About

Currently, I’m pursuing my PhD in Computer Science at The Pennsylvania State University. I am advised by Trent Jaeger.

My research focuses on devising techniques to securely name file system artifacts when multiple file systems are used simultaneously. In the past, I have worked on compilers for shellcode generation, designing security-focused hardware extensions for RISC-V, and in-kernel user-space monitoring via Intel® Processor Trace.

Email • aditya.basu@psu.edu | Links • Curriculum Vitae [PDF] • Google Scholar • dblp

Education

• PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Penn State (USA)
  [ GPA = 3.85 (of 4) | Expected 2024 ]

• B.Tech. in Information & Communication Technology from DAIICT (India)
  [ Major GPA = 9.52 (of 10) | Overall GPA = 8.55 | Graduated 2014 ]

Work Experience

• Research Intern at Microsoft Research // Summer 2022
• Software Engineering Intern at Google // Summer 2019
• Research Intern at NIO // Summer 2018
• System Operations Engineer at Media.net // 2014-16
• Software Developer Intern at DAIICT // Summer '13 & '14

Skills

• 10k SLOC: C • Python • Golang • bash • LaTeX (macros) • HTML
• 5k — 10k SLOC: x86 Assembly • C++ • Java • BPF • Django • Puppet • Ansible • CSS
• Utilities: make • git • Docker • strace • gdb • Protocol Buffers
• Others: Linux • Mac OS X • Markdown

Research Artifacts

• Collision detector identifies name collisions from Auditd traces (FAST ‘23) Golang, bash
• Nimble-aware Hadoop detects rollback attacks on HDFS (OSDI ‘23) Java, Protobuf
• Printable Shellcode Compiler transforms shellcode from binary to printable C, x86 asm
• Alpha Loader transforms shellcode from binary to compact ASCII C, x86 asm, Python, Bash

Publications

1. TALISMAN: Tamper Analysis for Reference Monitors
   Frank Capobianco, Quan Zhou, Aditya Basu, Trent Jaeger, Danfeng Zhang. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024.
   [ link | acceptance rate = 15%, or 104/694 ]

2. Unsafe at Any Copy: Name Collisions from Mixing Case Sensitivities
   Aditya Basu, Jack Sampson, Zhiyun Qian, Trent Jaeger. In 21^th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2023.
   [ Awarded USENIX Student Grant | link | ppt | code | acceptance rate = 23%, or 28/122 ]

3. Nimble: Rollback Protection for Confidential Cloud Services
   Sebastian Angel, Aditya Basu, Weidong Cui, Trent Jaeger, Stella Lau, Srinath Setty, Sudheesh Singanamalla. In 17^th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2023.
   [ link | code-hdfs | code-nimble | acceptance rate = 19.6%, or 50/255 ]

4. Automatic Generation of Compact Printable Shellcodes for x86
   Dhrumil Patel, Aditya Basu, Anish Mathuria. In 14^th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), 2020.
   [ link | ppt | code | acceptance rate = 33.33%, or 12/36 ]

5. Hardware Assisted Buffer Protection Mechanisms for Embedded RISC-V
   Asmit De, Aditya Basu, Swaroop Ghosh, Trent Jaeger. In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020.
   [ doi | impact factor = 2.168 ]

6. FIXER: Flow Integrity Extensions in Embedded RISC-V
   Asmit De, Aditya Basu, Swaroop Ghosh and Trent Jaeger. In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2019.
   [ doi | acceptance rate = 24% ]

7. Automatic Generation of Compact Alphanumeric Shellcodes for x86
   Aditya Basu, Anish Mathuria, Nagendra Chowdary. In Proceedings of 10^th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), 2014.
   [ doi | ppt | code | acceptance rate = 19%, or 25/129 ]