Vinod Ganapathy Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Ph.D. (2007) Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. I joined Rutgers after earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2007. I was previously a student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, from where I earned a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering in May 2001. I am a native of Bangalore, the silicon valley and garden city of India.

Research

Interests. I am broadly interested in computer security and reliability, particularly in techniques and tools to improve the security and robustness of system software. I also maintain an active interest in software engineering, program analysis, formal methods, operating systems and computer architecture.

Projects. Brief descriptions of my ongoing and completed research projects, including associated papers, are available on my research page. Here is a link to presentation slides.

Papers. The following papers describe results from some of my ongoing projects. Here is a link to a chronological list of my publications.

• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery - UbiComp 2009.
• Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems - SACMAT 2009.
• Evaluating Attack Amplification in Online Social Networks - W2SP 2009.
• Automatic Inference and Enforcement of Kernel Data Structure Invariants - ACSAC 2008, awarded best student paper.
• OMOS: A Framework for Secure Communication in Mashup Applications - ACSAC 2008.
• Enforcing Authorization Policies using Transactional Memory Introspection - CCS 2008.
• The Design and Implementation of Microdrivers - ASPLOS 2008.
• Retrofitting Legacy Code for Authorization Policy Enforcement - Ph.D. Thesis.

Students. I supervise the following Ph.D. students: Shakeel Butt, Mohan Dhawan, Liu Yang and Saman Zarandioon. Together with Liviu Iftode, I co-direct and collaborate with members of Disco Lab: the Laboratory for Networked Systems and Security. I am always on the lookout for motivated students. If you are a Rutgers student interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.

Funding. My research is supported in part by grants from the NSF (CNS-0831268), Rutgers University Research Council, and Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

Teaching

• CS416: Operating System Design (Fall 2009).

Miscellany

• Professional service.
• My academic genealogy.
• Advice for researchers and students.