Computer Systems Security Laboratory (CSSL), Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

At CSSL, we are interested in computer systems security research, broadly defined.

We are actively hiring motivated Ph.D. students! If you are currently a student at IISc, and are interested in working on research projects in computer security, please contact us.

People

Vinod Ganapathy
Associate Professor, CSA
Convenor, CSSL

CSSL member Topic of investigation

Rounak Agarwal
M.Tech. (Research) student
At CSSL: January 2018 onwards Securing mobile payment schemes

Rakesh Rajan Beck
M.Tech. (Research) student
At CSSL: January 2019 onwards Regulating IoT devices in restricted spaces

Arun Joseph
Ph.D. student
At CSSL: July 2018 onwards Programming support for enclaved execution

Ajay Ashok Nayak
M.Tech. (Research) student
At CSSL: January 2019 onwards Hardware support for security

Kripa Shanker
Ph.D. student
At CSSL: January 2018 onwards Programming support for enclaved execution

Abhinivesh Sreepada
M.Tech. student
At CSSL: January 2019 onwards Network-based anomaly detection
(in collaboration with Pulse Secure India)

Abhishek Vijeev
Project Assistant
At CSSL: July 2018 onwards Regulating IoT devices in restricted spaces

Nikita Yadav
M.Tech. student
At CSSL: January 2019 onwards Permissioned blockchains
(in collaboration with IBM Research India)

Publications

For a full list of publications, please see Vinod Ganapathy's list of papers. The following is a list of papers published since CSSL was created in mid-2017.

Topics ― SEC: Security; PRIV: Privacy; SWE: Software Engineering & Analysis; MOB: Mobile Systems; CLD: Cloud Computing; WEB: Web Platforms; SYS: Computer Systems & Architecture; AI/ML: Machine Intelligence;
fse'20 SEC SWE CLD	An Evaluation of Methods to Port Legacy Code to SGX Enclaves Kripa Shanker, Arun Joseph, and Vinod Ganapathy Proceedings of ESEC/FSE'20, the 28^th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering Sacramento, California, USA, November 2020.
M.Tech. PRIV AI/ML	Model Extraction and Active Learning Aditya Shukla Masters Thesis for the M.Tech. by Research Degree Thesis defended May 2020.
arxiv 2002.06512 PRIV MOB SYS	Privaros: A Framework for Privacy-Compliant Drones Rakesh Rajan Beck, Abhishek Vijeev, and Vinod Ganapathy Arxiv 2002.06512 February 2020.
aaai'20 PRIV AI/ML	ActiveThief: Model Extraction using Active Learning and Unannotated Public Data Soham Pal, Yash Gupta, Aditya Shukla, Aditya Kanade, Shirish Shevade, and Vinod Ganapathy Proceedings of AAAI'20, the 34^th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence New York, New York, USA, February 2020.
M.Tech. SWE AI/ML	Experiences in Using Reinforcement Learning for Directed Fuzzing Subhendu Malakar Masters Thesis for the M.Tech. by Research Degree Thesis defended January 2020.
HotMobile'19 PRIV MOB SYS	Regulating Drones in Restricted Spaces Abhishek Vijeev, Vinod Ganapathy, and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya Proceedings of HotMobile'19, the 20^th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications Santa Cruz, California, USA, February 2019.
codaspy'18 SEC SYS	Secure, Consistent, and High-Performance Memory Snapshotting Guilherme Cox, Zi Yan, Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Vinod Ganapathy, Proceedings of CODASPY'18, the 8^th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 2018.
plas'17 SEC SWE	Compiler Optimizations with Retrofitting Transformations: Is there a Semantic Mismatch? Jay P. Lim, Vinod Ganapathy and Santosh Nagarakatte, Proceedings of PLAS'17, the 12^th ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security Dallas, Texas, USA, October 2017.
icdcs'17 SEC SYS CLD	EnGarde: Mutually-Trusted Inspection of SGX Enclaves Hai Nguyen and Vinod Ganapathy, Proceedings of ICDCS'17, the 37^th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2017.

Alumni

CSSL alumnus		Thesis/Topic	First position after CSSL
	Aditya Shukla, M.Tech. (Research), 2020 At CSSL: January 2018-January 2020	Model Extraction and Active Learning	Software Engineer ShareChat, Bangalore
	Subhendu Malakar, M.Tech. (Research), 2020 At CSSL: June 2017-June 2019	Experiences in using Reinforcement Learning for Directed Fuzzing	Member of Technical Staff Cohesity India, Bangalore
	Zad Basheer, M.Tech., 2018 At CSSL: June 2017-June 2018.	A Security Analysis of Some Mobile Payment Applications	Software Engineer Walmart Labs, Bangalore

CSSL member		Topic of investigation
	Rounak Agarwal M.Tech. (Research) student At CSSL: January 2018 onwards	Securing mobile payment schemes
	Rakesh Rajan Beck M.Tech. (Research) student At CSSL: January 2019 onwards	Regulating IoT devices in restricted spaces
	Arun Joseph Ph.D. student At CSSL: July 2018 onwards	Programming support for enclaved execution
	Ajay Ashok Nayak M.Tech. (Research) student At CSSL: January 2019 onwards	Hardware support for security
	Kripa Shanker Ph.D. student At CSSL: January 2018 onwards	Programming support for enclaved execution
	Abhinivesh Sreepada M.Tech. student At CSSL: January 2019 onwards	Network-based anomaly detection (in collaboration with Pulse Secure India)
	Abhishek Vijeev Project Assistant At CSSL: July 2018 onwards	Regulating IoT devices in restricted spaces
	Nikita Yadav M.Tech. student At CSSL: January 2019 onwards	Permissioned blockchains (in collaboration with IBM Research India)