[Pl-seminar] 4/5 Seminar: Julia Rubin, The Secret Life of Mobile Applications

[William J. Bowman]

NUPRL Seminar presents

Julia Rubin
MIT

10:30am--11:30am
Tuesday, April 5 2016
Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)


The Secret Life of Mobile Applications

Abstract:
As software becomes increasingly more complex and yet more pervasive,
poor understanding of software behavior compromises the quality and
the integrity of software systems that we use.
In this talk, I will show that automated analysis techniques can help
to identify and reason about software behavior characteristics that
matter to humans.
After a brief overview of my current research directions, I will focus
on techniques for identifying privacy violations in mobile
applications, i.e., leakages of sensitive information such as user
location and shopping preferences.
I will present a set of solutions that rely on contextual, functional
and usage-based clues for improving the accuracy of leakage detection
and for distinguishing between “legitimate” and “illegitimate”
information distribution patterns.


Bio:
Julia Rubin is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the EECS department at
MIT.
Prior to that, she was a Research Staff Member and, part of the time,
a manager at IBM Research in Haifa, Israel.
She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Toronto, Canada in 2014.
Julia’s research interests are in software engineering, program
analysis and software security, focusing on improving the quality and
the integrity of modern software systems.
Her recent work in this area won an ACM Distinguished Paper Award at
ASE, two Best Paper Awards, at SPLC and CSMR, and was nominated for
Facebook’s Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium.

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William J. Bowman
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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