Computer Science Security
Resume:
Srinivas Krishnan
*** ******** **, *** ***, Carrboro NC 27510
Phone: 919-***-**** E-Mail: ********@**.***.***
Interests
Large-scale network systems, Virtualization Security, Data and Performance analysis, Security analysis
Experience
UNC- Chapel Hill 07-2008 - Current
PhD Candidate Network and Systems Security (Advisor: Dr Fabian Monrose)
DNS Analysis
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Performance and security analysis of DNS
Developing next-generation of DNS caching policies and systems
Researching techniques for scalable deployment of DNSSEC.
Virtualization and Operating Systems
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Researching deployment of data provenance on large scale distributed systems
Developed a hypervisor-based architecture for lightweight data provenance.
Developed architecture for data forensics using a hypervisor, patent-pending.
Developed memory snapshot architecture for advanced shellcode detection
Microsoft Research 06-201*-**-****
Research Intern Xtreme Computing Group
Mentor(s): Abhiskeh Singh (Azure), Ming Zhang (NRG) and Albert Greenberg (Azure)
Developed a Low Cost Datacenter Backbone Network Architecture
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Designed a router architecture to implement the proposed datacenter architecture
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Filed a patent for the network design and router architecture
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Microsoft Research 11-2010 Current
Collaborative Research Contract (Collaborators: Ming Zhang, Albert Greenberg)
Developing a low cost router design for datacenter networks
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IP based circuit routing for datacenters.
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VMware, Inc 06-2007 to 07-2008
Technical Lead for VMware s VDI Performance Project
Developed the benchmarking tools for VDI Remote Display performance.
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Developed the first research prototype to benchmark interactive performance in
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virtualized environments (Patented).
Developed the specs for VDI performance at VMware
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Built the network architecture for datacenter VM clusters for VDI testing.
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MTS R&D Networking Performance
Part of the team that worked on improving ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 network performance
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Evaluating and improving network performance with static code analysis and dynamic
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profiling
Education
PhD Candidate UNC-Chapel Hill Current
Advisor(s): Dr Fabian Monrose and Dr Kevin Jeffay
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MS Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill 05-2007
Thesis: Network Adaption for Loss and Encoding Aware Video Adaptation
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Advisor(s): Dr Kevin Jeffay
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BS Computer Science and Mathematics, SUNY Brockport 05-2005
Summa Cum Laude
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Publications and Patents
Publications
Srinivas Krishnan and Fabian Monrose. An Empirical Study of the Performance, Security and
Privacy Implications of Domain Name Prefetching . DSN 2011, Hong Kong.
Kevin Snow, Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose and Niels Provos. A New Micro-kernel for
Supporting Fast Detection and Forensic Analysis of Code Injection Attacks . USENIX Security 2011,
San Francisco, CA.
Srinivas Krishnan, Kevin Snow and Fabian Monrose. Trail of Bytes: Efficient Support for Forensic
Analysis, CCS 2010, Chicago, IL.
Srinivas Krishnan and Fabian Monrose DNS Prefetching and Its Privacy Implications: When Good
Things Go Bad . LEET 2010, San Jose, CA.
Srinivas Krishnan and Fabian Monrose "TimeCapsule: Secure Recording of Accesses to a Protected
Datastore". VMSec 2009, Chicago, IL.
Srinivas Krishnan and Ketan Mayer-Patel. "A Utility-Driven Framework for Loss and Encoding
Aware Video Adaptation." In Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on Multimedia (ACM
Multimedia) 2007. Augsburg, Germany.
Patents
Makhija, V.M., Satnur, S., Bidarkar R., Krishnan, S. Measuring Client Interactive Performance Using
a Display Channel. U.S. Patent Number: US 2011/0047211 A1
Applications
V.Makhija, R.Bidarkar, S.Satnur, S.Krishnan. "Measuring Remote Video Playback Performance with
Embedded Encoded Pixels". In Submission
Abhishek Singh, Ming Zhang, Albert G. Greenberg, Parantap Lahiri, David A. Maltz, Srinivas
Krishnan. Backbone Network with Policy Routing . In Submission
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Provisional
Srinivas Krishnan, Kevin Z. Snow, Fabian Monrose. Efficient digital forensics support using a
virtualized environment .
Kevin Z. Snow, Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose. A new micro-kernel for supporting fast
detection and forensic analysis of code injection attacks
Teaching
Instructor, Programming languages Comp 524. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Spring 2011. (https://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/Courses/comp524-s11/)
Grants
DSN 2010 Travel Grant
CCS 2010 Travel Grant
TIW 2009 Travel Grant
CCS, VMSec2009 Travel Grant
Awards
State University of New York
Chancellor s Award 2005
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Computer Science Departmental Scholar 2005
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Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award 2004
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Distinguished Scholar in Residence 2001-2005
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Computing Research Association (CRA)
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Undergraduate Research 2005
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Professional Memberships
ACM, IEEE
References
Dr Kevin Jeffay (******@**.***.***), Dr Fabian Monrose (******@**.***.***)
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