CISE Seminar: David Lie, University of Toronto

Fuzzing Forward: Pushing the Horizons on the Use Cases of Fuzzers

Fuzzing has been incredibly successful at finding software vulnerabilities in a variety of applications. However, it's applicability in cases beyond fuzzing application-level code has been limited. This talk explores techniques for expanding the applicability of fuzzers into new domains of software, such as low-level systems code, enclave code and compilers.

David Lie received his BASc from the University of Toronto in 1998, and his MS and PhD from Stanford University in 2001 and 2004. He is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Secure and Reliable Systems. He also holds appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Faculty of Law and is a research lead with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, an Associate Director at the Data Sciences Institute, a Vector Faculty Affiliate and a Senior Massey College Fellow. He is known for his seminal work on the XOM architecture, which was an early precursor to modern trusted execution processor architectures such as ARM Trustzone and Intel SGX. He was the recipient of a best paper award at SOSP for this work. He developed the PScout Android Permission mapping tool, whose datasets have been downloaded over 10,000 times and used in dozens of subsequent papers. David has served on various program committees including OSDI, Usenix Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, NDSS and CCS. David's research interests are broadly focused in the areas or privacy and cybersecurity.

Faculty Host: Manuel Egele

Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos