Secure and Transparent Electronics Supply Chain Management using Blockchains

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Risks within supply chains can emerge in many forms. To manage them effectively, organizations must proactively assess, analyze, and anticipate potential vulnerabilities, while addressing issues as they occur. With modern supply chains for electronic products  becoming increasingly complex, maintaining strong visibility and traceability has become essential for preventing errors, fraud, and unexpected disruptions.

In this talk, we will explore how blockchain technology holds significant promise for transforming supply chain management by introducing new levels of accountability, security, and reliability. Blockchains are decentralized, peer-to-peer ledgers secured through cryptography, which record transactions in a way that is immutable (extremely difficult to alter) and append-only. Transactions on a blockchain are validated through a decentralized consensus mechanism which makes them highly resistant to tampering. This talk will introduce blockchain technology and highlight how it can be leveraged to enhance accountability and transparency across supply chains and improve traceability of issues back to their source. We will also illustrate how smart contracts deployed on blockchain platforms can optimize financial workflows by automating payment execution upon the verification of milestone completion. Additionally, we will examine how blockchain-enabled provenance tracking enhances supply chain reliability and integrity by providing immutable, end-to-end visibility into the origin and movement of assets.


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  • Date: 25 Jun 2025
  • Time: 06:00 PM UTC to 07:30 PM UTC
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  • Starts 26 May 2025 04:00 AM UTC
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Balaji Palanisamy

 

 

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Balaji Palanisamy

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Balaji Palanisamy is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013. His research interests include Blockchains, Data Privacy, Data Security, Privacy-preserving System Design and Scalable and Efficient resource management for Cloud and Edge Computing systems. His research publications have appeared in several top journals including IEEE TDSC, TMC, TSC, TNSM, IoTJ, ACM TWEB, TOIT and in highly reputed conferences such as ACM CCS, CODASPY, CIKM, IEEE SRDS, ICDCS, HiPC. His research has received numerous Best Paper awards in various conferences including the Distinguished Paper award at CCS 2023, the Best Demo award at ICDCS 2024, and Best Paper awards at DBSec 2022, IEEE BigDataCongress 2018, IEEE BigDataCongress 2017, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 and IEEE CLOUD 2012. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC, from 2016-2024. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE TDSC, the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, ACM TOPS and the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE TBD. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE VTS (2025 Class) and a senior member of the IEEE.





Agenda

June 25, 2025

2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT- Presentation

3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT- Questions and Discussion