Publications

Cascade: Composing Software-Hardware Attack Gadgets for Adversarial Threat Amplification in Compound AI Systems

Prateek Sahu*, Sarbartha Banerjee*, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Jose Sanchez Vicarte, Mohit Tiwari
Arxiv Preprint, February 2026 [pdf]

Understanding Sidecars in Cloud Orchestration

Prateek Sahu, Shijia Wei, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Mohit Tiwari
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies (SESAME 2025) [pdf]

SoK: A Systems Perspective on Compound AI Threats and Countermeasures

Prateek Sahu*, Sarbartha Banerjee*, Mulong Luo, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Mohit Tiwari
Arxiv Preprint, November 2024 [pdf]

Confused Pilot: Confused deputy risks in RAG-based LLMs

Ayush RoyChowdhury, Mulong Luo, Prateek Sahu, Sarbartha Banerjee, Mohit Tiwari
Arxiv Preprint August 2024 [pdf]

Sidecars on the Central Lane: Impact of Network Proxies on Microservices

Prateek Sahu, Lucy Zheng, Marco Bueso, Shijia Wei, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Mohit Tiwari
Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra 2023) [pdf]

Speculative Interference Attacks: Breaking Invisible Speculation Schemes

Mohammad Behnia, Prateek Sahu, Riccardo Paccagnella, Jiyong Yu, Zirui Zhao, Xiang Zou, Thomas Unterluggauer, Josep Torrellas, Carlos Rozas, Adam Morrison, Frank Mckeen, Fangfei Liu, Ron Gabor, Christopher W. Fletcher, Abhishek Basak, Alaa Alameldeen
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2021) [pdf],[bibtex]

Cyclone: Detecting Contention-Based Cache Information Leaks Through Cyclic Interference

Austin Harris*, Shijia Wei*, Prateek Sahu, Pranav Kumar, Todd Austin, and Mohit Tiwari
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2019) [pdf],[bibtex]

Patents

US Patent App 2019

Methods and systems to predict parameters in a database of information technology equipment

Chandrashekhar Jha, Jobin George, Prateek Sahu, Kumar Gaurav, Jusvinder Singh. VMware Inc, 2019. Application Number: 15/898,238

Methods and systems to detect and correct outliers in a dataset stored in a data-storage device

Chandrashekhar Jha, Jobin George, Prateek Sahu, Kumar Gaurav, Jusvinder Singh. VMware Inc, 2019. Application Number: 15/811,710

US Patent App 2018

Predicting application response time based on metrics

Ritesh Jha, Dattathreya Sathyamurthy, Prateek Sahu, Nupur Agrawal, Agam Kapur. VMware Inc, 2018. Application Number: 15/489,764