EDUCATION

PhD in Computer Science                                                                 (2014-Present)

        Stony Brook University, NY 11790

        Thesis Title: Multi-layer Software Transformation for Attack Surface Reduction

        Thesis Advisor: Dr.Michalis Polychronakis, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University

M.Tech in Computer Science                                                                 (2011-2013)

        Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India - 781039

        Thesis Title: Half-View Barrier coverage in Camera Sensor Networks

        Thesis Advisor: Dr. S.V. Rao,  Professor, HoD, CS Department, IIT Guwahati

B.Tech in Computer Science                                                                 (2007-2011)

        Gautam Buddha Technical University Lucknow, India - 226031

        Thesis Title: Semantic searching of Audio and video content based on metadata

        Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mayank Pandey, Associate Professor, MNNIT Allahabad

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Doctoral Researcher                                                        (2017-Present)

Hexlab, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

• Conducted primary research for software security in popular applications
• Led design, development and execution of two major projects on attack surface reduction. Both the projects(Saffire and Shredder) have been accepted and published.
• Created an organised database of shellcodes and ROP based exploits available in-the-wild. This database has been across many projects in the lab.
• Proposed and currently working on long-term enhancing security on Trusted Execution Environment(TEE).

Research Intern                                                                (Sep.2019-Nov.2019)

Facebook Inc.

• Designed and developed a system for seamless file-system transformation for Python Type analysis tool Pyre.
• Formulated and optimized back-end type error inference module of Pyre.

Research Intern                                                                (Jun.2018-Aug.2018)

Facebook Inc.

• Devised a Dynamic analysis framework for measuring and improving app performance in Android systems.
• Shipped a beta version of the framework into Facebook’s Android app for fine-grained pattern extraction and optimizations to speed up launch and tab switch time.

Doctoral Researcher                                                        (2014-2016)

Compas Lab, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

Performed Kernel instrumentation for detailed TCP stack analysis. The aim was to debug performance trends of network based applications. This involves rewriting major portions of network stack.

Master’s Research Assistant                                         (2011-2013)

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati                                                

Barrier, defense line around or along an area to ensure detection of events of a specific kind. Crafted and developed a system to decentralize the formation of barriers across randomly deployed camera-fitted sensors.

Undergraduate Researcher                                                (2009-2011)

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad                                        

Developed a semantic search framework, that performs metadata and content based detailed indexing. The framework further enhances the quality of metadata by extracting missing fields from online databases.

PUBLICATIONS

Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Shachee Mishra, Michalis Polychronakis “Temporal System Call Specialization for Attack Surface Reduction” [To appear in Usenix Security’20]

Shachee Mishra, Michalis Polychronakis “Saffire: Context-sensitive Function Specialization against Code Reuse Attacks” [To appear in IEEE Euro S&P’20]

Shachee Mishra, Michalis Polychronakis “Shredder: Breaking Exploits through API Specialization”  ACSAC '18 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Pages 1-16

Shachee Mishra, Nima Honarmand, Anshul Gandhi  “Demystifying Tail Behavior in Distributed Systems” Accepted as Poster at IPDPS’16 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

TEACHING & ADVISING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor                                                                (Spring 2020)

State University of New York, Old Westbury                                

Taught an Introduction to Programming course to freshmen and sophomores. The course included theory and practical lab sessions. The primary language was Java, but I covered the basics of C as well.

Teaching Assistant                                                                (2014-2019)

Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

• Taught tutorials and problem solving sessions for Undergraduate Theory of Computation.
• Planned assignments and lab sessions for Undergrad Introduction to Programming and data structures.
• Planned assignments and performed assignments and exams grading for Graduate Algorithms, Graduate Network Security and Graduate Asynchronous systems.

Project Mentor                                                                        (2017-2019)

Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

• Advised 2 graduate students towards their Master’s thesis.                
• Advised 1undergrad student while they were working on a kernel instrumentation based project aimed at kernel attack surface reduction.
• Mentored 1 high-school student during his summer session working on Dynamic analysis of Linux applications using eBPF Seccomp filters.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Graduate Club President                                                        (2018-2020)

Women in PhD, Computer Science (WPhD), Stony Brook University                                        

Founder and President of Women in PhD club of Computer Science Department. Devised initiatives like buddy programs for newly admitted Women in the PhD program and scholarship application mentoring sessions.

Graduate Mentor                                                                (2018-2019)

Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE), Stony Brook University                                

Mentored two undergraduate students. The mentorship responsibilities involved introducing them to the graduate program, to research and to motivate them to pursue computer science.

Graduate Student Representative                                        (2018-2019)

Graduate Curriculum Committee, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University                

Represented student voice in the curriculum committee. Worked on the plan to update PhD committee

Members’ requirement and in the process of introduction of new courses.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Member of Technical Staff                                                        (2013-2014)

Adobe Systems India, Noida , India

• Worked on introducing support for Middle-East North African (MENA) languages which include Arabic, Hebrew languages. These require special treatment as they are written Right-to-Left.
• Developed Adobe Localization Framework(ALF) system ‘Slate’, using AngularJS framework for the web client and Java for back-end.
• Upgraded Adobe Globalization portal, used extensively by Adobe employees and business associates, to be more secure and scalable.

Secure Network Intern                                                         (Summer 2010)

Kyrion Digital Securities, New Delhi, India

• Designed a secure network to be used within the office across multiple geographies.
• Configured their own Intrusion Detection system, Firewall, Honey-pot and DMZ to prevent any outside trespassing events.

HONORS & AWARDS

REFERENCES

Available upon request.