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Venkat Venkatakrishnan (born 1975, Chennai, India) is Professor  at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago. He is an expert in computer systems security.

Starting April 2020, he was named the Interim Director of Research at the [Discovery Partners Institute].

Biography
Venkatakrishnan received his undergraduate education from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 1997. He received his Ph.D. degree from [Stony Brook University] in 2004.

Academic work
He holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science at UIC. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering. Previously, he was the Director NSF Sponsored IGERT Ph.D. program in Electronic Security and Privacy, a Ph.D. program in cybersecurity funded by a National Science Foundation grant which graduated about 20 PhDs in the area of cybersecurity.

Research
Venkatakrishnan’s research contributions have led to major advances in the design, and analysis of safe computer systems. He has authored or co-authored close to seventy refereed publications, graduated 7 PhD students and many Masters students. His students and postdoctoral associates have gone on to successful leadership positions at major industrial laboratories, faculty positions at major universities world-wide. He has led several large successful projects sponsored by NSF and DARPA, and he has been on grants as PI or co-PI for over 18 million.

Awards and Honors
Venkatakrishnan's research has received four distinguished paper awards at leading security conferences, a University Scholar Award.