V.N. (Venkat) Venkatakrishnan

Greetings!!

Affiliations

• Full Professor of Computer Science
• Lead PI and Director, Electronic Security and Privacy IGERT
• Director Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security.

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

Recent and Ongoing Professional Activities

Editorial Board

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Program Committees

• 2016: NDSS'16, AsiaCCS'16
• 2015: NDSS'15, SecureComm'15
• 2014: Oakland'14, CNS'14, SKM'14
• 2013: Oakland'13,W2SP'13,ESORICS'13, NDSS'13
• 2012: ICISS'12 (PC Chair), Oakland'12,W2SP'12,PST'12
• 2011: ICISS'11, ACSAC'11, Oakland'11, W2SP'11, ESSoS'11

Conference Organization

• Workshop Chair CCS'11, CCS'12.
• Local Arrangements. CCS'09,CCS'10,CCS'11. Chicago, IL.
• Tutorial chair. ICISS'10
• Workshop Chair. Fourth Midwest Security Workshop. Oct 2007.

Education

Students

• Current Student Advisees

  • Maliheh Monshizadeh (Ph.D)
  • Abeer Alhuzali (Ph.D)
  • Sadegh Momemi (Ph.D)
  • Vijay Sai Prasanth Kommini (M.S.)

• Current Postdocs

  • Birhanu Mekuria
  • Rigel Gjomemo

• Past

  • Mike Ter Louw (Ph.D) (now at LGS innovations)
  • Prithvi Bisht (Ph.D) (now at Adobe)
  • Kalpana Gondi (Ph.D) (co-advised with Prof. Prasad Sistla) (now at Amazon)
  • Tim Hinrichs (post-doc) (co-advise with Lenore Zuck) (now at VMWare)
  • Phu H. Phung (post-doc) (now Asst. Professor of Computer Science at Univ of Dayton)

Teaching

• Fall 2015: CS487 : Building Secure Computer Systems
  • Fall 2015 office hours: MW 11.a.m.-noon in SEO 1131.

Fun stuff

• Lincoln Park Zoo
• The Morton Arboretum