Bhushan Jain

Bhushan Jain

bhushan [at] cs [dot] unc [dot] edu

I will be graduating in Aug 2022, and am looking for research or system software development jobs in industry.
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I transferred from Stony Brook University to The University of North Carolina in Fall 2016.
I work in Operating System, Security, Concurrency and Architecture Research (OSCAR) Lab under the guidance of Prof. Donald Porter.
I have attended CCS '12, Usenix Security '13, SOSP '13, Eurosys '14, Oakland '14, APSys '15, OSDI '16, HotOS '17
My areas of interest are Virtualization Security, Memory Isolation, System Security, Trusted Hardware, Cloud Security, Storage.

Resources

I taught Virtual Machine Introspection in a graduate level system security course. Feel free to use these slides as you wish. (Slides Powerpoint Show)(Slides PDF)

News

  • 03/17/2022: Offically ABD - All But Dissertation.
  • 09/19/2019: Co-author of accepted USENIX Security'20 paper titled Civet: An Efficient Java Partitioning Framework for Hardware Enclaves.
  • 04/14/2019: Co-author of accepted SYSTOR'19 paper titled x86-64 Instruction Usage among C/C++ Applications.
  • 03/29/2017: First author of accepted HotOS'17 paper titled A Clairvoyant Approach to Evaluating Software (In)security.
  • 08/20/2016: Transferred to UNC.
  • 05/20/2016: Graduated from Stony Brook with Master of Science in Computer Science.
  • 04/18/2016: Received Best Paper Award for the paper titled A Study of Modern Linux API Usage and Compatibility: What to Support When You're Supporting.
  • 01/29/2016: Co-author of accepted Eurosys'16 paper titled A Study of Modern Linux API Usage and Compatibility: What to Support When You're Supporting.
  • 06/17/2015: Co-author of accepted APSys'15 paper titled Containing the Hype.
  • 06/11/2015: Mentored Kavita Agarwal for her Masters thesis titled A Study of Virtualization Overheads.
  • 03/16/2015: Awarded IBM PhD Fellowship for second consecutive year 2015-16.
  • 10/14/2014: Oakland'14 SoK paper highlighed in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine March-April'15 Issue as one of the top 6 papers.
  • 02/21/2014: Awarded IBM PhD Fellowship for the year 2014-15.
  • 02/03/2014: First author of accepted Oakland'14 paper titled SoK: Introspections on Trust and the Semantic Gap.
  • 01/24/2014: First author of accepted Eurosys'14 paper titled Practical Techniques to Obviate Setuid-to-Root Binaries.
  • 01/24/2014: Co-author of accepted Eurosys'14 paper titled Cooperation and Security Isolation of Library OSes for Multi-Process Applications.
  • 06/12/2013: Advanced to PhD candidacy after clearing Research Proficiency Examination.