About

Dr. Chandan Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at the NFSU, Raipur Campus, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India. His research focuses on cybersecurity, software-defined networking, digital forensics, intrusion detection, and explainable security systems. He has published over six SCI-indexed journal articles and more than ten Scopus-indexed conference papers. Dr. Kumar's research work published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Computer Networks, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers & Security, and other reputed SCI journals. He is an M.Tech. Gold Medalist and a recipient of the ANRF International Travel Support from the Government of India.

No. of Publications

Research Paper

15

Book

0

Book Chapter

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Academic Identity

Scopus Id
58163874100
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Teaching Experience

AWARDS

ANRF- International Travel Support (Govt. of India)
APNOMS-25, National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan
September 2025
M.Tech (Gold Medalist)
Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi
February 2024
COMSNET Travel Support
18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, Bangalore
January 2026

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Sep 2025

Title: FEPS: Flow Entries Preprocessing Scheme for Software Defined Networks

Journal: 2025 25th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS)

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Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/APNOMS67058.2025.11181235

Publisher: IEEE

Chandan Kumar; Bipal Khanal; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
May 2025

Title: Securing Wireless SDN Controller from Jamming Attack

Journal: 2025 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC)

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Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC65596.2025.11140547

Publisher: IEEE

Chandan Kumar; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Feb 2025

Title: Is Software-Defined Smart Grid Secure? An Analysis of Security Issues and Solutions

Journal: Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics

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Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81336-8_21

Publisher: Springer

Chandan Kumar; Manvendra Singh; Bipal Khanal; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Sep 2023

Title: AI-Enabled IDS for Identifying Malicious Traffics in Cloud Systems

Journal: Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4284-8_7

Publisher: Springer

Soham Biswas; Chandan Kumar; Suman Som; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari; Mahesh Chandra Govil

Proceedings
Sep 2023

Title: NITSDN: Development of SDN Dataset for ML-Based Intrusion Detection System

Journal: Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4284-8_8

Publisher: Springer

Bipal Khanal; Chandan Kumar; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Feb 2026

Title: Detection of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Cardiac MRI Data Using Deep Learning

Journal: 2025 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN)

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CICN67655.2025.11368276

Publisher: IEEE

Most Tahia Subah Ankita; Bipal Khanal; Chandan Kumar; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Jan 2026

Title: Ant Colony Optimization based Service Function Chain Placement and Routing in NFV/SDN

Journal: 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026)

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS67989.2026.1141818

Publisher: IEEE

Vidhi Verma; Bipal Khanal; Chandan Kumar; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Jan 2026

Title: Efficient SDN Security Function Offloading on Programmable Data Plane

Journal: 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026)

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS67989.2026.1141813

Publisher: IEEE

Jigmee Wangchuk Sherpa; Bipal Khanal; Chandan Kumar; Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Jan 2026

Title: Multi-link Failure Aware Controller Placement in Software Defined Networks

Journal: 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026)

ISBN:

Language: English

DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11418250

Publisher: IEEE

Bipal Khanal, Chandan Kumar, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Proceedings
Jun 2025

Title: SD-CED: Detecting Compromised Devices in Software Defined Consumer Electronics Environment

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

ISSN: 1558-4127

Volume (issue): 71 (3)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2025.3596931

Publisher: IEEE.

Chandan Kumar, Bipal Khanal, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Journal
Oct 2026

Title: Explainable Digital Soil Organic Carbon Mapping in Himalayan Region of India’s Northeastern State Based on Gradient Boosting Regression Technique

Journal: Applied Soil Ecology

ISSN: 1873-0272

Volume (issue): 226 (1)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2026.107358

Publisher: Elsevier (ScienceDirect).

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Chandan Kumar, Bipal Khanal

Journal
Jun 2026

Title: Modularity-based Controller Deployment Scheme for Scalable Software Defined Networks

Journal: Computer Networks

ISSN: 1872-7069

Volume (issue): 282 (1)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2026.112269

Publisher: Elsevier (ScienceDirect).

Bipal Khanal, Chandan Kumar, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Journal
Jan 2025

Title: Real-Time Anomaly Detection Framework to Mitigate Emerging Threats in Software Defined Networks

Journal: Journal of Network and Systems Management

ISSN: 1573-7705

Volume (issue): 33 (1)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-025-09904-5

Publisher: Springer.

Bipal Khanal, Chandan Kumar, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Journal
Sep 2024

Title: An explainable nature-inspired cyber attack detection system in software-defined IoT applications

Journal: Expert Systems with Applications

ISSN: 1873-6793

Volume (issue): 250 (1)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.123853

Publisher: Elsevier (ScienceDirect).

Chandan Kumar, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari

Journal
Nov 2023

Title: Nature-inspired intrusion detection system for protecting software-defined networks controller

Journal: Computers & Security

ISSN: 1872-6208

Volume (issue): 132 (1)

Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103438

Publisher: Elsevier (ScienceDirect).

Chandan Kumar, Soham Biswas, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari, Mahesh Chandra Govil

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