Akanksha Pandey
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Dr. Akanksha Pandey is a cybersecurity researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of mobile security, sensor-based threats, and the Internet of Things. Her research uncovers how everyday smartphone sensors—such as magnetometers and motion detectors—can be exploited to compromise user privacy and control over connected devices. In her highly cited 2021 paper, “PIN Inference Attack: A Threat to Mobile Security and Smartphone-Controlled Robots” (9 citations), Pandey demonstrated a novel side-channel attack that uses sensor data to infer personal identification numbers, posing risks not only to individual users but also to smartphone-controlled robotic systems. This work highlights the growing vulnerability of software robots and the broader IoT ecosystem to sensor-based inference attacks. By bridging mobile security and robotics, Pandey’s contributions are vital for developing more resilient authentication methods and privacy-preserving sensor access controls. Her research serves as a critical warning for engineers and policymakers, emphasizing that as smartphones become the brains of robots, their sensors must be treated as potential attack vectors.
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