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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PhD in Computer Sciences, 2007
University of Wisconsin, Madison
MSc in Computer Sciences, 2003
University of Wisconsin, Madison
BSc in Computer Science, 1999
University of California, Santa Barbara
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