Personal Profile

Kailas PATIL


PhD Student
National University of Singapore
Deaprtment of Computer Science



Links:
Profile on Mozilla
Personal Blog

Welcome

I am a student of Department of Computer Science in National University of Singapore (NUS)


My area of Interest is System Security.
I am working on Web Browser Security.

Publications:
Towards Fine-Grained Access Control in JavaScript Contexts. [PDF]
Kailas Patil, Xinshu Dong, Xiaolei Li, Zhenkai Liang, and Xuxian Jiang.
In the Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis, MN, June 2011. (Acceptance rate: 15.4%)

Awards:
1. IEEE Travel Award 2011 supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and IEEE TCDP (Technical Committee on Distributed Processing)
2. NUS Travel Grant (ICDCS 2011)

Open Source Contributions:
1. Patched Firefox bugs (such as, Bug 564387, Bug 595888, Bug 680812, Bug 683258, etc)
2. Developed Firefox Extensions
A. clearHTTPStatus: It prevents cross-domain abusing of HTTP status code.
B. Clear Input Field Text : It simplifies clearing input fields or textarea fields on a web page with just a mouse click. It avoids the selection of text in an input field or textarea field before deletion to make input field clearance task easier .
3. The Google Chrome Extension
A. Click To Clear Text Field: Clears text in the currently focused HTML input or textarea field without selecting text in the field.
Features:
1. Easy to use.
2. Dynamically shows a button (red cross) on a focus input element if it contains text.

Professional association memberships:
Member of IEEE Graduate Student Society


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Mailing Address:
School of Computing (SoC),
Systems and Networking Research Lab 6,
Centre for System Security,
COM2-B1-02,
13 Computing Drive,
Singapore, 117417