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2019
[New][March 2019] The News Gazette recently interviewed me about our teaching efforts for middle school students. The Computer Science department as well as the Corodinated Science Lab (CSL) at UIUC had written about it before, here and here.
[New][March 2019] The News Gazette recently interviewed me about our teaching efforts for middle school students. The Computer Science department as well as the Corodinated Science Lab (CSL) at UIUC had written about it before, here and here.
[New][December 2018] Multiple journal papers accepted: one on restart-based security platforms for safety-critical CPS in IEEE IoT journal and a survey on the security of real-time IoT systems in the SENSORS Journal.
[New][December 2018] Multiple journal papers accepted: one on restart-based security platforms for safety-critical CPS in IEEE IoT journal and a survey on the security of real-time IoT systems in the SENSORS Journal.
2018
[November 2018] Our paper on automatically finding bugs in PLCs used in manufacturing systems has been accepted for publication in IEEE S&P 2019!
[November 2018] CSL recently wrote up about our recent efforts at teaching programming to middle school students in Urbana.[October 2018] I organized a special session on "The Future of IoT Security" as part of ESWEEK 2018 in Turin, Italy. Also published a paper at EMSOFT 2018 as part of this event.
[February 2019] Our paper on a new scheduler side-channel in real-time systems has been accepted at IEEE RTAS 2019. A preprint is online on ArXiv.
[February 2019] Our paper on a new scheduler side-channel in real-time systems has been accepted at IEEE RTAS 2019. A preprint is online on ArXiv.
[August 2018] New project, funded by Boeing, on "Machine Learning-Based Communication and Anomaly Detection in Distributed Autonomous UAV Swarms".
[April 2018] I organized the First International Workshop on Security and Privacy of the Internet-of-Things (IoTSec), co-located with IoTDI 2018 and IC2E 2018 in Orlando, Florida.
2017
[November — December 2017] Multiple papers accepted, one at DATE 2018, one at IC2E 2018 and two at ICCPS 2018.
[October 2017] New project, funded by NSF, on understanding security threats to real-time and cyber-physical systems and how to protect against them, “An Exploration of Schedule-based Vulnerabilities in Real-Time Embedded Systems”.
[October 2017] New project, funded by ONR, on developing secure, lightweight, cloud computing systems titled, “Tools and Techniques for Debloating Containers”.[June 2017] New project, funded by the DoE, on cybersecurity defenses for renewable energy sources titled, “INGRESS: Advanced Cybersecurity Platform for Distributed Energy Resources”. Press articles: 1, 2.
2016
[December 2016] Our paper titled, "Exploring Opportunistic Execution for Integrating Security into Legacy Hard Real-Time Systems" won the best student paper award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2016 conference. This is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems.[October 2016] Started new NSF Frontiers project on "Software-Defined Control for Smart Manufacturing Systems" funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This is a multi-university project [including Univ. of Michigan and Cornell] that aims to improve the design and security of manufacturing systems of the future. News about the project.
2014
[August 2014] Started new project on "Behavior-based Intrusion Detection for Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems" funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). News about the project.[July 2014] I am a technical program committee member for the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) to be held in Apr. 2015.
[Apr 2014] I am a technical program committee member for the 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) to be held in December 2014.
[Mar 2014] My paper titled “Real-Time Systems Security Through Scheduler Constraints” has been published in the 26th EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Madrid, Spaion in July 2014. The paper was presented at ECRTS 2014.
2013
[July 2013] Started new project on integrating security in real-time embedded systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).[July 2013] I am a technical program committee member for the 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) held in Apr. 2014.
[Apr 2013] I am a technical program committee member for the 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) held in December 2013.
[June 2013] My paper titled “On-Chip Control Flow Integrity Check for Real-Time Embedded Systems” has been published in the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan in August 2013. The paper was presented at CPSNA 2013.
[April 2013] My paper titled “SecureCore: A Multicore Architecture for Intrusion Detection in Real-Time Control Systems” has been published in the 19th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 2013. The paper was presented at RTAS held as part of CPSWeek 2013.
[April 2013] My paper titled “S3A: Secure System Simplex Architecture for Safety-Critical Supervisory Control Systems” has been published in the 2nd ACM Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 2013. The paper was presented at HiCoNS held as part of CPSWeek 2013.
2012
[October 2012] I am a technical program committee member for the 19th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) held in Apr. 2013.[February 2012] I have started working as a Research Scientist in the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois.
