Over the last 8 years, Annanda has been active in software and data security (in particular the access and usage control). At Sirris, he is a senior software security expert and actively working on different aspects of software security, from data to system security and privacy. He is particularly interested in data integrity and confidentiality in distributed environment: distributed ledger technology (e.g. blockchain and directed acyclic graph). Cloud, IoT and smart mobility are also his area of interest.
Before his time with Sirris, Annanda was a researcher in computer science faculty at the University of Namur (Belgium) since 2010, where he worked on different European projects, such as P5 (FP7) and IDEES (FEDER). He also used to be a researcher for the Computer Science Faculty at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) from 2006 to 2008 and head of that faculty from 2008 to 2010.
Annanda has a Phd in Computer Science from the University of Namur, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (IITB) and an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cambodia Institute of Technology (ITC), Cambodia.