I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at William & Mary, where I lead the Secure Platforms Lab (SPL). My research secures platforms such as smart phones and smart homes by evaluating automated security analyses used for vulnerability/malware detection.

In particular, I build automated frameworks for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of security analysis tools along three key directions: (1) evaluating security techniques using mutants, i.e., practical variants of vulnerabilities/malware that represent cases observed in the wild (S&P’22, USENIX’18, ACM TOPS, ICSE’21 Tool Demo), (2) developing natural scenarios for testing tools in contextual environments such as smart homes (S&P’20), and (3) the understanding practical threats through security and privacy analysis of software/apps frameworks (CCS’22, USENIX’22, ACM TCPS 2020, CODASPY’19 Best Paper, ACMiner).

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I am looking for highly motivated PhD, Masters, and Bachelors students to join my lab (more info) !

Contact Information

Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 104-C

Phone: (757) 221 2953

Email: apnadkarni at wm.edu

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Current PhD Students

• Kaushal Kafle
• Amit Seal Ami (co-advised with Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk)
• Prianka Mandal
• Victor Olaiya

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