Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dean of Digital Transformation
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
My research is on wireless and mobile networks and the systems that support them: 5G and beyond-5G networks, Open RAN, SDN and NFV, edge-enabled V2X, XR based teleoperation over long-haul heterogeneous networks, AI/ML for network management, and network security. I lead the Networks and Wireless Systems (NeWS) Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Hyderabad, and currently I also serve as Dean of Digital Transformation, with responsibility for the institute's enterprise systems, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI adoption.
Currently
- Institute Founding Dean of Digital Transformation, IIT Hyderabad, since August 2025.
- Editorial Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
- Projects Synergy, the Indo-UK project on openness in 6G (DST, 2025–2029), ISEA Phase-III project on security of distributed wireless systems (MeitY, 2024–2029), and Centre for Cryptography and Cybersecurity (NSCS, 2024–2029).
- Committees Member of Hub Governing Board, TiHAN Foundation, IIT Hyderabad.
- Supervising Five PhD students and 20 M.Tech students, on Open RAN, 5G security, XR over NextG networks, Agentic AI for digital transformation, and quantum networking.
- Teaching Secure Software Engineering and Operating Systems. Course pages and recorded lectures.
Updates
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Aug 2026
People Ph.D. student, Yaswanth, is visiting Prof. Mahesh Marina's research group at the University of Edinburgh for 6 months as part of the Indo-UK DST-EPSRC Synergy project.
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July 2026
Paper "XCOL: xApp-based Framework for Detecting Layer-2 DoS Attacks in 5G NR" has been ACCEPTED at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026.
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March 2026
People Dr. Amalapuram Suresh Kumar joined as Assistant Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence & Data Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.
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Dec 2025
Event Organised the four-day DTX workshop at IIT Hyderabad, 8–11 December 2025, moderated by Dr Ripi Singh, to envision and draft the institute's digital transformation roadmap.
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Aug 2025
People The Office of Digital Transformation was established at IIT Hyderabad and I took charge as its founding Dean.
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July 2025
Talk Talks at The Ohio State University (OSU) and Northeastern University (NEU) on energy efficiency, resilience and security in 5G O-RAN deployments.
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May 2025
Project Indo-UK project Synergy: Taking Openness to the Next Level in 6G Networks begins, funded jointly by DST and EPSRC. Project details.
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April 2025
Award Received the Teaching Excellence Award of IIT Hyderabad at the institute's 17th Foundation Day.
More group activity on the NeWS Lab site.
Dean of Digital Transformation
The office was created in August 2025 and covers digital governance, enterprise systems, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI adoption across the institute. Current work, initiatives and the digital transformation roadmap are on the Office of Digital Transformation site.
Talks and events in this role
- Symposium on AI for Science and Engineering (AI4SE), IIT Hyderabad, 21–23 July 2026 — co-organiser. Symposium site
- Human in the Loop: Shaping the Future of Education with Responsible AI — keynote at the 9th Annual Education Conclave of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Kolkata. Presentation · Report
Research
Work in the NeWS Lab spans network architecture, prototyping and measurement, with a consistent emphasis on building and evaluating wireless systems rather than modeling and simulations alone.
Current focus
AI/ML for network management in O-RAN
Resiliency and fault prediction in Open RAN from multi-level telemetry, openness in 6G architectures, agentic AI for network operations, virtualised RAN resource profiling.
Network and systems security
5G and O-RAN security, intrusion detection under concept drift, zero-trust and forensics for enterprise and HPC networks, federated malware detection.
XR over next-generation networks
AR and VR traffic over NextG networks, teleoperation with digital twins over long-haul heterogeneous networks.
Quantum networking
Routing, entanglement swapping and demand servicing on heterogeneous quantum networks.
Institutional digital infrastructure
Enterprise platforms, cybersecurity operations and self-hosted AI on institution-controlled infrastructure, through the DTX programme.
Earlier works
Full details are on the NeWS Lab publications page.
Network intrusion detection with continual learning
Suresh Kumar Amalapuram, PhD 2024. Replay-based and semi-supervised continual learning for intrusion detection under concept drift in network traffic.
Software-defined management of Wi-Fi and LTE
Anil Kumar Rangisetti, PhD 2017. SDN-based handling of mobility, load and energy across Wi-Fi and LTE networks, including load balancing and cell switch-off.
Base-station placement and planning in LTE
Vanlin Sathya, PhD 2016. Placement, power control and handover optimisation for femto and small cells in enterprise LTE deployments.
