Venkatanathan Varadarajan (Venkat)

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Ph.D. Thesis:

• Isolation in Public Clouds: Threats, Challenges, and Defense
  Venkatanathan Varadarajan
  Department of Computer Sciences, UW-Madison.
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• A Many-core Architecture for In-Memory Data Processing
  Sandeep Agrawal, Sam Idicula, Arun Raghavan, Evangelos Vlachos, Venkatraman Govindaraju, Venkatanathan Vardarajan, Cagri Balkesen, Georgios Giannikis, Charlie Roth, Nipun Agarwal, and Eric Sedlar
  Oracle Labs
  In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture 2017 (MICRO50).
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• Big Data Processing: Scalability with Extreme Single-Node Performance
  Venkatraman Govindaraju, Sam Idicula, Sandeep Agrawal, Venkatanathan Vardarajan, Arun Raghavan, Jarod Wen, Cagri Balkesen, Georgios Giannikis, Nipun Agarwal, and Eric Sedlar
  Oracle Labs
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Congress on Big Data 2017.
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• A Placement Vulnerability Study in Multi-tenant Public Clouds
  Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Yinqian Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart and Michael Swift
  In Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium 2015.
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• Scheduler-based Defenses against Cross-VM Side-channels
  Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Thomas Ristenpart and Michael Swift
  In Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium 2014.
  PDF | PPTX | Poster (PNG) | Talk | 1min-pitch | microbenchmarks source
  Recognized as top ten Best Applied Security Research at CSAW NYU-Poly 2014
  
• Aerie: flexible file-system interfaces to storage-class memory
  Haris Volos, Sanketh Nalli, Sankaralingam Panneerselvam, Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Prashant Saxena and Michael M. Swift.
  In Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys 2014.
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• More for Your Money: Exploiting Performance Heterogeneity in Public Clouds
  Benjamin Farley, Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Ari Juels, Kevin Bowers, Thomas Ristenpart and Michael Swift
  In Proceedings of Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2012.
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• Resource-freeing Attacks: Improve Your Cloud Performance (at Your Neighbor's Expense)
  Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Thawan Kooburat, Benjamin Farley, Thomas Ristenpart and Michael Swift
  In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2012.
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• Towards a Cooperative Defense Model Against Network Security Attacks
  Harikrishna Narasimhan, Venkatanathan Varadarajan, and C. Pandu Rangan
  In the Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010)
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• Game Theoretic Resistance to Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks Using Hidden Difficulty Puzzles
  Harikrishna Narasimhan, Venkatanathan Varadarajan, and C. Pandu Rangan
  In the 6th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2010)
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• A Reconfigurable Hardware to Accelerate Directory Search
  Venkatanathan Varadarajan, Sanath Kumar R, Arun Nedunchezhian and Ranjani Parthasarathi
  In the IEEE High Performance Computing 2009 Student Symposium (HiPC09-SS)
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