Sandeep Kiran Pinjala

Sandeep Kiran Pinjala

PhD candidate

Stony Brook University

Biography

I am currently a PhD student in the CS department at Stony Brook University, where I am a member of the Network Security and Applied Cryptography Lab advised by Prof. Radu Sion. I like building secure systems using cryptographic protocols to solve real-world problems. My current research involves building practical plausibly deniable systems that are truly private and censorship-resilient.

Interests
  • Security and Privacy
  • Authentication and Identity Management
  • Network Security
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2022 - present

    Stony Brook University

  • MS in Computer Science

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

    Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Security Research Intern
Samsung Research America
May 2025 – August 2025 Mountainview, California
  • Automatic detection of Malware on Android phones
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Technical Specialist
HCL Technologies
January 2013 – January 2021 Chennai, India
  • Technical architect and Product Owner
  • Design and implementation of features in Cisco’s security products
  • POC for critical customer issues
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Software Engineer
Teradata
January 2006 – January 2013 Hyderabad, India
Engineering lead for Teradata’s Gateway and Security (GTW-TDGSS) group

Publications

(2026). Overseer: Enforcing fine-grained memory access control across execution environments. ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS).

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(2024). INVISILINE: Invisible Plausibly-Deniable Storage. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP).

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(2024). Trilobyte: Plausibly Deniable Communications Through Single Player Games. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY).

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(2022). Delegated Anonymous Credentials with Revocation Capability for IoT Service Chains. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

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