Biography

Mihai Christodorescu is a research scientist working in the areas of security & privacy at Visa Research. His research interests include data confidentiality and integrity, program analysis, and new primitives for secure operating systems.

Mihai’s past research in real-time, behavioral security for smartphones at the Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley lab is now available in the Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Protect product. Before that he was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on malware detection, scalable network intrusion detection, and cloud security. He holds a PhD in computer sciences from University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he developed novel techniques for program analysis to detect and characterize malware, while advised by Professor Somesh Jha.

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I have mentored students via internships, fellowship programs, and as Ph.D.-committee member.

• 2017: Abhinav Agarwal (UNM)
  summer intern at Visa Research

• 2017: Man-Ki Yoon (UIUC)
  Ph.D. committee
  Topic: Secure and Dependable Cyber-physical System Architectures

• 2016–2017: Utsav Banerjee, Chiraag Juvekar (MIT)
  Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2016 winners
  Topic: Hardware Acceleration for Mobile Computing on Encrypted Data

• 2016: Drew Davidson (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
  Ph.D. committee
  Topic: Enhancing Mobile Security and Privacy through App Splitting

• 2016: Ahmet Buyyukayhan (NEU)
  summer intern at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley

• 2015: Rui Han (UMiami)
  Ph.D. committee

• 2015: Mikhail Kazdagli (UT Austin)
  summer intern at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley

• 2014: Man-Ki Yoon (UIUC)
  summer intern at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley

• 2013–2014: Fardin Abdi, Man-Ki Yoon (UIUC)
  Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2013 winners
  Topic: Behavior Pattern Inspection: A New Approach for Securing Real-Time Embedded Systems

• 2013: David J. Fiala (NCSU)
  summer intern at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley

• 2012: Gianluca Stringhini (UCSB)
  visiting researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2012: Andrew White (UNC)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2011: Dmytro Korzhyk (Duke)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2010: Drew Davidson (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2009: Richard Chang (UT Austin)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2008: Najwa Aaraj (Princeton)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

• 2008: Matt Fredrikson (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
  summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research

Organizer

• International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS): 2014, 2015.
• IBM Student Workshop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing (F2C2), 2011, Hawthorne, NY, USA.
• IBM Student Workshop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing (F2C2), 2010, Hawthorne, NY, USA.
• IBM Research–Princeton University Security & Privacy Day, 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA. Program Committee Member

Conference Program Committee Member

• ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012.
• ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM): 2014, 2016.
• ACM CCS Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM): 2007.
• ACM International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (IoTPTS): 2015, 2016, 2017.
• ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS): 2012, 2016.
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2012, 2017.
• Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS): 2011, 2012.
• Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA): 2012.
• Conference on Principles of Security and Trust (POST): 2013.
• European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec): 2010, 2011, 2012.
• International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS): 2010, 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications’ Communications and Information System Security Symposium (IEEE ICC CISS): 2009, 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications’ Information and Network Security (IEEE ICC INS): 2008.
• IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP SEC): 2010.
• Innovations in Mobile Privacy and Security workshop (IMPS): 2016, 2017.
• International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Malware): 2008, 2011.
• International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM): 2011, 2012.
• International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017.
• International Workshop on Secure Internet of Things (SIoT): 2015.
• International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
• Mobile Security Technologies Workshop (MoST): 2015, 2016, 2017.
• Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014.
• International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM): 2015.
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC): 2017.
• USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec): 2012.
• USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET): 2012.
• Web 2.0 Security & Privacy Workshop (W2SP): 2013.
• Workshop on Program Protection and Reverse Engineering (PPREW): 2012, 2014, 2015.

External Reviewer

Journals

• ACM Computing Surveys: 2015, 2016.
• ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR): 2008.
• ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC): 2007, 2010.
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT): 2004.
• Communications of the ACM (CACM): 2005 (issue on spyware), 2011.
• Computer Journal: 2011.
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: 2014.
• IEEE Micro: 2014.
• IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing (TCC): 2014.
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS): 2009, 2011, 2015.
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC): 2010, 2013.
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE): 2009.
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN): 2009.
• Journal of Computer Security (JCS): 2006, 2009.

Conferences

• ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS): 2005, 2006, 2014.
• ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices
• (SPSM): 2013.
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2006, 2008.
• Computer Security Foundations Workshop/Symposium (CSF): 2008.
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS): 2009.
• Foundations of Computer Security Workshop (FCS): 2001.
• IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN): 2011.
• IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 2012.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications’ Information and Network Security
• (IEEE ICC INS): 2008.
• IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium (“Oakland”): 2009, 2012.
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW): 2005.
• International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV): 2005.
• LCI International Conference on Clusters: 2006.
• Mobile Security Technologies Workshop (MoST): 2014.
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2005, 2007.
• Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): 2005, 2009.
• Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS): 2005.
• Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS): 2002.
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference: 2004.
• USENIX Security Symposium: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM): 2005.

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