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Associate Professor

Vivek BALACHANDRAN

Associate Professor
Deputy Head, Verbosecurity Pte Ltd
PhD (Computer Science), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Cluster:
Infocomm Technology
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SIT Appointments

  • Associate Professor
    – Present
  • Deputy Head, Verbosecurity Pte Ltd
    – Present
  • Programme Leader, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Information & Communications Technology majoring in Information Security
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  • Assistant Professor
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  • Lecturer
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Education

  • PhD (Computer Science)
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
  • Master of Technology
    National Institute of Technology Calicut , India
  • Bachelor of Technology in Engineering
    University of Calicut , India

Achievements

  • NTU Graduate Research Scholarship, NTU, Singapore
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  • M-Tech GATE Scholarship, NIT Calicut, India
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  • Gold Medalist, NIT Calicut, India

Corporate Experience

  • Research Scientist with Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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  • Embedded Software Engineer with inDSP Audio Technolgies R&D Labs
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Research Interests

  • Software Security
  • Security Analytics
  • Software Obfuscation
  • Drone Security
  • Quantum Computing

Current Projects

  • A Cross-Platform, Smart Drone Control Framework
    – Present

    Team Principal Investigator, A Cross-Platform, Smart Drone Control Framework, S$332,886, MOE Translational R&D and Innovation Fund, 2 Nov 2020 - 1 Nov 2022

  • Blockchain-based Timestamping for Proof of Existence of Artifacts
    – Present

    Co-Principal Investigator, Blockchain-based Timestamping for Proof of Existence of Artifacts, SIT seed grant S$ 10,000. June 2020 - June 2021

  • Smart Learning Analytics for Digital Crime
    – Present

    Co-Principal Investigator, SLADE: Smart Learning Analytics for Digital Crime, S$3,092,795.00, National Cybersecurity Research & Development (NCR) Programme 2018, Funded by NRF and EDB, 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2022.

  • Application Security Assessment Protocol
    – Present

    Principal Investigator, Application Security Assessment Protocol, S$177,872.00, Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium Seed Grant, February 2020 – Nov 2021.

  • Designing with Holograms - Mixed Reality for Design & FEA
    – Present

    Co-Principal Investigator, Designing with Holograms - Mixed Reality for Design & FEA, S$235800.00, SIT Ignition Grant, 3 Oct 2019 – 3 Oct 2021.

  • An Intelligent Vulnerability Analysis, Detection and Resistance Framework for Drones
    – Present

    Principal Investigator, An Intelligent Vulnerability Analysis, Detection and Resistance Framework for Drones. SIT Ignition Grant,  S$162805.00, 01 April 2019 

Past Projects

  • P2P and Crowdfunding: Credit Score, Probability of Default Models and Machine Learning
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    Co-Principal Investigator,  S$10,000.00, SIT seed grant

  • Evolving Ontology-based Skill Mapping for Bot-based Job Interviews
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    Principal Investigator. S$20,000.00, SIT Ignition Grant

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Journal Papers

  • Ryan Fraser, and Vivek Balachnadran. "Incorporating Industry into the Curriculum: Applied Learning in Computer Science." Applied Learning in Higher Education:: Perspective, Pedagogy, and Practice, pp 85-98, Information Science Press, 2020

  • Perdana, Arif, Alastair Robb, Vivek Balachandran, and Fiona Rohde. "Distributed ledger technology: its evolutionary path and the road ahead." Information & Management (2020): 103316.

  • Vivek Balachandran, Tan DJ, Thing VL. Control flow obfuscation for android applications. Computers & Security. 2016 Aug 1;61:72-93.

  • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, "Potent and Stealthy Control Flow Obfuscation by Stack Based Self-Modifying Code," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.8, no.4, pp.669,681, April 2013

Conferences

  • Vivek Balachandran, Drone Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis Framework, RSA Conference 2020

  • Vij, Devyani, Vivek Balachandran, Tony Thomas, and Roopak Surendran. "Gramac: A graph based android malware classification mechanism." In Proceedings of the tenth ACM conference on data and application security and privacy, pp. 156-158. 2020.

  • Chua, Melissa, Vivek Balachandran, Gaurav Kapoor, and Tan Weisheng. "Location Spoofing Detection Enhancement through RSSI Inferred Movement Analysis." In 2020 Sixth International Conference on Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2020.

  • Mohammad Shameel, Vivek Balachandran, Peter Loh, and Melissa Chua. "DRAT: A Drone Attack Tool for Vulnerability Assessment." In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, pp. 153-155. 2020.

  • Kelvin Soh Boon Kai, Eugene Chong, Vivek Balachandran, Anomaly Detection on DNS Traffic using Big Data and Machine Learning, International Conference on Big Data and Cyber-Security Intelligence, Dec 2019

  • Ryan Fraser, and Vivek Balachnadran. "Incorporating Industry into the Curriculum: Applied Learning in Computer Science." 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE). IEEE, 2019.

  • D Geethanjali, Tan Li Ying, Melissa Chua and Vivek Balachandran. AEON: Android Encryption based Obfuscation. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2018, Tempe, USA.

  • Vivek Balachandran, Chitra Panchapakesan and Vishakh Balachandran. LYCEUM - Classroom without walls. British Human Computer Interaction Conference. July 2018.

  • Ryan Fraser, Vivek Balachandran and Soumyadeb Chowdhary. Applied Learning in Computer Science: Integrative Team Project. Applied Learning Conference, Singapore, Jan 2018.

  • Melissa Chua and Vivek Balachandran. Effectiveness of Android Obfuscation on Evading Anti-malware. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2018, Tempe, USA.

  • Arif Perdana, Alastair Robb, Vivek Balachandran & Fiona Rohde. (2017). Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT): Its Evolutionary Path and the Road Ahead. In 9th Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on Accounting Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea. 

  • Vivek Balachandran, NW Keong, S Emmanuel. Return Oriented Obfuscation. Eighth International Conference on Networks & Communications, 2016, Sydney, Australia. 

  • V. Balachandran, N. W. Keong and S. Emmanuel, "Obfuscation by code fragmentation to evade reverse engineering", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, USA, Oct 2014

  • V. Balachandran, N. W. Keong and S. Emmanuel, "Function level control ow obfuscation for software security", International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, Birmingham, UK, July 2014

  • Lim Jun Long, Vivek Balachandran, Sabu Emmanuel, NgWee Keong, "Obfuscating Server Client Programs against Reverse Engineering", National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing, Thrissur 2013

  • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, "Software Protection with Obfuscation and Encryption", Information Security Practices and Experiences Conference, ISPEC, 2013

  • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, "Software Code Obfuscation by Hiding Control Flow Information in Stack", IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS, 2011

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Teaching Modules

Information and Communications Technology (Information Security), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT2204 - Ethical Hacking
  • ICT2207 - Mobile Security
  • ICT3204 - Security Analytics
  • ICT1006 - ICT in Organisations

Information and Communications Technology (Software Engineering), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT1006 - ICT in Organisations
  • ICT3103 - Secured Software Development

Computer Engineering, BEng (Hons)

  • TLM2007 - Operating Systems and automotive OS

Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering, BEng (Hons)

  • MME1151 - Programming
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