Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla joined IIIT Hyderabad as a Professor and Director on 20 August. He took over as Director from Prof. P J Narayanan who headed the institute from April 2013 to August 2025.

Prof Shukla received his Ph.D in Computer Science from University at Albany in 1997. He completed his MS in Computer Science from The State University of New York in 1995, and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 1991.

He was the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair, and Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair in Cyber Security between 2023 and 2025, and previous head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems between 2013 and 2020, and Associate Editor for ACM transactions on Cyber Physical Systems. He was also a founder and  joint coordinator  of C3i Centre at IIT Kanpur.

His specialisations include cyber security, blockchain technology,  cyber crime prevention and analytics, Cyber Physical Systems Security.

Prof Shukla’s research interests include Cyber Security, Embedded Systems, Critical Infrastructures, Formal Methods, Embedded Software and Hardware Design, System Level Languages, Smart Grid, Smart Infrastructures.

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NmS3wOEAAAAJ&hl=en

Personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/skshukla/

August 2025