … , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
A Novel Method for the Detection of Gravitational Wave Signal of BBH and BNS Using Convolutional Neural Networks L Kumar, SK Sahay International Conference on Emerging Technology and Sustainable Solutions … , 2024 2024
Seasha3: Secure and efficient encryption for the iot data by replacing subkeys of aes with sha3 A Soni, SK Sahay 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC … , 2024 2024 Citations: 6
Aesha3: Efficient and secure sub-key generation for aes using sha-3 A Soni, SK Sahay, P Mehta International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems … , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Gravitational wave: generation and detection techniques S Ray, R Bhattacharya, SK Sahay, A Aziz, A Das International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2340006 , 2024 2024 Citations: 9
Deep CounterStrike: Counter Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Defense AM Ransomware, M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 13th EAI International … , 2023 2023
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Malware detection using machine learning and deep learning H Rathore, S Agarwal, SK Sahay, M Sewak International conference on big data analytics, 402-411 , 2018 2018 Citations: 239
An Overview of Deep Learning Architecture of Deep Neural Networks and Autoencoders M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 17 (1), 182–188 , 2020 2020 Citations: 195
Deep reinforcement learning in the advanced cybersecurity threat detection and protection M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore Information Systems Frontiers 25 (2), 589-611 , 2023 2023 Citations: 160
Comparison of deep learning and the classical machine learning algorithm for the malware detection M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore 2018 19th IEEE/ACIS international conference on software engineering … , 2018 2018 Citations: 157
Evolution and Detection of Polymorphic and Metamorphic Malwares: A Survey A Sharma, SK Sahay International Journal of Computer Applications 90 (2), 7-11 , 2014 2014 Citations: 148
Detection of advanced malware by machine learning techniques S Sharma, C Rama Krishna, SK Sahay Soft Computing: Theories and Applications: Proceedings of SoCTA 2017, 333-342 , 2018 2018 Citations: 113
Robust android malware detection system against adversarial attacks using q-learning H Rathore, SK Sahay, P Nikam, M Sewak Information Systems Frontiers 23 (4), 867-882 , 2021 2021 Citations: 104
Evolution of malware and its detection techniques SK Sahay, A Sharma, H Rathore Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development … , 2019 2019 Citations: 102
Deep reinforcement learning for cybersecurity threat detection and protection: A review M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore International Conference On Secure Knowledge Management In Artificial … , 2021 2021 Citations: 84
An investigation of a deep learning based malware detection system M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability … , 2018 2018 Citations: 73
An effective approach for classification of advanced malware with high accuracy A Sharma, SK Sahay International Journal of Security and Its Applications 10 (4), 249-266 , 2016 2016 Citations: 62
Robust malware detection models: learning from adversarial attacks and defenses H Rathore, A Samavedhi, SK Sahay, M Sewak Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 37, 301183 , 2021 2021 Citations: 50
Grouping the executables to detect malware with high accuracy SK Sahay, A Sharma Procedia Computer Science 78, 667 - 674 , 2016 2016 Citations: 50
Identification of significant permissions for efficient android malware detection H Rathore, SK Sahay, R Rajvanshi, M Sewak International conference on broadband communications, networks and systems … , 2020 2020 Citations: 48
Web Document Clustering and Ranking using Tf-Idf based Apriori Approach RK Roul, OR Devanand, SK Sahay International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering & Applications … , 2014 2014 Citations: 40
Detection of malicious android applications: Classical machine learning vs. deep neural network integrated with clustering H Rathore, SK Sahay, S Thukral, M Sewak International conference on broadband communications, networks and systems … , 2020 2020 Citations: 31
Adversarial superiority in android malware detection: Lessons from reinforcement learning based evasion attacks and defenses H Rathore, A Nandanwar, SK Sahay, M Sewak Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 44, 301511 , 2023 2023 Citations: 30
Modern hardware security: A review of attacks and countermeasures J Mishra, SK Sahay arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04394 , 2025 2025 Citations: 28
A novel modified apriori approach for web document clustering RK Roul, S Varshneya, A Kalra, SK Sahay Computational Intelligence in Data Mining-Volume 3: Proceedings of the … , 2014 2014 Citations: 28
DeepIntent: ImplicitIntent based Android IDS with E2E Deep Learning architecture M Sewak, SK Sahay, H Rathore 2020 IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile … , 2020 2020 Citations: 26
