I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Darko Marinov and Prof. Sibin Mohan. My research interests are in the applications of code analysis and rewriting for data debloating and improved fuzz testing.

News

[December 2022] Our paper IOSPReD: I/O Specialized Packaging of Reduced Datasets and Data-Intensive Applications for Efficient Reproducibility has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access Journal.

[October 2020] Our research on Data-based Debloating appeared in ITI newsletter.

[June 2020] Working at SRI International as a Research Intern this Summer.

[May 2020] Our paper ‘MiDas: Containerizing Data-Intensive Applications with I/O Specialization’ has been accepted to appear at P-RECS’20 workshop, affiliated with ACM HPDC 2020.

[July 2019] Our paper ‘Secure Integration of Electric Vehicles with the Power Grid’ has been accepted to appear at IEEE SmartGridComm 2019.

[May 2019] Working at SRI International as a Research Intern this Summer.

[May 2018] Completed M.S. in Computer Science at UIUC. Starting PhD in August 2018.

[October 2017] Our research on Code-based Debloating appeared in ITI newsletter.

[September 2017] Our paper ‘New Directions for Container Debloating’ has been accepted to appear at FEAST’17 workshop, affiliated with ACM CCS 2017.

[May 2017] Our research on Securing DERs appeared in CSL newsletter.

[May 2017] Our paper ‘Securing Electric Vehicles in the Power Grid’ has been accepted to appear at ECRTS’17 Work-in-Progress Session.

[August 2016] Starting M.S. in Computer Science at UIUC.

[May 2015] Working at ITI, UIUC as Research Intern this Summer.

Publications
  1. C. Niddodi, A. Gehani, T. Malik, S. Mohan, M. L. Rilee (2023). “IOSPReD: I/O Specialized Packaging of Reduced Datasets and Data-Intensive Applications for Efficient Reproducibility“. IEEE Access Journal, Volume 11, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3233787.
  2. C. Niddodi, A. Gehani, T. Malik, J. A. Navas, S. Mohan (2020). “MiDas: Containerizing Data-Intensive Applications with I/O Specialization”. 3rd International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Systems (P-RECS’20), affiliated with the 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (ACM HPDC 2020).
  3. C. Niddodi, S. Lin, S. Mohan, H. Zhu (2019). “Secure Integration of Electric Vehicles with the Power Grid”. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm 2019).
  4. V. Rastogi, C. Niddodi , S. Mohan, S. Jha (2017). “New Directions for Container Debloating”. 2017 Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation (FEAST’17), affiliated with the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017).
  5. C. Niddodi , S. Mohan, T. Yardley (2017). “Securing Electric Vehicles in the Power Grid”. in Proceedings of 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS17) Work-in-Progress Session.
  6. A. Shabib, A. Narang, C.P. Niddodi , M. Das, R. Pradeep, V. Shenoy, P. Auradkar, V.T. S, D. Sitaram (2015). “Parallelization of Searching and Mining Time Series Data Using Dynamic Time Warping”. 2015 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI).

Education
  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018. [Thesis]
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science, PES University, India, 2016.