Bio

Aanjhan is an associate professor (with tenure) in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research revolves around the security and privacy of wireless networks with a strong focus on autonomous cyber-physical systems and smart ecosystems. He 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 and has over 3 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. He holds an M.Sc with specialization in Electronics and Microelectronics from EPFL, Switzerland and a Ph.D in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Team

I am very fortunate to work with some talented and motivated students.

• Alejandro Ayala, PhD student (Sep 2025 - )
• Jason Veara, PhD student (Sep 2024 - )
• Evangelos (Vaggelis) Bitsikas, PhD student (Sep 2022 - )
• Kyle Moy, UG Research Assistant (July 2024 - )
• Harry Rosenstein, UG Research Assistant (Jan 2024 - )
• Manav Jain, MS Research Assistant (Jan 2024 - )

Alumni

• Dr. Maryam Motallebighomi, PhD student (Sep 2020 - Apr 2026) -> Qualcomm
• Adam Belfki, UG student researcher (Jan 2023 - Dec 2023) -> National Deep Inference Fabric (Research Software Engineer)
• Alexandre Riou, MS Thesis exchange student from EPFL, Switzerland (May 2025 - Sep 2025)
• Ismael Sanchez, UG co-op (Jul 2024 - Dec 2024)
• Dr. Narmeen Shafqat, PhD student (Sep 2019 - Aug 2024) -> NUST Pakistan (Assistant Professor)
• Ayyappan Rajesh, UG student Researcher (May 2023 - Dec 2023)
• Dr. Harshad Sathaye, PhD student (Jan 2019 - Apr 2023) -> ETH Zurich (post doc)
• Dr. Domien Schepers, PhD student (Sep 2018 - Jan 2023) -> Qualcomm
• Cathleen Zhang, BS (Jul 2020 - Jul 2021)
• Nakul Ramesh, MS (Sep 2019 - Dec 2019)

Sponsors

Thanks to all the following organization for generously funding my research:

• Amazon Research Award
• Google Fellowship
• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
• armasuisse S+T (Dept of Defense in Switzerland)
• U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (ARL/DEVCOM)
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)