Assistant Professor

Dr Chillara Anil Kumar

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Interests

  • Applied Machine/Deep learning
  • Cybersecurity
  • Adversarial attacks on ML models

Education

2005

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
India
Bachelor of Engineering

2009

The National Institute of Engineering
India
Master of Technology

2025

Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Ph.D (Thesis Submitted)

Experience

  • 10 months -Trainee engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutins Lab.
  • 1 year – Electrical Engineer - Growell Associates (Mecon)
  • 1 year 6 months – Assistant Professor – Canara Engineering College Bantwal, Karnataka
  • 4 years 6 months -Assistant Professor – Kammavari sangha Institute Of Technology, Bengaluru, Karnataka
  • 5 years – Junior/Senior Research Associate – Bits pilani Hyderabad Campus

Research Interest

  • Applied ML techniques for detecting Adversarial attacks on ML models.
  • Using deep learning models (transformer models) in the area of cybersecurity, specifically detecting/preventing attacks on critical computing resources.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2020- Research Internship - IIT Guwahati
  • 2023 – Senior Research Associate - BITS Pilani Hyd Campus.
  • 2025 – Full travel grant – Qualcomm

Publications

Publications

  • Chillara, Anil Kumar, et al. "Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards - Chillara, Anil Kumar, Paresh Saxena, Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Manik Gupta, Raghu Kondapalli, Zhichao Zhang, and Krishnakumar Kesavan, International Journal of Information Security (23.3), 2043-2061 (2024)
  • USB-GATE: USB-based GAN-augmented transformer reinforced defense framework for adversarial keystroke injection attacks - Chillara, Anil Kumar, Paresh Saxena, and Rajib Ranjan Maiti - International Journal of Information Security (24), no.2, 79, (2025)
  • Transformer-based GAN-augmented Defender for Adversarial USB Keystroke Injection Attacks - Anil Kumar Chillara, Paresh Saxena, Rajib Ranjan Maiti, - In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), ACM, 94–103 (2025)

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