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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Marcela S. Melara. Proving Attributes about Confidential Compute Services with Validation and Endorsement Services. SysTEX, 2025.

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Shravan Narayan, Tal Garfinkel, Evan Johnson, Zachary Yedidia, Yingchen Wang, Andrew Brown, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Michael LeMay, Wenyong Huang, Xin Wang, Mingqiu Sun, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. Segue & ColorGuard: Optimizing SFI Performance and Scalability on Modern Architectures. ASPLOS, 2025.

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Dinglan Peng, Congyu Liu, Tapti Palit, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij, Pedro Fonseca. Pegasus: Transparent and Unified Kernel-Bypass Networking for Fast Local and Remote Communication. ACM EuroSys, 2025.

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Otto White, Yaoxin Jing, Adrien Ghosn, Michael Steiner, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij, Lluis Vilanova. Enabling Cloud-Scale Distributed Capabilities. HCDS, 2025.

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Sarbartha Banerjee, Prateek Sahu, Mulong Luo, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Mohit Tiwari. SoK: A Systems Perspective on Compound AI Threats and Countermeasures. arXiv, 2024.

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Marcin Chrapek, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Marcin Spoczynski, Scott Constable, Mona Vij, Torsten Hoefler. Fortify Your Foundations: Practical Privacy and Security for Foundation Model Deployments In The Cloud. arXiv, 2024.

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Scott Douglas Constable, Marcin Andrzej Chrapek, Marcin Spoczynski, Cory Cornelius, Mona Vij, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner. METHODS AND APPARATUS TO VERIFY THE INTEGRITY OF A MODEL. US Patent App. 18 / 676,413, 2024.

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Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Marcin Andrzej Chrapek, Scott Constable. Artificial intelligence model accuracy validation. US Patent App. 18 / 665,188, 2024.

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Fangfei Yang, Bumjin Im, Weijie Huang, Kelly Kaoudis, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Chia-Che Tsai, Nathan Dautenhahn. Endokernel: A Thread Safe Monitor for Lightweight Subprocess Isolation. USENIX Security, 2024.

Shravan Narayan, Tal Garfinkel, Mohammadkazem Taram, Joey Rudek, Daniel Moghimi, Evan Johnson, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Michael LeMay, Ravi Sahita, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. Hardware-Assisted Fault Isolation: Going Beyond the Limits of Software-Based Sandboxing. IEEE Micro Top Picks, 2024.

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Michael Lemay, David M Durham, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Anna Trikalinou. CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING INCLUDING ENHANCED CRYPTOGRAPHIC ADDRESSES. US Patent 12,019,562, 2024.

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Ravi Sahita, Dror Caspi, Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Vincent Scarlata, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Haidong Xia, Mona Vij. Scalable cloning and replication for trusted execution environments. US Patent 12,013,954, 2024.

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Michael Lemay, Dan Baum, Joseph Cihula, Joao Batista Correa Gomes Moreira, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Scott Constable, Andreas Kleen, Konrad Lai, Henrique De Medeiros Kawakami, David M Durham. REDUCING INSTRUMENTATION CODE BLOAT AND PERFORMANCE OVERHEADS USING A RUNTIME CALL INSTRUCTION. US Patent App. 17 / 853,087, 2024.

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Fangfei Yang, Weijie Huang, Kelly Kaoudis, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Nathan Dautenhahn. Endoprocess: Programmable and Extensible Subprocess Isolation. New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2023.

Atsushi Koshiba, Felix Gust, Julian Pritzi, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Nuno Santos, Pramod Bhatotia. Trusted Heterogeneous Disaggregated Architectures. ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), 2023.

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Marcela S Melara, Bruno Vavala, Michael Steiner, Vincent Scarlata, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner. Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional attestation for a software application. US Patent App. 18 / 311,253, 2023.

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Vincent Scarlata, Alpa Trivedi, Reshma Lal, Marcela S Melara, Michael Steiner, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner. ATTESTATION OF OPERATIONS BY TOOL CHAINS. US Patent 11,650,800, 2023.

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Shravan Narayan, Tal Garfinkel, Mohammadkazem Taram, Joey Rudek, Daniel Moghimi, Evan Johnson, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Michael LeMay, Ravi Sahita, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. Going beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI. ASPLOS, Distinguished Paper Award, 2023.

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Dinglan Peng, Congyu Liu, Tapti Palit, Pedro Fonseca, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij. uSwitch: Fast Kernel Context Isolation with Implicit Context Switches. IEEE S&P, 2023.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner. The Rise of Memory-Safe Languages: Building a Fast, Elastic, Secure Software & Hardware Architecture. Poster at DARPA Forward Conference, 2022.

