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I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. I have a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I am a member of both the Center for Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems and the Institute for Software Research.
Undergraduate Students: I can accept a limited number of undergraduate research students. Students should have a 3.7 GPA or extensive software development experience.
Biographical Sketch
Brian Demsky is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. His current research interests include software reliability, security, software engineering, compilation, parallel software, program analysis, and program understanding. He received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 1998, his M.S. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2001, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2006. Brian is a Hertz Foundation Fellow.
Research
My group’s research interests are programming languages, compilers, security, program analysis, and software engineering. Some of my group’s ongoing research includes:
- Model Checking and Testing Concurrent Data Structures: A critical component of making effective use of multi-core processors is developing scalable concurrent data structures. Developing concurrent data structures for realistic (and thus relaxed) memory models such as the C/C++11 memory model is extremely challenging. Even experts typically make subtle mistakes. We have developed the first practical tool for exhaustively unit testing C/C++11 data structures.
- Language-Based Tools for Security: We are developing tools that learn the expected behavior of common applications and detect attacks as deviations from this behavior. Our tools can handle large software systems including MS Office, Chrome, and Adobe Acrobat.
- Languages and Analysis for Parallelization: We do research on language designs and static and dynamic analysis for parallelization.
- Language Design for Robust Software Systems: We have developed a static analysis that ensure that embedded systems can recover from arbitrary state corruption. We have developed languages that can isolate failures to components of a software system.
- Bristlecone: Robust Software Systems: We have a developed a language-based approach for building robust software systems. This approach decomposes software systems into a set of a tasks, and uses task specifications to describe how to combine these tasks. In the event of a failure, our system reasons about these task specifications to adapt the execution and continue to provide service.
- Data Structure Repair: We have developed data structure repair, a technique to enable programs to recover from data structure corruption errors. This technique can be applied to both volatile data structures inside a running program and persistent data structures stored on disk.