Selected Papers

44 papers at top-tier conferences with low acceptance rates (after 2010).
All publications (136) · Google Scholar · DBLP

DSN'26Thinking Inside the Box: Injecting Realistic Radiation Faults in ML Accelerators, Best Paper Award(Accept: 20%)
Bruno Loureiro Coelho, Seyedmani Sadati, Abraham Chan, Alex Hands, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Paolo Rech
DSN'26ReSect: A Tool for Automated Analysis of Reentrancy Exploit Transactions on Blockchains, (Accept: 20%)
Yuqi Liu, Rui Xi, and Karthik Pattabiraman
CCS'25Anonymity Unveiled: A Practical Framework for Auditing Data Use in Deep Learning Models, (Accept: 14.5%)
Zitao Chen and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'25ReMIX: Resilience for ML Ensembles using XAI at Inference against Faulty Training Data, (Accept: 20%)
Abraham Chan, Arpan Gujarati, Karthik Pattabiraman and Sathish Gopalakrishnan
DSN'25RAVAGE: Robotic Autonomous Vehicles' Attack Generation Engine, (Accept: 20%)
Pritam Dash and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'25Reentrancy Redux: The Evolution of Real-World Reentrancy Attacks on Blockchains, (Accept: 20%)
Yuqi Liu, Rui Xi, and Karthik Pattabiraman
NDSS'25A Method to Facilitate Membership Inference Attacks in Deep Learning Models, (Accept: 16.1%)
Zitao Chen and Karthik Pattabiraman
CCS'24AutoPatch: Automated Generation of Hotpatches for Real-Time Embedded Devices, (Accept: 16.7%)
Mohsen Salehi and Karthik Pattabiraman
CCS'24SpecGuard: Specification Aware Recovery for Robotic Autonomous Vehicles from Physical Attacks, (Accept: 16.7%)
Pritam Dash, Ethan Chan and Karthik Pattabiraman
IEEE S&P'24POMABuster: Detecting Price Oracle Manipulation Attacks in Decentralized Finance, (Accept: 17.8%)
Rui Xi, Zehua Wang, and Karthik Pattabiraman
NDSS'24Overconfidence is a Dangerous Thing: Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks by Enforcing Less Confident Prediction, (Accept: 15%)
Zitao Chen and Karthik Pattabiraman
SC'23Structural Coding: A Low-Cost Scheme to Protect CNNs from Large-Granularity Memory Faults, (Accept: 23.9%)
Ali Asgari, Florian Geissler, Syed Qutub, Michael Paulitsch, Prashant Nair, and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'23SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms, (Accept: 20%)
Yiangao (Elaine) Yao, Pritam Dash, and Karthik Pattabiraman
ICSE'23AChecker: Statically Detecting Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities, (Accept: 26%)
Asem Ghaleb, Julia Rubin, and Karthik Pattabiraman
ISSTA'22eTainter: Detecting Gas-Related Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts, (Accept: 24.5%)
Asem Ghaleb, Julia Rubin, and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'22The Fault in Our Data Stars: Studying Mitigation Techniques against Faulty Training Data in ML Applications, (Accept: 18.7%)
Abraham Chan, Arpan Gujarati, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Sathish Gopalakrishnan
DSN'21PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks, Best Paper Award (Accept: 16.5%)
Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'21A Low Cost Fault Corrector for Deep Neural Networks through Range Restriction, Best Paper Runner-Up; IEEE TPTR 2024 (Accept: 16.5%)
Zitao Chen, Guanpeng Li, and Karthik Pattabiraman
SC'20GPU-TRIDENT: Efficient Modeling of Error Propagation in GPU Programs, (Accept: 25.1%)
Abdul Rehman Anwer, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Michael Sullivan, Timothy Tsai and Siva Hari
ISSTA'20How Effective are Smart Contract Analysis Tools? Evaluating Smart Contract Static Analysis Tools Using Bug Injection, (Accept: 26%)
Asem Ghaleb and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'20Trace Sanitizer: Eliminating the Effects of Non-Determinism on Error Propagation Analysis, (Accept: 16.5%)
