A computer scientist by training
Inter-disciplinary researcher by profession.

Academics

Experience

Detailed areas of expertise

Professional Memberships

Projects Undertaken

Administrative Roles

Invited Talks

1. Invited talk and hands-on 'AI in Clinical Trials' at Four weeks Comprehensive Training Program on Animal Research and Experimentation and Good Laboratory Practices (CARE-GLP)' at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat on March 7 2025
2. Keynote address on 'AI for Drug Discovery – The Ethnic Way' at ICSSR sponsored national conference on 'Integrating Ethnobotany and AI for Future Healthcare Solutions for Viksit Bharat@2047' at Dibrugarh University on February 14 2025
3. Invited talk and hands-on 'Using Machine Learning in Drug Discovery' at Workshop entitled 'Multi- Disciplinary Approaches in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Network Pharmacology, QSAR Modelling, Virtual Screening, role of AI in Drug Designing and Transcriptome Data Analysis' at Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Centre (BIC), DBT-APSCST CoE for BRSD, Kimin, February 13 2025
4. Invited talk on 'Machine Learning in Chemical Space – where do we stand !' at IITG AI Confluence 27th and December 28 2024
5. Invited talk on 'Interplay between Artificial Intelligence and Biodiversity: A step towards Sustainability', at Seminar on Computational Models to Assist in Enhancing Agricultural activities and Productivity in Assamese Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh, August 8 2024
6. Invited talk on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Natural Sciences’, at BioTALKS@BT, organized by Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, March 19 2024.
7. Invited talk on ‘Challenges in the ideation and implementation of CADD software: The story of MPDS’, in International Conference at Data Driven AI organized by The Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat, March 14 – 17 2024.
8. Guest lecture on ‘Interplay between Machine Learning and Chemoinformatics: Towards Accelerating Drug Discovery’ organized by The Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat, February 27 2024.
9. Invited talk on ‘Integrating Machine Leaning Modules in Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite’ in the 3rd Discussion meeting on ML for Sciences (ML4Science), Trivandrum, February 1 – 3 2024.
10. Oral talk on “Machine Learning Interventions in Mining the Chemical Space” at the 19th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS) organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, December 7 – 10 2023.
11. Oral talk on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Harnessing Traditional Wisdom’ at National Seminar on Ethnopharmacology for Bio economy: The New Paradigm (EBNP 2023), organized by CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, November 28 – 30 2023.
12. Oral talk on ‘Changing Paradigms in Scientific Pursuits (The Curious Case of Toxicity)’ at National Symposium and Workshop on Crosstalk between Animal Research & Alternatives (NSARA 2023) organized by CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, September 7– 9 2023.
13. Invited talk on “Role of AI & ML in Natural Sciences Research” at the webinar organized by Ramgarh Engineering College, Jharkhand, August 26 2023
14. Chaired a session in the “Symposium on Innovation in Artificial Intelligence in Biotechnology and Healthcare” organized by Jaipur National University March 24 – 26 2023
15. Invited talk on “Challenges in the ideation and implementation of CADD software: The story of MPDS” 2nd Discussion meeting on ML for Sciences (ML4Science), Kodaikanal, March 9 – 12 2023.
16. Oral talk on “Decoding Mathematical Modelling and Statistical Learning for Drug Discovery and Epidemiology” at International Seminar and Workshop on CRISPR/Cas-based Plant Functional Genomics and Computational Modeling (ISWCPC-2023) organized by CSIR- NEIST, Jorhat, January 18 – 21 2023.
17. Invited talk on “Machine Learning Applications in Natural Sciences” at the webinar series on “Data Science and Machine Learning in Real World” organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottyam, August 27 2022.
18. Training and hands-on in the “One day workshop in Artificial Intelligence on Drug Discovery” on September 1, 2020
19. Invited talk on “AI in Healthcare: Past, Present and Future” at the webinar on “Unravelling AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare” organized by BioAptgen Laboratories, Guwahati, August 16 2020.
20. Invited lecture on “How to write a good research paper” at One day National Workshop on Research Publication and Intellectual Property Rights (WIPD 2019), Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, April 26, 2019.

