Pranesh Santikellur

Assistant Professor

pranesh [dot] santikellur [at] iiitb [dot] ac [dot] in

Education : Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Pranesh Santikellur holds a Doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. His PhD thesis focused on the design and analysis of modeling attacks on physical unclonable functions. Following his PhD and before joining IIIT-Bangalore, he worked as a Sr. Embedded Security Researcher for nearly four years at the Secure Systems Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a firmware engineer for nearly six years in Bangalore, India. His research interests are in hardware security, embedded system security, and ML systems.