Pradyumna Shome

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

1. Poster: “Learning Too Much About Me”: On the Security and Privacy Concerns of Generative AI Chatbots

   Pradyumna Shome, and Miuyin Marie Yong Wong. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). August 2024.

2. GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

   Boru Chen, Yingchen Wang, Pradyumna Shome, Christopher W. Fletcher, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella, and Daniel Genkin. USENIX Security Symposium. August 2024.

   • 🏆 Real World Cryptography 2024 Talk
   • 🏆 2024 Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack
   • Info Page
3. Opening Pandora's Box: A Systematic Study of New Ways Microarchitecture Can Leak Private Data

   Jose Rodrigo Sanchez Vicarte, Pradyumna Shome, Nandeeka Nayak, Caroline Trippel, Adam Morrison, David Kohlbrenner, and Christopher W. Fletcher. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). June 2021.

   • 🏆 Intel Hardware Security Academic Award Honorable Mention
   • Poster

Other

1. SoK: Rowhammer in the Post-TRR Era

   Pradyumna Shome

Talks

1. Small World with High Risks: A Study of Security Threats in the npm Ecosystem,
   • Security Seminar, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 2022
2. Prime+Probe 1, JavaScript 0: Overcoming Browser-based Side-Channel Defenses,
   • Clean Slate Processor Design Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2021
3. PRISM: Protections Impeding Side-channel Attacks in Microarchitecture,
   • Illinois Computer Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), August 2020
4. Broadway: Scaling Programming Education Through a Distributed Autograding Framework,
   • Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2020

1. Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack, "GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers" (2024)
2. Community Engagement Award, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2023)
3. Best Paper, CS 7001 Conference on Graduate Studies in Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, "SoK: Rowhammer in the Post-TRR Era" (2022)
4. Intel Hardware Security Academic Award Honorable Mention (2022)
5. IEEE S&P Symposium Shadow Program Committee Invitation (sole undergraduate among senior PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) (2021)
6. Malwarebytes Cybersecurity Scholarship, Malwarebytes (2020)
7. Illinois Engineering Achievement Scholarship, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering (2020)
8. Outstanding Course Assistant Award, UIUC Department of Computer Science (2020)
9. Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellowship Finalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (2019)
10. Illinois Engineering Achievement Scholarship, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering (2019)
11. Forbes Under 30 Scholar, Forbes (2019)
12. Illinois Engineering Achievement Scholarship, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering (2018)
13. SPIMBot Hall of Hame, UIUC CS 233: Computer Architecture (Spring 2018) (2018)
14. Edmund J. James Scholar Program, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering (2017)
15. AP Scholar with Distinction, College Board (2017)