| Alumni |
| CSSL alumnus | Thesis/Topic | First position after CSSL | |
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Nikita Yadav Ph.D. student August 2020-August 2025 |
Ph.D. thesis:
Whole-Program and Non-Bare-Metal Control-Flow Attestation
(PhD thesis submitted August 2025)
[ACSAC'25], [Usenix Security'24], [NDSS'24], [CCS'23], [SEC'23], [COMSNETS'23] Awards: Google Ph.D. Fellow 2024, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, Murthy Govindaraju Research Award 2024. |
Post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft CoreAI
(Future of Scalable Software Engineering), Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Sai Teja Kuchi M.Tech. (Research) student January 2023-August 2025 | M.Tech. (by Research) thesis: A Framework for Timing Analysis of Event-driven Applications, co-advised by Prof. K. V. Raghavan (M.Tech. thesis submitted August 2025) |
Fujitsu Labs, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Kripa Shanker Ph.D. student January 2018-July 2025 |
Ph.D. thesis:
Protecting Deep Learning Models on Cloud Platforms with Trusted Execution Environments
(PhD thesis submitted in July 2025)
[FSE'20] |
Research Scientist at Rakuten Symphony India, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Kunal Pansare M.Tech., 2025 August 2024-June 2025 | Library Safe Control-Flow Attestation |
Micron Technology, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Tarun Baha M.Tech., 2025 August 2024-June 2025 | Fuzz Testing of IEC 61850 Server Using AFLNet | (On Linkedin) |
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Siddharth Baudh M.Tech., 2025 August 2024-June 2025 | Infrastructure for Memory Forensics |
Defense Research and Development Organization, Chandigarh (On Linkedin) |
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Kanmani A. M.Tech. (Research), 2025 January 2023-May 2025 |
M.Tech. (by Research) thesis:
IEDFuRL: A Black-box Fuzz Tester for IEC61850-Based Intelligent Electronic Devices using Reinforcement Learning
(Kanmani's thesis work on finding security defects in IEDs was recognized by Siemens listing her name on the Siemens Hall of Thanks for 2025) |
Wells Fargo, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Shivraj Jamgadepatil M.Tech., 2024 August 2023-June 2024 | Privilege Separation for ROS2 Applications |
Sentient Foundation, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Arpit Patel M.Tech., 2024 August 2023-June 2024 | A Greybox Fuzzer for IEC61850 |
Polymage Labs, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Hrushikesh Salunke M.Tech., 2024 August 2023-June 2024 |
OS-Secure Control Flow Path Attestation
[ACSAC'25] |
Texas Instruments, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Chinmay Gameti M.Tech. (Research), 2024 January 2020-February 2024 | M.Tech. (by Research) thesis: Decentralized Information Flow Control for the Robot Operating System. |
Samsung, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Nishit V. Pandya Project Assistant June 2022-July 2023 |
Information Flow Control for ROS
[NDSS'24] |
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego (Website) |
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Vivek Kumar M.Tech., 2023 June 2022-July 2023 | ML Model Privacy |
Goldman Sachs, Bangalore (On LinkedIn) |
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Himanshu Kumar M.Tech., 2023 June 2022-July 2023 |
Information Flow Control for ROS2
[NDSS'24] |
Wells Fargo, Bangalore
(On LinkedIn) |
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Dhruv Shah Piyush M.Tech. student June 2022-July 2023 | SmartSec: Securing the IED firmware of Smart Grids |
Silicon Labs
(On LinkedIn) |
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Gokulnath Pillai M.Tech. (Research), 2023 January 2021-May 2023 |
M.Tech. (by Research) thesis:
Privadome: A System for Citizen Privacy in the Delivery Drone Era
[PETS'24], [NDSS'24] (Gokulnath's thesis won a commendation from the CSA department in recognition of excellence). |
Cerebras, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Nikhil Agrawal M.Tech. (Research), 2022 (joint with CASL) January 2020-September 2022 | M.Tech. (by Research) thesis: An Evaluation of Basic Protection Mechanisms in Financial Apps on Mobile Devices |
Cradlewise, Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Eikansh Gupta M.Tech., 2022 June 2021-June 2022 | Enhancing Privacy in ROS2-based Drones |
Qualcomm, Hyderabad
(On LinkedIn) |
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Isha Bansal M.Tech., 2022 June 2021-June 2022 | Improving ROS2 Security using eBPF |
Ola Electric, Bangalore
(On LinkedIn) |
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C. Suraj Project Assistant September 2020-August 2021 | Drones and privacy |
Indian Armed Forces Suraj is a DGCA-certified RPAS pilot (On Linkedin) |
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Rakesh Rajan Beck
M.Tech. (Research), 2021 January 2019-June 2021 |
M.Tech. (by Research) thesis:
A Framework for Privacy Compliant Delivery Drones
[CCS'20] (Rakesh's thesis won a commendation from the CSA department in recognition of excellence). |
Citrix Systems, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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A. Akash
M.Tech., 2021 May 2020-June 2021 | Studies on Multi-cloud FaaS Applications |
AMD India, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Rounak Agarwal
M.Tech. (Research), 2021 January 2018-June 2021 | M.Tech. (by Research) thesis: A Trusted-Hardware Backed Secure Payments Platform for Android |
NVidia India, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Ajay Ashok Nayak
M.Tech. (Research), 2021 January 2019-February 2021 |
M.Tech. (by Research) thesis:
Design, Implementation, and Analysis of a TLB-based Covert Channel on GPUs
[USENIX'21], [AsiaCCS'21] |
Ph.D. candidate (with CSL), CSA Department, IISc Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Jaya Jyothiswaroop Kotni Project Assistant August 2019-December 2020 Jointly with CSL |
Serverless computing
[USENIX'21] |
Microsoft Research India (intern); then Rubrik India (On LinkedIn) |
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Abhishek Vijeev
Project Assistant July 2018-September 2020 |
Drones and privacy
[CCS'20], [HotMobile'19] |
Microsoft Research India (intern); then MS in Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego (On Linkedin) |
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Sreepada Abhinivesh
M.Tech., 2020 January 2019-July 2020 |
Anomaly Detection with Sparse Training Data |
Wells Fargo, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Rishabh Ravindra Meshram
M.Tech., 2020 January 2019-July 2020 | Analysis of the SAFE Remote Proctoring System |
Mindtree, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Nikita Yadav
M.Tech., 2020 January 2019-July 2020 |
Bug-finding Methods for Permissioned Blockchains |
Ph.D. candidate (in CSSL), CSA Department, IISc Bangalore (On Linkedin) |
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Aditya Shukla
M.Tech. (Research), 2020 January 2018-January 2020 |
M.Tech. (by Research) thesis:
Model Extraction and Active Learning
[AAAI'20] |
ShareChat, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Sujay Yadalam
Project Assistant July 2018-July 2019 Jointly with CSL |
Defenses against side-channel attacks in SGX
[TACO'20] |
Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison (On Linkedin) |
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Subhendu Malakar
M.Tech. (Research), 2020 June 2017-June 2019 | M.Tech. (by Research) thesis: Experiences in using Reinforcement Learning for Directed Fuzzing |
Cohesity India, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
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Zad Basheer
M.Tech., 2018 June 2017-June 2018. | A Security Analysis of Some Mobile Payment Applications |
Walmart Labs, Bangalore
(On Linkedin) |
Students supervised previously: For a complete list of Vinod Ganapathy's
prior students, including
those graduated during his stint at Rutgers University, please see this page.
