Babak Salamat, PhD

System Software Engineer at Yahoo! Search

Email: i~babaks.com
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Research Interests
  • Software Security
  • Compilers
  • Virtualization
  • Computer Architecture
Education
I have graduated with a PhD from the school of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine (UCI) under the supervision of Professor Michael Franz. As part of my PhD project, I built a multi-variant execution environment which runs multiple variants of a single program and monitors their behavior. Any divergence in behavior of the variants raises an exception and interrupts the execution. The goal of this system is to make programs resilient against malware (viruses, internet worms, etc.).

I have also obtained: