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Lin Tan co-led the creation of ReSym, an AI tool that reverse-engineers stripped binary code using LLMs. The project won an ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award for its impact on cybersecurity.

Purdue CS professor Chunyi Peng was named a 2024 ACM Distinguished Member for her contributions to mobile network analytics and sensing. Her work focuses on 5G, AI for networks, and mobile security.

Purdue’s team won the 2024 North America Student Challenge (NASC), founded by Purdue's Saurabh Bagchi, by solving all three real-world data challenges. Students gained research experience and exposure at the IEEE Big Data Conference. The event goes global in 2025 as the Global Student Challenge.

Purdue’s Yexiang Xue won an NSF CAREER Award for developing SMC, a tool that combines logic and probability to improve decision-making in areas like disaster planning.

Aravind Machiry received an NSF CAREER Award for advancing security in deeply embedded systems, focusing on dynamic analysis, memory safety, and RUST integration.

Purdue professor Saurabh Bagchi is a finalist for the IET Achievement Medal for his work on resilient, data-driven software systems. Recognized for shifting the field away from rule-based systems, Bagchi leads major initiatives like the NSF CHORUS Center and the Army-funded Assured Autonomy Innovation Institute.

A team comprising multiple CRISP faculty won an NSF Center from the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Program. The Center is called Chorus, and is funded for 5 years, 2024-29 (www.choruscomputes.xyz). Chorus is directed by CRISP Director, Prof. Saurabh Bagchi and has as thrust leads, CRISP faculty, Profs. Somali Chaterji and Shreyas Sundaram. Prof. Aravind Machiry is also a Co-PI on the Center.

CRISP Faculty Jing GAO’s work on fairness in multi-class classification won a Distinguished Paper award at the AAAI 2023 conference. Out of 8,777 submissions, AAAI’23 accepted 1,721 papers, and among them only 12 were selected as Distinguished Paper (less than 1% of the accepted papers).

CRISP faculty Aravind Machiry released an important static vulnerability checking tool at the USENIX Security conference. ARGUS is a groundbreaking static taint analysis system specifically designed to identify code injection vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions. It is the first of its kind, offering a unique approach to securing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

CRISP faculty discussed their research with Jeff Dean, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at Google. Jeff was visiting us as part of the Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series (PEDSLS). CRISP Director Bagchi hosted Jeff.