Biography

I’m a computer security researcher, and recent Ph.D. graduate from UCSB’s SecLab. When I’m not breaking things for fun, or writing papers on the beach, I occasionally hack competitively with Shellphish.

My passion is to explore the interaction of new technological paradigms and security. Do these new ways humans interact with technology bring about unique security challenges? Or are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes made for decades? How do we as researchers cope when our ways of understanding security are rendered meaningless by technological evolution? These are the sorts of questions I strive to answer.

• Shimware: Toward Practical Security Retrofitting for Monolithic Firmware Images

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• HALucinator: Firmware Re-Hosting through Abstraction Layer Emulation

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• SYMBION: Interleaving Symbolic with Concrete Execution

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• Toward the Analysis of Embedded Firmware through Automated Re-hosting

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• Towards Automatically Generating a Sound and Complete Dataset for Evaluating Static Analysis Tools

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• Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis

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• Using Loops For Malware Classification Resilient to Feature-unaware Perturbations

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• Exploitation and mitigation of authentication schemes based on device-public information

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• BootStomp: On the Security of Mobile Bootloaders

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• Shell We Play A Game? CTF-as-a-service for Security Education

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• edg@cs.ucsb.edu
• @subwire on Keybase.
• HFH 2114, UC Santa Barbara, California, 93106, USA