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Shravan Narayan, Tal Garfinkel, Evan Johnson, David Thien, Joey Rudek, Michael LeMay, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. Segue & ColorGuard: Optimizing SFI Performance and Scalability on Modern x86. PLAS, 2022.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij. MeSHwA: The case for a Memory-Safe Software and Hardware Architecture for Serverless Computing. Workshop On Resource Disaggregation and Serverless Computing (WORDS), 2022.

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Dayeol Lee, Kevin Cheang, Alexander Thomas, Catherine Lu, Pranav Gaddamadugu, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij, Dawn Song, Sanjit A. Seshia, Krste Asanović. Cerberus: A Formal Approach to Secure and Efficient Enclave Memory Sharing. ACM CCS, 2022.

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Tanu Malik, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn. Expanding the Scope of Artifact Evaluation at HPC Conferences: Experience of SC21. P-RECS, 2022.

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Paritosh Saxena, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij, Kshitij A Doshi, Carlos H Morales, Clair Bowman, Marcela S Melara, Michael Steiner. Optimizing deployment and security of microservices. US Patent App. 17 / 561,676, 2022.

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Michael Lemay, Anjo Vahldiek-oberwagner. TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL SYSTEM CALL INVOCATIONS WITHIN A SINGLE ADDRESS SPACE. US Patent App. 17 / 314,349, 2021.

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Bumjin Im, Fangfei Yang, Chia-Che Tasi, Michael LeMay, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Nathan Dautenhahn. The Endokernel: Fast, Secure, and Programmable Subprocess Virtualization. arXiv, 2021.

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Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Ravi L Sahita, Mona Vij, Dayeol Lee, Haidong Xia, Rameshkumar Illikkal, Samuel Ortiz, Kshitij Arun Doshi, Mourad Cherfaoui, Andrzej Kuriata, Teck Joo Goh. Scalabe attestation for trusted execution environments. US Patent 12,113,902, 2021.

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Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Ravi L Sahita, Mona Vij, Rameshkumar Illikkal, Michael Steiner, Thomas Knauth, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Sudha Krishnakumar, Krystof C Zmudzinski, Vincent Scarlata, Francis McKeen. Reducing latency of hardware trusted execution environments. US Patent App. 17 / 131,716, 2021.

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Ravi L Sahita, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Teck Joo Goh, Rameshkmar Illikkal, Andrzej Kuriata, Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Mona Vij, Haidong Xia. Isolating memory within trusted execution environments. US Patent App. 17 / 131,751, 2021.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner. Breaking with traditional OS Abstractions. Guest Lecture for Operating System class at IIT Kharagpur, 2021.

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Shravan Narayan, Craig Disselkoen, Daniel Moghimi, Sunjay Cauligi, Evan Johnson, Zhao Gang, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Ravi Sahita, Hovav Shacham, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan. Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly against Spectre. USENIX Security, 2021.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Chia-Che Tsai, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Don Porter. Tutorial: Graphene: Confidential Computing for Unmodified Linux Applications. IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), 2020.

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Dayeol Lee, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning in Untrusted Clouds Made Simple. arXiv, 2020.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii. Automatically Securing Linux Application Containers in Untrusted Clouds. Linux Security Summit, 2020.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Nuno O. Duarte, Michael Sammler, Peter Druschel, Deepak Garg. ERIM: Secure, Efficient In-Process Isolation with Memory Protection Keys. USENIX Security, Distinguished Paper Award and Internet Defense Prize, 2019.

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Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner. Techniques to Protect Confidentiality and Integrity of Persistent and In-Memory Data. PhD Thesis, 2018.

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Robert Krahn, Bohdan Trach, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Thomas Knauth, Pramod Bhatotia, Christof Fetzer. Pesos: Policy Enhanced Secure Object store. ACM EuroSys, 2018.

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James Litton, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Deepak Garg, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter Druschel. Light-Weight Contexts: An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance. USENIX OSDI, 2016.

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Eslam Elnikety, Aastha Mehta, Anjo Vahldiek-oberwagner, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel. Thoth : Comprehensive Policy Compliance in Data Retrieval Systems. Usenix Security, 2016.

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Peter Druschel, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Ansley Post, Johannes Gehrke, Anjo Lucas Vahldiek. Protecting Data Integrity with Storage Leases. US Patent 9,165,155, 2015.

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Aastha Mehta, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Johannes Gehrke, Ansley Post. Guardat: Enforcing data policies at the storage layer. ACM EuroSys, 2015.

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Anjo Vahldiek, Eslam Elnikety, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel, Rodrigo Rodrigues. Protecting Data Integrity with Storage Leases. MPI-SWS Technical Report, 2011.

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Hernán Baró Graf, Holger Hermanns, Juhi Kulshrestha, Jens Peter, Anjo Vahldiek, Aravind Vasudevan. A verifiedwireless safety critical hard real-time design. IEEE WoWMoM, 2011.

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