Vinay Sachidananda
Singapore
Summary
A highly accomplished and results-driven dynamic leader with a PhD in Computer Science and over 15 years of experience in Cybersecurity, AI and advanced research. Proven track record of leading large-scale projects, securing substantial funding, and driving innovation in threat detection and intelligence. Consistently produces tangible outcomes that exceed expectations.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Programme Director
Nanyang Technological University
11.2022 - Current
- Manage a funding portfolio of S$62 million, demonstrating exceptional leadership and organizational skills, significantly contributing to the center's overall success
- Oversee multiple capacities within the CRPO, managing diverse verticals and leading a large team while collaborating with and managing C-level stakeholders from both the government and private sector
- Spearheading and supervising the three key pillars of CRPO: Grant Management, Translation Management, and Talent Management
- Simultaneously leading multiple teams focused on critical areas such as Malware Research and Threat Intelligence Research, driving the advancement of cutting-edge cybersecurity initiatives.
Principal Research Scientist
Nanyang Technological University
07.2022 - 09.2023
- As a leader, successfully managed multiple complex and large-scale projects, each with a budget exceeding $5 million
- One of the key projects is centered around the Smart Nation initiative, a government-led program in Singapore aimed at improving the country's understanding of its threat landscape
- Leading work packages for an upcoming new research center for Trustworthy AI for Cybersecurity at NTU (TAiCEN)
- Achieved success in securing a project, the AISG 100E Experiment, and served as the Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for the initiative
- Involved in various research projects and published in top-tier conferences in 2023
- Collaborating with multiple industry leaders and government agencies.
R&D Manager
Trustwave/Singtel
07.2019 - 07.2022
- Leading projects more than $3 million each, primary area of expertise is Enterprise Security, with a strong focus on Threat Detection and Threat Intelligence
- Served as both a PI and Co-PI on various projects, leading teams and applying cutting-edge Machine Learning techniques to Cyber Security applications
- Led teams working on several projects in the realm of Threat Detection, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), Malware Detection, and Comprehensive Threat Inspection Mechanism for Threat Make Ready.
Sr. Researcher (Honorary Adjunct)
National University of Singapore
07.2019 - 07.2022
- Overseeing bachelor's, master's, and PhD students across several projects related to threat detection.
Research Scientist
Singapore University of Technology and Design
12.2017 - 07.2019
- Leading projects up to $3 million, primary focus on cyber security within the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
- Participation in projects such as ReSILIoT, AIADS, and Identification of IoT devices behind NAT
- Leading a team in security analysis in IoT, including evaluating the resilience of IoT against DoS and DDoS attacks, implementing access control, conducting Penetration Testing, and utilizing Intelligent Fuzzing for IoT protocols and binaries.
Co-Founder - CEO
Senseable
05.2015 - 12.2018
- Co-founder and CEO of senseable, a company focused on the development of smart wearables and IoT
- Developed the product Spark - The Smart Lighter, which serves as a tool for continuous monitoring and assessment of smoking behavior.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Singapore University of Technology and Design
02.2016 - 11.2017
- Focused on the cyber security of the Internet of Things (IoT), worked on security analysis techniques to uncover vulnerabilities in IoT devices
- Designed new algorithms and frameworks for the Internet of Things Security Testbed, utilizing techniques such as Penetration Testing, Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, and Intelligent Fuzzing.
Co-Founder
idatase
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Involved with the start-up idatase GmbH, focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data
- Developed Netlume, a tool for efficient and rapid access to Industrial IoT (IIoT) analytics.
Researcher
Technische Universität Darmstadt
09.2008 - 10.2014
- Research activities focused on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), delay-tolerant mobile ad hoc networking, Internet of Things (IoT), P2P networks, and information quality
- Active member of the GKmM research project, contributing to the development of co-operative, adaptive, and responsive monitoring techniques in mixed-mode environments.
Research Engineer
ArsLogica IT Laboratories
09.2007 - 03.2008
- Contributed to the design and development of Decentralized Localization and Tracking using Wireless Sensor Networks
- Developed a decentralized location estimation protocol and a GUI for mobile nodes.
Research Intern
Accent e Technology Private Limited
02.2005 - 08.2005
- Created a decentralized authentication protocol named Secure Network Access Protocol (SNAP) for secure communication between two parties.
