About the Tech Talks
ORCA hosts monthly Tech Talks featuring speakers working on isolation and compartmentalization across the stack. Our monthly Tech Talks take place on Zoom on the second Thursday of each month at 12-1pm ET. Talks are open to anyone interested in the topic.
Upcoming talks appear on the community calendar. If you would like to give a talk, email vlr9020@nyu.edu.
If you would like to invite a speaker on ORCA's behalf, you can use our speaker invitation template. Please update the invited speaker details in this sheet.
Schedule & archive
| Date | Presenter (Affiliation) | Topic | Recording | Additional info / links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | Michael Greenberg (Stevens Institute of Technology) | The try semisolate system | Watch | — |
| 2026-08-13 | Abhishek Sharma (University of Texas at Austin), Anand Balaji (University of Texas at Austin), Zach Yedidia (Stanford University) | Mohabi: Disaggregating and Sandboxing the Firefox JavaScript Engine | Watch | — |
| 2026-06-11 | Gerald Fry (Charles River Analytics, Inc., a GRVTY Company) Prof. Richard West (Boston University) |
Compartmentalization Architecture Using Commodity Hardware for Enforcement (CACHE) | Watch | — |
| 2026-05-14 | Aaron Paulos (RTX BBN Technologies) Dang K. Lee (Northwestern University) |
Automated Compartmentalization of Legacy Code using Risk-Oriented Hybrid Analysis and Verifiable Program Restructuring | Watch | — |
| 2026-04-09 | Derrick McKee (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) | Hardware-Assisted Kernel Compartmentalization | Watch | — |
| 2026-02-12 | John Alistair Kressel (University of Manchester) | Improving the security and compatibility of single-address-space OSes with CHERI hardware capabilities | Watch | |
| 2025-11-06 | Alexios Voulimeneas (TU Delft) | System Call Interposition | Watch | — |
| 2025-08-22 | Diglan Peng (Purdue University) | Pegasus and uSwitch | Watch | — |
| 2025-07-11 | Alexios Voulimeneas (TU Delft) | You Shall Not (By)Pass! Practical, Secure and Fast PKU-based Sandboxing | Watch | — |
| 2025-05-30 | Hugo Lefeuvre (University of British Columbia) | Systematization of Knowledge: Software Compartmentalization | Watch | — |
| 2025-05-16 | Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota) Johnnie Birch Jr. (Intel) Andrew Brown (Intel) |
Two-talk session: BULKHEAD; ColorGuard (MPK in Wasmtime) | Watch | — |
| 2025-04-11 | Shravan Narayan (UT Austin) Zach Yedidia (Stanford University) |
Two-talk session: RLBox; LFI | Watch | — |