Sasikumar Punnekkat

Roles & Affiliations: Professor in Dependable Software Engineering at Mälardalen University (MDU), leading the Dependable Software Engineering research group. Former Head of Software Test & Reliability Engineering at Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Director of BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus (Mar 2015–Aug 2016), and Visiting Researcher at Ericsson since 2022 (funded by SSF's strategic mobility program).

Education: PhD in Computer Science from University of York, UK (1997), focusing on schedulability analysis of fault-tolerant systems (awarded Commonwealth Scholarship).

Research Interests: Real-time systems, dependability, software engineering, safety-critical systems, cybersecurity, and industrial IoT. Key focus areas include fault-tolerant scheduling, safety-critical software design, and system-of-systems analysis.

Funding & Projects: Led major EU projects (InSecTT, SUCCESS, DAIS, EUROWEB series) and national initiatives. Coordinated large EU educational collaborations with Western Balkans/Asia. Active in projects like FORA fog computing platform and TSN networks.

Awards & Recognition: 6 Best Paper Awards, Senior Member of IEEE, and frequent contributor to conference program committees (ETFA, HASE, DATE, etc.).

Grants & Labs: Recipient of SSF strategic mobility funding. Research group develops solutions for automotive systems, industrial automation, and safety-critical infrastructure.