Presentations

  1. WAPTEC: Whitebox Analysis of Web Applications for Parameter Tampering Exploit Construction
    Paper presentation, 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'2011)
    Chicago, IL, USA, Oct 20 2011.
    • Web Application Security: Trends and Mitigation through Source Code Analysis
      • Dasient, Sunnyvale, CA, Mar 9 2011.
      • AT&T Security Research Center, New York, NY, Feb 18 2011.
      • SRI International Computer Science Lab Seminar, Menlo Park, CA, Dec 17 2010.
    • NoTamper: Automatic Blackbox Detection of Parameter Tampering Opportunities in Web Applications
      • Paper presentation, 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'2010)
        Chicago, IL, USA, Oct 7 2010.
      • Rump session presentation, 19th Usenix Security Symposium (SECURITY'10)
        Washington, DC, Aug 13 2010.
    • Preparing Safe SQL Queries
      • Paper presentation, 14th Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC'2010)
        Canary Islands, Spain, Jan 25 2010.
      • Poster presentation, 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'2010)
        Chicago, USA, Oct 5 2010.
    • XSS-GUARD: Precise Dynamic Prevention of Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
      Paper presentation, 5th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA'2008)
      Paris, France, Jul 2008
      • CANDID : Preventing SQL Code Injection Attacks
        • Work-in-progress 16th USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY'2007)
          Boston, MA, USA, Aug 2007
        • Poster Presentation, 4th Midwest Security Workshop (MSW'2007)
          Chicago, IL, USA, Oct 2007

      Professional Activities

      • Program Committee
        • International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS): 2012
      • Peer-Review Activities
        • IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland): 2010, 2011, 2012
        • Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2011
        • Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2009
        • Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Symposium: 2008, 2010
        • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
        • Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSFW): 2009
        • World Wide Web (WWW): 2012
        • Journal of Computer Security (JCS): 2009
        • Journal of Software - Practice and Experience (SPE): 2008
        • IET Information Security Journal: 2011
        • Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP): 2011
        • International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS): 2011
      • Contributed to presentations' summary for Usenix Security 2010, Washington, DC, USA [ PDF ]
      • Contributed to poster and work-in progress presentations' summary for Usenix Security 2009, Montreal, Canada [ PDF ]
      • Volunteered in local arrangements for conferences
        • ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2009, 2010
        • International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC): 2006

      Work History

      University of Illinois Chicago, USA Postdoc Research Associate Jul 2011 - Current
      SRI International, California, USA Student Associate May 2010 - Aug 2010
      University of Illinois Chicago, USA Research Assistant Jan 2007 - Jul 2011
      University of Illinois Chicago, USA Teaching Assistant Aug 2006 - Dec 2006
      Intel, Bangalore, India Senior Software Engineer Jul 2003 - Jul 2006
      Novell, Bangalore, India Senior Software Engineer Mar 2002 - Jul 2003
      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Teaching Assistant Jul 2000 - Dec 2001
      G.B. Pant Engineering College, Pauri, India Guest Faculty Jun 2000

      Awards / Honors / In-news


      Co-Authors