Sundaram won firm place with his presentation titled, "Embedded Intelligence with Covert Cognizance (C2)." His presentation detailed, "a future of resilient cyber-physical systems that can self-heal and continue operation in the face of sophisticated cyberattacks without requiring human interferance."

Sundaram obtained his B.S.N.E at Purdue in Spring 2019, and started his graduate career in May 2019 in the field of cybersecurity for nuclear power. He has authored multiple publications focused on intrusion detection of sophisticated cyberattacks in industrial systems via the Covert Cognizance paradigm, and has recently codeveloped a data masking methodology for sensitive industrial data while preserving its inferential properties, called the Deceptive Infusion of Data.”

The CRISP Student Research Competition consists of two stages each judged by a panel of industry professionals. The first stage includes written statements of competitor’s research visions and project progress where four finalists are selected. The second stage consists of a presentation by four finalists and a question and answer session. Due to COVID-19, the presentations took place September 1^st, 2022, with finalists present in person at Purdue University and judges remote.

Award winners from left to right: Kananart Kuwaranancharoen (hon. mention), Jayoung Lee (runner up), Saurabh (CRISP Director), Arvind Sundaram (first place), Akash Melachuri (hon. mention).

Read more about the 2021-2022 CRISP Student Research at: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CRISP/news/crisp-student-competition-winners-announced

Read more about Arvind Sundaram’s first place victory at: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CYNICS/news/mr-sundaram-wins-crisp-student-research-competition

Source: Arvind Sundaram, sundara4@purdue.edu

Writer: Jessica Johnson, John1690@purdue.edu