Puthuvath Vinod is presently a Professor in the Department of Computer Applications at Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy, where he the part of EU-H2020 project named TagitSmart. He was also a Postdoctoral researcher at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India under the ISEA project on Mobile Security. He holds his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. In 2020, he was awarded the Seal of Excellence for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission. He has numerous research articles published in peer-reviewed Journals and International Conferences. He is a reviewer of a number of security journals such as IEEE Transactions of Information Forensics, IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, Elsevier Computer Communications, and is also serving as a programme committee member in the International Conferences related to Computer and Information Security. Vinod’s area of interest is Adversarial Machine Learning, Malware Analysis, Context aware privacy-preserving Data Mining, and Natural Language Processing.

His project as MSCA-PF fellow titled OPTIMA (Organization sPecific Threat Intelligence Mining and sharing) aims to design techniques and tools for the extraction of Threat Intelligence targeted to organizations using Machine Learning algorithms, and to effectively share threat records using privacy-preserving methods.