Aanjhan Ranganathan

Security and privacy
Autonomous cyber-physical systems
Wireless and mobile systems
Embedded and IoT

PhD in Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich — Switzerland
MSc in Electronics and Microelectronics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne — Switzerland
BSc in Electronics and Communication, Anna University — India

Aanjhan Ranganathan is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is interested in building secure autonomous cyber-physical systems and has worked on a wide variety of topics, including physical-layer security of wireless systems, secure localization and proximity verification, trusted computing architectures, and side-channels. He is a recipient of several awards including the outstanding dissertation award from ETH Zurich, regional winner of European Space Agency’s Satellite Navigation competition, and the Cyber Award from Armasuisse (Switzerland’s Department of Defense).

Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a senior researcher in the System Security group at ETH Zurich. He has over three years of industry research experience as a senior engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH’s Car Multimedia Division “Blaupunkt,” where he was involved in the development of embedded modules for top automotive manufacturers, including Audi and Volkswagen.

Published: February 23rd, 2025
Security Analysis of 5G NR Device-to-Device Sidelink Communications

Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2025). Security Analysis of 5G NR Device-to-Device Sidelink Communications CoRR, abs/2502.16650. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.16650
Published: July 4th, 2024
Seamlessly Insecure: Uncovering Outsider Access Risks in AiDot-Controlled Matter Devices

Citation: Narmeen Shafqat, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2024). Seamlessly Insecure: Uncovering Outsider Access Risks in AiDot-Controlled Matter Devices SP (Workshops), 281-288. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPW63631.2024.00034
Published: May 27th, 2024
ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices

Citation: Syed Khandker, Michele Guerra, Evangelos Bitsikas, Roger Piqueras Jover, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Christina Pöpper. (2024). ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices WISEC, 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643833.3656141
Published: October 1st, 2023
Track You: A Deep Dive into Safety Alerts for Apple AirTags

Citation: Narmeen Shafqat, Nicole Gerzon, Maggie Van Nortwick, Victor Sun, Alan Mislove, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Track You: A Deep Dive into Safety Alerts for Apple AirTags Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2023, 132-148. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0102
Published: July 21st, 2023
mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array

Citation: Rohith Reddy Vennam, Ish Kumar Jain, Kshitiz Bansal, Joshua Orozco, Puja Shukla, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Dinesh Bharadia. (2023). mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array SP, 1807-1821. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP46215.2023.10179371
Published: June 28th, 2023
UE Security Reloaded: Developing a 5G Standalone User-Side Security Testing Framework

Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Syed Khandker, Ahmad Salous, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Roger Piqueras Jover, Christina Pöpper. (2023). UE Security Reloaded: Developing a 5G Standalone User-Side Security Testing Framework WISEC, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3590194
Published: June 18th, 2023
Location-independent GNSS Relay Attacks: A Lazy Attacker’s Guide to Bypassing Navigation Message Authentication

Citation: Maryam Motallebighomi, Harshad Sathaye, Mridula Singh, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Location-independent GNSS Relay Attacks: A Lazy Attacker's Guide to Bypassing Navigation Message Authentication WISEC, 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3590186
Published: June 13th, 2023
Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings

Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Theodor Schnitzler, Christina Pöpper, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2023). Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings CoRR, abs/2306.07695. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07695
Published: June 18th, 2022
ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee Based Smart Homes

Citation: Narmeen Shafqat, Daniel J. Dubois, David R. Choffnes, Aaron Schulman, Dinesh Bharadia, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2022). ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee Based Smart Homes ACNS, 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09234-3_6
Published: April 28th, 2022
SemperFi: Anti-spoofing GPS Receiver for UAVs

Citation: Sathaye, Harshad, et al. "SemperFi: Anti-Spoofing GPS Receiver for UAVs." Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022. 2022
Published: January 1st, 2022
V-Range: Enabling Secure Ranging in 5G Wireless Networks

Citation: Mridula Singh, Marc Roeschlin, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Srdjan Capkun. (2022). V-Range: Enabling Secure Ranging in 5G Wireless Networks NDSS. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-221/
Published: January 1st, 2022
Privacy-Preserving Positioning in Wi-Fi Fine Timing Measurement

Citation: Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2022). Privacy-Preserving Positioning in Wi-Fi Fine Timing Measurement Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2022, 325-343. https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0048
Published: May 15th, 2019
Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems

Citation: Harshad Sathaye, Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Guevara Noubir. (2019). "Wireless attacks on aircraft landing systems: demo". In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295–297. DOI: 10.1145/3317549.3326298