Sushmita Ruj


Sushmita Ruj is an Indian computer scientist whose research concerns access control, computer security and information privacy. She is an associate professor at the Indian Statistical Institute and a senior research scientist at CSIRO in Australia.
Ruj graduated from the Bengal Engineering College in 2004, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She earned a master's degree in computer science in 2006 from the Indian Statistical Institute, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2010. Her dissertation, Application of Combinatorial Structures to Key Predistribution in Sensor Networks and Traitor Tracing, was supervised by Bimal Kumar Roy.
After postdoctoral research at Lund University and the University of Ottawa, Ruj returned to India as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in 2012, and moved back to the Indian Statistical Institute in 2013.