2011
[October 2011] I am a technical program committee member for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2012) to be held in Aug. 2012.[December 2011] I am a technical program committee member for the IEEE Real-time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium Work in Progress session to be held in Apr. 2012.
[January 2011] The
2010
[July 2010] My paper titled, “Exploring the Design Space of IMA System Architectures”[June 2010] I am the co-chair and organizer for the “First Analytic Virtual Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (AVICPS) Workshop” that is being organized in conjunction with RTSS 2010.
[May 2010] My paper titled “Anytime Algorithms for Multicore Architectures” has been accepted at the Work-in-Progress session at the EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), to be held in Brussels, Belgium in Jul. 2010.
[February 2010] Two papers
[February 2010] My paper titled, “Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems” has been
[February 2010] My paper titled, “A Framework for the Safe Interoperability of Medical Devices in the Presence of Connection Failures” has been
2009
[Nov 2009] I am a program committee (PC) member for the Work in Progress (WIP) Session for the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), 2010.[Oct. 2009] I am now a `Visiting Research Scientist’ in the Computer Science dept. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
[August 2009] My paper titled, “Rapid Early-Phase Virtual Integration”
[Sept 2009] My paper titled, “Time-based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems” was published at the Work-in-Progress section of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) conference held in Washington D.C in Dec. 2009. Chris Zimmer, a graduate student from NCSU presented the work at the conference.
[June 2009] My paper titled, “CheckerCore: Enhancing an FPGA Soft Core to Capture Worst-Case Execution Times” was published
[June 2009] My security paper titled, “Addressing Safety and Security Contradictions in Cyber-Physical Systems” was presented
[June 2009] My paper titled, “Push-Assisted Migration of Real-Time Tasks in Multi-Core Processors”
2008
[December 2008] I am now a program committee (PC) member for the 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS) to be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2009.[December 2008] I presented the paper titled, "Merging State and Preserving Timing Anomalies in Pipeline of High-End Processors" at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2008 in Barcelona in December 2008.
[October 2008] I am a program committee (PC) member for the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), 2009. This is one of the top two conferences in the field!
Started work as a post-doc with Prof. Lui Sha at UIUC.
[August 2008] Defended! Completed my Ph.D. and submitted my dissertation titled, "Exploiting Hardware/Software Interactions for Analyzing Embedded Systems".
[August 2008] My submission titled, "Merging State and Preserving Timing Anomalies in Pipeline of
High-End Processors" has been accepted at RTSS 2008. I
[March 2008] My submission titled, "Temporal Analysis for Adapting Concurrent Applications to Embedded Systems" has been accepted at ECRTS 2008. I gave a talk at the conference in Prague in July 2008.
[March 2008] I have received an invitation to attend the National Workshop on High-Confidence Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems to be held in April in Troy, Michigan. The call to attend this by-invitation only workshop was preceded by the submission of a position paper titled, "Building Robust Automotive Systems through Separation of Concerns," co-authored with Johannes Helander.
2007
[December 2007] My submission titled, "Hybrid Timing Analysis of Modern Processor Pipeline via Hardware/Software Interactions" has been accepted at IEEE RTAS 2008. I[December 2007] I gave a short talk on "Integrating Security Policies with Deeply Embedded Real-Time Systems" at an NSF planning workshop on Cyber Physical systems in the Automotive domain at RTSS 2007.
[December 2007] My submission to the RTSS PhD Forum on "Deeply Embedded Real-Time Computing" titled, "Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis of Security Policies for Deeply Embedded Real-Time Systems," has been accepted. I presented it at Tucson, Arizona on December 03, 2007.
[September 2007] My journal submission was accepted for publication in the ACM TECS journal.
[August 2007] I interned in the Embedded Systems group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington this summer (May-August 2007) which resulted in a paper submission to ECRTS 2008.
[April 2007] I have been awarded the prestigious "Preparing the Professoriate" fellowship by the NCSU Graduate School every year. Only 10 doctoral students are selected through a university-wide competition each year. This program brings doctoral students who are interested in an academic career together with experienced faculty members to improve their understanding of the teaching profession.
[April 28, 2007] Inspired by Dr. Tao Xie's Software Engineering Genealogy, I am working on creating a Real-Time Genealogy which lists researchers in the field of real-time systems. I also started a website for posting Real-Time Jobs (postdocs, etc.) and information about candidates looking for jobs.
