I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am advised by Prof. Wenke Lee and Prof. Brendan Saltaformaggio. My research interests are in systems and software security, spanning vulnerability discovery via combined program analysis and machine learning, root cause analysis and exploit prevention, and simulation of attacks targeting financial markets.

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Bunkerbuster to Appear in CCS'21

Mon 06 September 2021

Security

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

Tue 31 August 2021

Security

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

Mon 08 February 2021

Security

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.

Vulnerability Root Cause Analysis Approach "ARCUS" to Appear in USENIX'21

Sat 12 December 2020

Security

My coauthors and I will be presenting a paper "ARCUS: Symbolic Root Cause Analysis of Exploits in Production Systems" at USENIX Security 2021 in August, 2021. Below is a preview of the abstract: End-host runtime monitors (e.g., CFI, system call IDS) flag processes in response to symptoms of a …

SU Senior Carter Yagemann’s Summer of Android

Mon 22 February 2016

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 …