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Career

· CTO, Elpha Secure2020–
· PhD Student, Columbia University2014–2020
· Intern/Employee (Compilers Department), IBM2010–2011
· Research Assistant, Columbia University
· Research Manager, ERA Cambridge

Publications (20)

This Paper Is Included in the Proceedings of the 12th Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (osdi '16). Shuffler: Fast and Deployable Continuous Code Re-randomization Shuffler: Fast and Deployable Continuous Code Re-randomization
131
cited
Egalito: Layout-Agnostic Binary Recompilation
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems · 2020
102
cited
Nibbler: debloating binary shared libraries
Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference · 2019
86
cited
XDA: Accurate, Robust Disassembly with Transfer Learning
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 2020
75
cited
StateFormer: fine-grained type recovery from binaries using generative state modeling
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE · 2021
72
cited
Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?
arXiv.org · 2025
51
cited
Large-scale Debloating of Binary Shared Libraries
DTRAP · 2020
16
cited
The Gold Standard: Automatically Generating Puzzle Game Levels
Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference · 2012
15
cited
CodeMason: Binary-Level Profile-Guided Optimization
FEAST@CCS · 2019
12
cited
Ensemble Model Patching: A Parameter-Efficient Variational Bayesian Neural Network
arXiv.org · 2019
8
cited
Representation Engineering for Large-Language Models: Survey and Research Challenges
arXiv.org · 2025
5
cited
Enbug: when debuggers go bad
Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education · 2010
2
cited
Binary shuffling : defeating memory disclosure attacks through re-randomization
2014
1
cited
Making lock-free data structures verifiable with artificial transactions
PLOS@SOSP · 2015
1
cited
Bipath : Just-InTime Incremental Symbolic Execution
2014
Can Safety Fine-Tuning Be More Principled? Lessons Learned from Cybersecurity
arXiv.org · 2025
Egalito Recompiler Evaluation
2019
Improving Security Through Egalitarian Binary Recompilation
2021
Tolerating business failures in hosted applications
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing · 2013
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