Sasikumar Punnekkat is a Professor in dependable software engineering at MDU and the leader of the Dependable Software Engineering research group. He has more than 15 years industrial experience as a scientist at the Indian Space research Organization, and was the Head of the Software test and reliability engineering. He was recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science by the University of York, UK in 1997 for his research on schedulability analysis of fault-tolerant systems. He was the Director of BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus during Mar 2015-Aug 2016.
He has/had a lead role in many EU/National Projects such as InSecTT, SUCCESS, DAIS, ESCAPE-CD, DAISY, FORA, RETNET, Progress, Synopsis, FiC , SafeCoP and SafeCer. He was the coordinator of large EU-funded projects EUROWEB, EUROWEB+ and EURECA, for research and educational collaboration between Europe and Western Balkan/Asia. He was the program director of the Master Programs in Software Engineering at MDH (2004-2015). His research interests include multiple aspects of Real-time Systems, Dependability, and Software Engineering. Dr Sasikumar Punnekkat has over 150 research publications in international conferences and journals (including 5 best paper awards). He is a senior memebr of IEEE and had been member of several Program commitees such as QoSA, HASE, DATE, SRDS, QSIC, RTCSA, SRDS, EFTS, RTiS,CONSEG, QUATIC.
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Real-time systems, fault-tolerant computing, software engineering, functional safety, software reliability, and software testing
Composite Hazard Analysis of System of Systems for Mixed-Traffic Automation in Underground Mine (Jul 2023) Nazakat Ali, Sasikumar Punnekkat IEEE 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)
Arguing Operational Safety for Mixed Traffic in Underground Mining (Jun 2023) Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Hans Hansson, Christian Grante 18th Annual System Of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)
Time-series Anomaly Detection and Classification with Long Short-Term Memory Network on Industrial Manufacturing Systems (Jan 2023) Tijana Markovic, Alireza Dehlaghi Ghadim, Miguel Leon Ortiz, Ali Balador, Sasikumar Punnekkat
Safe Integration of Autonomous Machines in Underground Mining Environments (Oct 2022) Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Hans Hansson, Sasikumar Punnekkat 8th International Symposium on Systems Engineerging (ISSE 2022)
Simulation Environment for Modular Automation Systems (Oct 2022) Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson, Sasikumar Punnekkat 48th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2022)
A Context-specific Operational Design Domain for Underground Mining (ODD-UM) (Sep 2022) Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Anas Fattouh, Hans Hansson 29th European & Asian System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation (EuroAsiaSP2 '22)
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