Byron Hawkins
Research Interests
- Software Security
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI)
- Intrusion Detection
- Binary Rewriting
- Post-Compilation Optimization
- Dynamic Binary Translation
- Compiler Optimization
- Program Analysis
- Programming Language Design
- Software Architecture
Publications
- FittChooser: A Dynamic Feedback-Based Fittest Optimization Chooser · CADO 2018
Ali AP, A Le Bon, K., Hawkins, B. Rohou, E.
HPCS: Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization 2018 · PDF - Introspective Intrusion Detection · PhD Dissertation.
Hawkins, B. Demsky, B.
University of California, Irvine 2017 · PDF - ZenIDS: Introspective Intrusion Detection for PHP Applications · ICSE 2017
Hawkins, B. Demsky, B.
International Conference on Software Engineering 2017 · PDF · Code - BlackBox: A Runtime Approach to Security Auditing (poster abstract) · Euro S&P 2016
Hawkins, B. Demsky, B., Taylor, M.B.
European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016 · Abstract · Poster - BlackBox: Lightweight Security Monitoring for COTS Binaries · CGO 2016
Hawkins, B. Demsky, B., Taylor, M.B.
Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2016 · PDF · Slides · Code - Optimizing Binary Translation of Dynamically Generated Code · CGO 2015
Hawkins, B. Demsky, B., Bruening, D. and Zhao, Q.
Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2015 · PDF · Slides · Code
Personal Research Projects
- Role Normalization and Synthesis
Tools and techniques for maintaining the effectiveness of software designs. - Relational Normalization for Programs
Type-and-effect system for verifying that a program's architecture and design correspond accurately to the domain entities it operates on.