Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently a professor in the Cyber Security Center (IIITH). Prof. Shukla headed the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur between 2017 and 2020 and served as the Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor from 2016 to 2019. He also acted as a joint coordinator of the National Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security & Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures (C3i Center) at IIT Kanpur which he also founded and as a joint coordinator of the National Blockchain Project funded by the National Security Council Secretariat. He served as a project director of the C3i Hub—a Technology Innovation Hub on Cyber Security created by the DST, Government of India until March 2025.  In August 2025, he  moved from  IIT Kanpur to IIIT Hyderabad.  He worked at GTE Labs as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, as Senior Staff Design Engineer at Intel Corporation, as research faculty at the University of California, Irvine, and as a Professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. His major research areas are cybersecurity, cyber-resilient system design, risk assessment, critical infrastructure security, and blockchain technology. Prof. Shukla had published over 300 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, authored 12 books, and served as editor for several noted journals and technical publications.

Expertise: Cyber Security, Blockchain Technology, Formal Methods, Model Checking, Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems.

Research Interests:  Cyber Security, Blockchain Technology.