Rate My Professor Adil Ahmad

Ahmad's research specializes in computer security, systems, and architecture, focusing on protecting sensitive computations such as machine learning models and genomic data from powerful adversaries. He leverages hardware-assisted trusted execution environments like Intel SGX, addressing their limitations in protection and usability, and develops principles to fortify critical system software including operating systems and hypervisors. His influential publications appear in top-tier conferences, including "OBLIVIATE: A Data Oblivious Filesystem for Intel SGX" (NDSS 2018), "Obfuscuro: A Commodity Obfuscation Engine on Intel SGX" (NDSS 2019), "Hardlog: Practical Tamper-Proof System Auditing using a Novel Audit Device" (IEEE S&P 2022), "Veil: A Protected Services Framework for Confidential Virtual Machines" (ASPLOS 2023), "An Extensible Orchestration and Protection Framework for Confidential Cloud Computing" (USENIX OSDI 2023), and "The HitchHiker's Guide to High-Assurance System Observability Protection with Fast Permission Switches" (ACM CCS 2024). Ahmad has received the 2024 US Department of Defense DEPSCoR Award and a 2024 Google ExploreCSR award with collaborators to advance AI research opportunities for underserved students. He teaches courses such as CSE 330: Operating Systems, serves on graduate committees, and is affiliated with ASU's Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations.