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IBM Systems Journal

Compliance Management   Volume 46, Number 2, 2007
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A survey of static analysis methods for identifying security vulnerabilities in software systems - Author Bios

by M. Pistoia,
S. Chandra,
S. J. Fink,
and E. Yahav
Biographical sketches of authors

Marco Pistoia  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (pistoia@us.ibm.com). Dr. Pistoia received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York in 2005, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics summa cum laude from the University of Rome, Italy in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he worked at the IBM Network Computing Research Center in Cagliari, Italy. In the years 1998 and 1999, he was a project manager at the IBM International Technical Support Organization in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since 1999, he has worked at the Watson Research Center, where he is currently a research staff member in the Programming Languages and Software Engineering department. He is the author of 10 books. His research interests include program analysis and software security.

Satish Chandra  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (satishchandra@us.ibm.com). Dr. Chandra obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997, and a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur in 1991, both in computer science. From 1997 to 2002, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, where his research focused on program analysis, domain-specific languages, and data-communication protocols. In September 2002, he joined IBM Research in New Delhi, India, where he managed a small research group in software engineering. He is currently a member of the Programming Languages and Software Engineering department at the Watson Research Center.

Stephen J. Fink  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (sjfink@us.ibm.com). Dr. Fink received a B.S. degree from Duke University in 1992 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and 1998. Since 1998, he has been a research staff member in the Software Technology Department at the Watson Research Center. He was a member of the team that produced the Jikes Research Virtual Machine. He serves as lead architect for the IBM Common Architecture for Program Analysis. His research interests include static and dynamic program analysis, programming language implementation techniques, and parallel and scientific computation. He is a member of ACM.

Eran Yahav  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (eyahav@us.ibm.com). Dr. Yahav received a B.S. degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree from Tel Aviv University in 2004. Since late 2004, he has been a research staff member in the Advanced Programming Tools Department at the Watson Research Center. His research interests include static and dynamic program analysis, programming language design and implementation, and program verification.


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