Profile

            Prof. Priya Chandran is Professor (Higher Administrative Grade – HAG) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, with more than thirty-five years of distinguished service in teaching, research, and academic leadership, including nineteen years in the Professor cadre. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, an M.Tech (CSE) from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), and a B.E. from MANIT Bhopal.

           Her research contributions span computer architecture and virtualization, cybersecurity, erasure-coded storage, IoT and TinyML systems, and AI-driven computational methods. She has led major funded projects including a SERB–DST Core Research Grant on virtualization-enhanced architectures and contributed to national initiatives such as the Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) programme. As Principal Investigator/Co-PI, she has mobilized nearly ₹1 crore in sponsored research funding. Her work appears in reputed IEEE, Springer, and Elsevier journals, and in top-tier ACM/IEEE/SPEC/SIGSIM conferences.

             Prof. Chandran has served NIT Calicut in several pivotal roles, including Dean (Planning & Development), Internal Financial Adviser, Head of Department, Chairperson of academic committees, Chairperson of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), and Chairperson of NIT Calicut’s first Publicity Team and Social Media Committee constituted by the Ministry of Education. She has been a long-standing member of the Senate and Academic Council. She played a foundational role in curriculum design, drafting the proposal for her department’s  first M.Tech (CSE) programme that commenced in 1998, and established the Secure Computing Laboratory in 2005, which has since supported over 80% of the department’s Ph.D. research.

            Her international academic engagements span France, Estonia, Cyprus, Germany, Taiwan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and the USA. She has presented papers, delivered invited talks, chaired sessions, and collaborated with global research groups. She served as Track Chair for the Cloud Computing Track at ACM SAC for eight consecutive years and has been a research consultant for Aryaka Networks Pvt. Ltd., a multinational networking company. Her academic visits include the University of Christchurch, Tallinn University, and Tunghai University.

            A participant of the Ministry of Education’s LEAP (Leadership for Academicians Programme), Prof. Chandran brings a deep understanding of university governance, faculty development, digital transformation, and NEP-aligned modernization.

            She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM, SIGSIM  and ISTE. She conceptualized and launched “BGB – Beyond Glass Barriers,” an IEEE initiative promoting women in engineering, now a flagship annual event of IEEE Malabar Subsection.

             She has delivered keynotes and invited lectures on AI-enabled cloud services, cybersecurity and quantum communication, spectral graph theory, TinyML processors and sparsity-based efficient AI, and interactive learning methodologies. She has offered elective courses in Quantum Computing and has supervised interdisciplinary undergraduate projects. As part of NITC’s multidisciplinary research Centre (Centre for Information Technology Research and Automation- CITRA),  she is participating in the designing of a Minor programme in Quantum Technologies for NIT Calicut undergraduates and preparation of a proposal for a Quantum Technologies laboratory under the National Quantum Mission of Govt. of India.

              During her tenure as Dean (Planning & Development), she introduced Integrated Planning, revived crucial infrastructure projects, and planned initiatives worth more than ₹500 crores. She conceptualized and implemented NIVAHIKA, an institutional activity-reporting portal that enables automated data access and reporting—an innovative governance model adaptable to other universities. NIVAHIKA has been mentored from design to successful deployment by Prof Chandran.

             She had  also served on NITC’s Post-Flood Relief Work Coordination Committee following the 2018 Kerala floods, supporting coordination and community engagement efforts.

             Her research interests include Quantum Computing, Formal Methods for Information Security, Spectral Methods in Sparse Computations, Persistent Memory for Learning Systems, NLP for Indian Languages, and quantum-based key establishment protocols.

             Prof. Priya Chandran remains deeply committed to advancing high-quality research, interdisciplinary innovation, institutional excellence, and the mentorship of future engineers, researchers, and leaders.

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Algorithms and Complexity, Computer Architecture, Quantum Computing, and Formal Methods for Information Security.

Topics of research interest: Spectral Methods in Sparse Computations, Persistent Memory in Learning Systems, Accurate and efficient translation among Indian Languages, Group key establishment using quantum-based methods.

