Sasikumar Punnekkat
Scholar

Sasikumar Punnekkat

Google Scholar ID: mEASLGcAAAAJ
Professor, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Computer ScienceReal-time SystemsSafetyCybersecurityDependability
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,347
 
H-index
19
 
i10-index
40
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
30
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Over 180 research publications in international conferences and journals, including 6 best paper awards. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Senior member of IEEE and has been a member of several Program committees such as ETFA, IS, QoSA, HASE, DATE, SRDS, QSIC, RTCSA, SRDS, EFTS, RTiS, CONSEG, QUATIC, CERTS.
Research Experience
  • Currently a Professor in dependable software engineering at MDU and the leader of the Dependable Software Engineering research group. Served as Director of BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus (Mar 2015 - Aug 2016). Visiting researcher at Ericsson (Apr 2022 - May 2025) with funding from SSF's strategic mobility program. Had a lead role in many EU/National Projects such as InSecTT, SUCCESS, DAIS, and was the coordinator of large EU-funded projects like EUROWEB, EUROWEB+, and EURECA.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science from the University of York, UK, in 1997, for research on schedulability analysis of fault-tolerant systems. Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship.
Background
  • Research interests include real-time systems, fault-tolerant computing, software engineering, functional safety, cyber security, software reliability, and software testing. Over 15 years of industrial experience as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization, where he was Head of Software Test and Reliability Engineering.