PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Patanjali SLPSK

Also known as Patanjali Sristi Lakshmiprasanna Sriramakumara, Patanjali Sristi

Patanjali SLPSK is a computer scientist who studies hardware security and the security of AI systems, and who develops AI models for hardware design and defence. He studied electronics at Pondicherry Engineering College and earned his Master's and PhD in computer science at IIT Madras in 2020. In 2019, he coauthored the White Mirror paper on how encrypted traffic reveals a viewer's choices in Netflix's interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and from 2019 to 2023 he was a postdoctoral researcher with Swarup Bhunia at the University of Florida. By 2025, he was an assistant professor at Augusta University's School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, with research interests in cybersecurity for AI and AI for systems and security.

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Timeline

  1. 2007–2011

    Electronics degree at Pondicherry

    He studies electronics and communication engineering at Pondicherry Engineering College in India from 2007 to 2011 and earns a B.Tech.

  2. 2012–2020

    A PhD at IIT Madras

    In 2012, he begins graduate work at IIT Madras under Kamakoti Veezhinathan and converts his MS to a PhD in 2014. He completes his Master's and PhD in computer science there in 2020, with a thesis on gate sizing for energy-efficient and secure digital design.

  3. 2019

    White Mirror and Netflix traffic

    In March 2019, he and four coauthors, Gargi Mitra, Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Nitin Chandrachoodan and Kamakoti V, post the White Mirror paper to arXiv. It shows that a viewer's choices in Netflix's interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch can be revealed from encrypted traffic, with a worst-case accuracy of 96% on a dataset of 100 viewers. Wired features the team's Netflix privacy analysis in April 2019.

  4. 2019–2023

    Postdoc at the University of Florida

    He joins the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World at the University of Florida in late 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher under Swarup Bhunia, and stays until 2023. His work applies the solutions from his PhD thesis to IoT and AI systems. In June 2021, he delivers a webinar on AI-guided heuristics for Trojan attacks for IEEE CEDA/HSTTC.

  5. 2023–2024

    TVF, MeLPUF and IOLock

    He coauthors TVF, a metric for quantifying vulnerability against hardware Trojan attacks, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems in July 2023. MeLPUF, a memory-in-logic physically unclonable function for low-overhead IC authentication, appears at IEEE PAINE in October 2023. IOLock, an input/output locking scheme against reverse engineering attacks, follows in the same journal in February 2024 with Christopher Vega and Swarup Bhunia.

  6. 2024

    Cybersecurity workshop for the Army

    In 2024, he conducts a month-long cybersecurity workshop for the Indian Army, in conjunction with Pravartak and IIT Madras.

  7. By 2025

    Assistant professor at Augusta

    By 2025, he is an assistant professor at Augusta University's School of Computer and Cyber Sciences in Georgia. His research areas there are AI for system design, AI for hardware security and cybersecurity for AI.

  8. As of October 2026

    Assistant professor at IIT Madras

    He is an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras. His research interests are cybersecurity for AI and AI for systems and security.

Career

  1. NowIIT MadrasAssistant Professor
  2. 2019–2023University of FloridaPostdoctoral Researcher
  3. Augusta UniversityAssistant Professor

Education

  1. 2020IIT MadrasMaster's
  2. 2020IIT MadrasPhD
  3. 2011Pondicherry Engineering CollegeB.Tech

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. CV | Patanjali SLPSK patanjali.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Patanjali SLPSK | Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence wsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. White Mirror: Leaking Sensitive Information from Interactive Netflix Movies using Encrypted Traffic Analysis arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Patanjali SLPSK patanjali.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Postdoctoral Scholar Spotlight: Patanjali Sristi Lakshmiprasanna Sriramakumara – Warren B. Nelms Institute iot.institute.ufl.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. People - Swarup Bhunia, Ph.D. faculty.eng.ufl.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.