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Education:

Ph.D in Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (Established in collaboration with MIT)
M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology

Work Experience:

February 2025 to Present: Associate Professor (Tenured)
- Swansea University
- Teaching: IT-Security, Forensics & Cryptography and Security Vulnerabilities & Penetration Testing.
- Research: Leading multiple Cyber-Physical Systems Security research projects funded by UKRI.
- Postdoctoral Researchers: Dr. Sarad Venugopalan and Dr. Dipojjwal Ray
- Mentoring undergraduate and master students.
September 2021 to February 2025: Assistant Professor
- University of Bristol
- Teaching: 1. Computer Systems (Introduction to Operating Systems and Security) (UG Module); 2. Resilient Socio-technical Infrastructures (PhD CDT module); 3. Security of Industrial Control Systems (MSc module); 4. IoT and IIoT Security (MSc Module)
- PhD Co-Supervision: 1.Feras Shahbi on “Forensics in Industrial Control Systems”; 2.Manolis Samanis on “Adaptive Security for Critical Infrastructure”; 3.Marios Samanis on “Resilient industrial control systems”; 4.Jacob Williams on “Threat Intelligence Pipelines in IT/OT Convergent Networks”.
- Postdoctoral Researchers: Dr. Sarad Venugopalan, Dr. Dipojjwal Ray
- Research Associate: Kushagra Dixit
- UG and MSc Supervision: Supervised 9 students every year for their thesis in cyber security.
May 2021 - August 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Project: Attack-Resilient AI-Empowered Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems.
- Collaborative project between Nanyang Technical University (NTU) and ADSC.
July 2019 to Jan 2020: Visiting PhD student
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Duties included: Conducting Research on formal methods to CPS security
- Supervisor: Professor Eunsuk Kang and Professor David Garlan
September 2016 to Jan 2021: Teaching Assistant
- Information Systems Technology and Design@SUTD
- 50.002 Computation Structures: Sept - Dec 2017.
- 50.003 Elements of Software Construction: Jan - April 2018.
- 50.577 Cyber Physical Systems Seucrity: Jan - April 2018, 2019, 2020.
February 2015 to August 2016: Research Assistant
- iTrust, Centre for Research in Cyber Security, SUTD
- Supervisor: Professor Aditya P Mathur
- Developing attack models and attack detection methods for cyber-physical systems.
- Different aspects of my service in iTrust: managing testbeds, developing tools to communicate with testbeds, writing research grants, working with various government agencies in Singapore towards the critical infrastructure protection.
June 2013 - September 2014: Instructor
- Vignan University, India
- Courses taught: Data Structures, Theory of Computation, Cyber Security.

PhD Thesis Co-Supervised:

Feras Shahbi on “Forensics in Industrial Control Systems”.
Manolis Samanis on “Adaptive Security for Critical Infrastructure”.
Marios Samanis on “Resilient industrial control systems”.
Jacob Williams on “Threat Intelligence Pipelines in IT/OT Convergent Networks”.

MS Thesis Supervised:

In Swansea: Supervised five students in 2025 and 2026 in CPS security.

In Bristol: Every year from 2021 to 2024 five/six MSc projects supervised in CPS security from MSc data science and MSc cyber security.

In SUTD:

Nataraj Subramaniam Sathyarajan, titled “Damage Control in Industrial Control Systems” MSSD 2020
Dheenadhayalan Rathinasamy, titled “Online Extension and Performance Study of TABOR: A Machine Learning Model for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems” MSSD 2020
Sai Sidharth Patlolla (Missouri university of Science and Technology, USA), 2017
Muhammad Azmi Umer (DHA Suffa University), 2016

Undergraduate Student Internships Supervision:

In Swansea: Supervised 2 students in 2025 and 2026 in CPS security.

In Bristol: Every year from 2021 to 2024 two/three MSc projects supervised in CPS security from the MSc cyber security.