About Me
I am a second year Ph.D. student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My research interests are in program analysis, program synthesis, and applying techniques from these domains to secure software against microarchitectural side-channel attacks.
In 2019, I got my Masters’ from Purdue University, where I worked with Prof. Mathias Payer on binary analysis, static binary rewriting, and their applications to secure commodity-off-the-shelf (COTS) and legacy binaries. I obtained my Bachelors’ degree in 2016 from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal.
I’ve had the pleasure of interning at several great places:
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In Summer 2020, I interned at Microsoft Research with Patrice Godefroid on Tool-assisted interactive Pen-testing and Verification.
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In Summer 2018, I interned at GrammaTech Inc. with Dr. Vineeth Kashyap to develop techniques to identify known components, e.g., libraries, in binaries of unknown provenance.
You can reach me at: sushant.dinesh94 at gmail.com (or) sdinesh2 at illinois.edu
Publications
2020
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Scalable Validation of Binary Lifters
Sandeep Dasgupta, Sushant Dinesh, Deepan Venkatesh, Vikram S. Adve, and Christopher W. Fletcher.
In PLDI’20: Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. 2020.
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RetroWrite: Statically Instrumenting COTS Binaries for Fuzzing and Sanitization
Sushant Dinesh, Nathan Burow, Dongyan Xu, and Mathias Payer.
In Oakland’20: IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy. 2020.
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Other Interests
Apart from research:
- I enjoy security capture-the-flag competitions (CTFs) especially reverse-engineering and exploitation,
- Music: I play guitar and enjoy prog music,
- Computer Games: I’ve played Dota2 from a long time, more recently I enjoy roguelike games.