Summary
Aanjhan Ranganathan is a tenured Associate Professor at Northeastern University and an affiliate of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in security and privacy for wireless and autonomous cyber-physical systems. With 15 years of experience spanning industry research at Robert Bosch and senior research roles at ETH Zurich, he blends practical embedded-systems expertise with rigorous academic inquiry. His work covers physical-layer security, secure localization, proximity verification, trusted computing architectures, and side-channels, and has earned awards including ETH Zurich’s outstanding dissertation prize and recognition from the European Space Agency and Armasuisse. He holds an M.Sc. from EPFL and a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, and is notable for transitioning deep hardware-focused skills—from FPGA and embedded automotive modules to power-analysis platforms—into novel defenses for smart ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electronics and Micro-Electronics, Masters Electronics and Micro-Electronics at EPFL
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at SSN College of Engineering
English, German, French, Tamil, Hindi, Hungarian