- PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Education & Training
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (VTS) - 2025 Class
- Best Demo Award, 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2024
- Distinguished Paper Award, 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023
- Best Paper Award, 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2022
- Best Paper Award Nominee, 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
- Best Paper Award, 7th International Congress on Big Data, BigData Congress 2018
- IBM Faculty Award (2017)
- Best Paper Award, 6th IEEE International Congress on Big Data, IEEE BigData Congress 2017
- Faculty Honoree in the 2016 and 2017 Honors Convocation at the University of Pittsburgh
- Best Paper Award, 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015
- Best Paper Award, 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE Cloud 2012
- First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award, IBM Research (2012)
- IBM Research PhD Fellowship (2012-2013)
- Best Paper Award, 18th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, ADCOM 2006
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award (2006)
- Tata Consultancy Services Best Project Award (2006)
Awards
Recent Publications
- Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Balaji Palanisamy, Prashant Krishnamurthy, “On-Chain Decentralized Learning and Cost-Effective Inference for DeFi Attack Mitigation” in Proc. of 7th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 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, Balaji Palanisamy, “P-EDR: Privacy-Preserving Event-Driven Data Release Using Smart Contracts”, in Proc. of 39th IFIP WG 11.3 Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2025
- Ying Song and Balaji Palanisamy, “MAPPING: Debiasing Graph Neural Networks for Fair Node Classification with Limited Sensitive Information Leakage”, in World Wide Web Journal 2025
- Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy, “T-Watch: Towards Timed Execution of Private Transaction in Blockchains”, in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC 2024
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)