Habib Saissi, Stefan Winter, Oliver Schwan, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Neeraj Suri
SC'19BinFI: An Efficient Fault Injector for Safety-Critical Machine Learning Systems, SC Reproducibility Finalist (Accept: 21%)
Zitao Chen, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Nathan DeBardeleben
DSN'18Modeling Soft-Error Propagation in Programs, Best Paper Runner-Up (Accept: 25%)
Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael Sullivan, and Timothy Tsai
DSN'18Modeling Input-Dependent Error Propagation in Programs, (Accept: 25%)
Guanpeng Li, and Karthik Pattabiraman
ICSE'18Inferring Hierarchical Motifs from Execution Traces, (Accept: 21%)
Saba Alimadadi, Ali Mesbah, and Karthik Pattabiraman
ASE'17Detecting Unknown Inconsistencies in Web Applications, (Accept: 21%)
Frolin Ocariza, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Ali Mesbah
SC'17Understanding Error Propagation in Deep Learning Neural Networks (DNN) Accelerators and Applications, IEEE TPTR 2023 (Accept: 19%)
Guanpeng Li, Siva Hari, Michael Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Karthik Pattabiraman, Joel Emer, Stephen Keckler
FSE'17ARTINALI: Dynamic Invariant Detection for Cyber-Physical System Security, (Accept: 24%)
Maryam Raiyat Aliabadi, Amita Kamath, Julien Samson, and Karthik Pattabiraman
HPDC'17LetGo: A Lightweight Continuous Framework for HPC Applications Under Failures, (Accept: 19%)
Bo Fang, Qiang Guan, Nathan Debardeleben, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Matei Ripeanu
DSN'17One Bit is (Not) Enough: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Single Bit and Multiple Bit-Flip Errors, (Accept: 23%)
Behrooz Sangchoolie, Karthik Pattabiraman and Johan Karlsson
SC'16Understanding Error Propagation in GPGPU Applications, (Accept: 18%)
Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Chen-Yong Cher and Pradip Bose
DSN'16ePVF: An Enhanced Program Vulnerability Factor Methodology for Cross-Layer Resilience Analysis, (Accept: 21%)
Bo Fang, Qining Lu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Matei Ripeanu and Sudhanva Gurumurthi
ICSE'16Understanding Asynchronous Interactions in Full-Stack JavaScript, (Accept: 19%)
Saba Alimadadi, Ali Mesbah and Karthik Pattabiraman
ASE'15Synthesizing Web Element Locators, (Accept: 20.8%)
Kartik Bajaj, Karthik Pattabiraman and Ali Mesbah
DSN'15Fine-Grained Characterization of Faults Causing Long Latency Crashes in Programs, (Accept: 22%)
Guanpeng Li, Qining Lu and Karthik Pattabiraman
ICSE'15Finding Inconsistencies in JavaScript MVC Applications, (Accept: 18.5%)
Frolin Ocariza, Karthik Pattabiraman and Ali Mesbah
DSN'14Integrated Hardware-Software Diagnosis for Intermittent Hardware Faults, (Accept: 30%)
Majid Dadashi, Layali Rashid, Karthik Pattabiraman and Sathish Gopalakrishnan
DSN'14Quantifying the Accuracy of High-Level Fault Injection Techniques for Hardware Faults, (Accept: 30%)
Jiesheng Wei, Anna Thomas, Guanpeng Li, and Karthik Pattabiraman
ICSE'14Vejovis: Suggesting Fixes for JavaScript Faults, (Accept: 20%)
Frolin S. Ocariza, Karthik Pattabiraman and Ali Mesbah
ICSE'14Understanding JavaScript Event-Based Interactions, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (Accept: 20%)
Saba Alimadi, Sheldon Sequira, Ali Mesbah and Karthik Pattabiraman
ASE'14Dompletion: DOM-Aware Code Completion, (Accept: 20%)
Kartik Bajaj, Karthik Pattabiraman and Ali Mesbah
DSN'13Error Detector Placement for Soft Computation, (Accept: 20%)
Anna Thomas and Karthik Pattabiraman
DSN'12BLOCKWATCH: Leveraging Similarity in Parallel Programs for Error Detection, (Accept: 17%)
Jiesheng Wei and Karthik Pattabiraman
ASPLOS'11Flikker: Saving DRAM Refresh-power through Critical Data Partitioning, Jean-Claude Laprie Award 2025 (Accept: 20%)
Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda and Benjamin Zorn