Education
Doctoral (PhD) in Computer Science - Computer Science
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany 09.2008 - 05.2014
Masters in Computer Science - Networking and Mobility
University of Trento
Trento, Italy 09.2006 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) - Computer Science & Engg. (CSE)
Visweshvaria Tech University
Karnataka, India 10.2002 - 05.2006
Skills
Cybersecurity Lead and AI for Cybersecurity
Strategic leadership and planning
Organizational Leadership
Budgeting and financial management
Policy Implementation
Group and individual instruction
Websites
Publications
- ThreatLand: Extracting Intelligence from Audit Logs via NLP methods, Vinay Sachidananda, Rajendra Patil, Hongyi Peng, Kwok-Yan Lam, Liu Yang, IEEE PST, 2023
- ENiD: An Encrypted Web Pages Traffic Identification Based on Web Visiting Behavior, Mengmeng Ge, Xiangzhan Yu, Vinay Mysore Sachidananda, Shangqing Liu, Likun Liu, ICDM (MLC), 2023
- FOCUS: Fatigue-reducing IOCs through Prioritization and Scoring, Bryson Teo, Vinay Sachidananda, Ruitao Feng, Yang Liu, Kwok-Yan Lam, IEEE DASC, 2023
- APTer: Towards the Investigation of APT Attribution, Vinay Sachidananda, Akshay Sachdeva, Rajendra Patil, Kwok-Yan Lam, Liu Yang, IEEE DSC, 2023
- Do NoT Open (DOT): A Unified Generic and Specialized Models for Detecting Malicious Email Attachments, Vinay Sachidananda, Sivaanandh Muneeswaran, Yang Liu, Kwok-Yan Lam, TrustComm, 2023
- Honey-Gauge: End Usability Based Honeypot Classification, Vinay Sachidananda, Berwyn Chai, Florian Gondesen, Kwok-Yan Lam, Liu Yang, UbiSec, 2023
- ENiD: An Encrypted Web Pages Traffic Identification Based on Web Visiting Behavior, Ge Mengmeng, Yu Xiangzhan, Vinay Sachidananda, Liu Shangqing, Liu Likun, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, MLC, 2022
- MARK: Fill in the Blanks Through A JointGAN Based Data Augmentation for Network Anomaly Detection, Rajendra Patil, Vinay Sachidananda, Hongyi Peng, Akshay Sachdeva, Mohan Gurusamy, Computers & Security Journal, 2022
- Peekaboo: Hide and Seek with Malware Through Lightweight Multi-feature Based Lenient Hybrid Approach, Mingchang Liu, Vinay Sachidananda, Hongyi Peng, Rajendra Patil, Sivaanandh Muneeswaran, Mohan Gurusamy, International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2022
- ODDITY: An Ensemble Framework Leverages Contrastive Representation Learning for Superior Anomaly Detection, Hongyi Peng, Vinay Sachidananda, Teng Joon Lim, Rajendra Patil, Mingchang Liu, Sivaanandh Muneeswaran, Mohan Gurusamy, International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2022
- LOG-OFF: A Novel Behavior Based Authentication Compromise Detection Approach, Mingchang Liu, Vinay Sachidananda, Hongyi Peng, Rajendra Patil, Sivaanandh Muneeswaran, Mohan Gurusamy, International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST), 2022
- A Novel Approach for Detecting Vulnerable IoT Devices Connected Behind a Home NAT, Yair Meidana, Vinay Sachidananda, Hongyi Peng, Racheli Sagrona, Yuval Elovici, Asaf Shabtaia, Computers & Security Journal, 2020
- OVER: Overhauling Vulnerability Detection for IoT through an Adaptable and Automated Static Analysis Framework, Vinay Sachidananda, Suhas Bhairav, Yuval Elovici, ACM SAC, 2020
- SoftAuthZ: A Context-aware, Behaviour-based Authorization Framework for Home IoT, Nirnay Ghosh, Saket Chandra, Vinay Sachidananda, Yuval Elovici, IEEE IoT Journal, 2019
- Spill the Beans: Extrospection of Internet of Things by Exploiting Denial of Service, Vinay Sachidananda, Suhas Bhairav, Yuval Elovici, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 2019
- PIT: A Probe into Internet of Things by Comprehensive Security Analysis, Vinay Sachidananda, Suhas Bhairav, Nirnay Ghosh, Yuval Elovici, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2019
- Security Testbed for Internet-of-Things Devices, Shachar Siboni, Vinay Sachidananda, Yair Meidan, Michael Bohadana, Yael Mathov, Suhas Bhairav, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Elovici, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2018
- SMuF: State Machine Based Mutational Fuzzing Framework for Internet of Things, Neeraj Karamchandani, Vinay Sachidananda, Suhas Setikere, Jianying Zhou, Yuval Elovici, International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), 2018
- Out of Kilter: Holistic Exploitation of Denial of Service in Internet of Things, Suhas Setikere, Vinay Sachidananda, Yuval Elovici, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems (SecureComm), 2018
