Research
I have published papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, contributing to the advancement of cybersecurity research and access control models.
> Areas of Research:
> • Malware & Malware Obfuscation
> • Authorship Attribution
> • Zero-Trust Architectures
> • Policy Mining & Automated Policy Formulation
> • Access Control Models
A Lightweight Fused Malware Obfuscation Framework to Evade Static and Dynamic Analysis
August 2026
Nikhill Vombatkere; Pranav Dikshith. Proceedings of The 12th International Symposium on System Security, Safety, and Reliability (ISSSR) 2026, pages 1-10, 03 Aug 2026 at Xiangyang, China.
Zero Trust Continuous Authentication Models and Automated Policy Formulation
October 2025
Nikhill Vombatkere; Philip W.L. Fong. Proceedings of The Information Security Conference (ISC) 2025, pages 539-559, 31 Oct 2025 at Seoul, South Korea.
Authorship Attribution Methods, Challenges, and Future Research Directions: A Comprehensive Survey
February 2024
Xie He; Arash Habibi Lashkari; Nikhill Vombatkere; Dilli Prasad Sharma. Published in Information 2024, 15(3), 131; MDPI 28th Feb 2024.
A Novel Information Stealing Malware
April 2023
Nikhill Vombatkere; Srikaanth Balaji P. Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on Networking & Communication (ICNWC) 2023, 05-06 April 2023 at Chennai, India.
AuthAttLyzer: A Robust defensive distillation-based Authorship Attribution framework
December 2022
Abhishek Chopra; Nikhill Vombatkere; Arash Habibi Lashkari. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Communication & Network Security (ICCNS) 2022, 01-03 Dec 2022 at Beijing, China.