Padmanabhan Krishnan

Research Director

Padmanabhan Krishnan

Paddy Krishnan is a Research Director at Oracle Labs in Brisbane, Australia and leads the team. He has been with Oracle since Feb 2013. His current research interests are in the areas of software security, program analysis, and automatic test generation. At Oracle, Paddy has worked on detecting security vulnerabilities in the JDK, in Java-based web applications and in JavaScript-based client-side code. More recently he is exploring the expressive power of different models in the context of security monitoring. He is also interested in infrastructure-related security. He  has also supervised student interns in the area of scalability and applicability of points-to analysis, verification of concurrent data-structures, using mutation testing to detect security issues, and security analysis of SDNs and microservices.

Prior to joining Oracle Labs he was an academic for over 20 years with some industrial research experience. He is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE.

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