Sandeep Shukla


Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently the director of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He took charge as the director of IIITH on 20 August 2025, succeeding Prof. P. J. Narayanan after a tenure of 12 years. Prof. Shukla was previously the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor and previous head of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, and associate editor for ACM transactions on Cyber Physical Systems. Previously, he was also the joint director of C3i centre at IIT Kanpur along with Manindra Agrawal.

Education

Shukla obtained his B.E. degree from Jadavpur University in 1991. After graduation, he immigrated to the United States where he attended University at Albany, SUNY for three years. There he was awarded an M.S. degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1997.

Career

He was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, Arlington, Virginia between 2002 and 2015.

Awards and honors

In 2012, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Member. In 2014, he was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to applied probabilistic model checking for system design".