David Brumley

David Brumley is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department. His research focuses on software security. Brumley received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado. He served as a Computer Security Officer for Stanford University from 1998-2002. He is the faculty mentor for the CMU Hacking Team Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), which is ranked internationally as one of the top teams in the world according to ctftime.org. The team was ranked #1 in 2011, #2 in 2012, and #1 in 2013, and won DefCon 2013. He received the USENIX Security best paper awards in 2003 and 2007, an ICSE distinguished paper award in 2014. Brumley honors include being selected for the 2010 DARPA CSSP program and 2013 DARPA Information Science and Technology Advisory Board, a 2010 NSF CAREER award, a 2010 United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a 2013 Sloan Foundation award.

David Brumley is a computer security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on the development of advanced techniques for analyzing and securing software systems. His work spans binary analysis, exploit generation, and automated methods for detecting vulnerabilities in software and firmware. Brumley's research emphasizes the use of symbolic execution, dynamic taint analysis, and program analysis to improve the security of computing systems. His contributions include the creation of tools like BitBlaze and BAP, which enable deeper insights into binary code and enhance the detection of security flaws in both applications and operating systems.