Faculty at School of Engineering

Sweta Mishra

Sweta Mishra

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering


Contact Information

Research Interests: Cryptography and Its Applications, Password-Based Cryptosystems, Biometric Security, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and Blockchain Security.

2018, Ph.D., Computer Science, IIIT Delhi

2015, M.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Information Security, IIIT Delhi

  • July 2019–Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR.
  • February 2018–June 2019: Foreign Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA.

  • Rising Star Award in Teaching during the Circle of Excellence Award Ceremony held on April 6, 2021, on the special occasion of the 10th Anniversary celebration of Shiv Nadar University.
  • TCS Fellowship awarded for 4 years to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science, from August 2014 to 2018.

  • CRSI (Cryptology Research Society of India): Lifetime Member.
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Member.

Journals

  1. Shanu Poddar, Sai Sandilya Konduru and Sweta Mishra. “Post-Quantum Secure Server-aided Password-based Authentication using Module-LWE.” Scientific Reports, Springer Nature. DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 4.9]
  2. Shanu Poddar, Sweta Mishra, Tapaswini Mohanty, Vikas Srivastava and Sugata Gangopadhyay. “LaSDVS: A Post-Quantum Secure Compact Strong-Designated Verifier Signature with Applications to Genomic Consent Authorization.” The Journal of Supercomputing, 82, 587 (2026). DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 3.5]
  3. Ashutosh Mishra, Sweta Mishra and Sunil Panday. “Security Analysis of Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols.” IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025, Pages 1940–1951. [Journal CiteScore: 2.4]
  4. Donghoon Chang, Surabhi Garg, Munawar Hasan and Sweta Mishra. “Cancelable Multi-biometric Approach using Fuzzy Extractor and Novel Bit-wise Encryption.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 3152–3167, 2020. DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 7.17]
  5. Abhishek Agarwal, Ayush Prasad, Rishabh Rustogi and Sweta Mishra. “Detection and Mitigation of Fraudulent Resource Consumption Attacks in Cloud Using Deep Learning Approach.” Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 56, 2021, 102672, ISSN 2214-2126. DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 4.96]
  6. Akshima, Donghoon Chang, Aarushi Goel, Sweta Mishra and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya. “Generation of Secure and Reliable Honeywords, Preventing False Detection.” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE, 2019. DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 6.404]
  7. Donghoon Chang, Arpan Jati, Sweta Mishra and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya. “Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Tradeoff for Password Hashing Schemes.” International Journal of Information Security, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018. DOI. [J. Impact Factor: 4.6]

Conferences

  1. Shanu Poddar, Tapaswini Mohanty, Sweta Mishra, Vikas Srivastava and Sugata Gangopadhyay. “Fourier Analysis in Finite Fields and the Role of the Number Theoretic Transform in Polynomial Multiplication.” Mathematical Analysis and Applications (MAA 2025), NIT Jamshedpur, India, August 6–7, 2025.
  2. Shanu Poddar and Sweta Mishra. “Post-Quantum Secure Health Insurance Scheme Based on Hyperledger Fabric.” 2025 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2025, pp. 791–798. DOI.
  3. A. S. L. Kumar and Sweta Mishra. “Ransomware Criminal Smart Contract.” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024, pp. 219–226. DOI.
  4. Abhyudaya Sharma and Sweta Mishra. “A Security Analysis of Password Managers on Android.” International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2023), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14424, Springer, Cham. DOI.
  5. Donghoon Chang, Surabhi Garg, Munawar Hasan and Sweta Mishra. “On Security of Fuzzy Commitment Scheme for Biometric Authentication.” In: Nguyen, K., Yang, G., Guo, F., Susilo, W. (eds), Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13494, Springer, Cham. DOI.
  6. John Kelsey, Dana Dachman-Soled, Sweta Mishra and Meltem Sonmez Turan. “TMPS: Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening.” CT-RSA 2020: The Cryptographer’s Track at the RSA Conference, San Francisco, February 24–28, 2020. Eprint.
  7. Ashwin Jha, Eik List, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Sweta Mishra and Mridul Nandi. “XHX – A Framework for Optimally Secure Tweakable Block Ciphers from Classical Block Ciphers and Universal Hashing.” Latincrypt 2017, Fifth International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, La Habana, Cuba, September 20–22, 2017.
  8. Donghoon Chang, Arpan Jati, Sweta Mishra and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya. “Rig: A Simple, Secure and Flexible Design for Password Hashing.” Information Security and Cryptology – 10th International Conference, Beijing, China, December 13–15, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, vol. 8957, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 361–381, Springer, 2014.
  9. Donghoon Chang, Arpan Jati, Sweta Mishra and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya. “Cryptographic Module Based Approach for Password Hashing Schemes.” Technology and Practice of Passwords – International Conference on Passwords (PASSWORDS’14), Trondheim, Norway, December 8–10, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, vol. 9393, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 39–57, Springer, 2014.

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1. 'Introduction to Password Hashing', Invited Seminar Talk, Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women's University, Bhubaneswar, India, February 23, 2022 (mode: Online).

2. 'Password Hashing', Invited Talk, NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit (AISS 2019), Leela Ambience, Gurugram, India, Dec 4, 2019.

3. 'On Password Hashing and Password Hardening Schemes', Invited Speaker, International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC 2019)', JW Marriott, Parq Vancouver, Canada, May 16, 2019.

4. Tutorial Talk 'Password Hashing' at 'Third International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2017)', Haldia Institute of Technology, India, January 18, 2017.

Consultancy Project: February 28 to May 2, 2023, a training programme on ‘Network Security Fundamentals’ conducted for HCL's team of Product Security Engineers.

November 1, 2018: Meltem Sonmez Turan and Sweta Mishra. Password Hashing Schemes, Poster presentation at Science Day, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST, USA.

Peer Review Service: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Journal of Information Security and Applications.