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General Information
| Full Name | Jayakrishna Menon Vadayath |
| Occupation | Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science |
Education
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2019 - Present Ph.D. in Computer Science
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA - GPA 4.0
- Research in Cyber Security
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2014 - 2018 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
Amrita University, Kerala, India - GPA 9.27/10.00
- Graduated with distinction
Research Experience
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Aug 2019 - Present Research Assistant
SEFCOM Lab at Arizona State University, Arizona, USA - Working with Dr. Yan Shoshitaishvili and Dr. Ruoyu ”Fish” Wang.
- Research topics
- Binary Exploitation.
- Fuzzing.
- Symbolic Execution.
- Static Binary Analysis.
- Reverse Engineering.
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May 2022 - Aug 2022 Intern
ForAllSecure, Pennsylvania, USA - Worked with Thanassis Avgerinos and Maxwell Koo.
- Worked on implementing a snapshot fuzzer for virtual machines.
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Oct 2018 - May 2019 Research Scholar
SEFCOM Lab at Arizona State University, Arizona, USA - Worked under the supervision of Dr. Yan Shoshitaishvili and Dr. Ruoyu ”Fish” Wang.
- Analyzing binary application software for identifying vulnerabilities
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Feb 2018 - Oct 2018 Research Scholar
ISI at University of Southern California, California, USA - Worked under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Hauser.
- Identifying potential leak of pointers through static binary analysis and symbolic execution
Research Publications
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2024 Operation Mango: Scalable Discovery of Taint-Style Vulnerabilities in Binary Firmware Services
33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24) - Wil Gibbs, Arvind S Raj, Jayakrishna Menon Vadayath, Hui Jun Tay, Justin Miller, Akshay Ajayan, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Audrey Dutcher, Fangzhou Dong, Xavier Maso, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Adam Doup{\'e}, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang
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2024 "Watching over the shoulder of a professional": Why hackers make mistakes and how they fix them
45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - Irina Ford, Ananta Soneji, Faris Bugra Kokulu, Jayakrishna Vadayath, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Gaurav Vipat, Adam Doupé, Ruoyu Wang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili
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2023 Greenhouse: Single-Service Rehosting of Linux-Based Firmware Binaries in User-Space Emulation
32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23) - Hui Jun Tay, Kyle Zeng, Jayakrishna Menon Vadayath, Arvind S Raj, Audrey Dutcher, Tejesh Reddy, Wil Gibbs, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Fangzhou Dong, Zack Smith, Adam Doup{\'e}, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang
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2022 Arbiter: Bridging the Static and Dynamic Divide in Vulnerability Discovery on Binary Programs
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22) - Jayakrishna Vadayath, Moritz Eckert, Kyle Zeng, Nicolaas Weideman, Gokulkrishna Praveen Menon, Yanick Fratantonio, Davide Balzarotti, Adam Doupé, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Christophe Hauser and Yan Shoshitaishvili
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2019 Sleak: Automating Address Space Layout Derandomization
The 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference - Christophe Hauser, Jayakrishna Menon, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, Giovanni Vigna and Christopher Kruegel
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2018 A binary analysis approach to retrofit security in input parsing routines
The Fifth Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (IEEE CS Security & Privacy Workshops) - Jayakrishna Menon, Christophe Hauser, Yan Shoshitaishvili and Stephen Schwab
Professional Activities
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2024 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '24)
- Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
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2024 18th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '24)
- Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
Teaching Experience
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Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 CSE545: Software Security at Arizona State University
- Teaching Assistant
- Assisted Dr. Ruoyu "Fish" Wang
- Primary duties were helping students with assignments and coursework
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Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 CSE365: Information Assurance at Arizona State University
- Teaching Assistant
- Assisted Dr. Ruoyu "Fish" Wang
- Primary duties were helping students with assignments and coursework
Open Source Projects
Vulnerability Research
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2023 Wyze Camera 0-day
- Pwn2Own
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2022 Synology NAS 0-day
- Pwn2Own
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2018 CVE-2018-18311
- Heap overflow in Perl interpreter, CVSS 3.0 score: 9.8
Other Achievements
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2024 DARPA AI Cyber Challenge
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2023 DEFCON CTF Finals
- 11th rank globally with team Shellphish
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2022 DEFCON CTF Finals
- 13th rank globally with team Shellphish
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2021 HITB Pro CTF
- 10th rank globally with team Shellphish
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2020 DEFCON CTF Finals
- 7th rank globally with team Shellphish
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2019 Dragon CTF Finals
- 11th rank globaly with team Pwndevils
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2019 CSAW Embedded Security Challenge
- First runners up with team Pwndevils
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2016 CSAW CTF Finals (India region)
- First runners up with team bi0s