Mohit Tiwari

Mohit Tiwari is an Indian-American professor and entrepreneur. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Spark Research Lab. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Symmetry Systems Inc, a data security posture management company, along with one of his Ph.D students, Casen Hunger.
== Education and Early Career ==
Mohit Tiwari received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahiti in 2005. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
After completing his Ph.D., Tiwari worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 as an Assistant Professor.
== Selected Publications ==
"Using Constraint Programming and Graph Representation Learning for Generating Interpretable Cloud Security Policies" - Mikhail Kazdagli, Mohit Tiwari, Akshat Kumar in Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 2022, Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria.
"DATS -Data Containers for Web Applications" - Luis Vilanova, Casen Hunger, Charalampos Papamanthou, Yoav Etsion, Mohit Tiwari, in Proceedings of Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS), March 2018, Williamsburg, VA.
"Understanding Contention-driven Covert Channels and Using Them for Defense" - Casen Hunger, Mikhail Kazdagli, Ankit Rawat, Alex Dimakis, Sriram Vishwanath, Mohit Tiwari, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2015.
"Context-centric Security" - Mohit Tiwari, Prashanth Mohan, Andrew Osheroff, Hilfi Alkaff, Elaine Shi, Eric Love, Dawn Song, Krste Asanovic. in Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2012. Bellevue, WA
"Caisson: A Hardware Description Language for Secure Information Flow" - Xun Li, Mohit Tiwari, Jason Oberg, Vineeth Kashyap, Frederic T Chong, Timothy Sherwood, and Ben Hardekopf, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation(PLDI), June 2011, San Jose, CA
"Theoretical Analysis of Gate Level Information Flow Tracking" - Jason Oberg, Wei Hu, Ali Irturk, Mohit Tiwari, Timothy Sherwood and Ryan Kastner, Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2010.
"Tracking Information Flow at the Gate-Level for Secure Architectures" - Mohit Tiwari, Xun Li, Hassan Wassel, Bita Mazloom, Shashidhar Mysore, Frederic Chong, and Timothy Sherwood. IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2010.
"Complete Information Flow Tracking from the Gates Up" - Mohit Tiwari, Hassan Wassel, Bita Mazloom, Shashidhar Mysore, Frederic Chong, and Timothy Sherwood. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2009. Washington, DC
"A Small Cache of Large Ranges: Hardware Methods for Efficiently Searching, Storing, and Updating Big Dataflow Tags" - Mohit Tiwari, Banit Agrawal, Shashidhar Mysore, Jonathan K Valamehr, and Timothy Sherwood. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2008. Lake Como, Italy
== Achievements and Awards ==
Finalist, CSAW18 Israel Finalist in Applied Research Competition, 2018
Best Paper Award, Intl. Conf. on Architectural Support for Prog. Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2015
NSF CAREER Award, January 2015
Google Faculty Research Award, 2013-14.
Computing Innovation Fellow , Jointly with Prof. Krste Asanovic and Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, 2011-13.
Outstanding Dissertation Award , Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, 2011.
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