Prajwal Panzade
Title: Research Assistant Professor
Institution: Old Dominion University
Node affiliation: Coastal Virginia
EMAIL: ppanzade@odu.edu
Research Focus: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Trustworthy AI, Applied Post-Quantum Cryptography
Bio: Dr. Prajwal Panzade received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia State University (GSU) in 2024. During his Ph.D., he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Information Security and Privacy: Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) Center, where he contributed to National Science Foundation (NSF) and Microsoft-funded projects focused on machine learning privacy & security and applied cryptography. Dr. Panzade has presented his research at prestigious AI and security conferences, including the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P), ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), and the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He is also an active contributor to the academic community, serving on the organizing committee of IEEE S&P and the artifact review committees of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Before joining GSU, Dr. Panzade was a lecturer at the National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh (NIT-AP) and Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur in India. He earned his M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering with a specialization in Information Security from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad in 2017, and his B.Tech in Information Technology from the Government College of Engineering Amravati, India in 2014.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA, 2024
- M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (Information Security), Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, 2017
- B.Tech in Information Technology, Government College of Engineering Amravati, India, 2014
COVA CCI is supported by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and funded through the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Contact: covacci@odu.edu