Atul
Prakash
Professor
Current Research Interests:
Security and privacy, cyber-physical systems. GSRA positions are available.
Teaching:
Research in the News
Some sampling of my research:
- Upcoming paper at the Usenix Security Symposium on the Capsule system.
- Eric Vander Weele, Billy Lau, and Atul Prakash, Protecting Confidential Data on Personal Computers with Storage Capsules. to first appear at Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2009. [pdf]
- Upcoming paper at HOTSEC'09 Workshop.
- Swati Gupta, Kristen LeFevre, and Atul Prakash. SPAN: A Unified Framework and Toolkit for Querying Heterogeneous Access Policies, to first appear at the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HOTSEC) , August 2009.
- Paper at Oakland'09 on how to analyze outbound web traffic and quantify the information content being leaked in it:
- Kevin Borders and Atul Prakash, Quantifying Information Leaks in Outbound Web Traffic. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2009. [pdf]
- Paper presented at SOUPS'08 our work on pervasiveness of security-related design flaws at financial web sites.
- Our work that analyzes the risks of more sophisticated spam by using non-private profile data from social networks such as Facebook.
- Work with Web Tap Security on better measurement mechanisms for information leakage.
- Our work on on designing scalable file systems for virtual machine clusters.
- Xin Zhao, Atul Prakash, and Kevin Borders. Prism: Providing flexible and fast filesystem cloning service for virtual
servers, Middleware 2008 , Dec. 1-5, 2008, Leuven, Belgium.
- WhereAbouts Project : Design of location-aware pervasive systems
- Also see TalkingPoint Project on using RFID-based orientation systems for assisting people with blindness:
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Virtual partitioning within operating systems to enhance security. See
our work on
SVFS and virtual RPC to protect file systems.
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CPOL: High-throughput privacy/security policy evaluation
infrastructure.
[CPOL CCS 2005 paper] [download software from http://cpol.sourceforge.net]
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Web Tap Project on detecting covert web traffic [ ACM CCS 04 paper]
- DistView
Collaboratory toolkit
- Antigone: A Framework
for Security Policy Management in group multicast systems
- DACIA: A mobile component framework for
building adaptive distributed applications
My Bio
My two page bio sketch (not necessarily
current)
Publications
Current Graduate Students
Previous Ph.D. Students
- Kevin Borders (Ph.D. 2009). National Security Agency and startup (Web Tap Security, Inc.)
- Xin Zhao (Ph.D. 2007). Google, Mountain View, CA
- Lukasz Opyrchal
(Ph.D. 2004). Assistant Prof. at Miami University, Ohio
- Radu Litiu (Ph.D. 2001). Atlas Division, Microsoft, Seattle
- Patrick
McDaniel (PhD: 2001); Associate Prof. at Penn. State Univ.
- Amit Mathur ( PhD: 2001) Oracle Corp., India
- Jang Ho Lee, Ph.D, 1999. Assistant Prof. Hongik Univ.,
Seoul, Korea
- Hyong Sop Shim, Ph.D., 1999, Member of Technical
Staff, Telecordia Corporation, New Jersey, in the area of multimedia
and group collaboration.
- Nelson Manohar, Ph.D. 1997, in the area of multimedia
and networking.
- Trent Jaeger; Ph.D. 1997, Associate Professor, Penn State University, in the area of security and operating systems.
- Santanu Paul, Ph.D. 1995, General Manager (Operations), Virtusa, Inc.
- Ratib Al-Zoubi, Ph.D. 1992, software consulting.
Contact Info.:
4741 CSE Building, 2260 Hayward Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121.
Tel: (734) 763-1585
Fax: (734) 763-1503
Electronic mail ID @ eecs.umich.edu: aprakash