Shakeel Butt

I am graduate student at Computer Science Department, Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers I was working as Research Associate at NEWT Lab in LUMS which is an initiative of Dritte. Prior to that I worked as Security Engineering Consultant at amaana pvt. ltd.  

I completed my undergrad from National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

You can contact me through my e-mail: shakeelb at cs dot rutgers dot edu.

Research 

I am interested in Software Security particularly Operating System Security and architectural and language support for Security. I'm also interested in Distributed Systems.  Currently I am working with Vinod Ganapathy on Transactional Memory Introspection using Hardware Transactional Memory. Previously I have worked on device drivers security.

I used to work on Communication technology for developing world with Umar Saif. I have worked on DitTorrent, a peer-to-peer dialup system for accelerated Internet access in the developing world inspired by Bittorrent.

Publications

• Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Arati Baliga and Mihai Christodorescu. Monitoring Data Structures using Hardware Transactional Memory. 2nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, San Francisco, California, September 2011.
• Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael Swift and Chih-Cheng Chang. Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers. 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009.
• Umar Saif, Ahsan Latif Chudhary, Shakeel Butt, Nabeel Farooq Butt, Ghulam Murtaza: A Peer-to-Peer Internet for the Developing World. Journal of Information Technology and International Development (ITID), Volume 5, Number 1, 31–47, Spring 2009.
• Umar Saif, Ahsan Latif Chudhary, Shakeel Butt, Nabeel Farooq Butt, Ghulam Murtaza: Internet for Developing World: Offline Internet Access at Modem-speed Dialup Connections. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007), Banglore, India, December 2007.
• Umar Saif, Ahsan Latif Chudhary, Shakeel Butt, Nabeel Farooq Butt: Poor man's broadband: peer-to-peer dialup networking. Computer Communication Review 37(5): 5-16 (2007)