I have supervised the research of a number of talented students and am grateful to them for choosing to work with me. This page only lists students that have graduated with degrees. For a list of advisees currently pursuing their degrees, please consult the CSSL page. Here is a link to my academic lineage.
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Ph.D. Thesis Supervision |
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| Student | Degree completion | Ph.D. Dissertation | First employer after Ph.D. | |||
| Saman Zarandioon | May 2012 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Improving the Security and Usability of Cloud Services with User-Centric Security Models (Thesis, Slides). Co-supervised with Prof. Danfeng Yao. DOI:10.7282/T3PC31B4 | Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, WA. | |||
| Mohan Dhawan | May 2013 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Rethinking Web Platform Extensibility (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/T38P5Z39 | IBM Research--India, New Delhi. | |||
| Liu Yang | May 2013 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | New Pattern Matching Algorithms for Network Security Applications (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/T3513WS6 | HP ArcSight, Sunnyvale, CA. | |||
| Shakeel Butt | January 2015 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Self-service Cloud Computing (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/T3930VWX | NVidia Inc., Santa Clara, CA. | |||
| Amruta Gokhale | October 2015 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Similarity Detection Techniques for Mobile Platform Artifacts (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/T3J38VJN | Teradata Hadapt, Cambridge, MA. | |||
| Rezwana Karim | October 2015 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Techniques and Tools for Secure Web Browser Extension Development (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/T3000433 | Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA. | |||
| Hai Nguyen | October 2018 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Exploring Security Support for Cloud-based Applications (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/t3-dre3-gm67 | Bloomberg, Princeton, NJ. | |||
| Daeyoung Kim | January 2019 (Ph.D., Rutgers) | Regulating Smart Devices in Restricted Spaces (Thesis, Slides). DOI:10.7282/t3-c6kf-j713 | Assistant Professor, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. | |||
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Post-doctoral Research Supervision |
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| Postdoc | Duration | Ph.D. Background/Postdoc Research | First employer after postdoc | |||
| Arati Baliga | May-September 2009 (Rutgers) | Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University (January 2009). Post doctoral research on operating system integrity co-supervised with Prof. Liviu Iftode. | AT&T Security Research Center, New York, NY. | |||
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Masters (by Research) Thesis Supervision |
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| The following students completed their masters research under my supervision. A masters-by-research degree requires the student to submit a thesis that will be reviewed by an external committee member, and the student defends this thesis in a Ph.D.-thesis-defense-like oral presentation. | ||||||
| Student | Degree completion | MS/M.Tech. Thesis | First employer after MS/M.Tech. | |||
| Jeffrey Bickford | January 2012 (MS, Rutgers) | Rootkits on Smart Phones: Attacks, Implications and Energy-Aware Defense Techniques (Thesis). Co-supervised with Prof. Liviu Iftode. DOI:10.7282/T3RJ4HHW | AT&T Security Research Center, New York, NY. | |||
| Yogesh Padmanaban | January 2013 (MS, Rutgers) | Learning API Mappings for Programming Platforms (Thesis). DOI:10.7282/T3GX498K | Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA. | |||
| Subhendu Malakar | April 2020 (M.Tech., IISc) | Experiences in using Reinforcement Learning for Directed Fuzzing (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | Cohesity India, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Aditya Shukla | July 2020 (M.Tech., IISc) | Model Extraction and Active Learning (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | ShareChat, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Ajay Ashok Nayak | June 2021 (M.Tech., IISc) | Design, Implementation, and Analysis of a TLB-based Covert Channel on GPUs (Thesis) Archived: IISc Library | Ph.D. candidate, IISc Bangalore. | |||
| Rakesh Rajan Beck | October 2021 (M.Tech., IISc) | A Framework for Privacy Compliant Delivery Drones (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | Citrix, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Rounak Agarwal | October 2021 (M.Tech., IISc) | A Trusted Hardware-Backed Secure Payments Platform for Android (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | NVidia, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Nikhil Agrawal | September 2022 (M.Tech., IISc) | An Evaluation of Basic Protection Mechanisms in Financial Apps on Mobile Devices (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | CradleWise, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Gokulnath Pillai | September 2023 (M.Tech., IISc) | Privadome: A System for Citizen Privacy in the Delivery Drone Era (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | Cerebras, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Chinmay Gameti | February 2024 (M.Tech., IISc) | Decentralized Information-Flow Control for the Robot Operating System (Thesis). Archived: IISc Library | Samsung, Bangalore, India. | |||
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Masters Project Supervision |
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| Student | Degree completion | M.Tech. Thesis | First employer after M.Tech. | |||
| Zad Basheer | August 2018 (M.Tech., IISc) | A Security Analysis of Some Mobile Payment Applications. | Walmart Labs, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Sreepada Abhinivesh | July 2020 (M.Tech., IISc) | Anomaly Detection with Sparse Training Data | Wells Fargo, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Nikita Yadav | July 2020 (M.Tech., IISc) | Bug-finding Methods for Permissioned Blockchain Implementations | Ph.D. student, CSA Department, IISc. | |||
| Rishabh Ravindra Meshram | July 2020 (M.Tech., IISc) | Analysis of the SAFE Remote Proctoring System | Mindtree, Bangalore, India. | |||
| A. Akash | July 2021 (M.Tech., IISc) | Studies on Multi-cloud FaaS Applications | AMD India, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Eikansh Gupta | July 2022 (M.Tech., IISc) | Enhancing Privacy in ROS2-based Drones | Qualcomm India, Hyderabad, India. | |||
| Isha Bansal | July 2022 (M.Tech., IISc) | Improving ROS2 Security using eBPF | Ola Electric, Bangalore, India. | |||
| Vivek Kumar | July 2023 (M.Tech., IISc) | ML Model Privacy | Goldman Sachs, Bangalore |
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| Himanshu Kumar | July 2023 (M.Tech., IISc) | Information Flow Control for ROS2 | Wells Fargo, Bangalore |
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| Dhruv P. Shah | July 2023 (M.Tech., IISc) | Security of IEDs on the Smart Grid | Silicon Labs, Bangalore |
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