Joyanta Debnath

Joyanta Debnath, Ph.D.

Cybersecurity Research Engineer
GE Vernova Advanced Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

About Me

I am currently a Cybersecurity Research Engineer at the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center, where I work on securing and improving the reliability of embedded and safety-critical systems. Before joining GE Vernova, I completed my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University under the supervision of Professor Omar Haider Chowdhury. I obtained my Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Research Background

My research background lies at the intersection of computer security and automated reasoning. I have extensive experience applying formal verification techniques to improve the security, reliability, and robustness of modern systems and protocols. My work has focused on the automated detection of functional bugs in network protocols and safety-critical cyber-physical and IoT systems, with particular emphasis on SSL/TLS and the robustness of X.509 certificate validation in widely used open-source implementations. More broadly, I am interested in building principled, scalable approaches that bridge theory and practice in formal verification and security, and in applying these methods to real-world systems to improve their trustworthiness and resilience.

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Resume (Updated on 01.01.2026)