Research








Publications

  • Prem Uppuluri, Ajay Gupta: Resource Usage Policy Specification for Managing Application Resources. ITNG, IEEE Computer Press, April 2008
  • Sachin Singh, Uday Joshi, Prem Uppuluri, A Lightweight file system for desktop grid computing, IEEE Conference on Information Technology: Next Generations IEEE Computer Press,April 2007
  • Prem Uppuluri, Sachin Singh, Uday Joshi, RemoteFS: A file system extension for grid computing, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Korea, 2007
  • Sanjay Kumar Madria, Kajal T. Claypool, Rajgopal Kannan, Prem Uppuluri, Manoj Madhava Gore, Editors, Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, Third International Conference, ICDCIT 2006, Bhubaneswar, India, December 20-23, 2006, Proceedings Springer 2006
  • Prem Uppuluri, Vivek Diwakara and Vikas Rajegowda, Preventing Information Leaks in Xwindows, Intl. Conference on Communication Network and Information Security (CNIS), Phoenix Arizona, December 2005
  • Prem Uppuluri, Narendra Jabisetti, Yugi Lee and Uday Joshi, P2P Grid: Service Oriented Framework for Resource Management, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, July 2005. [PDF]
  • Prem Uppuluri and R. Sekar, A Language for Specifying, Monitoring and Enforcing Security Behaviors, TBP, June 2004, [PDF]
  • Mayura Vuchuru, Prem Uppuluri, Uday Joshi and Arnab Ray, Security Policies to Detect TOCTOU attacks on File Systems Technical Report, May 2005 (Currently under review).

  • Prem Uppuluri, Arnab Ray and Uday Joshi, Preventing Race Condition Attacks on File Systems, Security Track, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Santa Fe, NM, March 2005.[PDF]Errata (AR: 25%)
    An expanded version of this paper, with substantially modified approach is available as a technical report (see the paper above this by Mayura Vuchuru, Prem Uppuluri, Uday Joshi and Arnab Ray). (Currently being reviewed for a Journal). S
  • Yanxin Wang, Johnny Wong, Andrew Miner and Prem Uppuluri, Improving Feature Selection in Anomaly Intrusion Detection Using Specifications, Workshop on Data Mining with Applications to Security, ICDCIT, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3347), December 2004 (AR:33%) Errata
  • Prem Uppuluri and Samik Basu, LASE: Layered Approach for Sensor Security and Efficiency, IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW-04), IEEE Computer Press, Montreal, August 2004 [PDF] link
  • Prem Uppuluri, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Using Behavior Specification, Ph.D Dissertation, SUNY Stony Brook, August 2003 [PDF] Errata
  • Prem Uppuluri, Intrusion Prevention/Detection Using Behavior Specifications, Preliminary Dissertation Proposal, Dept. of Comp. Science, Stony Brook, December 2002
  • Prem Uppuluri and R. Sekar, Experiences with Specification Based Intrusion Detection System, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID)  October 2001. [PS]
  • T. Bowen, M. Segal, R. Sekar, T. Shanbhag and Prem Uppuluri, Building Survivable Systems: An Integrated Approach based on Intrusion Detection and Damage Containment, , IEEE DISCEX 2000, Hilton Head Island, SC [PS]
  • R. Sekar and Prem Uppuluri, Synthesizing Fast Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems from High-Level Specifications, USENIX Security Symposium, 1999. [PS]
  • R. Sekar and Prem Uppuluri, Classification of Linux System Calls, Technical Report, Security Lab, SUNY Stony Brook, December 1999 [html]

Projects

Grants

  • Senior Investigator, ARROWS: Achieving Recruitment, Rentention and Outreach with STEP, NSF, 2005 - 2010
  • PI, Hybrid System Call Interposition, University of Missouri Research Board, June 2004 - December 2005

Graduate Students

  • Uday Joshi, Flexgrid: Flexible desktop grid system, M.S Thesis, December 2005. Currently: Software Engineer, Paypal Inc, CA
  • Sachin Singh, REMIO: Remote I/O for grid computing , M.S Thesis, October 2005. Currently: Software Engineer, Children's Mercy Hospital - Cardiology Dept, Kansas City, MO.
  • Swetha Thummala, Reducing false alarms by dynamic responses to attacks in a host based intrusion detection system, M.S Thesis, November 2005. Currently: Software Engineer, SBC Telecommunications, St. Louis, MO.
  • Preethi Naik, "System Call Interposition at User level", M.S Thesis, August 2005, Currently: Software Engineer, Alcatel, CA
  • Saurabh Pathak, M.S Thesis, 2005, Currently: Software Engineer, Ask Jeeves, New York
  • Mayura Vuchuru, "Detecting Race Condition Attacks on File Systems", M.S Thesis, June 2005. Currently: Software Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond WA

Dissertation Program Committees

  • M.S committee, Nirav Shah (2004), Sushil Puradkar (2004), Madhura Maideo Janardhan (2005)
  • Ph.D committee, Ajay Gupta SUNY Stony Brook, May 2004

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