Dipti Kapoor Sarmah

Dipti Kapoor Sarmah is a Lecturer specializing in cybersecurity, steganography, and cryptography. Her work bridges theoretical and applied aspects of secure data transmission, digital forensics, and cyber threat mitigation.

• Current role: Lecturer in Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services
• Key research areas: Cryptography, Steganography, Phishing analysis, IoT security

Her research explores hybrid cryptographic-steganographic systems, gamified cybersecurity education, and innovative approaches to combat MageCart e-skimming attacks using reverse proxy architectures. She has systematically analyzed zero-knowledge protocols (zk-SNARK, zk-STARK, Bulletproofs) for privacy-preserving authentication.

Recent publications address pandemic-era phishing trends, consumer IoT security standards, and data mining applications in insurance fraud detection. Her work frequently intersects with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for secure image processing.

Notable recognition includes the EMMSAD 2025 Best Paper Award for collaborative research on phishing attack ontologies. Her activity spans diverse formats including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference contributions, and systematic literature reviews.

With a Scopus h-index of 5 and over 128 citations, her research output spans 2008-2025, showing consistent contributions to cybersecurity, particularly in steganography optimization algorithms and digital forensics.