Shravan Narayan
Assistant Professor
Dr. Shravan Ravi Narayan is an Assistant Professor in the UT Computer Science department. He is interested in building secure systems, program verification or hardware-based security.
Research
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My primary interest is in building secure systems, but I am interested in doing so with techniques from systems as well as program verification, and hardware-based security.
Select Publications
.Going Beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI. ASPLOS 2023.
.Isolation without taxation: Near zero cost transitions for SFI. Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 2022.
.Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly against Spectre. USENIX Security Symposium, 2021.
.Довер´яй, но провер´яй: SFI safety for native-compiled Wasm. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.
.Retrofitting fine grain isolation in the Firefox renderer. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020.
Awards & Honors
- 2023 - Distinguished paper award at ASPLOS 2023. Going Beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI.
- 2022 - Mozilla research award. "RLBox v2: Extending RLBox for more performant, ubiquitous sandboxing."
- 2022 - Winner, IEEE Cybersecurity Awards for Practice, Secure Development Conference 2022. Retrofitting fine grain isolation in the Firefox renderer.
- 2022 - NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper, Honorable Mention. Retrofitting fine grain isolation in the Firefox renderer
- 2021 - Google V8 research award. Practical, portable, and verified library sandboxing using Wasm.
- 2021 - Fastly's "The edge computer project" award. Verifiable and spectre-safe sandboxing at the edge.
- 2021 - Finalist, Applied Research Competition, CSAW 2021. Довер´яй, но провер´яй: SFI safety for native-compiled Wasm.
- 2020 - Winner, Applied Research Competition, CSAW 2020. Retrofitting fine grain isolation in the Firefox renderer.
- 2020 - Distinguished paper award at the USENIX Security Symposium 2020. Retrofitting fine grain isolation in the Firefox renderer.