Saumya Debray's Research
Overview
My research is in the general area of software security, program analysis, and code optimization, with two main foci:
- Software Security and Malware analysis, which aims to develop techniques to reason about and understand the behavior of computer malware such as viruses and worms.
- Whole-system optimization, which aims to improve overall system performance, especially in the context of embedded systems, by considering all of the software deployed on the system in a holistic manner. An example of this is our work on reducing the memory footprint of the Linux kernel.
Projects
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lynx. This project is developing tools and techniques
for static and dynamic analysis of malware code.
[lynx Project web page] -
DBMS Micro-specialization.
This project is applying quasi-dynamic code specialization to DBMSs
to improve their runtime performance.
[Micro-specialization Project web page]