Dr. Sachan is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Sharda School of Computing Science & Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida, where he is actively engaged in both teaching and research. Prior to joining Sharda University, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Bennett University (The Times Group), Greater Noida. Before that, he held research positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, where he contributed as a Senior Project Engineer and later as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the C3i Hub - iHub NTIHAC Foundation, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). At IITK, he has worked in the group of Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla. Here, his research domain is to identify security threats in the blockchain ecosystem. 

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​He earned his Ph.D. from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, India, under the supervision of Prof. Dharmender Singh Kushwaha. His PhD thesis title was Anti-Predatory Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Their Applications. 

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During their post-doctoral studies, Dr. Sachan worked on identifying security threats in the blockchain ecosystem based on the temporal aspects. He also worked on the detection of DNS-based in-browser cryptojacking. Currently, he is working on threat detection and Android security. During their doctoral studies, Dr Sachan worked on nature-inspired algorithms and developed a new nature-inspired algorithm, named an anti-predatory nature-inspired algorithm, with its real-world application.

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With approximately ten years of combined academic and research experience, Dr. Sachan has developed strong expertise in several cutting-edge domains. His primary research interests include Cyber Security, Blockchain Forensics, Machine Learning Applications, and Nature-Inspired Algorithms.

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Dr. Sachan is an active member of several leading professional organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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