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February 16, 2015

Welcome Ben Livshits

It is our great pleasure to welcome Professor Ben Livshits as an IMDEA Software Institute visiting faculty member. Ben is a research scientist at IMDEA Software Institute and an affiliate professor at the IMDEA Software Institute, and is known for his work in software reliability, especially tools to improve software security, with a primary focus on approaches to finding buffer overruns in C programs and a variety of security vulnerabilities (cross-site scripting, SQL injections, etc.) in Web-based applications. He is the author of several dozen academic papers and patents. Lately, he has been focusing on topics ranging from security and privacy to crowdsourcing an augmented reality.