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Pratik Kamble
Kamble in 2023
Affiliation	Research Foundation for SUNY
Education	University of Florida (MS) University of Pune (BE)
Thesis advisor	Dr. Aravind Prakash
Fields	Software Security Fuzzing Binary Analysis
Website	pratikkamble.com
Profiles	Google Scholar ORCID GitHub

Pratik M. Kamble is a doctoral researcher based in Binghamton, New York. His current research focuses on software security, with recent work on WebAssembly security, fuzzing, reverse engineering, and binary analysis. His doctoral research, supervised by Dr. Aravind Prakash, investigates runtime security and attack-surface reduction in modern software systems.

He has also contributed to work in human-centered computing and lifelogging technologies.

Education

Kamble earned his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. He later moved to the United States to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Florida.

He is currently a doctoral researcher working under the supervision of Dr. Aravind Prakash.

Research

Doctoral Research

Kamble's doctoral research focuses on understanding and reducing the attack surface of modern software runtimes. His first doctoral publication, accepted at DIMVA 2026, examines code bloat in WebAssembly binaries and its security implications across a corpus of over 8,000 real-world binaries.^[1]

He is currently developing forced execution fuzzing techniques using hardware-assisted metadata tags to guide exploration of code paths missed by conventional fuzzing in RISC-V binaries.

Service

In service to the security community, Kamble serves as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) for the USENIX Security Symposium 2026.^[2]

Patents

Kamble holds a patent for a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system. The invention, titled "A System and a Method for Performing a User Activity Using an Electroencephalogram (EEG)," utilizes Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to interpret brain signals for user activity control. It was issued in June 2024.^[3]

Human-Computer Interaction

In 2018, Kamble proposed frameworks for automated data collection in his paper "Life Logging: A Practicable Approach." This work addressed the privacy and data management challenges inherent in lifelogging technologies using wearable sensors.

Competitions

In 2026, Kamble led the Binghamton University team in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF), a semester-long international embedded security competition organized by MITRE. The eCTF challenges teams to design, build, and attack secure embedded systems on physical hardware. Competing for the first time, the team placed 13th internationally.^[4]

Industry Experience

Prior to his doctoral studies, Kamble worked as a Software Engineer at Vibrent Health in Fairfax, Virginia. He contributed to the All of Us Research Program (NIH), where he engineered bulk message interfaces using Apache Kafka to optimize system performance.^[5]

Publications

• Kamble, P. M., & Prakash, A. (2026). "Dead Weight: Analyzing Code Bloat and Its Security Implications in WebAssembly Binaries." 23rd International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA). Chania, Greece.
• Kamble, P. M. (2018). "Life Logging: A Practicable Approach." Fourth International Conference on Computing Communication Control and Automation (ICCUBEA). doi: 10.1109/ICCUBEA.2018.8697516.
• Wang, Y. C., Lu, Y., Grunwald, S., Chu, S. L., Kamble, P., & Kumar, J. (2024). "An AI Approach to Support Student Mental Health: Case of Developing an AI-Powered Web-Platform with Nature-Based Mindfulness." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 36(3), 267–280.
• Kulkarni, A., Albright, C., Kamble, P., & Chu, S. L. (2024). "Investigating Situated Learning Theory Through an Augmented Reality Mobile Assistant for Everyday STEM Learning." IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Orlando, FL.

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