Adrian received S.B. and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction from CMU and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. His Ph.D. dissertation examines the interworkings of hardware and software to improve systems security.
Under the mentorship of Prof. Simha Sethumadhavan and Prof. Salvatore Stolfo, Adrian made research contributions across the two labs, CASTL and IDS, in Columbia University.
Apart from doing research, Adrian also partakes in marathons, wing chun, scuba diving and CTFs.
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.
“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)
604 CEPSR
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University