List of Publications

Journal Articles

[1] Mhatre, Swapneel and Chandran, Priya, "On the simulation of hypervisor instructions for accurate timing simulation of virtualized systems", International Journal of Information Technology, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 3455--3464, Springer Nature Singapore Singapore, 2025 [Scholar]

[2] Mhatre, Swapneel C and Chandran, Priya, "Automatic Generation of Simulators for Processors Enhanced for Security in Virtualization", IEEE Access, IEEE, 2025 [Scholar]

[3] Mhatre, Swapneel C and Chandran, Priya, "Simulators for Processors used in Virtualization: A Survey", IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, IEEE, 2025 [Scholar]

[4] Joy, Shyam P and Chandran, Priya, "A formal framework for verifying IKA property of protocols", Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 318--326, Elsevier, 2019 [Scholar]

[5] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Akash, GJ and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Storage node allocation methods for erasure code-based cloud storage systems", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 9127--9142, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg, 2019 [Scholar]

[6] Joy, Shyam P and Chandran, Priya, "Towards a secure development environment for collaborative applications", International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1--20, IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2019 [Scholar]

[7] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya, "Graph pruning based approach for inferring disease causing genes and associated pathways", International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 359--370, Inderscience Publishers (IEL), 2019 [Scholar]

[8] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya, "Inferring disease causing genes and their pathways: GpRr method", Journal of computational science, vol. 26, pp. 108--117, Elsevier, 2018 [Scholar]

[9] Chandran, Priya and others, "Secure and dynamic memory management architecture for virtualization technologies in iot devices", Future Internet, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 119, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018 [Scholar]

[10] Shabeera, TP and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Curtailing job completion time in MapReduce clouds through improved Virtual Machine allocation", Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 58, pp. 190--202, Pergamon, 2017 [Scholar]

[11] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya, "Inferring disease causing genes and their pathways: A mathematical perspective", arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02538, 2016 [arXiv] [Scholar]

[12] Ranjith, P and Priya, Chandran and Kaleeswaran, Shalini, "On Covert Channels between virtual machines", Journal in Computer Virology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 85--97, Springer, 2012 [Scholar]

Conference Proceedings

[13] Jaisooraj, J and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Energy-Efficient Routing in Low Power and Lossy Networks Under Hybrid Mode RPL", in 2025 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2025 [Scholar]

[14] Mhatre, Swapneel C and Chandran, Priya, "On the measurement of performance metrics for virtualization-enhanced architectures", in Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 49--56, 2023 [Scholar]

[15] Sandhya, P and Chandran, Priya, "Enhancement in IoT through Custom Instruction Set Architectures and TinyML", in 2023 International Conference on Computer, Electronics & Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3), pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2023 [Scholar]

[16] Vivek, MR and Chandran, Priya, "Analysis of subword based word representations case study: Fasttext Malayalam", in 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2022 [Scholar]

[17] Faisal, Abdul and Chandran, Priya, "GLDraw: A Platform for Graph Visualization", in 2021 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2021 [Scholar]

[18] Jose, Xavier and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Characterization, classification and detection of fake news in online social media networks", in 2021 IEEE Mysore Sub Section International Conference (MysuruCon), pp. 759--765, IEEE, 2021 [Scholar]

[19] Mhatre, Swapneel C and Chandran, Priya, "On making xen detect hypercalls and memory accesses for simulating virtualization-enabled processors", in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 154--161, 2020 [Scholar]

[20] Nair, Shruti and Mohan, Madhumita and Rajesh, Jemima and Chandran, Priya, "On finding the best learning model for assessing confidence in speech", in Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, pp. 58--64, 2020 [Scholar]

[21] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya and Soman, Anjana and Mathew, Aiswarya Elezabeth and Jharwal, Jaya, "Graph sparsification with parallelization to optimize the identification of causal genes and dysregulated pathways", in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 747--753, 2019 [Scholar]

[22] Chandran, Priya and Kumar, S D Madhu, "Session details: Theme: Distributed systems: CC-Cloud computing track", in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 2019 [Scholar]

[23] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Sharma, Vijay and Kumar, S D Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Modelling multi level consistency in erasure code based storage systems", in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 122--129, 2019 [Scholar]

[24] Amal, KV and Jaisooraj, J and Chandran, Priya and Madhu Kumar, SD, "Hybrid-RPL: A step toward ensuring scalable routing in internet of things", in International Conference on Advanced Communication and Computational Technology, pp. 583--595, Springer Nature Singapore Singapore, 2019 [Scholar]

[25] Mhatre, Swapneel C and Chandran, Priya and R, Jithin, "On the simulation of processors enhanced for security in virtualization", in Companion of the 2018 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, pp. 51--52, 2018 [Scholar]

