Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department and Rajiv & Ritu Batra Chair in Cyber Security at IIT Kanpur (IITK). He headed the department between 2017 and 2020, and was the Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor between 2016-2019, along with being a joint director of the National Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security & Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures (C3i Center) at IIT Kanpur. He is also a joint director of the National Blockchain Project funded by the PMO. He is a program director of the C3i Hub, a Technology Innovation Hub on Cyber Security created by the DST, Government of India. He has worked at GTE Labs as a principal member of Technical Staff, as Senior Staff Design Engineer at the 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 cyber security, cyber-resilient system design, risk assessment, and critical infrastructure security and Blockchain Technology. Prof. Shukla published over 300 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, book chapters, 12 books, and worked as an 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.