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 proud to be 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.

• Analyzing Information Flow in JavaScript-based Browser Extensions - ACSAC 2009. new
• Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers - ACSAC 2009. new
• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery - UbiComp 2009. new
• 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.
• 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 or co-supervise the following Ph.D. students: Shakeel Butt, Mohan Dhawan, Rezwana Karim, 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.

Teaching

• CS416: Operating System Design (Fall 2009).
• CS419: Computer Security (Spring 2010).

Miscellany

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