Awards
Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
Award for Excellence in Technology Transition (2024)
R&D
100 Award, Technology: TASR (2022)
Distinguished Paper Award, NDSS Symposium (2022)
Best Reviewer Award, ACM CCS (2021)
Outstanding Paper Award,
IEEE RTSS Symposium (2021)
R&D 100 Award, Technology: TRACER (2020)
Stratus Award for Cloud Computing (2020)
Best Invention Award, MIT Lincoln
Laboratory (2019)
R&D 100 Award, Technology: DFI (2018)
Team
Award, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2015)
NSA's
Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award (2015)
Early
Career Technical Achievement Award, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2014)
Services
Program
Chair:
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Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS 2025-26)
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ACM CCS Workshop on
Moving Target Defense (MTD 2022, 2020, and 2017)
Organizing Committee:
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2023 - Now)
Associate Program Chair:
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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2024)
Career Mentor:
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2024 - Now)
Journal Editorship:
- Associate Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2019 - Now
- Guest Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy, Memory Safety (IEEE S&P), 2024
- Guest Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy, Hacking without Humans (IEEE S&P), 2018
Study Chair:
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DARPA ISAT Study on Automated Coding (2023)
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DARPA ISAT Study on Cyber Competition (2022)
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DARPA ISAT Study on Cybersecurity Moonshot (2021)
Steering
Committee Member:
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ACM CCS Workshop on
Moving Target Defense (MTD 2015 - Now)
- Boston
University-MIT/LL Workshop on Cybersecurity 2014 - 2016
Poster Chair:
- IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev 2017)
Program
Committee Member:
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2024, 2023
- USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec) 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021
- ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017
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Network and
Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
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IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
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Symposium on
Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2014
- IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev) 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017
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IEEE Military
Communications (MILCOM) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- ACM CCS
Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD) 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
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International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) 2020, 2019
- ACM Asia Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2018, 2017
- International Conference
on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2017
In the News
Open Source
VulSim: Deep-Learning-Based Software Vulnerability Detection (2024)
Repo Paper
Spotlight: Security analysis tool for Intent-Based Networks (2024)
Repo Paper
HAKC: Hardware-Assisted Kernel Compartmentalization (2022)
Repo Paper
Galeed: Rust Heap Safety (2021)
Repo Paper
TORTIS: Try Once Real-Time Software Transactional Memory (2021)
Repo Paper
PicoSDN: Causal Analysis for Software-Defined
Networking Attacks (2021)
Repo Paper
EventScope: Automated Discovery of Cross-Plane Event-Based
Vulnerabilities in Software-Defined Networking (2020)
Repo Paper
Former students
Kelly
Casteel, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2013
Eric Soderstrom, Master of
Engineering in EECS, 2014
Isaac Evans, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Julian Gonzalez, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Sam
Fingeret, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Ulziibayar Otgonbaatar, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Ronald Gil, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2017
Jakob Weisblat, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2018
Madeleine Dawson, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2018
Tiffany Tang, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2019
Justin
Restivo, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Jennifer
Switzer, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Claire Nord, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Alexander
Huang, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
 Ashley Kim, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
 Elijah Rivera, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2021
 Yianni Giannaris, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2021
 Yosef Mihretie, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2022
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Bio
Dr. Hamed Okhravi is a Senior Staff member at
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads programs and conducts research in
the area of systems security. His research interests include
systems security, science of security, security evaluation, and operating
systems. He is the recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2024), two Best Paper Awards (NDSS'22 and RTSS'21), three R&D 100 Awards (2022, 2020, and 2018), Best Reviewer Award (CCS'21), Stratus Award for Cloud Computing (2020), MIT
Lincoln Laboratory's Best Invention Award (2019), Team Award (2015),
National Security Agency's Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper
Award (2015), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Early Career Technical Achievement Award
(2014) for his work in computer security.
He is the Program Chair of the Network and Distributed Systems Securitm Symposium (NDSS '25-26) as well as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy journal. He has also served
three times as the Program Chair of the ACM Moving Target Defense (MTD) workshop (2022, 2020, and 2017), the
Poster Chair of the IEEE Secure Development Conference, and twice as the editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy (Special Issues on Memory Safety and Hacking without Humans). In addition, he serves on the Organizing Committee of ACSAC (2024-present) and on the program committee of various top-tier academic conferences, including
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, RAID, ACM AsiaCCS, IEEE DAC, IEEE SecDev, IEEE MILCOM, ICCAD, and
ACNS, among others. He has also served on the National Science Foundation's Panel for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.
Dr. Okhravi actively contributes to various national, laboratory, and division-level strategic planning activities, and has led the development of multiple national-level R&D roadmaps. He has served as the chair of multiple DARPA ISAT studies and has led the development of multiple systems security technologies that have successfully transitioned outside and inside Lincoln Laboratory. His work has resulted in four U.S. patents and 70+ publications, many in top-tier venues.
Dr. Okhravi’s current focus is researching and developing a new computer system design in which security is the core focus and multiple large classes of vulnerabilities are prevented by design.
Dr. Okhravi earned his MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
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