Journal Publications

• Lavanya P., H. Anila Glory, Manuj Aggarwal, and Shankar Sriram V S*. "Unmasking insider threats using a robust hybrid optimized generative pretrained neural network approach." Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, 26718, 2025 (Quartile 1), SCI-E (3.9). Citations:03, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598 025-12127-y 

• Lavanya P., H. Anila Glory, and Shankar Sriram V S* "Mitigating insider threat: a neural network approach for enhanced security." IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 73752-73768,2024(Quartile-1), SCI-E (3.6), Citations:14 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3404814 

International and National Conferences:

• PushpaLakshmi, R., Lavanya, P., & Bhuvaneshwari, S. (2017). Survey of ACO and PSO based Secure Routing protocols for Wireless networks. Int. J. Adv. Res. Sci. Eng, 6(12), 820-832.

• P. Lavanya and R. Sudha, "A Study on WSN Based IoT Application in Agriculture," 2018 3rd International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), Coimbatore, India, 2018, pp. 1046-1054, doi: 10.1109/CESYS.2018.8724020.

• Lavanya, P., & Muthu Mayil, K. (2019). IoT-based wireless sensors for agriculture monitoring. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8(2), 177-181.

• Lavanya, P., Sangeetha, A., & Krishnan, S. (2019). Intrusion detection using machine learning. Int. J. Recent Technol. Eng, 8(6), 832-837.

Scientific Books Published

• Lavanya P., V. S. Venkata Raman, S. Srinath Gosakan, H. Anila Glory & Shankar Sriram V S*, “Silent Threats: Monitoring Insider Risks in Healthcare Sector”, In: Shankar Sriram, V., H., A.G., Li, G., Pokhrel, S.R. (eds) Applications and Techniques in Information Security. ATIS 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Singapore. Vol. 2306. pp 183–198, 2024, Scopus and DBLP Indexed, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9743-1_14 

• M. Krishna Kumar, Saloni Kumari, M. Bharathi, Lavanya P., H. Anila Glory & Shankar Sriram V S*,”Insider Threat Detection in User Activity Data Using Optimized LSTM-AE” In: Frery, A.C., Buyya, R., Kovvur, R.M.R., Sarma, T.H. (eds) Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. ICCIDA 2024. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 236. pp 287–300, 2025, Springer, Singapore. Scopus and DBLP Indexed, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0451-7_21

• Lavanya P., & Shankar Sriram V S*,”Detection of Insider Threats Using Deep Learning: A Review”, n: Nayak, J., Behera, H., Naik, B., Vimal, S., Pelusi, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Mining. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 281, pp. 41-57, 2022, Springer, Singapore. Scopus and DBLP Indexed, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9447-9_4 

• Lavanya, P., Vaishnavi, P., Giridhar, P., Glory, H.A., Sriram, V.S.S. (2026). Scenario Driven Insider Threat Detection Using Dual Modelling Architecture. In: Pandit, M., Gaur, M.K., Kumar, S., Shorif Uddin, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Computing. ICSISCET 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1938. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-23945-7_11

• Won first prize in” Modern tool usage to solve engineering problems” sponsored by the ACM student chapter, conducted at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. 

• First class with Distinction in M.E in CSE with specialization in Networks 

Participated

1. Participated in one week FDP, Cybsersecurity, organized by Sapthagiri NPS University during 14th Feb 2025 to 20th Feb 2025

2. Participated in five days FDP, Advanced Tools and Techniques for Industrial Automation and Robotics, organized by K.L.N College of Engineering from 30th Dec 2024 to 4th Jan 2025 

3. Participated in one week FDP, Data visualization Using Tableau, organized by Mohan Babu University, from 1st April 2024 to 5th April 2024 

4. Participated in thirty hours FDP, Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, organized by organized by Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology from 10th July 2023 to 28th July 2023 

5. Participated in five days FDP, International Faculty Development Program on Data Analyst, organized by Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation from 19th June 2023 to 23rd June 2023 

6. Participated Cambridge English Entry Level Certificate in ESOL International. 

7. Participated the National level Hands-on Workshop on “GOOGLE APPS SCRIPTING” (SCRIPTSHOP) on 1st Feb 2014 in Bannari Amman Institute of technology. 

8. Participated in “One Day Design Awareness Programme on Internet of Things” on 10th November 2017 in PSNACET

Organized 

1. Organized and participated in “IN-PLANT TRAINING” conducted by OHM CAD SYSTEM from 21st to 28th December 2014 in Chennai. 

Academic Experience:

• Worked as a “Research Assistant” in SASTRA Deemed to Be University, Thanjavur – June 2024 to May 2025 

Industry Experience:

• Worked as a Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant Technology Solutions for eight months (Dec 2016 – Jul 2017). 
• Research Experience:
• Worked as a “Project Associate” in SASTRA Deemed to Be University, Thanjavur – Ongoing (from Feb 2025) 
• Project Title :  Threat Intelligence for A.I.S.H (Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), Insider Threat Detection (ITD), SCADA Security & Hardware Trojans) 
• Funding Agency :  MeitY, India
• Worked as a “Junior Research Fellow” in SASTRA Deemed to Be University, Thanjavur – Oct 2019 to May 2024 
• Project Title: A Big Data Analytics Framework for Intrusion Detection in SCADA Systems 
• Funding Agency : DST-ICPS, India 

• IEEE Member

• Indian Society for Technical Education, Life Member,1998

Funded Research Projects: (Worth – Rs.1.1 Crore)

• Received a fund of Rs 1.93 Lakhs, July 2021 from NewGen IEDC SRM program of SRM Institute of Science and Technology for the Inhouse student Project Titled: “TESSELLATE: An Intelligent swarm drone system with the solar-based charging station.