Najwa Aaraj Webpage

Programmer -  an organism that turns coffee into software

I started working on my research at Princeton in Fall 2004, under the guidance of my advisor Professor Niraj K. Jha, and my two mentors Dr. Anand Raghunathan and Dr. Srivaths Ravi.

My research interests include the design of secure architectures for general-purpose and embedded systems, binary analysis, and vulnerability and malware analysis.

An updated copy of my CV can be found here.

PUBLICATIONS:

Computer security field

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha. “Defending against malware and intrusion attacks on embedded systems,” submitted to IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe Conf., 2009.

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha. “A Software exploit detection framework based on virtualization and dynamic binary instrumentation” submitted to ACM Trans. on Information and System Security.

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha, “Binary instrumentation-based framework for virus defense,” accepted in Conf. Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and  Vulnerability Assessment, July 2008. PDF

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha, “Virtualization-assisted framework for prevention of software vulnerability based security attacks," Tech. Rep. CE-J07-001, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Dec. 12, 2007. PDF

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, S. Ravi, and N. K. Jha, “Analysis of and architectures for a Software-based trusted platform module in embedded systems,” accepted for publication in  ACM Trans. on Embedded Computing Systems. PDF

N. Aaraj, A. Raghunathan, S. Ravi, and N. K. Jha, “Energy and execution time analysis of a software-based trusted platform module,” in Proc. IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe, April 2007. PDF

N. Aaraj, S. Ravi, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha, “Hybrid Architectures for Efficient and Accurate Face Authentication in Embedded Systems,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, Mar. 2007. PDF

N. Aaraj, S. Ravi, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha, “Architectures for Efficient Face Authentication in Embedded Systems ,” in Proc. IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe, Mar. 2006. PDF

S. Itani, N. Aaraj, D. Abdelahad , and A. Kayssi, “Neighbor Stranger Discrimination: A new defense mechanism against Internet DDOS attacks,” in Proc. 3rd ACS/IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Systems & Applications, Jan. 2005. PDF

Circuit testing field

A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, A. Nazer, and N. Aaraj, “Transient current testing of dynamic CMOS circuits in the presence of leakage and process variation,” in Proc.  16th IEEE Int. Conf. on Microelectronics, Dec. 2004. PDF

N. Aaraj, A. Nazer, A. Chehab, and A. Kayssi, “Transient current testing of dynamic CMOS circuits,” in Proc. 19th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Oct. 2004. PDF