Pallavi Borkar
PhD Student, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Pallavi Borkar is a PhD student at the I2SSL Labs, Cystar, IIT Madras. She works with her advisor Chester Rebeiro on research in hardware security, specifically developing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for detecting and mitigating timing channels in hardware. Her work addresses critical vulnerabilities in processors, which are foundational to computing systems. Her paper "WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors" won the prestigious Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2025. It has uncovered 12 new vulnerabilities across RISC-V processors like BOOM, Rocket Core, and CVA6, the field of secure processor design.