Distinguished Reviewer Award

ACM CCS 2024

Top 10% of 527 program committee members.

Ideas with Impact Competition, second prize

ICICS, The University of British Columbia

For MedAIScout. Judged across all UBC departments for commercial potential.

Mitacs Globalink Research Award

Mitacs

Open to all doctoral students in India.

Star TA Award

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras

Also awarded in 2020 and 2017.

Applied Research Competition, first prize

Cyber Security Awareness Week (NYU and IIT Kanpur)

Open to all PhD students across India working in cybersecurity.

AWSAR Award

Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Top 100 of 4,993 entrants in a national scientific writing competition.

Gandhi Hazare Award, first prize

Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT Madras

Embedded Security Challenge, first prize

Cyber Security Awareness Week (NYU and IIT Kanpur)

For "Eradicator: An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in PLC-based Industrial Control Systems". Open to students of all Indian universities.

ICS-Sniper: Targeting the Blind Spot of Modern Industrial Control Systems

Gargi Mitra, Pritam Dash, Elaine Yingao Yao, Alain Zhiyanov, Aastha Mehta, Karthik Pattabiraman

USENIX Security '25, NCC Conference '25, and an invited talk at Idaho National Laboratory ('24)

AI/ML-enabled Connected Healthcare Systems: New Remedies or New Risks?

USENIX Security 2023 (session organizer)

Hastakshara: A passive side-channel-based webpage fingerprinting attack for uncovering client intent

ACM IMC 2017

Samata: A framework for identifying net-neutrality violations using evidence structures

ACM IMC 2017 (co-author)

Blockchain as an infrastructure to build secure network services

PhD Conclave, ISEA Asia Security and Privacy Conference 2017