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, automatic test generation. He is also interested in exploring the use of LLMs to enhance security analysis. More specifically, Paddy has contributed to work on vulnerability detection, runtime application-self protection (RASP), software supply chain security, security analysis of infrastructure-as-code, and automatic program repair. 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, and use of LLMs towards program repair.
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.