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Overview

V. N. Venkatakrishnan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. The researcher's work primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Information and Cyber Security
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
  • Digital and Cyber Forensics
  • Software Engineering Research

Venkatakrishnan has contributed to several scholarly publications, including articles published in well-known venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) and IEEE Access. Notable recent papers include:

  • "EXTRACTOR: Extracting Attack Behavior from Threat Reports," published in 2021 in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Remote Check Truncation Systems: Vulnerability Analysis and Countermeasures," published in 2020 in IEEE Access
  • "OSTINATO: Cross-host Attack Correlation Through Attack Activity Similarity Detection," published in 2023 in arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration is evident in their research, with frequent co-authors including Rigel Gjomemo, Kiavash Satvat, Sutanu Kumar Ghosh, Charlie Catlett, and Juval Portugali. These collaborations have helped contribute to the breadth of Venkatakrishnan's work in cybersecurity and related areas.

Best Publications

  • Convergence to steady state solutions of the Euler equations on unstructured grids with limiters

    V. Venkatakrishnan

  • Aerodynamic design optimization on unstructured grids with a continuous adjoint formulation

    W. K Anderson;V. Venkatakrishnan

  • HOLMES: Real-Time APT Detection through Correlation of Suspicious Information Flows

    Sadegh Momeni Milajerdi;Rigel Gjomemo;Birhanu Eshete;R. Sekar

  • POIROT: Aligning Attack Behavior with Kernel Audit Records for Cyber Threat Hunting

    Sadegh M. Milajerdi;Birhanu Eshete;Rigel Gjomemo;V.N. Venkatakrishnan

  • Blueprint: Robust Prevention of Cross-site Scripting Attacks for Existing Browsers

    Mike Ter Louw;V.N. Venkatakrishnan

  • Implicit Solvers for Unstructured Meshes

    V. Venkatakrishnan;Dimitri J. Mavriplis

  • Model-carrying code: a practical approach for safe execution of untrusted applications

    R. Sekar;V.N. Venkatakrishnan;Samik Basu;Sandeep Bhatkar

  • Fast Memory-efficient Anomaly Detection in Streaming Heterogeneous Graphs

    Emaad Manzoor;Sadegh M. Milajerdi;Leman Akoglu

  • XSS-GUARD: Precise Dynamic Prevention of Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

    Prithvi Bisht;V. N. Venkatakrishnan

  • IMPLICIT METHOD FOR THE COMPUTATION OF UNSTEADY FLOWS ON UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS

    V. Venkatakrishnan;D.J. Mavriplis

  • CANDID: Dynamic candidate evaluations for automatic prevention of SQL injection attacks

    Prithvi Bisht;P. Madhusudan;V. N. Venkatakrishnan

  • On the role and challenges of CFD in the aerospace industry

    P. R. Spalart;V. Venkatakrishnan

  • CANDID: preventing sql injection attacks using dynamic candidate evaluations

    Sruthi Bandhakavi;Prithvi Bisht;P. Madhusudan;V. N. Venkatakrishnan

  • AdJail: practical enforcement of confidentiality and integrity policies on web advertisements

    Mike Ter Louw;Karthik Thotta Ganesh;V. N. Venkatakrishnan

  • A PERSPECTIVE ON UNSTRUCTURED GRID FLOW SOLVERS

    V. Venkatakrishnan

  • A UNIFIED MULTIGRID SOLVER FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS ON MIXED ELEMENT MESHES

    D. J. Mavriplis;V. Venkatakrishnan

  • Isolated program execution: an application transparent approach for executing untrusted programs

    Z. Liang;V.N. Venkatakrishnan;R. Sekar

  • Higher Order Schemes for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

    Venkat Venkatakrishnan;Steven Allmaras;Dmitrii Kamenetskii;Forrester Johnson

  • Enhancing web browser security against malware extensions

    Mike Ter Louw;Jin Soon Lim;V. N. Venkatakrishnan

  • Extractor: Extracting Attack Behavior from Threat Reports

    Kiavash Satvat;Rigel Gjomemo;V.N. Venkatakrishnan

  • {SLEUTH}: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from {COTS} Audit Data

    Nahid Hossain;Sadegh M. Milajerdi;Junao Wang;Birhanu Eshete

Frequent Co-Authors

R. C. Sekar
R. C. Sekar Stony Brook University
Dimitri J. Mavriplis
Dimitri J. Mavriplis University of Wyoming
A. Prasad Sistla
A. Prasad Sistla University of Illinois at Chicago
Lenore D. Zuck
Lenore D. Zuck University of Illinois at Chicago
I. V. Ramakrishnan
I. V. Ramakrishnan Stony Brook University
Zhenkai Liang
Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore
Scott D. Stoller
Scott D. Stoller Stony Brook University
Rashid Ansari
Rashid Ansari University of Illinois at Chicago
David E. Keyes
David E. Keyes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Abhik Roychoudhury
Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore

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