Carter Yagemann

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University with interests in automated vulnerability discovery, root cause analysis, exploit prevention, and cyber-physical security.

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Bunkerbuster to Appear in CCS'21

My coauthors and I will be presenting the paper, Automated Bug Hunting With Data-Driven Symbolic Root Cause Analysis, at CCS 2021. Below is a preview of the abstract: The increasing cost of successful cyberattacks has caused a mindset shift, whereby defenders now employ proactive defenses, namely software bug hunting, alongside …

MARSARA to Appear in CCS'21

My coauthors and I will be presenting a paper on "Validating the Integrity of Audit Logs Against Execution Repartitioning Attacks" at CCS 2021. Below is a preview of the abstract: Provenance-based causal analysis of audit logs has proven to be an invaluable method of investigating system intrusions. However, it also …

ARCUS System and Dataset Released

We have released the source code and evaluation dataset for "ARCUS: Symbolic Root Cause Analysis of Exploits in Production Systems," which will be appearing at USENIX Security 2021 in August, 2021. The paper will be ready for publication in about a month.


SU Senior Carter Yagemann’s Summer of Android

Originally written for the Syracuse University College of Engineering blog. This summer, Carter Yagemann, a rising senior in the Computer Science program from Jupiter, Florida, spent his summer crawling the Android operating system as part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU …