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About Vinay
Vinay Mysore Sachidananda is the Programme Director of the Cyber Security Research Centre (CYSREN) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to this, he served as Programme Director of the CyberSG R&D Programme Office (CRPO), a national centre hosted at NTU, where he built the foundations of CRPO. Before that, he was Principal Scientist at NTU. His research focuses on AI-driven cybersecurity, with deep expertise in threat detection, threat intelligence, and malware research.
Earlier in his career, Vinay was R&D Manager at Trustwave, where he led enterprise security and threat intelligence research as Principal Security Research Lead, acting as both Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI while managing multiple project teams. His academic contributions include appointments as Senior Researcher (honorary adjunct) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Scientist at iTrust, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where he pioneered techniques for IoT security and privacy, uncovering vulnerabilities through penetration testing and fuzzing.
Vinay is also deeply committed to education and community engagement. He actively delivers advanced courses on Security Monitoring and Threat Detection, and has played a key role in designing and running Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions and Hackathons, fostering hands-on learning and practical cybersecurity skills for students and professionals alike.
Vinay co-founded Senseable and idatase. As CEO of Senseable until 2018, he led the development of smart wearable technologies with funding from the European Space Agency (ESA). At idatase, he contributed to IoT and Big Data analytics innovations.
Vinay earned his Master’s in Mobility and Networking from the University of Trento, Italy (2008) and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2014). He serves on technical committees for numerous international conferences and has collaborated with leading academics including Prof. Liu Yang, Prof. Lam Kwok Yan, Prof. Yuval Elovici and Prof. Aditya P. Mathur.