Research

Adrian dabbles in all aspects of systems and software security. His research specifically examines both attack and defensive techniques at the hardware-software interfaces of commodity systems. He believes in furthering security as a full-system property with the careful examination of the interworkings of hardware and software.

Publications

• “Heterogeneous Isolated Execution for Commodity GPUs.” Insu Jang, Adrian Tang, Taehoon Kim, Simha Sethumadhavan, Jaehyuk Huh. In International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2019.

• “Blacklist Core: Machine-Learning Based Dynamic Operating-Performance-Point Blacklisting for Mitigating Power-Management Security Attacks.” Sheng Zhang, Adrian Tang, Zhewei Jiang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Mingoo Seok. In International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2018.

• “Motivating Security-Aware Energy Management.” Adrian Tang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. IEEE Micro Top Pick Selection 2018.

• “CLKscrew: Exposing the Perils of Security-Oblivious Energy Management.” Adrian Tang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. In USENIX Security 2017. (bib | deck | poster)
  (Distinguished Paper Award)
  

• “NEZHA: Efficient Domain-Independent Differential Testing.” Theofilos Petsios^†, Adrian Tang^†, Salvatore Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis and Suman Jana. In S&P (Oakland) 2017. (bib | deck | code)
  (Runner-up - NYU CSAW’17 Applied Research Competition)
  ^† - joint first authors

• “Heisenbyte: Thwarting Memory Disclosure Attacks using Destructive Code Reads.” Adrian Tang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. In CCS 2015. (bib | deck | vid | poster)

• “Anti-Virus in Silicon.” Adrian Tang, John Demme, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. In Hot Chips 2015. (bib | abstract | vid)
  (Best Poster Award)

• “Unsupervised Anomaly-based Malware Detection using Hardware Features.” Adrian Tang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. In RAID 2014. (bib | deck | vid)

• “On the Feasibility of Online Malware Detection with Performance Counters.” John Demme, Matthew Maycock, Jared Schmitz, Adrian Tang, Adam Waksman, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo. In ISCA 2013. (bib | deck)

 

Blog

11 Oct 2017 - Thoughts on Offensive Security Research
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Why research and demonstrate attacks? Professor Simha Sethumadhavan and I pen down some thoughts on the importance of attack research through examples. We will also lay out a framework for thinking about attack research.

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