Handover and SINR optimised deployment · Small cell planning
M2M and IoT uplink support in LTE
Mukesh Kumar Giluka, PhD 2018. MAC and scheduling enhancements for uplink machine-type traffic, and reduction of signalling overhead in LTE-A.
Class-based priority scheduling · H2H scheduling and signalling overhead
Enterprise internet forensics at scale
Maruthi Seshidhar Inukonda, PhD 2024. Privacy-preserving, real-time forensics for enterprise networks, and accelerated computing in multi-tenant bare-metal cloud.
LTE–Wi-Fi interworking and coexistence
Thomas Valerrian Pasca, PhD 2019, and Anand M. Baswade, PhD 2019. Traffic steering in tightly coupled LTE–Wi-Fi networks, LTE-U and Wi-Fi coexistence in unlicensed bands, LWIP on OpenAirInterface.
Network slicing and service function chains
Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, PhD 2022. Slice life-cycle management, placement of parallelised service function chains and performance isolation in NFV-based systems.
Edge-enabled V2X
Veerendra Kumar Gautam, PhD 2024. 5G NR sidelink and configured-grant scheduling for vehicular traffic, high-definition map dissemination, integrated sensing and communication.
RETALIN uplink scheduling · Configured grant for vehicular scenarios
Prototypes, testbeds and open-source contributions
- Testbeds for LTE–Wi-Fi interworking and LTE–Wi-Fi coexistence in unlicensed bands
- Cloud-RAN testbed on the OpenAirInterface platform for studying energy efficiency in 5G
- Open-source contributions: LWIP on OpenAirInterface, LTE energy module for ns-3, gRPC-based 5G core (SBA)
- CogAP, an access point that selects its operating channel automatically, and the UCSD-CogNet Wi-Fi monitoring testbed, both built at UC San Diego
- SDN-based load balancing in Wi-Fi networks; Telepresence Robot for Healthcare
- Min-o-Mee and SafeNav Android apps for peer-to-peer collaboration and collision avoidance
Selected recent publications
Full list on Google Scholar and ORCID.
Granted patents
Sponsored research and consultancy
Thirteen sponsored research grants and two consultancy projects as PI or Co-PI, with funding from DST, MeitY, DoT, MoE and industry partners including Intel, Suzuki, KDDI R&D Labs and NASSCOM.
Ongoing
| Project | Role | Period | Amount | Funding source |
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| Synergy: Taking Openness to the Next Level in 6G Networks (Indo-UK) | Co-PI | 2025–2029 | Rs. 6.28 Cr | DST, GoI |
| ISEA Phase-III: Security of Distributed Wireless Systems | Co-PI | 2024–2029 | Rs. 2.2 Cr | MeitY, GoI |
| Centre for Cryptography and Cybersecurity (CCS) | Co-PI | 2024–2029 | Rs. 65 Cr | NSCS, GoI |
Completed
| Project | Role | Period | Amount | Funding source |
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| AI/ML-enabled in-network security and power-performance management | Co-PI | 2023–2024 | Rs. 79 L | Intel (CSR) |
| Suzuki Innovation Centre | Co-PI | 2022–2025 | Rs. 15.6 Cr | Suzuki, Japan |
| V2X Pilot Study | Co-PI | 2021–2022 | Rs. 5 Cr | Suzuki, Japan |
| Network slice life-cycle management for 5G mobile networks | Co-PI | 2019–2021 | Rs. 80 L | SPARC, MoE |
| CCRAN: Energy efficiency in converged cloud radio access networks | PI | 2018–2021 | Rs. 1.16 Cr | Intel India |
| Indigenous 5G Testbed | Co-PI | 2018–2021 | Rs. 65 Cr | DoT, GoI |
| DNS/IPv6 for IoT security | PI | 2018–2019 | Rs. 25 L | NASSCOM, India |
| M2Smart: Smart cities for emerging countries based on sensing, network and big data analysis of multimodal regional transport | Co-Project Manager | 2017–2022 | Rs. 30 Cr | JST/JICA SATREPS, Japan |
| Converged Cloud Communication Technologies | Co-PI | 2014–2019 | Rs. 23 Cr | MeitY, GoI |
| Multi-link communication technology | PI | 2012–2013 | USD 15,000 | KDDI R&D Labs, Japan |
| Cyber-Physical Systems Innovations Hub | Co-PI | 2011–2016 | Rs. 17.6 Cr | MeitY, GoI |
| Consultancy on wireless networks | PI | 2018 | Rs. 5 L | Saankhya Labs, India |
| Consultancy on wireless networks | PI | 2013–2014 | Rs. 7.2 L | Uurmi Systems, Hyderabad |
Research team
Current PhD students, Post-docs, and Scientific Officers
Dr. Maruthi Inukonda
Cybersecurity and Internet Forensics · · SO in CCS
Dr. Aditya Kulkarni
Cybersecurity · · Post-doc in CCS
Arpit Tripathi
5G security · · IDRBT PhD student
Anoop Kumar Pandey
Quantum internet · External PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. M. V. Panduranga Rao
Yaswanth Kumar L. S.
