About Me

My name is Saikath Bhattacharya. I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Before that, I was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Science of Security Lablet at North Carolina State University. I completed my PhD from the Dependable Software and Systems Laboratory. My thesis advisor was Dr. Lance Fiondella at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

I graduated in the top 5 percent of my class with a Master’s of Technology in Communication Systems from the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in 2011 and a Bachelor’s of Engineering from Nagpur University in 2009. From 2011-2014, I was a Lecturer at the School of Electronics, KIIT.

Area of interest

I am interested in empirical software engineering, software security testing, reliability and software engineering, cyber-physical systems, failure prediction, and test and validation of AI systems. My thesis explored tradespace exploration, design of alternates, and subsystem reliability investment models to reduce lifecycle operational and support cost for rotorcrafts. I have also developed cost-based metrics and a framework to assess Li-ion battery prognostics.

Announcements

1. Our paper titled “Software and System Reliability Engineering for Autonomous Systems incorporating Machine Learning” won the SRE Stan Ofsthun Best Student Paper Award at the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Palm Spring, CA, Jan. 2020.
2. Selected for Research Associateship Program (RAP) U.S. Army Research Laboratory (US-ARL) to work on “Tradespace exploration incorporating PHM for RAMS+C”