Mohan Dhawan

Latest news:

March 2, 2012:
I'll be spending my summer at ICIR/ICSI, Berkeley.

Feb 25, 2012:
Our submissions to ECOOP 2012 have been accepted for publication.

July 26, 2011:
(Priv3), a privacy addon for Firefox developed in collaboration with ICSI, Berkeley, is available on the AMO site.

June 27, 2011:
Our submission to SOSP 2011 has been accepted for publication.

Research

I work in the area of JavaScript and Web browser security. I am also interested in Computer security, Network measurement and Network security, Operating Systems and Programming Languages.

Publications
An Analysis of the Mozilla Jetpack Extension Framework Rezwana Karim, Mohan Dhawan, Chung-chieh Shan and Vinod Ganapathy 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2012) Enhancing JavaScript with Transactions Mohan Dhawan, Chung-chieh Shan and Vinod Ganapathy 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2012) Atlantis: Robust, Extensible Execution Environments for Web Applications James Mickens and Mohan Dhawan 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011) The Case for JavaScript Transactions Mohan Dhawan, Chung-chieh Shan and Vinod Ganapathy 5th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages & Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) Slides : [PowerPoint] Analyzing Information Flow in Javascript-based Browser Extensions (Best Student Paper) Mohan Dhawan and Vinod Ganapathy 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2009) Slides : [PowerPoint] Enforcing Authorization Policies using Transactional Memory Introspection Arnar Birgisson, Mohan Dhawan, Ulfar Erlingsson, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode. 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008) Slides : [PDF]
Posters
Analyzing Information Flow in JavaScript-based Browser Extensions Mohan Dhawan and Vinod Ganapathy 30th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2009) Enforcing Authorization Policies Using Transactional Memory Introspection Arnar Birgisson, Mohan Dhawan, Ulfar Erlingsson, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2008)