Sasikumar Punnekkat is a Professor in dependable software engineering at MDH 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 is the coordinator of large EU-funded projects EUROWEB, EUROWEB+ and EURECA, for research and educational collaboration between Europe and Western Balkan/Asia. He is the program director of the Master Programs in Software Engineering at MDH. He is also the leader of the research work packages in the EU-Artemis funded SafeCer Projects. His research interests include multiple aspects of Real-time Systems, Dependability, and Software Engineering. Dr Sasikumar Punnekkat has over 120 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.
Real-time systems, fault-tolerant computing, software engineering, functional safety, software reliability, and software testing
System of Systems Hazard Analysis Using HAZOP and FTA for Advanced Quarry Production (Nov 2019) Faiz Ul Muram , Muhammad Atif Javed, Sasikumar Punnekkat 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS-2019)
A State-based Extension to STPA for Safety-Critical System-of-Systems (Nov 2019) Stephan Baumgart, Joakim Fröberg , Sasikumar Punnekkat 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS-2019)
Experimental analysis of dependency factors of Software Product Reliability using SonarQube (Oct 2019) Sanjay. L. Joshi , Bharat Deshpande , Sasikumar Punnekkat IWSM Mensura (IWSM-MENSURA2019)
Safety-oriented flexible design of Autonomous Mobile Robot systems (Oct 2019) Nitin Desai, Sasikumar Punnekkat 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE 2019)
Forecast Horizon for Automated Safety Actions in Automated Driving Systems (Sep 2019) Ayhan Mehmed, Moritz Antlanger , Wilfried Steiner , Sasikumar Punnekkat 38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2019)
On Fault-tolerant Scheduling of Time Sensitive Networks (Jul 2019) Radu Dobrin, Nitin Desai, Sasikumar Punnekkat 4th International Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS 2019)
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