
Sergey Bratus
Associate Professor
Appointments
Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Area of Expertise
cybersecurity, exploitation, rootkit and bootkit techniques, "weird machines"
Biography
I am the Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society and an Associate Professor of Computer Science. In 2018--2024 I served as a Program Manager at DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O), where I created multiple fundamental research programs in cybersecurity, resilience, and sustainment of critical software. You can read about them here.
I am interested in all aspects of cyber security, including Unix and Linux kernel security, software verification and cyber hardening, malware detection and reverse engineering (especially at the kernel and boot-stage firmware levels), wireless networking, digital radio, and visualizations of security-related information. I am interested in identifying and eliminating the root causes of software vulnerabilities, and I believe that this requires connecting state-of-the-art hacking with fundamental concepts of computer science. I believe that edge-of-the-art hacking has developed into a distinct discipline of computer science, even though not formally recognized as such, and that studying it is indispensable for building future computing systems we could finally trust.
Education
Ph.D in Mathematics., Northeastern University
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