Gururaj Saileshwar
Research Areas - Computer Architecture and Systems Security.
Memory Systems Lab, Georgia Tech

I will join the University of Toronto - Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
I am looking for motivated PhD students to join my group at UofT. Interested? Drop me a note at gururaj.s@gatech.edu.
I am a PhD candidate in ECE at Georgia Tech, USA, advised by Prof. Moinuddin Qureshi. My research interests in computer architecture and security include cache side-channels, transient execution attacks, Rowhammer attacks, DRAM integrity, memory safety and fuzzing.
My past research has improved the security for computing hardware and systems in several ways:
- Cache Side-Channels: Enabled the fastest known cache timing attacks [1], randomized cache defenses [2] that end an arms race, and one of the first academic hardware defenses against Spectre [3].
- DRAM Security: Enabled practical mitigations for DRAM Rowhammer attacks [4, 5] and designed secure memories [6, 7] for protection against physical attacks.
- Software Reliability: Enabled hardware support for low-cost memory safety [8] and fuzzing [9] to make software resilient to bugs causing a majority of current vulnerabilities.
My work has been awarded an IEEE MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mention, and been supported in part by GT IISP Cybersecurity Fellowship, and GT ECE Bourne Fellowship.
I received my B.Tech & M.Tech in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India.
news (full list)
Mar, 2022 | Invited to serve on the Program Committee (PC) for RAID-2022. |
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Oct, 2021 | Invited to serve on the External Review Committee (ERC) for ISCA-2022. |
May, 2021 | Finalist in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2021! |
Mar, 2021 | Invited to serve on the Program Committee (PC) for IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2022. |
Mar, 2021 | Recognized as Distinguished Reviewer in the Shadow PC of IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2021. |
Jan, 2021 | Awarded Georgia Tech IISP Cybersecurity Fellowship! |
May, 2019 | Finalist in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2019! |
Dec, 2018 | Finalist in Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2019! |