Panchanan Nath

Experience

A decade across classrooms, research labs, a security start-up and industry R&D. Filter by track to see each side.

  1. 2025 – presentCurrent

    PhD Scholar

    Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

    Doctoral research on compiler-based security and code analysis, early-exit deep learning, multi-access edge computing and intermittent computing

  2. Mar 2025 – presentCurrent

    Project Staff, R&D Section

    Dept. of CSE, IIIT Guwahati (funded by ASTEC, Govt. of Assam)

    Research on secure execution of sensitive applications under the near-memory computation paradigm.

  3. Feb 2021 – presentCurrent

    Cyber Crime Intervention Officer

    Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), India

    Volunteer service helping to resolve cyber crimes.

  4. Nov 2019 – Nov 2024

    Founder & CEO

    EncryptoCyberspace

    Information-security start-up providing training and consultancy services to the community.

  5. Jul 2024 – Mar 2025

    Assistant Professor of CSE

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Science and Technology University (NISTU), Berhampur, Odisha

    Taught IoT, operating systems, computer networks, database engineering and network security.

    • Assistant project coordinator for B.Sc, BCA, M.Sc, MCA and B.Tech
    • Associate editor, departmental bi-annual magazine Compute@NIST (ISBN 978-93-342-2133-6)
    • Member of the NBA documentation team
    • ARIIA coordinator, Institute Innovation Council (university level)

  6. Nov 2023 – Jul 2024

    Cyber Security Research Associate

    Research & Development Team, EC-Council

  7. Jul 2020 – Nov 2023

    Cyber Security Graduate Research Fellow

    EC-Council University, USA

  8. May 2023 – Jul 2023

    Vocational Trainer, IT/ITeS

    Gossaigaon Girls' High School, Kokrajhar, Assam

    • Trained class IX students in IT & ITeS; taught science and mathematics
    • Built and maintained the school's first official web page
    • Handled the school's technical IT work

  9. 2023

    Teaching Assistant

    Dept. of CSE, Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar

    • UCSE612 Internet of Things lab, B.Tech 6th sem (with Dr. Pranav Kr. Singh)
    • UCSE271 Problem Solving using Programming lab, B.Tech 2nd sem (with Prof. Mithun Karmakar)
    • UCSE373 Object Oriented Programming using Java lab, B.Tech 3rd sem (with Prof. Mithun Karmakar)

  10. Nov 2022 – May 2023

    Teaching Assistant

    National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), Guwahati

    Organised trainings, workshops and internships, coordinated sponsored projects, and took theory and practical sessions.

  11. Jul 2021 – Aug 2021

    Cyber Security Specialist

    Assam Gramin Vikash Bank

    Network configuration, security testing and cyber-security infrastructure upgrades.

  12. Jun 2021 – Sep 2021

    Cyber Security & Forensics Intern

    Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

    Security testing of mobile and web applications for mobile banking.

  13. Sep 2019 – Sep 2021

    Guest Faculty, Network & IT Security

    Assam Skill Development Mission, NRDS Centre, Kokrajhar

    Taught computer networking, IT security, CCTV installation, hardware & storage and hardware & networking to 200+ students.

  14. Student years

    Founding Convener, Cyber X Secure

    Cyber Security Club, CIT Kokrajhar

    Co-founded the institute's cyber security club.

  15. Student years

    Member Secretary, Technical Board

    CIT Kokrajhar

    Responsible for the smooth running of 8 technical clubs.

  16. 2015 – 2020

    Part-time, consultancy & project work

    10+ organisations including Sophos, Fortinet, Check Point, Network Intelligence, Palo Alto and Zscaler

    Part-time, consultancy, project-based work and remote support.

Tools I work with

Languages

  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • Rust
  • R
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

Systems, compilers & ML

  • MLIR
  • LLVM
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • TinyML

Platforms & cloud

  • Linux
  • Kali Linux
  • Parrot Security
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP

Security & forensics

  • Wireshark
  • Metasploit
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap
  • OWASP ZAP
  • Splunk
  • Snort
  • Suricata
  • OpenVAS
  • Aircrack-ng
  • Hydra
  • John the Ripper
  • Hashcat
  • Nikto
  • SQLMap
  • Cuckoo Sandbox
  • Autopsy
  • Ghidra
  • Maltego
  • theHarvester
  • Shodan
  • Recon-ng
  • Netcat
  • tcpdump

Data & dev tools

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • VS Code
  • Vim
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL

Research writing

  • LaTeX
  • Overleaf
  • Mendeley
  • Grammarly
  • Turnitin
  • Markdown
  • Notion