Basavesh Shivakumar
Postdoctoral Associate
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBasavesh Shivakumar is a postdoctoral researcher and systems security engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable program-analysis and fuzzing tools that find and mitigate deep flaws in cryptographic libraries, kernels, and toolchains. His dissertation and follow-on work span practical defenses against speculative-execution attacks and fine-grained constant-time enforcement, including a Distinguished Paper at IEEE S&P and contributions integrated into OpenSSL. He designs and implements end-to-end frameworks—such as FoxDec and LibBinSeek—that lift, symbolize, and directed-fuzz binaries at scale, and his research reaches into cyber-physical and IoT reliability. Based in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech and forged at Max Planck and Purdue, he blends rigorous academic methods with production-minded security patches and compiler defenses. Notably, he combines low-level binary instrumentation with compiler-driven mitigations, aiming to influence how critical systems are built and hardened against emerging microarchitectural threats.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Radboud UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (128)
broker10
fhe10
eclipse10
high-speed10
encryption10
async10
secp256k110
notification10
coq10
byte10
rust10
cryptanalysis10
cpu10
libwebsockets10
mosquitto10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
basavesh/academic-kickstart
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
📝 Easily create a beautiful website using Academic, Hugo, and Netlify
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
hugojamstacknetlifyhugo-themestatic-site-generator
basavesh/FaCT
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Flexible and Constant Time Programming Language
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
constant-timecompilerconstantprogramming-languageinterpreter
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