Scholar
Ashish Kundu
Google Scholar ID: 7puE-78AAAAJ
Head of Cybersecurity Research, Cisco Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,485
H-index
30
i10-index
82
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 100+ research publications
- 200+ patents filed, 160+ granted
- IEEE Fellow (2024)
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Research (2018)
- ACM Distinguished Member (2017), IBM Master Inventor (second time, 2017), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2017)
- Star Alumnus, NIT Rourkela Alumni Association (2015)
- IBM Master Inventor (first time, 2014)
- CERIAS Diamond Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cybersecurity Research during Ph.D. (Purdue, 2011)
- Top Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue CS Department (2011)
- Best Student Paper (2006); Best Research Posters (2006, 2007, 2008)
- Pioneered leakage-free redactable signatures, discovered C++ 'placement new' buffer overflow vulnerabilities, developed cloud security/compliance techniques
- GCC released a patch based on his paper on C++ vulnerabilities (Kundu & Bertino, IEEE ICDCS'11)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- PC roles at IEEE Cloud, TheWebConf (formerly WWW), CIKM, etc.
Research Experience
- Head of Cybersecurity Research at Cisco Research
- Former Head of Cybersecurity at Nuro.ai
- Co-founder and CTO of Ciphense
- Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2011–2019)
- Led R&D for security and compliance in IBM Watson Health Cloud, Watson Education, and Watson Genomic Analytics
- Served on IBM Research AI Ethics Committee (2015–2016)
Background
- Currently Head of Cybersecurity Research at Cisco Research
- IEEE Fellow (elected 2024)
- ACM Distinguished Member and former ACM Distinguished Speaker
- Research focuses on quantum-resistant cryptography and AI + Security (multi-agents, LLMs)
- Advocates 'Holistic Security': integrating security, privacy, compliance, and ethics intelligently into system design
- Proposed ideas such as 'Security is the new functionality' and 'Holistic security is the need of the future' (2011)
