Research

Publications

Shiny Objects: Object-Centric Characterization of Chromium

Saket Upadhyay, Ashish Venkat.

Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems @ SIGMETRICS'26

2026

Detecting and Defending Vulnerabilities in Heterogeneous and Monolithic Systems: Current Strategies and Future Directions

Venkat Nitin Patnala, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Guru Venkataramani, Jie Chen, Milos Doroslovacki, Fan Yao, Hongyu Fang, Meron Demissie, Todd Austin, Lauren Biernacki, Saket Upadhyay, Arnabjyoti Kalita, Ashish Venkat.

Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ESWEEK); 2024/09

2024

Modified Firefly Optimization Algorithm-Based IDS for Nature-Inspired Cybersecurity

Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Bong Jun Choi, Ajit Kumar, Saket Upadhyay.

MDPI, Processes 2023, 11(3), 715; 2023/02/28

2023

Nature-Inspired Malware and Anomaly Detection in Android-Based Systems

Saket Upadhyay.

Advances in Nature-Inspired Cyber Security and Resilience, Springer; 2021/10/20

2021

AI-assisted Computer Network Operations testbed for Nature-Inspired Cyber Security based adaptive defense simulation and analysis

Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Saket Upadhyay, Ajit Kumar, Atulya K Nagar.

Future Generation Computer Systems; 2021/02/01

2021

PACER: Platform for Android Malware Classification, Performance Evaluation and Threat Reporting

Ajit Kumar, Vinti Agarwal, Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Andrii Shalaginov, Saket Upadhyay and Bhawna Yadav.

Future Internet, MDPI; 2020/4

2020

PACE: Platform for Android Malware Classification and Performance Evaluation

Ajit Kumar, Vinti Agarwal, Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Andrii Shalaginov, Saket Upadhyay and Bhawna Yadav.

2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data; 2019/12/9

2019

Archive

FuzzDistill: Intelligent Fuzzing Target Selection using Compile-Time Analysis and Machine Learning

Saket Upadhyay.

arXiv preprint 2412.08100

2024

Patents

A scanning device, a system and a method for characterization of external devices

Intellectual Property, India; 2021-06-16. PAT: 369424

2021

Nature-inspired adaptive defence system for early intrusion detection

Intellectual Property, Australia; 2021-08-20. PAT: 20211006268

2021

Copyrights

NICS Hardware Security Module Driver

2021-09-29. 23581/2021-CO/SW

2021

Firefly-inspired Early Alert Mechanism for Intrusion Detection Systems

2021-09-29. 23581/2021-CO/SW

2021

NICS-based Network Testbed for Adaptive Defense Analysis

2021-09-28. 23470/2021-CO/SW

2021

PAMC: Platform for Android Malware Classification

2021. SW-14439/2021

2021