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Title: WSAIS Faculty Presents Research on Secure Agentic AI at IEEE WiCOMM 2026
Details: Prof. Shreyas Kumar and Prof. Somitra Sanadhya, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, along with Shreeyanshi Saxena, Madhav Deorah presented their research paper titled “Secure Agentic AI for Autonomous Cyber Defense in Software-Defined Military Networks” at the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication for Military Applications (WiCOMM 2026), held on 30–31 October 2026 in Dehradun, India.
The research brings together collaborators from Texas A&M University, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Roorkee, exploring the application of agentic AI for autonomous cyber defence in software-defined military networks.
Title: Three Research Papers Co-authored by WSAIS Faculty Accepted at International Conferences in 2026
Details: Three research papers co-authored by WSAIS faculty members Prof. Salahudden and Prof. Anirban Roy, along with their students and collaborators, have been accepted at 3 reputed international conferences in 2026.
The papers are:
1. Incremental Nonlinear Dynamics Inversion Control for Flexible Aircraft
Conference: AIAA SciTech Forum 2026, Orlando, Florida, USA
Authors: Prof Salahudden, Y. Chhetri, and Prof Anirban Roy
2. Cooperative Guidance for Decentralized Multi-UAV 3D Mapping and Autonomous Navigation
Conference: 3rd International Conference on Applied Computational Intelligence and Systems Modeling (ACISM 2026), Istanbul, Turkey
Authors: A. Nagpal, P. Sailwal, P. Bansal, Prof Salahudden, Prof Anirban Roy, and R. Kumar
3. SIL and HIL Simulation for UAV Flight Controller Design and Validation
Conference: Advances in Control & Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2026), Warangal, Telangana, India
Authors: S. Tiwari, N. Bhatt, A. Kumar, R. Bansal, and Prof Salahudden
Title: Three Research Papers from WSAIS Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Details: Three research papers co-authored by WSAIS faculty and their students have been accepted at NeurIPS 2026, the 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Two papers were co-authored by Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, along with his students and collaborators from the MIDAS Lab. The papers are:
1. ExperiGen: Agentic Hypothesis Discovery from Observational Data.
2. Practical Estimation of the Bayes Optimal Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff with Soft Labels.
A third paper, Scale-Invariant Empirical-Bayes Laplace Approximation for ReLU Networks, co-authored by Shivam Pal and his supervisor, Prof. Piyush Rai, was accepted at the conference.
Title: Prof. Angshuman Karmakar and his Students, Venkatesh Kumar and Anindya Ganguly, Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2026
Details: Venkatesh Kumar and Anindya Ganguly, under the guidance of Prof. Angshuman Karmakar, have been selected as winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2026.
Their project, “Pqfdo – Post Quantum Device Onboarding,” has been selected under the Secure System Design category. The team is the only winner in this category in the 2026 edition of the fellowship.
Title: WSAIS Faculty’s Research Collaboration with Texas A&M University Accepted at WiCOMM 2026
Details: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, in collaboration with Prof. Shreyas Kumar of Texas A&M University, along with their co-authors Shreeyanshi Saxena and Madhav Deorah, has had a research paper titled “Secure Agentic AI for Autonomous Cyber Defense in Software Defined Military Networks” accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication for Military Applications (WiCOMM 2026), to be held on 30–31 October 2026 in Dehradun, India.
The work examines the role of agentic AI in enabling autonomous cyber defense in software-defined military networks, with a focus on security, assurance, human authorization, and mission requirements.
Title: Prof. Anirban Roy Publishes Research Paper in IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems
Details: Prof. Anirban Roy, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, along with his former student S. Sarkar, has published a research paper titled “Extended Object Tracking Algorithms within Interacting Multiple Model Framework for Automotive Radar Applications” in the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, July 2026.
Title: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya Presents Research on Multi-Layered QR Codes at USENIX 2026
Details: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, presented his research on multi-layered QR codes at USENIX 2026. The work, co-authored with Pulkit Garg, Robin Verma, and Dr. Gaurav Gupta, demonstrates how multiple values can be embedded in a single QR code and decoded differently based on scanning distance, with potential applications in QR data capacity, advertising, and cybersecurity.
Title: WSAIS Faculty Presents Four Research Papers at IEEE SPACE 2026
Details: Prof. Salahudden Salahudden, and Prof Anirban Roy, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, along with his co-authors, presented research papers at the IEEE Aerospace and Defense (SPACE) Conference 2026, held from 19–21 July 2026 in Bengaluru.
The four papers are:
1. Autonomous Landing of UAVs Using INDI Control with Ground Effect Modeling
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden and Anirban Roy
2. Flight Dynamics Simulation with Sliding Mode Control Under Atmospheric Disturbances
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden
3. Flight Dynamics and Closed-Loop Control of a Cyclocopter with Real-Time Visualization
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden, Rahul Bansal, and Srikant Shekhar Padhee
4. Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control of Hybrid Tiltrotor Aircraft with Asymmetric Rotor Placement
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden and Anirban Roy