MIT CSAIL Computer Systems Security Group

People

Faculty

• Nickolai Zeldovich

Ph.D. students

• Ramesh Chandra
• Austin Clements
• Priya Gupta
• Taesoo Kim
• Xi Wang

M.Eng. students

• Karl Rieb

UROP students

• Nathan Rittenhouse

Administrative assistant

• Neena Lyall

Graduated students

• Alex Yip

Overview

The computer systems security group researches and builds secure, practical, and flexible systems. Our work spans operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, programming languages, and web browsers. We are part of the CSAIL lab and the MIT EECS department.

If you are a student at MIT interested in building secure systems, get in touch with us. If you would like to join MIT and work in our research group as a graduate student, apply to the MIT EECS Ph.D. program.

Projects

• HiStar, an operating system that minimizes trusted code.
• Resin, a language runtime that helps programmers write secure applications.
• Cinder, an operating system providing resource control for mobile devices.
• Amber, a secure and scalable cloud computing platform.
• Starlight, browser support for data sharing between web applications.
• Sud, a framework for confining malicious Linux device drivers.

Security classes

• 6.893: Computer Systems Security
• 6.857: Computer and Network Security

Related groups

• Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems (PDOS)
• Cryptography and Information Security (CIS)