Venkat Venkatakrishnan
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Contact
Building & Room:
CDRLC 5434
Address:
850 W. Taylor St, MC 152, Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Research Interests:
My research areas broadly span topics in Computer Systems Security, with use of ideas from compilers, operating systems and formal methods for defending cyber attacks.
Students:
I've been fortunate to work with a group of outstanding students and postdocs!
Current Student Advisees
- Sadegh Momemi (Ph.D)
- Vijay Sai Prasanth Kommini (M.S.)
Current Postdocs
Past
- Mike Ter Louw (Ph.D) (now at LGS innovations)
- Prithvi Bisht (Ph.D) (now at Adobe)
- Kalpana Gondi (Ph.D) (co-advised with Prof. Prasad Sistla) (now at Amazon)
- Tim Hinrichs (post-doc) (co-advise with Lenore Zuck) (now at VMWare)
- Rigel Gjomemo (now Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Phu H. Phung (post-doc) (now Asst. Professor of Computer Science at Univ of Dayton)
- Maliheh Monshizadeh (Ph.D)
- Birhanu Mekuria (now Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, Dearborn)
- Abeer Alhuzali (Ph.D) (now Asst. Professor at King AbdulAziz University in Saudi Arabia)
Teaching:
2018-19: None.
Fun stuff:
I am a member of the following Chicago-area organizations:
Education
I graduated with a Ph.D in Computer Science in December 2004, from Stony Brook University (formerly, SUNY @ StonyBrook). My advisor was R. Sekar.