[26] Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Session details: Distributed systems: CC-cloud computing track", in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2018 [Scholar]

[27] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Pratima, HV and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Improved Epoch Expiry and Load Handling Mechanism for RAPID-The Fast Data Update Protocol in Erasure Coded Storage Systems", in 2018 International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE), pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2018 [Scholar]

[28] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Porwal, Rajat and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "ECSim-2: A Performance Evaluator for Erasure Code based Storage Systems", in 2018 First International Conference on Secure Cyber Computing and Communication (ICSCCC), pp. 496--501, IEEE, 2018 [Scholar]

[29] Akash, GJ and Lee, Ojus Thomas and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya and Cuzzocrea, Alfredo, "Rapid: A fast data update protocol in erasure coded storage systems for big data", in 2017 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), pp. 890--897, IEEE, 2017 [Scholar]

[30] Chandran, Priya and Garg, Lakshya and Kumar, Aditya, "Multikernel simulation: a new approach to study rollback sensitive memory architecture", in 2017 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), pp. 437--442, IEEE, 2017 [Scholar]

[31] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya and Shreya, Garge and R, Aparna and R, Abijith, "On parallelizing graph theoretical approaches for identifying causal genes and pathways from very large biological networks", in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet of things, Data and Cloud Computing, pp. 1--6, 2017 [Scholar]

[32] Chandran, Priya and Kumar, S D Madhu, "Session details: CC-cloud computing track", in Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing, 2017 [Scholar]

[33] Jithin, R and Chandran, Priya, "Dynamic partitioning of physical memory among virtual machines: ASMI: Architectural support for memory isolation", in Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 474--476, 2016 [Scholar]

[34] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya, "“Who are the key players behind a disease state?”: Outcomes of a new computational approach on cancer data", in 2016 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB), pp. 1--4, IEEE, 2016 [Scholar]

[35] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Ecsim: A simulation tool for performance evaluation of erasure coded storage systems", in 2016 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 2713--2718, IEEE, 2016 [Scholar]

[36] Shoundic, Shubham and Chandran, Priya and Krishna, Payas and Reddy, Vinod and Jayachandra, Bodasingi and Pande, Lakshit, "Extended-HyperWall: Hardware support for rollback secure virtualization", in 2016 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 1674--1681, IEEE, 2016 [Scholar]

[37] Lee, Ojus Thomas and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya, "Erasure coded storage systems for cloud storage—challenges and opportunities", in 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE), pp. 1--7, IEEE, 2016 [Scholar]

[38] Patole, Amrita and Kumar, SD Madhu and Chandran, Priya and Shabeera, TP, "Load-aware replica placement in multiuser Hadoop environment using MST", in 2015 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), pp. 376--381, IEEE, 2015 [Scholar]

[39] Jithin, R and Chandran, Priya, "Virtual machine isolation: A survey on the security of virtual machines", in International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, pp. 91--102, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014 [Scholar]

[40] Devasia, Jeethu V and Chandran, Priya, "Towards an improved algorithm for modeling information flow in biological networks", in International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Information Science, pp. 88--95, 2014 [Scholar]

[41] Shabeera, TP and Chandran, Priya and Kumar, SD Madhu, "Authenticated and persistent skip graph: a data structure for cloud based data-centric applications", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, pp. 155--160, 2012 [Scholar]

[42] Sebastian, Merin and Chandran, Priya, "Towards designing a tool for event reconstruction using Gladyshev Approach", in Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 193--194, 2011 [Scholar]

[43] Joy, Shyam P and Chandran, Priya, "A formal framework for comparing group key agreement protocols with partial forward secrecy", in 2010 IEEE 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Services Architecture and Application, pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2010 [Scholar]

[44] Ezudheen, P and Chandran, Priya and Chandra, Joy and Simon, Biju Puthur and Ravi, Deepak, "Parallelizing SystemC kernel for fast hardware simulation on SMP machines", in 2009 ACM/IEEE/SCS 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, pp. 80--87, IEEE, 2009 [Scholar]

[45] Ross, Joe Cheri and Chandran, Priya, "Object serialization support for object oriented java processors", in 2008 International Symposium on Information Technology, vol. 3, pp. 1--6, IEEE, 2008 [Scholar]

[46] Singh, Ashish Kumar and Chandran, Priya, "A secure and efficient multi-authority proactive election scheme", in International Conference on Information Systems Security, pp. 208--218, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007 [Scholar]

