V.N. (Venkat) Venkatakrishnan

“ The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ”

:- Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet

Greetings!!

Affiliations

Research Interests

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 complete publication list available here.

My CV is available here.

Research Support

My work is sponsored by grants from NSF, US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, US Economic Development Administration.

Recent and Ongoing Professional Activities

Program Committees

  • 2024: USENIX Security 2024, CCS 2024.
  • 2020: ACM CCS 2020.
  • 2019: ACM CCS 2019.
  • 2018:WWW'18 (Security, Privacy Track)
  • 2017:NDSS'17.
  • 2016: NDSS'16, AsiaCCS'16

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.

Students

I've been fortunate to work with a group of outstanding students and postdocs, who have gone one to establish themsleves in academia / industry !

Teaching

    Taking a break from teaching, now at DPI.

Fun stuff

I am a member of the following Chicago-area organizations: