Sanket Goutam

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University where I was advised by Prof. Amir Rahmati. I also hold a M.S. (with Thesis) in Computer Science from North Carolina State University (NCSU), advised by Professors William Enck and Brad Reaves.

I have studied the security of a wide range of consumer technologies, including smart phones, AR/XR wearables, software-defined networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud infrastructure. I commonly apply a range of system design, formal threat modeling, data analysis, and empirical measurements to demonstrate how novel techniques can improve the security of our computing systems without compromising functionality.

My Ph.D. thesis, in particular, introduced primitives for access control, authentication, and consumer data protection – some of which has been incorporated into products across various companies. I spent a substantial part of my Ph.D. working closely with Samsung Research America, across a wide range of Knox Security products. I spent some time at Netflix working on the MSL Protocol and at HPE Networking working on low-latency distributed networking applications.

My work over the years have made an influence in products across HPE, Apple, Meta, Samsung, Google, and Netflix. I have an Erdős number 4.

Research Funding : My Ph.D. research was largely supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant on Robust Energy Infrastructure and Resiliency (N00014-22-1-2001), Meta Research Award, and direct funding from Samsung Research America.

Media Coverage

• My research on security hardening of AR and IoT systems was covered by the Future Force Magazine - Vol. 9, 2023.
• My contributions towards designing a curriculum for Computer Science Teaching Assistants (TAs), as part of the Inclusive Computing Fellowship, was published in a news article by SBU News.