Published and accepted papers, awards, patents, vulnerability research, leadership, and academic service.
Research RSSAccepted paper on Binghamton University's participation in the 2026 MITRE eCTF, examining team organization, embedded-system defense and attack work, and lessons for competition-based cybersecurity education.
Static reachability analysis of 8,461 WebAssembly binaries, with separate dynamic coverage measurements on controlled workloads finding 70–85% of functions unexecuted in those workloads. Simulated debloating quantifies potential attack-surface reduction.
@inproceedings{kamble2026wasm,
author = { Pratik M. Kamble and Aravind Prakash },
title = {Dead Weight: Analyzing Code Bloat and Its Security Implications in WebAssembly Binaries},
booktitle = {23rd International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2026)},
year = {2026},
address = {Chania, Greece}
}
Developed backend infrastructure and recommendation APIs for an automated mindfulness platform tailored for student healthcare interventions.
Investigated Situated Learning Theory through Objectica, an augmented-reality mobile assistant that teaches STEM concepts using everyday objects.
Proposed wearable-sensor data collection and machine-learning frameworks while examining their privacy and security implications.
Pratik Kamble received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at USENIX Security 2026 Artifact Evaluation in recognition of thorough, constructive reviews that strengthened the evaluation process and supported open science.
Served on the 2026 CISSE Program Committee, contributing peer reviews of academic papers in cybersecurity education.
Co-captained Binghamton University's team to 13th place among 100+ teams, directing defensive firmware architecture and offensive exploit operations.
Reviewed and tested artifact availability, functionality, and reproducibility for USENIX Security 2026.
Indian Patent No. 540976 (Application No. 201921011129), co-invented to process EEG signals into device-control commands.
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