Adil Inam

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Adil is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests are in data provenance and log analytics. He is the recipient of the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship for 2020-2025. Previously, he has worked on projects in the areas of data provenance and program analysis. He obtained his BS in Computer Science from LUMS in 2020.

Adil defended his dissertation, titled “Bridging High-Fidelity Provenance and Practical EDR at Enterprise Scale,” in Summer 2026. He is currently preparing to enter the academic job market.

Papers published with the STS Lab

How to Effectively Trace Provenance on Windows Endpoint Detection & Response Telemetry

Carbon Filter: Scalable, Efficient, and Secure Alert Triage for Endpoint Detection & Response

What We Talk About When We Talk About Logs: Understanding the Effects of Dataset Quality on Endpoint Threat Detection Research

How does Endpoint Detection use the MITRE ATT&CK Framework?

SoK: History is a Vast Early Warning System: Auditing the Provenance of System Intrusions

FAuST: Striking a Bargain between Forensic Auditing's Security and Throughput

ALASTOR: Reconstructing the Provenance of Serverless Intrusions

Forensic Analysis of Configuration-based Attacks