Balaji Palanisamy
Associate Professor
Department of
Informatics & Networked Systems
School of
Computing and Information
Office: 130 N. Bellefield Avenue, Room 535
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)
Phone: 412.624.0232
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. My research interest lies in Blockchains and Cybersecurity.
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Research Publications Teaching Contact
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research interests focus on blockchain and cybersecurity, with an emphasis on data privacy, privacy-aware computing, distributed systems, edge computing, and cloud computing. I am especially interested in tackling challenges in developing scalable, privacy-preserving distributed systems and supporting secure data sharing in untrusted computing environments.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
A
full list of my publications is available in DBLP
· Yijun Yuan, Na Du,
Adam Lee and Balaji Palanisamy, VRSafe: A Secure Virtual Keyboard to
Mitigate Keystroke Inference in Virtual Reality, to appear in Proc.
of the 16th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, ACM
CODASPY 2026
·
Jingzhe Wang, Balaji Palanisamy, SR-MPL:
Single-round Fair Multiparty Lottery for Consensus, in Proc. of the
13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData
2025
· 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
· 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 (Best Student Paper Award Candidate)
· 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
· Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Balaji Palanisamy, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Protecting DeFi
Platforms against Non-Price Flash Loan Attacks, in Proc. of the 15th
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, ACM CODASPY 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, 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)
TEACHING:
· INFSCI 2150 Information Security & Privacy
· INFSCI
2750 Cloud
Computing
· INFSCI 1620 - Advanced Information Security & Privacy
CONTACT
Balaji Palanisamy,
School of Computing and
Information
University of
Pittsburgh
130 N. Bellefield Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)
Phone: 412.624.0232