- Invariants Generation for Anomaly Detection in Cyber Physical Systems, Vinay Sachidananda, Suhas Setikere, Yuval Elovici, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems (SecureComm), 2018
- Let the cat out of the bag: A holistic approach towards security analysis of the internet of things, Vinay Sachidananda, Shachar Siboni, Asaf Shabtai, Jinghui Toh, Suhas Bhairav, Yuval Elovici, ACM International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (IoTPTS) - ASIA CCS, 2017
- Towards exposing the internet of things: A roadmap - Poster, Vinay Sachidananda, Jinghui Toh, Shachar Siboni, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Elovici, ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
- Security Testbed for the Internet of Things, Shachar Siboni, Vinay Sachidananda, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Elovici, arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05971, 2016
- Optimized Multi-attribute Co-design for Maximizing Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, David Noack, Abdelmajid Khelil, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Philipp M Scholl, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2015
- ATM: Adaptive and Tunable Framework for Internet of Things and Services, Vinay Sachidananda, Technical Report, 2015
- Avoiding Over or Under Provision of Information in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, David Noack, Abdelmajid Khelil, Neeraj Suri, Technical Report - TU-Darmstadt, 2014
- Information Quality Aware Sampling and Transport Co-design in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, David Noack, Neeraj Suri, IEEE Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2013
- Sampling and Transport Co-design in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, David Noack, Neeraj Suri, IEEE Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services (WONS), 2013
- Trading Transport Timeliness and Reliability for Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, Dhananjay Umap, Matthias Majuntke, Neeraj Suri, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2013
- On Co-modeling the Sampling and Transport Co-design in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, David Noack, Neeraj Suri, Fachgespräche Sensornetze (FGSN), 2012
- Fast Indoor Radio-Map Building for RSSI-based Localization Systems, Philipp M. Scholl, Stefan Kohlbrecher, Vinay Sachidananda, Kristof Van Laerhoven, IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Demo Session, 2012
- Information Quality Aware Transport Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, Neeraj Suri, 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'12), Poster, 2012
- Quality of Information in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, Neeraj Suri, International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), 2010
- Simulation and Evaluation of Mixed-Mode Environments: Towards Higher Quality of Simulations, Vinay Sachidananda, Diego Costantini, Christian Reinl, Dominik Haumann, Karen Petersen, Parag S. Mogre, Abdelmajid Khelil, 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Poster, 2010
- Mobility Assisted Adaptive Sampling in Wireless Sensor Networks, Piotr Szczytowski, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Vinay Sachidananda, Abdelmajid Khelil, Neeraj Suri, IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Demo Session, 2010
- A Self-powered Module with Localization and Tracking System for Paintball, Andrey Somov, Vinay Sachidananda, Roberto Passerone, International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS), 2008
Timeline
Programme Director
Nanyang Technological University
11.2022 - Current
Principal Research Scientist
Nanyang Technological University
07.2022 - 09.2023
R&D Manager
Trustwave/Singtel
07.2019 - 07.2022
Sr. Researcher (Honorary Adjunct)
National University of Singapore
07.2019 - 07.2022
Research Scientist
Singapore University of Technology and Design
12.2017 - 07.2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Singapore University of Technology and Design
02.2016 - 11.2017
Co-Founder - CEO
Senseable
05.2015 - 12.2018
Co-Founder
idatase
03.2014 - 08.2015
Researcher
Technische Universität Darmstadt
09.2008 - 10.2014
Doctoral (PhD) in Computer Science - Computer Science
Technische Universität Darmstadt
09.2008 - 05.2014
Research Engineer
ArsLogica IT Laboratories
09.2007 - 03.2008
Masters in Computer Science - Networking and Mobility
University of Trento
09.2006 - 05.2008
Research Intern
Accent e Technology Private Limited
02.2005 - 08.2005
Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) - Computer Science & Engg. (CSE)
Visweshvaria Tech University
10.2002 - 05.2006