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Ph.D. in Computer Science

Arizona State University, Arizona, USA

• GPA 4.0
• Research in Cyber Security

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

Amrita University, Kerala, India

• GPA 9.27/10.00
• Graduated with distinction

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.

Intern

ForAllSecure, Pennsylvania, USA

• Worked with Thanassis Avgerinos and Maxwell Koo.
• Worked on implementing a snapshot fuzzer for virtual machines.

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

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

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"

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

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

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

CSE545: Software Security at Arizona State University

• Teaching Assistant
• Assisted Dr. Ruoyu "Fish" Wang
• Primary duties were helping students with assignments and coursework

CSE365: Information Assurance at Arizona State University

• Teaching Assistant
• Assisted Dr. Ruoyu "Fish" Wang
• Primary duties were helping students with assignments and coursework

Arbiter

• A scalable and precise hybrid vulnerability analysis framework

PuzzIL

• An intermediate language fuzzer for PHP

Synology NAS 0-day

• Pwn2Own

CVE-2018-18311

• Heap overflow in Perl interpreter, CVSS 3.0 score: 9.8

DEFCON CTF Finals

• 13th rank globally with team Shellphish

HITB Pro CTF

• 10th rank globally with team Shellphish

DEFCON CTF Finals

• 7th rank globally with team Shellphish

Dragon CTF Finals

• 11th rank globaly with team Pwndevils

CSAW Embedded Security Challenge

• First runners up with team Pwndevils

CSAW CTF Finals (India region)

• First runners up with team bi0s