akshith

Writing

notes(in progress), research, and writing published elsewhere.

  2. ResearchPreprint

    Testing Certificate Authorities: An Empirical Study and Stateful Fuzzing Approach

    Akshith Gunasekaran, Max Chase, Zane Ma, Rakesh B. Bobba, Manish Motwani

  3. ResearchDoctoral thesis

    Assuring Trusted Computing Bases through Automated Reduction and Validation

    Akshith Gunasekaran

    Oregon State University

  4. ResearchConference paper

    In Pursuit of Lean OS Kernels: Improving Configuration-Based Debloating

    Akshith Gunasekaran, Gabriel Ritter, Rakesh B. Bobba

    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)

    Program ACSAC 2025

  5. Project

    linux-ql

    CodeQL experiments for analyzing the Linux kernel.

  6. ResearchPreprint

    CONSTRUCT: A Program Synthesis Approach for Reconstructing Control Algorithms from Embedded System Binaries in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Ali Shokri, Alexandre Perez, Souma Chowdhury, Chen Zeng, Gerald Kaloor, Ion Matei, Peter-Patel Schneider, Akshith Gunasekaran, Shantanu Rane

    Origin PARC research internship (2021)

  7. ResearchPreprint

    SENSOR: Graph-Based Revision History Analysis for Code Evolution Introspection

    Akshith Gunasekaran, Huascar Sanchez, Briland Hitaj

    Program DARPA SocialCyber

    SRI International research internship (2022). The linked code and demo are a best-effort reproduction, not the original project artifacts.

  8. ResearchTechnical report

    UAS Cyber Security and Safety Literature Review

    Houssam Abbas, Julie A. Adams, Rakesh B. Bobba, Yeongjin Jang, Henry M. Cathey Jr., Satyajayant Misra, Roopa Viswanathan, Amanda Brandt, Naima Kaabouch, Paul Snyder, Joe Vacek, David Hertz, Gay Lenzo, Joseph Millette, Kelly Maynard, Mohammad Ababneh, Jinhong Choi, Matthew Jansen, Sharad Shrestha

    Funded by FAA through ASSURE A38

    Contributed under Rakesh B. Bobba.

  11. ResearchPreprint

    MultiK: A Framework for Orchestrating Multiple Specialized Kernels

    Hsuan-Chi Kuo, Akshith Gunasekaran, Yeongjin Jang, Sibin Mohan, Rakesh B. Bobba, David Lie, Jesse Walker

  13. ResearchConference paper

    Balancing Image Privacy and Usability with Thumbnail-Preserving Encryption

    Kimia Tajik, Akshith Gunasekaran, Rhea Dutta, Brandon Ellis, Rakesh B. Bobba, Mike Rosulek, Charles V. Wright, Wu-Chi Feng

    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

    Program NDSS 2019