Aravind Machiry

Aravind Machiry is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a founding member of the Purdue Systems and Software Security (PurS3) Lab. His research focuses on system security, particularly vulnerability detection, prevention, and secure system development using static/dynamic program analysis, fuzzing, type systems, and machine learning.

• Designing practical solutions for software and embedded system security
• Recipient of NSF CAREER and Amazon Research awards
• Active participant in SPLASH 2025 as OOPSLA Review Committee member

His recent work includes automated vulnerability detection in embedded software, spatial memory safety enhancements, and security analysis of GitHub workflows. He has received recognition for his research through multiple distinguished paper awards and industry funding.

Selected scientific awards include

• NSF CAREER Award (2024)
• Amazon Research Award (2022)
• Test of Time Award at FSE 2023 for DynoDroid
• Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2022 for 3c
• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2025)

His research team has developed frameworks like ARGUS for taint analysis of CI/CD workflows and FuzzUEr for UEFI interface fuzzing, discovering hundreds of critical vulnerabilities in open-source projects and thousands of command injection flaws in GitHub repositories.