John Augustine

John Augustine

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

John Augustine is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He holds a PhD from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. His research interests are in distributed algorithms specifically focusing on distributed trust issues that emerge in settings where participants may behave maliciously.

At IIT Madras, he is a founding member of the Cryptography, Cybersecurity, and Distributed Trust group (CCD), which has now grown to become the Centre for Cybersecurity, Trust and Reliability (CyStar). He co-heads the Distributed Trust and Algorithms Lab and the CAMS-IITM Fintech Innovation Lab, and is also affiliated with the Theory group in CSE.