Shravan Ravi Narayan

Dr. Shravan Ravi Narayan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on secure systems, program verification, and hardware-based security, with groundbreaking work in Software Fault Isolation (SFI), WebAssembly security, and Spectre attack mitigation. He teaches courses like CS361S (Network Security and Privacy) and CS380S (Theory and Practice of Secure Systems).

• 2023 - Distinguished paper award at ASPLOS
• 2022 - Mozilla research award
• 2022 - IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• 2022 - NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Honorable Mention
• 2021 - Google V8 research award

His publications highlight innovations in hardware-assisted isolation (HFI), sandboxing runtime design (WaVe), and browser security frameworks like RLBox. His work bridges systems security, programming languages, and hardware architecture to create practical, verifiable security solutions.

He actively recruits exceptional PhD candidates with expertise in security, programming languages, or computer architecture and collaborates with industry leaders like Firefox and Fastly.