Resiliency of Open RAN · · Visvesvaraya PhD Student
Donkana Sai Keerthana
AR/VR over NextG networks · · MoE PhD student
P. Nithiyasri
Wireless Networks and Security· · ISEA Project PhD student
Current M.Tech students
Michael Kumar, Abdulla Ovais, Devagya, Atharva Kale, Debdip Choudhuri, Divyansh Sevta, Nishanth D, Bharath Kumar S P, Buddhadeb Mondal, Debanwesh Bose, Nabendu Bhuiya, Sai Venkata Manohar Venna, Jerin Varghese, Harshwardhan Gaikwad, Rohit Yadav, Saikat Bhattacharyya, Anushka, Hamid Husain, Mohammad Ahad Khan, S. R. Sreekanthkumar Reddy.
Alumni — nine PhD and thirty M.Tech graduates, with theses and placements →
Openings
I am looking for PhD students and research engineers to work on open 6G, wireless security and cyber resiliency.
PhD students and post-docs
Funded positions are available. Please email your CV and a short research statement describing the problems you want to work on.
Research engineers and JRFs
For the Indo-UK Synergy project on AI-native open 6G, the ISEA Phase-III project on wireless security, and work on cyber resiliency. Strong Linux, C++ or Python skills and knowledge of networking are expected.
To apply, write to tbr@cse.iith.ac.in with the subject line [Prospective NeWS Lab Student — application type].
Teaching
Check the respective course pages for the lecture plan, slide decks, reading material, recorded lectures where they exist, and the assignments. Recordings are on the YouTube channel.
CS5070 — Networked Wireless Systems
CS6903 — Network Security
CS5553 — Wireless Networks and Security
CS5060 — Advanced Computer Networks
CS3523 — Operating Systems II
Courses taught
- Core: Computer Networks; Operating Systems; Computer and Network Security; Introduction to Computer Programming; Introduction to Computer Science
- Electives: Networked Wireless Systems; Introduction to Wireless Networks; Wireless Networks and Security; Topics in Wireless Networks; Research Methods
- Mentorship programme: Operating Systems at IIT Bhilai and IIIT Raichur
- Short courses: Local coordinator, GIAN course on Open Prototyping Methodologies for 5G Systems, December 2017
Honours and awards
- Teaching Excellence Award, IIT Hyderabad, 2025
- Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship, 2016–2020
- Best Paper Award, India Internet Governance Workshop, 2024
- Best Paper Award, COMSNETS 2022; Best Academic Demo Award, COMSNETS 2018
- Second Best Paper Award, IEEE ANTS 2017
- Best Paper Award, IEEE ICACCI 2015; Best Poster Award, ICACCI 2018
- Top Cited Article Award, Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, for 2005–2010
- iNautix Research Fellowship during PhD at IIT Madras, 2002–2006
Invited talks and faculty development
Talks given outside IITH, and faculty development programmes and bootcamps I have taught or organised, mostly under the MeitY ISEA Phase-III project and the Centre for Cryptography and Cybersecurity.
