• PhD in Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2020.
• M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2011.
• B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology (under West Bengal University of Technology), Kolkata, 2009.

Recognition

Secured 98.73 percentilein GATE CSE 2009

Journals

1. A. Ghosh, D.Ditale, M. Albanese, P. Mukherjee, “Optimizing IDS Rule Placement via Set Covering with Capacity Constraints.” Computers & Security, Volume 161, 104748, February 2026.
2. Z. Afzal, M. Ekstedt, N. Müller, P. Mukherjee, “Security Challenges in Energy Flexibility Markets: A Threat Modelling-Based Cyber-Security Analysis,” Electronics (MDPI), Vol. 13, pp. 4522, November 2024.
3. S.Katsikeas, A.Buhaiu, M. Ekstedt, Z. Afzal, S. Hacks, P. Mukherjee, “Development and Validation of Corelang: A Threat Modeling Language for the ICT Domain,” Computer & Security, Volume 146, 104057, November 2024.
4. M. Ekstedt, Z. Afzal, P. Mukherjee, S. Hacks, and R. Logerstrom, “Yet Another Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Framework,” International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 22, pp. 1713–1729, July 2023.
5. P. Mukherjee, A. Sengupta, and C. Mazumdar, ““Security Gap” as a Metric for Enterprise Business Processes,” Security and Privacy, Vol. 5, Issue 6, pp. e263, Nov/Dec 2022.
6. W. Widel, P. Mukherjee, M. Ekstedt, “Security Countermeasure Selection using the Meta Attack Language and Probabilistic Attack Graphs,” IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 89645 – 89662, Aug. 2022.
7. P. Mukherjee and C. Mazumdar, “Corrections to “‘Security Concern’ as a Metric for Enterprise Business Processes”,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 4484, Dec. 2019.
8. P. Mukherjee and C. Mazumdar, ““Security Concern” as a Metric for Enterprise Business Processes,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 4015-4026, Dec. 2019.

Conferences

1. S. Rani, P. Mukherjee, and M.Ekstedt, “Modular Analysis of Attack Graphs for Smart Grid Security,” In Proc. of 21st ICISS, Dec. 16-19, 2025, Indore, India.
2. L. R. Nair, A. Anil, P. Mukherjee, and M. Aggarwal, “Security-Centric NWDAF Module for Threat Detection and Mitigation in 5G Core Networks,” In Proc. of 21st ICISS, Dec. 16-19, 2025, Indore, India.
3. B. Thomas, S. M Thampi, and P. Mukherjee, “Identifying Insecure Network Configurations Through Attack Modeling and Explainable AI,” In. Proc. of 20th ICISS, Dec. 16-19, 2024, Jaipur, India. 
4. A. Ghosh, M. Albanese, P. Mukherjee and A. Alipour-Fanid, “Improving the Efficiency of Intrusion Detection Systems by Optimizing Rule Deployment Across Multiple IDSs,” In Proc. of 21st SECRYPT, July 8-10, 2024, Dijon, France.
5. A. Jimmington, A. Hakeem, P. Mukherjee, and S. M Thampi, “A Novel Approach for Bridging the Gap Between SDN and MITRE for Agile Incident Response”, In Proc. of 5th CoCoNet, Dec. 18-20, 2023, Bangalore, India.
6. P. Mukherjee, S. M Thampi, N Rohith, B. K. Poddar, and I. Sen, “Detection and Hardening Strategies to Secure an Enterprise Network,” In. Proc. of 19th ICISS, Dec. 16-19, 2023, Raipur, India.
7. P. Fahlander, M. Ekstedt, P. Mukherjee, and A. Dwivedi, “Containment Strategy Formalism in a Probabilistic Threat Modelling Framework,” In Proc. of 8th ICISSP, Feb. 9-11, 2022, Online.
8. P. Mukherjee and C. Mazumdar, “Attack Difficulty Metrics for Assessment of Network Security,” In Proc. of ARES 2018, Aug. 27-30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany.
9. P. Mukherjee and C. Mazumdar, “A Novel Model of Security Policies and Requirements,” In Proc. of 1st ICISSP, Feb. 9-11, 2015, Angers, France.

Vulnerabilities Reported

CVE-2024-51179: Flooding of Crafted packets from an Attacker can crash UPF/SMF. Open5GS – High Severity Vulnerability (CVSS Score – 7.5).
Discoverer: Lakshmi R Nair, Preetam Mukherjee and Subhajit Chatterjee (C-DOT)