Books

1. Sastry, G.N., Mahanta, H. J., Kumar, A., Nagamani, S. 'Artificial Intelligence and Industry 5.0', ISBN : 9789353437427, PHI, 2025 Click here
2. Sastry, G.N., Mahanta, H. J., Nagamani, S. and Tandabany, D. 'Metamorphosis of Computational Chemistry Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Industry 5.0' Elsevier (upcoming 2026)

Publications

1. Gogoi, G., Singh, S. D., Koch, D., Kalyan, E., Boro, R. R., Devi, A., ... & Bharali, P. (2024). Leveraging environmental microbial indicators in wastewater for data-driven disease diagnostics. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12, 1508964.https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2024.1508964
2. Baruah, O., Parasar, U., Borphukan, A., Phukan, B., Bharali, P., Nagamani, S., & Mahanta, H. J. (2024). Integrating (deep) machine learning and cheminformatics for predicting human intestinal absorption of small molecules. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 113, 108270.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2024.108270
3. Gogoi, G., Singh, S.D., Kalyan, E., Koch, D., Gogoi, P., Kshattry, M., Mahanta, H.J., Imran, M., Pandey, R. and Bharali, P., 2024. An interpretative review of the wastewater-based surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2: where do we stand on its presence and concern?. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15.https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1338100
4. Priyadarsinee, L., Jamir, E., Nagamani, S., Mahanta, H.J., Kumar, N., John, L., Sarma, H., Kumar, A., Gaur, A.S., Sahoo, R. and Vaikundamani, S., 2024. Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite for COVID-19 (MPDSCOVID-19): an open-source disease-specific drug discovery portal. GigaByte, 2024, p.gigabyte114.https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.114
5. Kumar, Y.B., Kumar, N., John, L., Mahanta, H.J., Vaikundamani, S., Nagamani, S., Sastry, G.M. and Sastry, G.N., 2024. Analyzing the cation‐aromatic interactions in proteins: Cation‐aromatic database V2. 0. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 92(2), pp.179-191.https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.26600
6. Kumar, Y.B., Kumar, N., Vaikundamani, S., Nagamani, S., Mahanta, H.J., Sastry, G.M. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Analyzing the aromatic-aromatic interactions in proteins: A2ID 2.0. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 253, p.127207.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127207
7. John, L., Nagamani, S., Mahanta, H.J., Vaikundamani, S., Kumar, N., Kumar, A., Jamir, E., Priyadarsinee, L. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite Compound Library (MPDS-CL): a structure-based classification of the chemical space. Molecular Diversity, pp.1-17.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11030-023-10752-1
8. Mazumdar, B., Sarma, P.K.D. and Mahanta, H.J., 2023. Predicting Renal Toxicity of Compounds with Deep Learning and Machine Learning Methods. SN Computer Science, 4(6), p.812.https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02258-2
9. Singh Gaur, A., Nagamani, S., Priyadarsinee, L., Mahanta, H.J., Parthasarathi, R. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Galaxy for open-source computational drug discovery solutions. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 18(6), pp.579-590.https://doi.org/10.1080/17460441.2023.2205122
10. Mazumdar, B., Sarma, P.K.D., Mahanta, H.J. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Machine learning based dynamic consensus model for predicting blood-brain barrier permeability. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 160, p.106984.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106984
11. Gaur, A.S., John, L., Kumar, N., Vivek, M.R., Nagamani, S., Mahanta, H.J. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Towards systematic exploration of chemical space: building the fragment library module in molecular property diagnostic suite. Molecular Diversity, 27(3), pp.1459-1468.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11030-022-10506-5
12. Wahengbam, R., Bharali, P., Manna, P., Phukan, T., Singh, M.G., Gogoi, G., Tapadar, Y.B., Singh, A.K., Konwar, R., Chikkaputtaiah, C. and Velmurugan, N., 2023. Seroepidemiological and genomic investigation of SARS-CoV-2 spread in North East region of India. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 43, pp.58-65.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.10.011
13. John, L., Mahanta, H.J., Soujanya, Y. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. Assessing machine learning approaches for predicting failures of investigational drug candidates during clinical trials. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 153, p.106494.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106494
