Pubali Datta

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Pubali obtained her Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023. Her broad research interests are computer security and privacy, concentrating currently on modern distributed systems including IoT and Serverless platforms. Before joining the STS-lab, she worked at TCS Innovations Lab in India for more than 3 years on several projects involving distributed mobile computing, IoT and static analysis of proprietary softwares. She obtained her B.Tech (2011) from WBUT and M.E. (2013) from Jadavpur University, both in Computer Science and Engineering in India.

Pubali defended her dissertation, titled “Defending against Emerging Threats in Serverless Computing through Information Flow Analysis”, in Summer 2023. Afterward, Pubali joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

Papers published with the STS Lab

DrSec: Flexible Distributed Representations for Efficient Endpoint Security.

GRASP: Hardening Serverless Applications through Graph Reachability Analysis of Security Policies

Characterizing Everyday Misuse of Smart Home Devices

ALASTOR: Reconstructing the Provenance of Serverless Intrusions

SCIFFS: Enabling Secure Third-Party Security Analytics using Serverless Computing

Workflow Integration Alleviates Identity and Access Management in Serverless Computing

Valve: Securing Function Workfows on Serverless Computing Platforms

OmegaLog: High-Fidelity Attack Investigation via Transparent Multi-layer Log Analysis

CUSTOS: Practical Tamper-Evident Auditing of Operating Systems Using Trusted Execution

Charting the Attack Surface of Trigger-Action IoT Platforms