Kapil Vaswani
Principal Researcher
Research Activities
Current Research
One of the barriers to adoption cloud database technologies such as SQL Azure is data security and privacy. Data is a valuable asset to most organizations and storing the data in the cloud is often perceived as a security risk. This project investigates encryption as a mechanism to address such data security concerns. In particular, the goal of the project is to research, design, and build a comprehensive database system that supports encryption as a first class citizen. The desired functionality includes: (1) storing encrypted data, (2) issuing encrypted queries and getting back encrypted results. Our goal is to support all sophisticated features of a DBMS such as complex queries, indexes, transactions and stored procedures while maintaining strong security, (3) enabling automated migration of database applications to the cloud.
Other projects
- Speculate – Language extensions for speculative parallelism
- WYPIWYG – Inferring concurrency control from sequential proofs
- Isolator – Dynamically enforcing isolation in concurrent programs
- Darwin – Software fault localization using program versions
- Preferential Path Profiling – An approach for improving the efficiency of collecting path coverage data
- Seal – Side Effects Analysis for .NET
Program committees
PLDI 2018 (ERC), ICDCN 2016, POPL 2015 (ERC). PLDI 2014 (ERC), ICSE 2014, ISEC 2013, TOOLS Europe 2012, ISEC 2012, ICTAC 2012, CGO 2012, APLAS 2011, ISEC 2011, SCORE 2011, FASE 2011