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Alexander J. Gaidis
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Secure Systems Lab (SSL)
Department of Computer Science
Brown University

CIT 455
115 Waterman Street
Providence, RI 02912, USA


About

I am a doctoral student at Brown University advised by Vasileios P. Kemerlis researching computer systems with a focus on software security and operating system kernel protection.

[Curriculum Vitae]


Publications

Conference Papers

  1. Neophytos Christou, Alexander J. Gaidis, Vaggelis Atlidakis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "Eclipse: Preventing Speculative Memory-error Abuse with Artificial Data Dependencies". 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2024.
    » [Paper] [Software]
  2. Di Jin, Alexander J. Gaidis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "BeeBox: Hardening BPF against Transient Execution Attacks". 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.
    » [Paper] [Presentation] [Slides] [Software]
  3. Alexander J. Gaidis, Vaggelis Atlidakis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "SysXCHG: Refining Privilege with Adaptive System Call Filters". 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2023.
    » [Paper] [Software]
  4. Alexander J. Gaidis, Joao Moreira, Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Vaggelis Atlidakis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "FineIBT: Fine-grain Control-flow Enforcement with Indirect Branch Tracking". 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID). Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 2023.
    » [Paper] [Software]

Workshops

  1. Alexander J. Gaidis, Vaggelis Atlidakis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "SysXCHG: Refining Privilege with Adaptive System Call Filters". New England Security Day (NESD). Storrs, Connecticut, USA, March 2024.
    » [Presentation]
  2. Di Jin, Alexander J. Gaidis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "BPF-Box: Hardening BPF against Transient Execution Attacks". New England Security Day (NESD). Storrs, Connecticut, USA, March 2024.
    » [Presentation]

Posters

  1. Jamie Gabbay, Alexander J. Gaidis, Joao Moreira, Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Vaggelis Atlidakis, and Vasileios P. Kemerlis. "NOPout: Dynamic Pruning of Indirect Branch Targets for FineIBT". New England Security Day (NESD). Storrs, Connecticut, USA, March 2024.
  2. Brian Subirana, Alexander J. Gaidis, Sanjay Sarma, Richard Cantwell, Jon Stine, Peter Oliveira-Soens, Esteva Tarragò, Ferran Hueto Puig, Prithvi Rajasekaran, and Alex Armengol Urpi. "A Secure Voice Name System to Wake Smart Devices". MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Research and Computing Launch Postdoc and Student Poster Session. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 2019.

Patents

  1. Michael C. Gaidis and Alexander J. Gaidis. "Magnetic domain wall shift register memory device readout". US Patent 8,951,811. 2015.
  2. Michael C. Gaidis and Alexander J. Gaidis. "Magnetic domain wall shift register memory device readout". US Patent 8,772,889. 2014.

Non-academic Papers

  1. Brian Subirana, Harry Levinson, Ferran Hueto, Prithvi Rajasekaran, Alexander J. Gaidis, Esteve Tarragó, and Peter Oliveira-Soens. "The MIT Voice Name System". arXiv:2204.09657 (preprint). 2022.
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References

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