| Alumni |
| CSSL alumnus | Thesis/Topic | First position after CSSL | |
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Chinmay Gameti M.Tech. (Research) student January 2020 onwards | ROS Security | (On Linkedin) |
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Nikhil Agrawal M.Tech. (Research) student (joint with CASL) January 2020-April 2022 | An Evaluation of Basic Protection Mechanisms in Financial Apps on Mobile Devices (thesis submitted) |
Cradlewise, 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 |
A Framework for Privacy Compliant Delivery Drones
[CCS'20] |
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 | 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 |
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 grad school at 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 |
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 | 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.