About Me

I am Akhil S. Bandarupalli, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Purdue University. My research interests span the fields of blockchains and cyber-physical system (CPS) security. I am being advised by Professor Saurabh Bagchi and Professor Aniket Kate.

Preprints

1. HashRand: Efficient Asynchronous Random Beacon without Threshold Cryptographic Setup A. Bandarupalli, A. Bhat, S. Bagchi, A. Kate, and M.K. Reiter. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1755

Publications

1. EESMR: Energy efficient BFT-SMR for the masses A. Bhat, A. Bandarupalli, M. Nagaraj, S. Bagchi, A. Kate, and M. K. Reiter In Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, December 2023.
2. Vega: Drone-based Multi-Altitude Target Detection for Autonomous Surveillance A. Bandarupalli, S. Jain, A. Melachuri, J. Pappas, S. Chaterji In Proceedings of 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Pafos, Cyprus, 2023
3. The unique chain rule and its applications A. Bhat, A. Bandarupalli, S. Bagchi, A. Kate, and M. K. Reiter In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, May 2023
4. Persistent Airborne Surveillance using Semi-Autonomous Drone swarms A. Bandarupalli, D. Swarup, N. Weston, and S. Chaterji. 2021. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (Dronet'21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 19–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469259.3470487