Security Research Group at IISc Bangalore
Faculty Members
Here is a list of faculty members conducting security-related research. For further information on each faculty member's research, including project descriptions, publications and presentations, please visit the faculty member's page or their lab Web page.
Aditya Kanade,
Ph.D. (2007), IIT Bombay
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Software security, Mobile security, Secure AI.
Arpita Patra,
Ph.D. (2010), IIT Madras
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Cryptography, Security, Secure Distributed Computing.
Arun Babu,
Ph.D. (2013), Homi Bhabha National Institute
Member of Technical Staff, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems
Interests: Cryptography for constrained devices, Operating system security, Software engineering for secure systems.
Bharadwaj Amrutur,
Ph.D. (1999), Stanford University
Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Director, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems
Interests: Cyber-physical systems, Micro and nano-electronics.
Bhavana Kanukurthi,
Ph.D. (2011), Boston University
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Cryptography, Computational Complexity.
Chandramani Singh,
Ph.D. (2012), IISc Bangalore
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Interests: Communication Networks, Stochastic Systems, Cloud Computing, Optimization, Game Theory.
Chaya Ganesh,
Ph.D. (2017), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: cryptography and security.
Gurunath Gurrala
Ph.D. (2010), IISc Bangalore
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Interests: Smart Grids and and Microgrid Security, Control and Stability.
R. C. Hansdah,
Ph.D. (1996), IISc Bangalore
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Network and Distributed Systems Security.
Haresh Dagale
Principal Research Scientist, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Interests: Embedded systems, TCP-IP networking, wireless networking, VoIP and audio-video streaming.
Lab:
Embedded Systems Lab
Himanshu Tyagi,
Ph.D. (2013), University of Maryland–College Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Interests: Application of information theory to security, interactive communication, and statistical learning.
Joy Kuri
Ph.D. (1995), IISc Bangalore
Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Interests: Modelling, analysis and control of communication networks and stochastic systems.
Navin Kashyap,
Ph.D. (2001), University of Michigan
Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Interests: Coding for data communications and storage, information theory, information-theoretic security, discrete applied mathematics.
Pavan Kumar Tallapragada,
Ph.D. (2013), University of Maryland–College Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Interests: Networked control systems, distributed systems and control. Applications to cyber-physical systems and networked transportation systems.
Sanjit Chatterjee,
Ph.D. (2006), Indian Statistical Institute–Kolkata
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Cryptography, including public-key, identity based, pairing-based and quantum-safe cryptography and security protocols for the cloud.
Lab: Informatics and Security Lab
Shayan Garani Srinivasa,
Ph.D. (2006), Georgia Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Interests: Applied mathematics, physical modeling, coding, signal processing and VLSI systems architecture for novel magnetic/optical recording channels, quantum information processing, neural nets and math modeling of complex systems.
Lab: Physical Nano-Memories, Signal and Information Processing Lab
Utsav Banerjee,
Ph.D. (2021), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
Interests: Cryptography Implementation, Hardware Security, Digital Circuits, Embedded Systems, Quantum Computation, Machine Learning.
Vaibhav Katewa,
Ph.D. (2016), University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Interests: Security and privacy for cyber-physical systems, sparse feedback control design, distributed detection, estimation and control, networked control systems and robust control.
P. Vijay Kumar,
Ph.D. (1983), University of Southern California
Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Interests: Coding for distributed storage, Intrusion detection algorithms for wireless sensor networks.
Vinod Ganapathy,
Ph.D. (2007), University of Wisconsin–Madison
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Computer Systems Security, including cloud platform security, mobile device and cyber-physical systems security, web platform security, and security of emerging AI/ML systems.
Yogesh Simmhan,
Ph.D. (2007), Indiana University–Bloomington
Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Data Sciences
Interests: Abstractions, algorithms and applications for distributed systems, including Cloud and Edge Computing, Distributed Graph Processing Platforms and Elastic Stream Processing to support emerging Big-Data and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Lab: Distributed Research on Emerging Applications and Machines Lab
Recently-Retired Faculty Members
Kanchi Gopinath,
Ph.D. (1988), Stanford University
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Interests: Computer Systems, in particular, Operating Systems, Storage Systems, Systems Security and Systems Verification.
N. Balakrishnan,
Ph.D. (1979), IISc Bangalore
Honorary Professor, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
C. E. Veni Madhavan,
Ph.D. (1976), IISc Bangalore
Retired Professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Students
Please visit the Web pages of individual faculty members or their labs for a list of students.