I am currently a PhD student in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov. I also collaborate frequently with Prof. Emmett Witchel. Most of my research deals with computer security and privacy.

My research has been generously supported by a MCD Fellowship (2009-2012) and a Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Security (2012-2014).

Before coming to Austin in the fall of 2009, I got a master's degree from the University of Utah working with Prof. Sneha Kasera and Prof. Neal Patwari.

Publications

• Enabling Fine-Grained Permissions for Augmented Reality Applications With Recognizers
  by Suman Jana, David Molnar, Alexander Moshchuk, Alan Dunn, Benjamin Livshits, Helen J. Wang, and Eyal Ofek
  In Usenix Security '13
  [Bibtex]


• A Scanner Darkly: Protecting User Privacy from Perceptual Applications
  by Suman Jana, Arvind Narayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In S&P '13
  [Bibtex, Slides(pptx)]


• Operating System Support for Augmented Reality Applications
  by Loris D'Antoni, Alan Dunn, Suman Jana, Tadayoshi Kohno, Benjamin Livshits, David Molnar, Alexander Moshchuk, Eyal Ofek,
  Franziska Roesner, Scott Saponas, Margus Veanes, and Helen J. Wang
  In HotOS '13
  [Bibtex]


• Memento: Learning Secrets from Process Footprints
  by Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In S&P '12  (best student paper award)
  [Bibtex, Slides( pptx)]
  Publicity: CACM, Mocana.
• Abusing File Processing in Malware Detectors for Fun and Profit
  by Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In S&P '12
  [Bibtex, Slides( pptx)]
• The Most Dangerous Code in the World: Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software
  (2012 NYU-Poly AT&T best applied security paper award)
  by Martin Georgiev, Subodh Iyengar, Suman Jana, Rishita Anubhai, Dan Boneh, and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In CCS '12 [FAQ, Bibtex]
  Publicity: Ars Technica, Threatpost, Hacker News, Slashdot, Schneier, Reddit, LWN.net, The H, SC Magazine, Softpedia.
  Foreign: Heise, it republik, Webwereld, Security.nl, Punto Informatico, root.cz, xakep.ru, SecurityLab.ru.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Machine: Protecting Privacy with Ephemeral Channels
  (2013 PET Award runner-up)
  by Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Suman Jana, Sangman Kim, Mark Silberstein, Yuanzhong Xu, Vitaly Shmatikov, and Emmett Witchel
  In OSDI '12
  [Bibtex, Slides( pptx)]
• TxBox: Building Secure, Efficient Sandboxes with System Transactions
  by Suman Jana, Donald E. Porter, and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In S&P '11
  [Bibtex, Slides( keynote, quicktime, pdf )]
• EVE: Verifying Correct Execution of Cloud-Hosted Web Applications
  by Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov
  In HotCloud '11
  [Bibtex, Slides( keynote, quicktime, pdf )]
• On the Effectiveness of Secret Key Extraction from Wireless Signal Strength in Real Environments
  by Suman Jana, Sriram N. Premnath, Mike Clark, Sneha K. Kasera, Neal Patwari, and Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
  In MOBICOM '09
  [Bibtex, Slides( pdf )]
• On Fast and Accurate Detection of Unauthorized Wireless Access Points Using Clock Skews
  by Suman Jana and Sneha K. Kasera
  In MOBICOM '08
  [Bibtex, Slides( pdf )]

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