WhoAmI: Aditya Kulkarni
Postdoctoral Researcher • Center for Cryptography and Cybersecurity • IIT Hyderabad
Area of Research
My work spans the field of cybersecurity, with two core directions: strengthening web security through phishing webpage detection, and advancing network security via DNS security enhancements and privacy-preserving protocols. Beyond these, I explore AI-driven cybersecurity and cryptography.
Journey
My research journey has been centered on designing solutions that are practical, robust, and resilient against emerging cyber threats. Explore my work and projects to walk through the milestones and contributions that shaped this path.
Education
- Ph.D. – IIT Dharwad (Aug. 2022 – Dec. 2025)
- M.Tech – NIT Goa (2020 – 2022)
- B.E. – SJCE Mysore (2015 – 2019)
Awards & Recognition
- IEEE/ACM COMSNETS Best Graduate Forum Honorable Mention Award 2024
- Director's Gold Medal – NIT Goa
Research Contributions
Publications
Journals
Total: 0- A. Kulkarni, V. Balachandran, D. M. Divakaran and T. Das, "From ML to LLM: Evaluating the Robustness of Phishing Webpage Detection Models against Adversarial Attacks," ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 1-25, June 2025.
- A. Kulkarni, V. Balachandran and T. Das, "Phishing Webpage Detection: Unveiling the Threat Landscape and Investigating Detection Techniques," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 974-1007, April 2025.
Conferences / Workshops
Total: 0- A. Kulkarni, T. Das, and V. Balachandran, "ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC," Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop (IIGW), IEEE/ACM International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, January 2025.
- H. Duddu, A. Kulkarni, V. Balachandran and T. Das, "Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation," IEEE/ACM International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, January 2025. [Short Paper]
- R. Aduma, A. Kulkarni, T. Das and V. Balachandran, "Overcoming DNSSEC Islands of Security: A TLS and IP-Based Certificate Solution," IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics, Dharwad, India, November 2024.
- A. Kulkarni, V. Balachandran, D. M. Divakaran and T. Das, "Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Models for Phishing Webpage Detection," 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) [Graduate Forum], Bengaluru, India, January 2024.
- A. Kulkarni, S. Patel, S. Tirmare, V. Balachandran, and T. Das, "Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset Collector," 17th IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), Singapore, December 2023.
Recognitions
Best Graduate Forum Honorable Mention Award
COMSNETS 2024
Director's Gold Medal - M.Tech (NIT Goa)
TA Duties
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CS621T: Cryptography and Network Security — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Tamal Das), Aug-Dec 2025
CS315 + CS348: Computer Networks — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Tamal Das), Jan-May 2025
CS101: Intro to Programming — IIT Dharwad (Profs. Siba Narayan Swain & Jivnesh), Aug-Dec 2024
CS315 + CS348: Computer Networks — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Tamal Das), Jan-Apr 2024
Python Programming — IIM Rohtak (Prof. Tamal Das), 2024
Web-based Development — IIM Rohtak (Prof. Tamal Das), 2024
CS103: Intro to Programming — IIT Dharwad (Profs. Kedar Kandeparkar & Prabhuchandran), Aug-Dec 2023
CS211: DSA Theory & Lab — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Koteshwar Rao Kondepu), May-Jul 2023
Hands on Engineering — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Gayatri), May 2023
CS315 + CS348: Computer Networks — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Tamal Das), Feb-Apr 2023
CS101: Intro to C Programming — IIT Dharwad (Profs. Nikhil Hegde & Pawade), Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
CS213: Software Systems Laboratory — IIT Dharwad (Prof. Tamal Das), Aug-Nov 2022