Author Archives: karthikp

The Statistical Assessment of Bayes-“sub”optimal Binary Machine Learning Classifier Risk

Abraham Chan, Ilir Gashi, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Pattabiraman and Kizito Salako. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (Safecomp), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: TBD). [ PDF | Talk ]
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RVDebloater: Mode-based Adaptive Firmware Debloating for Robotic Vehicles

Mohsen Salehi and Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: TBD). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code) Artifacts Available
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Requalizer: A Co-designed Information Flow Control and Quality of Service Management Framework

Kumseok Jung, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Pattabiraman, To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2026. (Acceptance rate: TBD). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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ReSect: A Tool for Automated Analysis of Reentrancy Exploit Transactions on Blockchains

Yuqi Liu, Rui Xi, and Karthik Pattabiraman. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 20%). [ PDF | Talk] (Code) Code Reproducible, Dataset Reproducible
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Thinking Inside the Box: Injecting Realistic Radiation Faults in ML Accelerators

Bruno Loureiro Coelho, Seyedmani Sadati, Abraham Chan, Alex Hands, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Paolo Rech. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 20%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code). Best Paper and Distinguished Award (one of over 300 submissions). Code Reproducible, Dataset Reproducible
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ARMOR: Attack-Resilient Reinforcement Learning Control for UAVs

Pritam Dash, Ethan Chan, Nathan P. Lawrence, Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’26). (Acceptance Rate: 38%) [ PDF | Poster ] (Code)

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Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices

Gargi Mitra, Mohammadreza Hallajiyan, Inji Kim, Athish Pranav Dharmalingam, Mohammed ElNawawy, Sharear Iqbal, Karthik Pattabiraman, Homa Alemzadeh. Springer Nature, 2026. (Invited) (arXIV version)
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Feed-Forward Controller-Based Recovery for Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). [ PDF ]
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Turnstile: Hybrid Information Flow Control Framework for Managing Privacy in Internet-of-Things Applications

Kumseok Jung, Mohanna Shahrad, Gargi Mitra, and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 16.9%). [PDF | Talk] (Code) Artifacts Available, Functional and Results Reproduced.
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DLAFI: Software-Based Fault Injection for Permanent Faults in Deep Learning Accelerators

Seyedmani Sadati, Abraham Chan, Udit Kumar Agarwal and Karthik Pattabiraman. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 28%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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