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Greetings!!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer
Science Department at University of
Illinois at Chicago. I am also the co-director for the Center for RITES (Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security) at UIC. In this
page, you'll find out about my academic and personal interests.
Wondering how to spell my name? (Venkat is shorter and easier to pronounce - VEN-CAT). If you are adventerous, and would like to spell my full name, it is VEN-CAT-A-CREE-SH-NUN).
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Research Interests
(New!) Reading Group on Security: My students and myself meet on Tuesdays (3.30 - 4.30) to discuss topics on security. If you are interested in attending, send me email.
 My research areas broadly span topics in Computer Systems Security, with use of ideas from compilers, operating systems and formal methods for defending cyber attacks. My recent work has focused on the topics given below.
My complete publication list available here. Some recent highlights:
- Blackbox Detection of Parameter Tampering Vulnerabilities: CCS'10
- Securing Web Advertisements: USENIX Security 2010.
- Prevention Cross-site Scripting Attacks: Cross-site Scripting (Oakland'09, W2SP'08, DIMVA'08).
- Preventing web-based attacks. SQL injection (CCS'07),
- Runtime approaches for information flow policies : Shadowed Executions (ACSAC08), Data Sandboxing (ACSAC'06) and Runtime checking for information flow policy enforcement (ICICS'06) papers.
My CV is available here.
Research Support
My research is sponsored by grants from NSF (CAREER, CyberTrust and CRI programs), UIC Campus Research Board.
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Recent and Ongoing Professional Activities
Program Committees
- TPC member. 32nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2011). Oakland, CA,.
- TPC member. Third International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2011). Madrid, Spain.
- TPC member. Sixth International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2010) Gandhinagar, India.
- TPC member. 26th Annual Computer Applications Security Conference (ACSAC 2010). Austin, TX.
- TPC member. 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2010). Ottawa, Canada.
- TPC member. 4th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2010). Melbourne, Australia.
- TPC member. 31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2010). Oakland, CA,.
- Program co-chair. U.S.-France Joint Young Engineering Scientists Symposium (YESS 2009), Washington DC.
- TPC member. 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009). Chicago, IL.
- TPC member. 25th Annual Computer Applications Security Conference (ACSAC 2009). Honululu, Hawaii.
- TPC member. 29th Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009). Quebec, Canada.
- TPC member. 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW) . Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
- TPC member. 24th Annual Computer Applications Security Conference (ACSAC). Anaheim, California, December 2008.
- TPC member. Fourth International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS). Hyderabad, India, December 2008.
- Program Chair, Fifth Midwest Security Workshop (MSW), Indianapolis, Apr 2008.
Conference Organization
Other Professional Activities
- Member, Election Review Panel, Cook County, Illinois (advising the Clerk's office on E-voting security).
Education
I graduated with a Ph.D in Computer Science in December 2004, from Stony Brook University (formerly, SUNY @ StonyBrook). My advisor was R. Sekar.
Prior to that I was at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India.
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Students
I've been fortunate to work with a group of outstanding students!
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Current
- Michelle Zhou (Ph.D)
- Mike Ter Louw (Ph.D)
- Prithvi Bisht (Ph.D)
- Kalpana Gondi (Ph.D) (co-advise with Prof. Prasad Sistla)
- Praveen Venkatachari (M.S.)
- Karthik Thotta Ganesh (M.S.)
- Nazari Skrupsky (B.S. with senior project)
- Radoslaw Bobrowicz (B.S.with senior project)
- and Gary Wang (high school student).
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Past
- Raj Swaminathan (M.S with project). Dec 2006. First employment: Motorola Research Labs.
- Tejas Khatiwala (M.S with thesis). Dec 2006. First employment: VMWare Inc.
- Michael Leonhard (B.S with senior project) Dec 2006. First employment: Amazon Inc.
- Jin Soon Lim (M.S with project). Aug 2007. First employment: Microsoft Inc.
- Doo San Sim (M.S. with project). Dec 2007. First employment: VMWare Inc.
- Tanushree Varshney (M.S. with project). July 2008. First employment: CPA Global Inc.
- Jimish Jobanputra (M.S. with project). July 2008. First employment: Morningstar Inc.
- Megha Chauhan (M.S. with project). Dec 2008. First employment: Gorilla Polymedia Inc.
- Balasubramanian Ramachandran (M.S. with project). Dec 2009. First employment: Microsoft Inc.
- Rohini Krishnamurti (M.S. with project). May 2010.
- Chris Eriksson (B.S. with senior project)
- Chris Pable (B.S. with senior project)
Fun stuff
I am a member of the following Chicago-area organizations:
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