Arun Babu

I obtained my Ph.D (thesis) from Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakam under
Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI); and M.Tech in Information Technology from the
University of Hyderabad.

Research interests

• Literate programming : Literate - A literate programming tool for any language
• System security: some aspects of cryptography, authentication, authorization
• Software engineering: verification and validation, software relibility

Previously

• Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Hyderabad
• Senior Member of Technical Staff at ARTPARK at IISc, Bengaluru
• Member of Technical Staff at RBCCPS, IISc, Bengaluru
• Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) at ResilTech s.r.l, Pisa

Courses taught/co-taught

• Basic course on data collection and pipelines (lablet) - Aug 2021
  RBCCPS/ARTPark, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
• Introduction to IoT (short course) - May 2019
  RBCCPS, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
• Introduction to cybersecurity (short course) - (May 2017, Feb 2018)
  RBCCPS, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Selected publications

• Freestyle, a randomized version of ChaCha for resisting offline brute-force and dictionary attacks
  Arun Babu Puthuparambil and Jithin Jose Thomas,
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 49, 2019, 102396, ISSN 2214-2126.
  [Link] [Code]

• A hybrid approach to quantify software reliability in nuclear safety systems
  P. Arun Babu, C. Senthil Kumar, and N. Murali
  Annals of Nuclear Energy 50 (2012): 133-140.
  [Link]

• An intuitive approach to determine test adequacy in safety-critical software
  P. Arun Babu, C. Senthil Kumar, N. Murali, T. Jayakumar
  ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 37.5 (2012): 1-10.
  [Link]

• Towards assessment of software reliability and its characteristics in safety systems of nuclear reactors
  P. Arun Babu, C. Senthil Kumar, Nagarajan Murali, T. Jayakumar
  ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 39.5 (2014): 1-17.
  [Link]