14. Kiewhuo, K., Gogoi, D., Mahanta, H.J., Rawal, R.K., Das, D., Vaikundamani, S., Jamir, E. and Sastry, G.N., 2023. OSADHI–An online structural and analytics based database for herbs of India. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 102, p.107799.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2022.107799
15. Sastry, G.N., Priyadarsinee, L., Jamir, E., Nagamani, S., Mahanta, H.J., Kumar, N., John, L., Sarma, H., Kumar, A., Gaur, A.S. and Sahoo, R., 2023. Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite for COVID-19 (MPDSCOVID-19): An open access disease specific drug discovery portal. bioRxiv, pp.2023-08.
16. Mahanta, H.J. and Narahari Sastry, G., 2022. COVID-19 impact on Socio-economic and Health Interventions: A Gaps and Peaks analysis using Clustering Approach. Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 25(8), pp.2123-2153.https://doi.org/10.1080/09720510.2022.2117335
17. Kiewhuo, K., Gogoi, D., Mahanta, H.J., Rawal, R.K., Das, D. and Sastry, G.N., 2022. North East India medicinal plants database (NEI-MPDB). Computational Biology and Chemistry, 100, p.107728.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2022.107728
18. John, L., Soujanya, Y., Mahanta, H.J. and Narahari Sastry, G., 2022. Chemoinformatics and machine learning approaches for identifying antiviral compounds. Molecular Informatics, 41(4), p.2100190.https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.202100190
19. Wahengbam, R., Bharali, P., Manna, P., Phukan, T., Singh, M.G., Gogoi, G., Tapadar, Y.B., Singh, A.K., Konwar, R., Chikkaputtaiah, C. and Velmurugan, N., 2022. Seroepidemiological and genomic investigation of COVID-19 spread in North East region of India. medRxiv, pp.2022-01.
20. Mahanta, H.J., Nath, K., Roy, A.K., Kotecha, K. and Varadaranjan, V., 2021. Using Genetic Algorithm in Inner Product to Resist Modular Exponentiation From Higher Order DPA Attacks. IEEE Access, 10, pp.3238-3251.DOI: #
21. Mahanta, H.J., Khan, A.K. and Mukhopadhyay, S., 2021. Resisting HODPA attacks in modular exponentiation using inner product with differential evolution. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 17, pp.53-62.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-020-00371-6
22. Mahanta, H.J., Chakraborty, A. and Khan, A.K., 2020. Design and verification of improved CMERE against power analysis attacks. Cyber-Physical Systems, 6(3), pp.165-179.https://doi.org/10.1080/23335777.2020.1769735
23. Mahanta, H.J., Khan, A.K. and Mukhopadhyay, S., 2020. Modular exponentiation with inner product to resist higher-order DPA attacks. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 16, pp.87-97.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-019-00346-2
24. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2020. A secured modular exponentiation for RSA and CRT-RSA with dual blinding to resist power analysis attacks. International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 12(2-3), pp.112-129.https://doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2020.105187
25. Barman, M. and Mahanta, H.J., 2019. A randomised scheme for secured modular exponentiation against power analysis attacks. Cyber-Physical Systems, 5(4), pp.209-230.https://doi.org/10.1080/23335777.2019.1637944
26. Barman, M. and Mahanta, H.J., 2019. Analyzing the Security Aspects of Modular Exponentiation Against Power Analysis Attacks. International Journal of Computational Intelligence & IoT, 2(1).
27. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2018. Improving power analysis peak distribution using canberra distance to address ghost peak problem. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP), 12(3), pp.27-41.10.4018/IJISP.2018070103
28. Khan, A.K., Mahanta, H.J. and Chakraborty, A., 2018. Investigating the blinding approach to resist power analysis attacks on modular exponentiation. International Journal of Computational Intelligence & IoT, 1(1).
29. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2018. Securing RSA against power analysis attacks through non‐uniform exponent partitioning with randomisation. IET Information Security, 12(1), pp.25-33.https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2016.0508
30. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2017. Comparative modular exponentiation with randomized exponent to resist power analysis attacks. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 42, pp.3423-3434.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-017-2517-z
31. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2017. Partitioned-Exponent Blinding: A Countermeasure against Power Analysis Attacks. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 10, p.14.10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i14/110818
32. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., Implementation of RSA and CRT-RSA with MIST to Resist Power Analysis Attacks. International Jouranl of VLSI Design & Technology, 7(3), pp. 1-12.
33. Mahanta, H., 2013. A study on the approaches of developing a named entity recognition tool. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2(14), pp.58-61.

