Regular biography
Prasanna Karthik VAIRAM is a Senior Lecturer (Educator Track) in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He also earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anna University. Prior to joining NUS, he worked at Intel, Bangalore, from 2011 to 2014, where he contributed to the development of a functional model of Intel's graphics processors. His research areas include Security Systems & Networking, and he teaches courses such as CS4238 Computer Security Practice, IT5007 Software Engineering on Application Architecture, and TCX3232 Network and Cloud Security.
Scholar-generated biography
Prasanna Karthik Vairam is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, focusing on Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Hardware Design, Approximate Computing, and IoT. His research explores security and privacy in networked systems, with an emphasis on mitigating attacks in multi-vendor environments and enhancing IoT communication. He has developed frameworks for secure traffic perturbations, network patrolling, and hardware-software co-design to prevent memory attacks. His work also addresses blockchain design for approximation-tolerant applications and webpage fingerprinting for mass-surveillance. Vairam's contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of secure and efficient computing systems.