• Working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from  26th September 2012 to till date, NIT Meghalaya.

Security in cloud computing, IoT, smart grid, cryptography and machine learning.

Journals

1. Moirangthem Rabindra Singh, Soumen Moulik, Surmila Thokchom,"A novel pairing free certificateless aggregate signcryption scheme for IoMT", Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 123, Part A, 2025, 110055, ISSN 0045-7906, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.110055.
2. Namrata Govind Ambekar, Sonali Samal, N. Nandini Devi, Surmila Thokchom, "FASNet: Federated adversarial Siamese networks for robust malware image classification",Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing,Volume 198, 2025, 105039, ISSN 0743-7315, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2025.105039.
3. Devi, Nongmaithem Nandini, Panda, Gayadhar and Thokchom, Surmila. "Optimal ranking-based charging station selection for electric vehicles" International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 25, no. 3, 2024, pp. 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijeeps-2023-0124
4. Abudin, M.J.; Thokchom, S.; Naayagi, R.T.; Panda, G. Detecting False Data Injection Attacks Using Machine Learning-Based Approaches for Smart Grid Networks. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 4764. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14114764
5. Ambekar, N., Devi, N.N., Thokchom, S. et al. TabLSTMNet: enhancing android malware classification through integrated attention and explainable AI. Microsyst Technol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-024-05615-0
6. N Nandini Devi, Surmila Thokchom, Gautam Srivastava, Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Diptendu Sinha Roy, “DeMCRP-ET: Decentralized Multi-Criteria Ranked Prosumers Energy Trading using Distributed Ledger Technology” , Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2023, 17 (1), 549-565
7. NN Devi, S Thokchom, TD Singh, G Panda, RT Naayagi, “Multi-Stage Bargaining of Smart Grid Energy Trading Based on Cooperative Game Theory”, Energies 16 (11), 4278
8. NN Devi, G Panda, S Thokchom, “ Optimal ranking-based charging station selection for electric vehicles” , International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems https://doi.org/10.1515/ijeeps-2023-0124
9. TD Singh, AFUR Khilji, Divyansha, AV Singh, S Thokchom, “Predictive approaches for the UNIX command line: curating and exploiting domain knowledge in semantics deficit data”, Multimedia Tools and Applications 80 (6), 9209-9229
10. S Thokchom, DK Saikia, “Privacy preserving integrity checking of shared dynamic cloud data with user revocation”, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 50, Pages 102427, 2020
11. S Thokchom, DK Saikia, “Privacy Preserving and Public Auditable Integrity Checking on Dynamic Cloud Data.”, International Journal of Network Security Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 221-229, 2019.
12. S Singh, S Thokchom,“Public integrity auditing for shared dynamic cloud data” Procedia Computer Science, Volume 125, Pages 698-708, 2018.

Conferences

1. N Nandini Devi, Saumitra Gangwar, Surmila Thokchom, ""DL-DTCD: Deep Learning-Powered EV Location Prediction and Dynamic TOPSIS Charging Deployment", 2024 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp2024) December 10-12, 2024 Thailand, Bangkok 
2. Namrata G. Ambekar, Surmila Thokchom, Soumen Moulik "TC-AMD: Android Malware Detection through Transformer-CNN Hybrid Architecture”, 2024 IEEE International conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IIT Guwahati,15-18 December, 2024.
3. MD Jainul Abudin, Surmila Thokchom, Gayadhar Panda, " Data Interpolation for Mitigating False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid", IEEE TENCON 2024, December 1-4, 2024, Singapore
4. Madhav Kumar, Santanu Borgohain, Kaibalya Prasad Panda, Surmila Thokchom, Gayadhar Panda, " Smart Solar Forecasting: Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Solar Power", IEEE TENCON 2024, December 1-4, 2024, Singapore
5. Namrata G. Ambekar, Surmila Thokchom, "UL-VAE: An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Zero-day Malware Detection using Variational Autoencoder” , IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Network Systems (CINS) 2024, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus in association with IEEE UAE Section during November 28-89, 2024.
6. A. Verma and S. Thokchom, "An Optimized SIMON Lightweight Image Encryption Algorithm for Internet of Things: Balancing Performance and Security," 2024 First International Conference on Pioneering Developments in Computer Science & Digital Technologies (IC2SDT), Delhi, India, 2024, pp. 592-597, doi: 10.1109/IC2SDT62152.2024.10696534.
7. A. Verma and S. Thokchom, "A Comparative Evaluation of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms for Secure Data Transmission in IoT Network," 2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence For Internet of Things (AIIoT), Vellore, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AIIoT58432.2024.10574700.
8. Abudin, M.J., Thokchom, S., Siano, P., Panda, G. (2024). A Comprehensive Survey on Cyberattacks in Smart Grid Networks. In: Panda, G., Basu, M., Siano, P., Affijulla, S. (eds) Proceedings of Third International Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Technological Advancements. ISSETA 2024. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1251. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6976-6_3
9. N. G. Ambekar, S. Samal, S. Thokchom and Y. Yogita, "EVMNet: Classification of DDoS Attacks using ELM-Enhanced Deep Learning Model with Feature Fusion," 2023 IEEE 20th India Council International Conference (INDICON), Hyderabad, India, 2023, pp. 252-257, doi: 10.1109/INDICON59947.2023.10440676.
10. Namrata Govind Ambekar , N Nandini, Surmila Thokchom, Yogita “TabLSTMNet: Enhancing Android Malware Detection through TabNet-     LSTM Fusion Approach”,12th International Conference of CCSN 2023, held at Mumbai on 15th-17th of October 2023
11. S Das, A Gautam, S Thokchom, BK Balabantaray, “Batch image encryption and compression using chaotic map infused autoencoder network”, 2022 IEEE 9th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), IIIT Allahabad
12.  NN Devi, S Thokchom, “Multi-attribute based prosumers prioritization for energy trading in Smart Grid”, 2021 IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), IIT Guwahati.
13. Z Mohammadi, SJ Pinto, G Panda, S Thokchom, “A survey of cyber security in smart microgrid”, Sustainable Energy and Technological Advancements: Proceedings of ISSETA 2021, NIT Meghalaya.
14. S Thokchom, DK Saikia, “Efficient scheme for dynamic cloud data shared within a static group with privacy preserving auditing and traceability”, Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things, NTU, Singapore.
15. S Chakraborty, S Singh, S Thokchom, “Integrity checking using third party auditor in cloud storage”, 2018 Eleventh International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 1-6

Book Chapters

•    TD Singh, TJ Singh, M Shadang, SThokchom, “Review commentsof manipuri online video: Good, bad or ugly”, Lecture Notes inNetworks and Systems book series (LNNS, volume 170)

1. Cloud Computing

2. Cryptography and network security 

3. Number Theory and Cryptography

4. Operating System 

5. Data Analytics Using Python 

6. Advanced Operating System

7. Computer Network

8. Computer Organization