Conferences

1. Dutta, A., Das, B., Neog, D., and Mahanta, H.J., 2024. Classification and Prediction of Bearing Faults from Vibration data of Induction Motor – A Data Driven Study. In International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization. IEEE.
2. Roy, A.K., Khan, A.K. and Mahanta, H.J., 2020, June. Trust-Based Detection of Malicious Nodes for Wireless Mesh Networks. In International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (pp. 475-485). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
3. Mahanta, H.J., Ahmed, S. and Khan, A.K., 2017, January. A randomization based computation of RSA to resist power analysis attacks. In 2017 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCO) (pp. 328-331). IEEE.
4. Mahanta, H.J., Barbhuiya, P. and Khan, A.K., 2016, March. A masking based RSA to resist power analysis attacks. In 2016 International Conference on Computational Techniques in Information and Communication Technologies (ICCTICT) (pp. 552-557). IEEE.
5. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2016, January. Using randomization in exponentiation based algorithms against power analysis attacks. In 2016 International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communications (MicroCom) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
6. Mahanta, H.J., Biswas, A. and Hussain, A., 2015, September. An architecture based routing for heterogeneous fat tree network on chip. In 2015 International Symposium on Advanced Computing and Communication (ISACC) (pp. 341-345). IEEE.
7. Mahanta, H.J. and Khan, A.K., 2015, September. A heuristic approach to identify AES cryptosystem from the power traces. In 2015 International Symposium on Advanced Computing and Communication (ISACC) (pp. 360-363). IEEE.
8. Mandal, J.K., Satapathy, S.C., Sanyal, M.K., Sarkar, P.P. and Mukhopadhyay, A. eds., 2015. Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 2. Springer India.
9. Mahanta, H.J., Azad, A.K. and Khan, A.K., 2015, January. Power analysis attack: A vulnerability to smart card security. In 2015 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Engineering Systems (pp. 506-510). IEEE.
10. Mahanta, H.J., Azad, A.K. and Khan, A.K., 2015. Differential power analysis: Attacks and resisting techniques. In Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 2 (pp. 349-358). Springer India.
11. Biswas, A., Mahanta, H.J. and Hussain, M.A., 2014, May. Implementing a partial group based routing for homogeneous fat tree network on chip architecture. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communications, Control and Computing Technologies (pp. 364-370). IEEE.
12. Mahanta, H.J., Biswas, A. and Hussain, M.A., 2014, April. Networks on chip: The new trend of on-chip interconnection. In 2014 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (pp. 1050-1053). IEEE.
13. Khan, A.K. and Mahanta, H.J., 2014, February. Side channel attacks and their mitigation techniques. In 2014 First International Conference on Automation, Control, Energy and Systems (ACES) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Conference and Workshops Attended

