[Pl-seminar] Reminder: Seminar TOMORROW: Julia Rubin, The Secret Life of Mobile Applications

[William J. Bowman]

Reminder: Talk tomorrow!

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William J. Bowman

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:43:55PM -0400, William J. Bowman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> William J. Bowman
> Northeastern University
> College of Computer and Information Science



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