N. Pandya

Papers

Total Citations

H-Index

About

Dr. N. Pandya is a leading researcher in cybersecurity and distributed systems, with a particular focus on securing robotic and autonomous systems. Their most notable contribution is pioneering decentralized information-flow control (IFC) for ROS2, the widely used publish/subscribe middleware for robotics. In their highly cited 2024 work, Pandya identified a critical vulnerability: ROS2 offers applications poor control over how their data is consumed downstream. By designing a decentralized IFC mechanism, they enabled fine-grained, end-to-end data security without a central authority—a breakthrough for safety-critical applications like autonomous driving and drone swarms. This work has already garnered 3 citations, reflecting its immediate impact on the robotics security community. Pandya’s research bridges the gap between theoretical security models and practical, real-time systems, making them a key figure in the emerging field of secure middleware. Their achievements include advancing the state of the art for privacy and integrity in distributed robotics, laying the groundwork for more trustworthy autonomous systems.