1. Attended 13th Workshop on Computational Information Processing organized by ECS Unit, ISI Kolkata in Dept. of IT, Assam University, 3rd- 7th December, 2012
2. Attended and presented “A Study on the approaches of Developing a Named Entity Recognition Tool” in 1st National Conference on RHIET, 4th-5th February, 2013
3. Attended and participated in Android Application Making Workshop and PHP MySql Development Workshop organized by Dept. of IT, Assam University and IPEG Solutions, Kolkata, 26th - 28th December, 2013
4. Attended and presented “Side Channel Attacks and their Mitigation Techniques” in IEEE 1st International Conference on ACES, 1st -2nd February, 2014
5. Attended and participated in 3 Days Finishing School on Succeeding GDs and PIs organized by TPC, Assam University, 10th - 12th February, 2014
6. Attended and presented “Network on Chip: The New Trend of on Chip Interconnection ” in IEEE 4th International Conference on CSNT, 7th -9th April, 2014
7. Attended and presented “Power Analysis Attacks: A Vulnerability to Smart Card Security” in IEEE 1st International Conference on SPACES, 2nd -3rd January, 2015
8. Attended and presented “Differential Power Analysis: Attacks and Resisting Techniques” in IEEE 1st International Conference on INDIA, 8th -9th January, 2015
9. Attended One Day IEEE sponsored workshop on “Authorship” organized by National Institute of Technology Silchar, 15th February, 2015
10. Attended Research Scholar Congress 2015 organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 23rd and 24th May, 2015
11. Attended and presented "A Heuristic Approach to Identify AES Cryptosystem from the Power Traces" in IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Computing and Communication (ISACC-2015), Assam University, Silchar.
12. Attended and presented " An Architecture Based Routing for Heterogeneous Fat Tree Network on Chip” in IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Computing and Communication (ISACC-2015), Assam University, Silchar.
13. Attended and presented "Using Randomization in Exponentiation Based Algorithms Against Power Analysis Attacks” in IEEE International IEEE International Conference on MicroCom 2016, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal.
14. Attended Invited Talk on "Art and Challenges of Writing Paper for IEEE Transactions or High Impact Factor Journals" by Prof. D. Guha, organized by IEEE Student Branch Assam University, Silchar, 5 August 2016.
15. Participated in TEQIP-II sponsored one week workshop on "Role of Statistics in Engineering Research" organized by Dept. of CSE, Assam University, Silchar, 20-24 September, 2016
16. Participated in TEQIP-II sponsored 5 Days Training Program on "Analog Integrated Circuit Design and ASIC Implementation using CADENCE Design Systems" organized by Dept. of ECE, Assam University, Silchar, 22-26 September, 2016
17. Project coordinator of CSIR Summer Research training Program 2020 at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat
18. Coordinator of “Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020 Training program” by MHRD Govt. of India at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat
19. Trainer of Skill Development Program in Machine Learning Engineer at ACDS, CSIR-NEIST, February – April 2021

Events Organized

1. One day symposium on “Modelling and Machine Learning approaches in Chemoinformatics and Drug discovery”, December 27, 2023.
2. One-day symposium on “Computational Chemistry and Material Science”, November 27, 2023.
3. National Symposium and Workshop on “Crosstalk between Animal Research & Alternatives”, September 7 – 9, 2023.
4. 3 months DST sponsored training on “Research Exposure cum training Programme for students from North-Eastern and UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh” from February – April, 2023
5. One-week DBT sponsored workshop on “CADD: Methods, Algorithms and Software” from December 12 – 17, 2022.
6. One day seminar on “Status and Need of Bioinformatics in NER” was organized in March 2022.
7. Six months Drug Discovery Hackathon (DDH) Mentorship and Training Program with MHRD and AICTE, September 2021 – March 2022.
8. Indian Conference on Bioinformatics (InBIX 2021) hosted by CSIR-NEIST from November 11 – 13, 2021.
9. Two days’ pre-conference Workshop on Galaxy and NGS from November 9 – 10, 2021.
10. Coordinated the Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020 Training program (Online) hosted by NEIST from July 13 – September 11, 2020.
11. One day workshop in “Artificial Intelligence on Drug Discovery” on September 1, 2020.
12. CSIR-Summer Research Training Program (SRTP) 2020 during June 22 – September 4, 2020.
13. 1st Springer International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET-2020), Assam Don Bosco University, March 6 – 7, 2020. (as Member)
14. Fifteen days National Level Workshop cum Summer Internship on Red Hat Linux & Python with Machine Learning, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati in collaboration with COSS Bangalore and Red Hat Academy, June 11- 27, 2019. (as Member)
15. One day National Workshop on “Research Publication and Intellectual Property Rights (WIPD 2019)” organized by Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, April 26, 2019. (Member)
16. One Day Workshop on “Computational Intelligence: Theories, Application and Future Aspects”, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, August 8, 2017 (Member)
17. Workshop on "Succeeding in Group Discussion and Personal Interviews" organized by Assam University, Silchar, August 2017. (Member)
18. "Sampark 2017, The Alumni Meet", Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, March 15, 2017.
19. “BrainTech Network & Cyber Security Championship”, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, September 29 – 30, 2016 (Member)
20. One Week Workshop on “Role of Statistics in Engineering Research”, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, September 20 – 24, 2016 (Member)
21. Invited Motivational Talk on “Simple Steps to Massive Success” by Mr. Zubin Rashid, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, September 15, 2016 (Member)
22. Two Days Workshop on “Speech Processing Application on North-East Languages”, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, August 9 –10, 2016 (Member)