Sanket Goutam

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University and work in the Ethos Lab. I am advised by Prof. Amir Rahmati.

My research broadly addresses systems and network security challenges in emerging technologies, with an emphasis on building secure and privacy-focused solutions for mobile systems such as smartphones, wearables (e.g., AR/VR devices), and IoT or smarthome ecosystems. Modern personal devices are constantly evolving with complex designs, perpetual sensing abilities, and with layers of abstractions that may engender new security and privacy threats for users. I investigate how developers design user-facing systems and identify potential security and privacy impacts that may arise due to obscure design practices and functional indirections. My research aims to build practical designs for these systems that meet operational requirements for developers while preserving security and privacy guarantees for end users.

Since Summer’23, I hold a joint position with Samsung Research America as a Security Researcher (part-time) working on Samsung Knox for Enterprise solutions. Before starting my Ph.D., I spent a couple years with the ArubaOS Infrastructure team, at HPE Aruba Networks, enhancing their distributed shared memory infrastructure for large scale deployments and received two recognition awards for high-impact contributions.

I hold a MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, where I was a graduate research student in the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Lab and advised by Prof. William Enck and Prof. Brad Reaves. You can find my MS thesis here which proposed a novel network-based access control model for the emergent smart home ecosystem.