Scholar
Adwait Nadkarni
Google Scholar ID: Al2MvLoAAAAJ
William & Mary
Citations & Impact
Citations
604
H-index
15
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published extensively in top-tier security venues including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, NDSS, CCS, FSE, ICSE, PETS, WiSec, etc.
- Paper “False negative - that one is going to kill you” received Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2024
- Paper “Testing Practices, Challenges, and Developer Perspectives in Open-Source IoT Platforms” accepted to ICST 2025
- Multiple papers accepted to IEEE S&P 2025, PETS 2025, SCORED 2024, etc.
- Co-PI on CCI Fall 2023 funded project on “Security and Privacy by Design for Teleoperated Autonomous Vehicles”
- Serves in leadership roles: Program Chair for IEEE S&P 2026 and ACM SACMAT 2026, Associate Editor for ACM TOPS, Associate Chair/Treasurer for IEEE S&P 2025–2026, and PC member for numerous top conferences
Background
- Class of 1953 Associate Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary
- Leads the Secure Platforms Lab (SPL)
- Director of the W&M Cybersecurity Center
- Research focuses on securing platforms like smartphones and smart homes by evaluating and improving automated security analyses for vulnerability and malware detection
- Research directions include: (1) empirical evaluation of security and privacy techniques; (2) understanding developer and user expectations of security tools; (3) uncovering novel practical threats and building defenses