Invited talks
- Towards improving energy efficiency, resilience and security in 5G O-RAN deployments — departmental seminars, The Ohio State University and Northeastern University, July 2025
- Keynote on 5G — Intel Unnati Ignite Workshop, October 2023
- Security in 5G and Open RAN: architecture, authentication and persistent attack surfaces — ISEA Phase-III Faculty Updation Programme, Tezpur University, January 2026
Programmes taught or organised
- Symposium co-chair, AI4SE 2026, Symposium on AI for Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, 21–23 July 2026
- Bootcamp on Linux and Systems Security, IIT Hyderabad, June–July 2026 — co-teacher and coordinator
- INAE CEEE 2026 residential programme at IIT Hyderabad — faculty mentor for the Computer Networks module; mentored the same course hosted by IIT Delhi in 2025
- Faculty Updation Programmes on Wireless Security, IIT Hyderabad, February 2025 and December 2025 — organiser and instructor
- Intel Unnati “AI Everywhere” workshop, IIT Hyderabad, August 2024 — host and local coordinator
- Suzuki–IITH Tech Show 2022, IIT Hyderabad, 11–12 May 2022. The showcase presented the results of the V2X Pilot Study, a Suzuki-funded project at IITH on which I was Co-PI during 2021–2022, and was carried out with Suzuki Motor Corporation, Maruti Suzuki and Capgemini. It combined an auditorium session for faculty, students and visitors with live V2X use-case demonstrations on prototype vehicles running on campus roads.
- GIAN course on Open Prototyping Methodologies for 5G Systems with Prof. Raymond Knopp, EURECOM, December 2017 — local coordinator
Service
Editorial work, government review committees, conference organisation and institutional administration.
Current roles
Editorial and professional
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, since 2026
- Senior Member, IEEE; Member, ACM
- Mentor, ACM India Anveshan Setu programme, since 2024
Government committees
- Project Execution Committee member, DoT TTDF programme on Accelerated Research on 6G Ecosystem (Track 2: THz, RF and systems, core network), since 2025
- Member, Hub Governing Board, NM-ICPS TiHAN Foundation, IIT Hyderabad, since September 2020; also project review and technical evaluation committees of TiHAN
Institutional
- Founding Dean of Digital Transformation, IIT Hyderabad, since August 2025
- NKN Nodal Coordinator, IIT Hyderabad, since 2011
Conferences
- Steering committee member, NCC 2026, IIT Hyderabad
- Technical programme committee, ACM MobiCom 2026, IEEE INFOCOM 2026, ACM Open and AI RAN workshops 2025 and 2026
Past roles
Conference organisation
- Finance Chair, ICDCN 2025, IIT Hyderabad
- Social Media Chair, IEEE Globecom 2024
- 5G session co-chair, 11th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2021
- TPC Co-chair, 5G from Theory to Practice workshop, IEEE 5G World Forum 2020
- General Co-chair, NCC 2018, IIT Hyderabad
- Organiser, GCCS 2017 workshop on cyber security, IIT Hyderabad
- Organising committee member, IEEE ANTS 2021, IDRBT Hyderabad
- TPC Co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2015; TPC Vice-chair, IEEE ANTS 2014; PhD Forum Co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2013
External bodies and committees
- Member, Board of Governors, IIIT Raichur, 2022–2025; Senate member, IIIT Raichur, 2022–2024
- Senate member, IIITDM Kurnool, 2021–2023
- Member, MeitY Project Review and Steering Groups for the campus Wi-Fi network at Patna University, 2021–2024, and for ICT infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh, 2021–2022
- Member, ITSAR Technical Committee, National Centre for Communication Security, DoT, 2021
Institutional administration
- Founding Chair, Computer Centre, 2019–2022 — campus network, websites, servers, data centre, email, IT service management, ERP, ICT procurement and staff recruitment
- Founding Chief Information Security Officer, IIT Hyderabad, 2022–2025
- Faculty In-charge, Technology Research Park, IIT Hyderabad, June–July 2025
- Chair, Departmental Postgraduate Committee, CSE, July 2025 – July 2026 — led the M.Tech curriculum reforms
- Head, Department of CSE, 2014–2017 — recruited eight faculty members, set up teaching and research laboratories at the permanent campus, secured a DST-FIST grant of Rs. 1.9 Cr in 2017, started CSE Day in 2015 and launched the Executive M.Tech in Data Science
- Head, Networks and Systems Division (ISAC), 2012–2019 — set up ICT infrastructure worth over Rs. 10 Cr across both campuses
- National Coordinator, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship scheme, May and December 2019 rounds
- Faculty search committee member, Department of CSE, 2011–2025
Education
- PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras, 2002–2007. Dissertation: QoS provisioning and multimedia transport in ad hoc wireless networks. Advisor: Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy.
- M.E., Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 2000–2002. Advisor: Prof. Sudipta Mahapatra.
- B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Sir C. R. Reddy College of Engineering, Andhra University, 1996–2000.
- Post-doctoral researcher, CALIT2, University of California San Diego, 2007–2010, on cognitive wireless networks with Prof. Ramesh R. Rao.