Aanjhan Ranganathan
Associate Professor
Research interests
- Security and privacy
- Autonomous cyber-physical systems
- Wireless and mobile systems
- Embedded and IoT
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich — Switzerland
- MSc in Electronics and Microelectronics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne — Switzerland
- BSc in Electronics and Communication, Anna University — India
Biography
Aanjhan Ranganathan is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is interested in building secure autonomous cyber-physical systems and has worked on a wide variety of topics, including physical-layer security of wireless systems, secure localization and proximity verification, trusted computing architectures, and side-channels. He is a recipient of several awards including the outstanding dissertation award from ETH Zurich, regional winner of European Space Agency’s Satellite Navigation competition, and the Cyber Award from Armasuisse (Switzerland’s Department of Defense).
Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a senior researcher in the System Security group at ETH Zurich. He has over three years of industry research experience as a senior engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH’s Car Multimedia Division “Blaupunkt,” where he was involved in the development of embedded modules for top automotive manufacturers, including Audi and Volkswagen.
Recent publications
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ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices
Citation: Syed Khandker, Michele Guerra, Evangelos Bitsikas, Roger Piqueras Jover, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Christina Pöpper. (2024). ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices WISEC, 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643833.3656141 -
Track You: A Deep Dive into Safety Alerts for Apple AirTags
Citation: Narmeen Shafqat, Nicole Gerzon, Maggie Van Nortwick, Victor Sun, Alan Mislove, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Track You: A Deep Dive into Safety Alerts for Apple AirTags Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2023, 132-148. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0102 -
mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array
Citation: Rohith Reddy Vennam, Ish Kumar Jain, Kshitiz Bansal, Joshua Orozco, Puja Shukla, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Dinesh Bharadia. (2023). mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array SP, 1807-1821. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP46215.2023.10179371 -
UE Security Reloaded: Developing a 5G Standalone User-Side Security Testing Framework
Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Syed Khandker, Ahmad Salous, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Roger Piqueras Jover, Christina Pöpper. (2023). UE Security Reloaded: Developing a 5G Standalone User-Side Security Testing Framework WISEC, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3590194 -
Location-independent GNSS Relay Attacks: A Lazy Attacker’s Guide to Bypassing Navigation Message Authentication
Citation: Maryam Motallebighomi, Harshad Sathaye, Mridula Singh, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Location-independent GNSS Relay Attacks: A Lazy Attacker's Guide to Bypassing Navigation Message Authentication WISEC, 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3590186 -
Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings
Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Theodor Schnitzler, Christina Pöpper, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings CoRR, abs/2306.07695. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07695 -
ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee Based Smart Homes
Citation: Narmeen Shafqat, Daniel J. Dubois, David R. Choffnes, Aaron Schulman, Dinesh Bharadia, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2022). ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee Based Smart Homes ACNS, 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09234-3_6 -
SemperFi: Anti-spoofing GPS Receiver for UAVs
Citation: Sathaye, Harshad, et al. "SemperFi: Anti-Spoofing GPS Receiver for UAVs." Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022. 2022 -
V-Range: Enabling Secure Ranging in 5G Wireless Networks
Citation: Mridula Singh, Marc Roeschlin, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Srdjan Capkun. (2022). V-Range: Enabling Secure Ranging in 5G Wireless Networks NDSS. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-221/ -
Privacy-Preserving Positioning in Wi-Fi Fine Timing Measurement
Citation: Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2022). Privacy-Preserving Positioning in Wi-Fi Fine Timing Measurement Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2022, 325-343. https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0048 -
Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems
Citation: Harshad Sathaye, Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Guevara Noubir. (2019). "Wireless attacks on aircraft landing systems: demo". In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295–297. DOI: 10.1145/3317549.3326298
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