I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I lead the Secure & Transparent Systems Laboratory. My research confronts a broad array of issues in computer security. I am especially interested in the challenges of detecting, investigating, and preventing intrusions in various computing environments such as operating systems, organizations, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. Increasingly, my work investigates and addresses the concerns of the users that interact with these systems.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where I was advised by Professor Kevin Butler and a founding graduate student of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity. My dissertation work was in the area of data provenance, particularly the construction of secure provenance-aware systems. I obtained my M.Sc in Computer Science at the University of Oregon, and bachelors degrees in Computer Science and English Literature from the University of Maryland.
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Congrats Akul! I'm sure there are many more wins to come in the near future.
8 May, 2024
Apurva Virkud's analysis of the use of MITRE ATT&CK in Endpoint Detection Rulesets, titled "How does Endpoint Detection use the MITRE ATT&CK Framework?", has been accepted to appear at the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium. Congrats to Apurva and her student co-authors Andy Riddle and Jason Liu!
10 July, 2023
Akul Goyal's work on improved provenance-based intrusion detection, titled "R-CAID: Embedding Root Cause Analysis within Provenance-based Intrusion Detection," has been accepted to appear at the 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy! Congrats Akul!
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