Panchanan Nath

Research

Compilers, edge intelligence and network security: making learning systems efficient on constrained hardware, and making the software and networks around them trustworthy.

Focus areas

Doctoral research

  • Compiler-based security and code analysis
  • Early-exit deep learning
  • Multi-access edge computing
  • Intermittent computing for IoT

Other areas I contribute to

  • Networks & infrastructure Next-generation networks, virtualised functions and the platforms they run on.
  • Software & application security Testing, hardening and breaking the code that runs on those platforms.
  • Investigation & defence What happens after an attack: evidence, attribution and response.

Hover a circle or area to see how they connect.

  • 5G & B5G (6G) networks
  • VNF testing
  • Blockchain
  • IoT security
  • Cloud security
  • Secure programming standards
  • AI & ML for software testing
  • Web penetration testing
  • Mobile application VA & PT
  • Digital forensics
  • Cyber crime investigation
  • Cyber Security

Sponsored projects

  • Secure Execution of Sensitive Applications by Eliminating Cache Side Channel Attacks using Near Memory Computation Paradigm

    Funded by ASTEC, Government of Assam. Hosted at IIIT Guwahati. Role: Project staff.

  • Blockchain-Assisted Confidence-Aware Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Deep Learning Application in Mobile Cloud Computing

    Funded by ANRF-PAIR. Hosted at IIIT Guwahati.

Publications

  1. B3

    Performance and energy-aware deep learning workload deployment on resource-constrained edge devices

    Roy, D., Nath, P., & Ghose, M.

    Handbook of Embedded Machine Learning: Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Edge Computing, 2026

    Book chapter

  2. C3

    PriBraTFedDL: Federated Deep Learning for Privacy-Preserving Brain Tumor Diagnosis

    Mohapatra, N. P., Nath, P., & Pattanaik, S. R.

    1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Cognitive Networks, and Smart Systems (IC2NS2-2026), 2026

    Conference Presented Publication awaited (Procedia Computer Science) Code

  3. P1

    Blockchain-Assisted Confidence-Aware Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Deep Learning Application in Mobile Cloud Computing

    Nath, P., & Ghose, M.

    SPACE 2025, IIT Guwahati, 2025

    Poster Presented Paper

  4. B1

    A Study on Machine Learning and Blockchain-Based Techniques for Transparent VNF Testing for 5G and B5G Networks

    Nath, P., & Pandey, P. S.

    Blockchain Technology for Cyber Defense, Cybersecurity, and Countermeasures, pp. 139–160. CRC Press, 2025

    Book chapter Paper

  5. B2

    Blockchain and Smart Contract for Decentralized and Secure Spectrum Management Toward 6G – Beyond Hype

    Choudhury, B., Singh, P. K., Nath, P., Roy, U., & Kalla, A.

    Intelligent Spectrum Management: Towards 6G, pp. 211–236. Wiley, 2025

    Book chapter Paper

  6. TD1

    The joy and pain of security in the era of generative AI, 5G, and beyond networks

    Nath, P.

    NIST Chronicle, Vol. XXIX, Issue 2, p. 22. NIST University, 2025

    Article Paper

  7. C2

    A Study on Secure Network Slicing in 5G

    Singh, P. K., Brahma, M., Nath, P., & Ghosh, U.

    2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), pp. 52–61. IEEE, 2023

    Conference Paper

  8. C1

    VNFTestChain: Blockchain Based Test Framework for Trusted VNF Services in 5G and B5G

    Nath, P., Singh, P. K., Kalla, A., & Brahma, M.

    2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), pp. 495–497. IEEE, 2023

    Conference Paper

  9. J1

    AI and Blockchain-based source code vulnerability detection and prevention system for multiparty software development

    Nath, P., Mushahary, J. R., Roy, U., Brahma, M., & Singh, P. K.

    Computers and Electrical Engineering, 106, 108607. Elsevier, 2023

    Journal Paper

  10. R1

    Confidence-aware Early-Exit Neural Networks for Arrhythmia Classification on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices

    Updating...

    Journal Under review

  11. R2

    Security and Memory Access Pattern-Driven Application Execution under Near Memory Processing Paradigm

    Updating...

    Journal Under review

Open source

  • Asomiya_Bhasha

    The first Assamese programming language (অসমীয়া প্ৰ'গ্ৰামিং ভাষা).

    JavaScript

  • FA-Index

    Browser extension that finds first-authored papers and their citation counts, then calculates the FA-Index.

    JavaScript

  • MLIR_Tutorials

    Learn MLIR from scratch in a well-structured way.

    MLIR / C++

  • PriBraTFedDL

    Federated deep learning for privacy-preserving brain tumour diagnosis.

    Python

  • CS321_Compilers_Lab

    Course repository for the Compilers Lab at IIIT Guwahati, Jan–May 2026.

    Course

  • IT_Workshop_I_CS202

    Course repository for IT Workshop I (Java Programming Lab), Aug–Dec 2026.

    Course

Committees & organising

  • Technical Program Committee

    International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (ICDTA 25). Ifrane, Morocco, 2025.

  • Technical Session Chair, Smart Machines and Secure Systems: AI in Practice

    1st International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS 2025). Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2025.

  • Technical Team member

    International Conference on Technology Advances for Green Solutions and Sustainable Development (ICT4GS 2024). Berhampur, Odisha, India, 2024.

  • Technical Web Development Team

    International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Technologies (ICTCon2021). Kokrajhar, Assam, India, 2021.

Reviewer

  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

    Journal

  • 1st International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS 2025)

    Conference, Jaipur, India

  • International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (ICDTA)

    Conference, Ifrane, Morocco

  • 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Network Security (ICDSNS 2025)

    Conference, Tiptur, India

  • 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Knowledge Extraction (ICICKE 2025)

    Conference, Bengaluru, India

  • 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Information System (ICDSIS 2025)

    Conference, Hassan, India

Supervisors

Collaborators

Faculty

Industry, peers and students