Dr Srinibas Swain
Lecturer
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
College of Engineering and Information Technology
I am interested in designing efficient algorithms for hard problems. My other interests include Graph Theory, Complexity Theory, Combinatorics, Matroids and cyber security.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| 2019 - ongoing | Assistant Professor | Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati |
| 2015 - 2018 | Teaching Associate | Monash University |
| 2009 - 2011 | Tech Lead | Nevales Networks Pvt. Ltd. |
| 2008 - 2011 | Member of Technical Staff | Oracle (India) |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 - 2019 | Monash University | Australia | PhD |
| 2006 - 2009 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | India | MS by Research |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Yadav, S., Sharma, P., Gaur, S., Swain, S., & Mandal, S. (2026). Finding a minimum source set in temporal graphs. Theoretical Computer Science, 1060, 15 pages. |
| 2022 | Puthal, D., Wilson, S., Nanda, A., Liu, M., Swain, S., Sahoo, B. P. S., . . . Prasad, M. (2022). Decision tree based user-centric security solution for critical IoT infrastructure. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 99, 107754-1-107754-12. |
| 2022 | Swain, S., Puthal, D., & Bertino, E. (2022). CryptoCliqIn: Graph-Theoretic Cryptography Using Clique Injection. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 37(5), 59-65. Scopus2 |
| 2021 | Puthal, D., Swain, S., & Mohanty, S. P. (2021). Toward Next-Generation Robust Cryptosystems. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 10(5), 58-60. Scopus1 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Aggarwal, A., Li, Y., & Swain, S. (2026). Private LGBTQ Searches Without a Trace. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 15655 LNCS (pp. 213-217). Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI |
| 2026 | Aggarwal, A., Li, Y., & Swain, S. (2026). Optimized Noise Bound in BFV Homomorphic Encryption. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 15655 LNCS (pp. 207-212). Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI |
| 2025 | Aggarwal, A., & Swain, S. (2025). Homomorphic Encryption Based ECDSA Generation Over Five Party Protocol. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 15263 LNCS (pp. 326-339). Bydgoszcz: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI |
| 2025 | Swain, S., Yadav, S., & Mandal, S. (2025). Source Sets in Temporal Graphs.. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 15507 (pp. 162-178). India: ACM. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2024 | Arora, A., He, X., Mozes, M., Swain, S., Dras, M., & Xu, Q. (2024). Here’s a Free Lunch: Sanitizing Backdoored Models with Model Merge. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 (pp. 15059-15075). Bankok, Thailand: Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI |
| 2024 | Kumar, A., Matam, R., Swain, S., & Mukherjee, M. (2024). Cluster Based Concurrent Data Collection with Fault Tolerance for Shared IoT Applications. In 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) (pp. 858-863). Bengaluru, India: IEEE. DOI |
| 2024 | Swain, S., Mishra, S., & Prakash, V. (2024). Know How Much Sensitive Precision and Recall Validity Measures Are. In Pattern Recognition (pp. 335-350). ISI Kolkata: Elsevier. |
| 2023 | Kumar, A., Matam, R., Swain, S., Tripathy, S., Mukherjee, M., & Lloret, J. (2023). Delay Aware Fault-Tolerant Concurrent Data Collection Trees in Shared IIoT Applications. In GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: IEEE. DOI |
| 2023 | Paul, S., Chauhan, R. P., & Swain, S. (2023). Novel Ways of Enumerating Restrained Dominating Sets of Cycles. In S. -Y. Hsieh, L. -J. Hung, R. Klasing, C. -W. Lee, & S. -L. Peng (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 1723 (pp. 135-144). Taoyuan: Springer. DOI |
| 2023 | Aggarwal, A., & Swain, S. (2023). Blind Two Party ECDSA Signing Based Homomorphic Encryption over Message Passing. In 2022 IEEE/ACS 19th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) (pp. 1-5). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: IEEE. DOI |
| 2021 | Mishra, S., Swain, S., Sarmah, S., & Coello Coello, C. A. (2021). Hypervolume by Slicing Objective Algorithm: An Improved Version. In 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (pp. 2451-2458). Kraków, Poland: IEEE. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Aggarwal, A., & Swain, S. (2022). Poster: Correctness of n-parties ECDSA By the Claim of Byzantine Agreement. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM. DOI |
Design of training course-ware and feasibility study of zero trust approach under InstaSafe framework, PI: Srinibas Swain. Industry project for InstaSafe (http://www.instasafe.com/), 2022-2023.
I am teaching the following courses in the current semester:
COMPSCI 2103 Algorithm Design and Data Structures
COMPSCI 2009 Programming for IT Professionals
In my previous role as an assistant professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, I have taught the following courses:
- Theory of Computation
- Compilers
- Introduction to Graph Theory
- Algorithms
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Formal Language and Automata Theory
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Location | Program | Supervision Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Identifying Critical Nodes in a Road Network | IIIT Guwahati | - | Master | - | Sagar Gupta |
| 2021 - ongoing | Principal Supervisor | A study on Homomorphic Encryption | IIIT Guwahati | - | Doctorate | - | Akshit Aggarwal |
| 2021 - 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Enumeration of Spanning Trees in Threshold Graphs | IIIT Guwahati | - | Master | - | Bhargav Bardolai |
| 2020 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Design and Development of Concurrent Data Collection Network Structure for Shared IoT Applications | IIIT Guwahati | - | Doctorate | - | Arvind Kumar |
| 2020 - 2021 | Principal Supervisor | Equivalence of Tutte Polynomial | IIIT Guwahati | - | Master | - | Biswajit Das |
| 2019 - 2020 | Principal Supervisor | A study on dominating sets of chordal graphs | IIIT Guwahati | - | Master | - | Dedasis Saikia |