Book Chapters

[47] Joy, Shyam P and Chandran, Priya, "Toward a Computational Trust Model for Secure Peer-to-Peer Communication", Managing Trust in Cyberspace, vol. 134, pp. 131, CRC Press, 2013 [Scholar]

Theses

[48] Chandran, Priya, "PC Troubleshooting Expert", NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT, 2005 [Scholar]

Other

[49] Chandran, Priya, "Automatic generation of compiled cycle level microarchitecture simulators for superspeculative processors", 2011 [Scholar]

[50] Chandran, Priya and Gurudatha, M, "STRING COMPARISION USING BEHAVIORAL TREES"

Completed

Thesis Submitted

Ongoing Ph. Ds 

1. Vivek M. R - Translation of Indian Languages

2. Leena Y - Persistent Memory

3. Benil Joseph - Ontology

Research Consultancy Aryaka Networks Pvt Ltd,  Investigating methods for data deduplication in networks, 2018 2020. Rs 7 Lakhs

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS DEAN (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) OF NIT CALICUT 

• a. Subway connecting two sections of the campus (initiated 2017-restarted in 2023-completion  expected soon)
• b. Mega Hostel I Balance works (originally started in 2010 – was only partially completed-recommenced and about to complete)
• c. New Ladies Hostel project, that was approved in 2019 (construction started in 2024 with HEFA Funding).
• d. New Academic Block, that was approved in 2018. Foundation stone laid in June 2023. 

1. Dean (Planning and Development), NIT Calicut, from April 5, 2023, to April 8, 2025.

2. Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Calicut from Jul 19, 2010 to Jul 19, 2012

3. Member, Board of Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Learning, BOS External Expert for Computer Engineering from June 2022

4. Member, Senate NITC since November 17, 2016

5. Internal Financial Adviser, NIT Calicut, since February 25, 2025

6. Chairperson-Publicity Team (initially formed by MoE) at NIT Calicut  for Management of Publicity for Institute Activities from Aug 26, 2018 to Jan 11, 2021.

7. Chairperson-Internal Complaints Committee, NIT Calicut from Apr 1, 2014 to Jan 31, 2015

8. Chairperson-Project Monitoring Committees (6 major projects with NITC/CPWD/KPWD/KWA/KSEB etc) as Dean (P&D), from April 5, 2023 to April 8, 2025

9. Chairperson-Staff Redistribution Committee, NIT Calicut from October 6 2023 to June 19, 2024

1. Senior Member/Member, IEEE since December 31, 2016

2. Member, ACM since December 31, 2017

3. Member SIGSIM since December 31, 2017

4. Member, ISTE since December 30, 1990

Involvement with the formulation of new academic programmes

 Some Recent Keynotes and Talks/Lectures 

1. "AI enabled cloud services- NLP Tools" at Central University of Kerala, January 2024

2. "Cyber-Security – Quantum Communication and Cryptography", TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, January 2023

3. "Quantum Cryptography", SJCET, Pala, January 2024.

4. ""Spectral Insights in Graph Theory: A Gentle Introduction", NIT Calicut, November 2024

5. "Efficient AI with TinyML Processors: Enabling Sustainability through Sparsity", NIT Calicut, January 2025

Outreach Assignments

1. Faculty Selection Committee - Expert Member, at several universities and NITs

2. Participated as subject expert in Curriculum Design in inception of KTU

3. External Subject Expert in Curriculum Design for CSE Deptt at NIT Surathka

MoUs formulated for academic collaborations

MoU to collaborate for combined research, in specific areas of research of common interest, between  Aryaka Networks Pvt Limited, USA and NIT Calicut in 2018

Books and review assignments

1. Editorial Messages for ACM SAC Proceedings

2. Editorial Board Member for Proceedings of IEEE INDICON 2024

3. Peer reviewer for several journals such as Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature.

4. Book Chapter: Towards a computational trust model in peer-to-peer communication, Chapter in the book Managing Trust in Cyberspace, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group) Boca Raton, Florida, USA, Jan 1, 2013.

5. Proceedings Author: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Contemporary Computing, {IC3} By IEEE, Jan 1, 2014.

6. Track Editorial CC Track Proceedings of ACM SAC 2020  May 1, 2017

7. Track Editorial CC Track Proceedings of ACM SAC 2019 May 1, 2019

International  Exposure