I am co-organizing ACM QRSec '25, in conjunction with ACM CCS '25

• First ACM Workshop on Quantum-resistant Cryptography and Security

• Please submit your best works/join us at the workshop

Ashish's current research focus is on

• Quantum-resistant cryptography and security

• AI + Security: Multi-agents, LLMs 

Brief Bio:
Ashish Kundu is currently Head of Cybersecurity Research at Cisco Research.  Ashish is an IEEE Fellow.  He has also worked as:  Co-founder and CTO at Ciphense, Head of Cybersecurity at Nuro.ai. During 2011-2019, he worked as Research Staff Member,  and Master Inventor and at the IBM T J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.  He has led the Research and Development efforts for Security and Compliance for IBM Watson Health Cloud, IBM Watson Education and IBM Watson Genomic Analytics.  Dr. Kundu served on the IBM Research AI Ethics committee during 2015 - 2016. Dr. Kundu received Ph.D. from Computer Science at Purdue University  and then he joined IBM T J Watson Research Center after that. He has been affiliated with CERIAS.  Ashish is an ACM Distinguished Member, an ex-ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a Master Inventor (at IBM Research).  

His broad research interests are:

• Holistic Security: "How to enable systems and data to be protected holistic security, privacy, compliance and ethics by weaving fabrics of these requirements with the system together in an intelligent and cognitive manner".

• "Security is the new functionality" , "Holistic security is the need of the future" (2011)

Publications & Inventions 

• Research publications: 100+ 

• Patents filed: 200+; Granted: 160+  

Selected PC/Editorial Services: Please consider submitting your best work to the following venues.

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

• PC Member (Security, Privacy and Compliance): IEEE Cloud 2019

• Track co-chair (Security, Privacy and Trust): TheWebConf 2019 (formerly WWW 2019)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Healthcare Informatics and Privacy

• PC member: 

  • IEEE Cloud'18, IEEE Cloud'17, IEEE EDGE'17

  • Past conferences: CIKM'16, CLOUD'16, ICDCS'14, CODASPY'14, ...

Selected Awards & Honors:

• IEEE Fellow, 2024 

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2018, IBM Research

• ACM Distinguished Member, 2017

• IBM Master Inventor (Second time), IBM Research, 2017

• ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2017.

• Star Alumnus, NIT Rourkela (Alumni Association), 2015

• IBM Master Inventor, IBM Research, 2014 [Purdue story]

• CERIAS Diamond Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cybersecurity Research during Ph.D., Purdue University,  2011

• Top Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University,  2011

• Best Student Paper 2006, Best Research Posters (2006, 2007, 2008).

Contributions and Impact:

Some of his primary contributions to the scientific community are the development of  leakage-free redactable signatures, discovery of security issues in programming languages, such as buffer overflows due to vulnerabilities in the “placement new” expression in C++, development of several cloud security and compliance techniques. During his research work, Ashish has established the areas of "privacy-preserving digital signatures, and data integrity techniques".

GCC released a patch based on the  paper on Placement new vulnerabilities in C++ [Kundu & Bertino, IEEE ICDCS'11]. 

Dr. Kundu's research work has directly and indirectly influenced several products and services. He is the security and compliance research lead for IBM Watson Health Cloud Platform. He has been the research lead for security and compliance for IBM Watson Genomics, and IBM Cognitive Learning for Education Cloud Platform. His prior work has also gone into IBM Hybrid Cloud offerings as well as to IBM Everyplace Access toolkit.