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Joseph Ravichandran

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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-5635-8859ORCID · corroborated

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Security and privacy · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
1 paper
Systems and software security · 67% Hardware security and side channels · 33%
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Operating systems · 100%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Processor architecture and microarchitecture · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Systems and software security › exploitation
control-flow hijacking
0.612022
PACMAN: attacking ARM pointer authentication with speculative execution · ISCA 2022
Systems and software security › memory safety
memory corruption
0.612022
PACMAN: attacking ARM pointer authentication with speculative execution · ISCA 2022
Hardware security and side channels › microarchitectural attacks › transient execution attack
speculative execution attack
0.612022
PACMAN: attacking ARM pointer authentication with speculative execution · ISCA 2022

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

operating system design · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Fractal: An Operating System Designed for Microarchitecture Reverse Engineering
Joseph Ravichandran, Mengjia Yan 0001
SP1
2022 PACMAN: attacking ARM pointer authentication with speculative execution
abstract
This paper studies the synergies between memory corruption vulnerabilities and speculative execution vulnerabilities. We leverage speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce pointer integrity. We present PACMAN, a novel attack methodology that speculatively leaks PAC verification results via micro-architectural side channels without causing any crashes. Our attack removes the primary barrier to conducting control-flow hijacking attacks on a platform protected using Pointer Authentication.
Joseph Ravichandran, Weon Taek Na, Jay Lang, Mengjia Yan 0001
ISCA1