[Pl-seminar] 19th March: François Gauthier: From C to Java EE to Node.js: A Journey in Industrial Program Analysis

Aviral Goel goel.av at husky.neu.edu
Fri Mar 15 09:32:55 EDT 2019


Hi all,

The location for this seminar has been updated. It will now happen in WVH
462.

*Date:* Tuesday, March 19th 2019
*Location:* WVH 462
*Time:* 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
*Speaker:* François Gauthier
*Faculty Host:* Frank Tip


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:05 AM Aviral Goel <goel.av at husky.neu.edu> wrote:

> *Date:* Tuesday, March 19th 2019
> *Location:* Behrakis 2014
> *Time:* 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
> *Speaker:* François Gauthier
> *Faculty Host:* Frank Tip
>
> From C to Java EE to Node.js: A Journey in Industrial Program Analysis
> <http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/seminars.html#francois-from-c-to-java-ee-to-node-js>
> *François Gauthier*
>
> *Abstract*
>
> I will divide my presentation in two short talks. In the first part of my
> presentation, I will describe how static analysis of C/C++, our lab's
> initial expertise, widely differs from static analysis of Java EE, and
> describe some of the challenges we encountered in the Wafer project. In the
> second part of my talk, I will describe how we scale dynamic security
> analysis for Node.js with taint inference, and how the Affogato project
> compares to state-of-the-art.
>
> *Bio*
>
> François Gauthier graduated in 2014 from Polytechnique Montreal with a PhD
> in Software Engineering. The same year, he joined the program analysis team
> at Oracle Labs Australia, under the direction of Dr. Cristina Cifuentes, to
> start and lead the Wafer project for static vulnerability detection in Java
> EE. In June 2017, he transitioned to, and is now leading the Affogato
> project for dynamic security analysis of Node.js. Apart from application
> security, François is also exploring program analysis and machine learning
> approaches to detect document-based malware as well as fuzzing techniques
> to automatically generate test inputs.
>
> Best,
> Aviral
>
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