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Balaji Palanisamy
- Associate Professor
Balaji Palanisamy is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include Blockchains, Data Privacy, Data Security, Privacy-preserving System Design and Scalable and Efficient resource management for Cloud and Edge Computing systems. His research has received numerous Best Paper awards in various conferences including the Distinguished Paper award at CCS 2023, the Best Demo award at ICDCS 2024, and Best Paper awards at DBSec 2022, IEEE BigDataCongress 2018, IEEE BigDataCongress 2017, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 and IEEE CLOUD 2012. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC, from 2016-2024. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE TDSC, the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, ACM TOPS and the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE TBD. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE VTS and a senior member of the IEEE.
Institution of Highest Degree
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
Representative Publications
Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Balaji Palanisamy, Prashant Krishnamurthy, “Protecting DeFi Platforms against Non-Price Flash Loan Attacks”, in Proc. of the 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, ACM CODASPY 2025
Ying Song, Rita Singh and Balaji Palanisamy, “Krait: Backdoor Attacks Against Graph Prompt Tuning”, in Proc. of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, IEEE SaTML 2025
Jingzhe Wang and Balaji Palanisamy, “PR-TDR: Privacy-preserving and Reliable Timed Data Release”, in Proc. of the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2024
Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu, Li Duan, Jiqiang Liu, Wei Wang, “How Hard is Takeover in DPoS Blockchains? Understanding the Security of Coin-based Voting Governance”, in Proc. of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023 (Received Distinguished Paper Award)
Research Interests
Blockchain Systems
Data Privacy and Data Security
Security and Privacy of Virtual Reality Systems
AI Security and Privacy