R. Sekar SUNY Empire Innovation Professor of Cyber Security   Professor, Stony Brook University (2006--18) Assistant/Associate Professor, Stony Brook and Iowa State Universities (1996--06) Research Scientist, Bellcore (1991--96)   Education Ph.D., Computer Science, Stony Brook University (1991) B. Tech, Electrical (Power) Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1986)

Research

Current Projects

• Websheets: Re-imagining web application development for data owners.
• eAudit: Efficient syscall-granularity provenance recording for Linux.
• APT detection: Detecting and reconstructing advanced and stealthy cyber attack campaigns.
• Binary analysis: Scalable and sound techniques for static binary analysis and instrumentation.
• Scripting, Query, and Domain-specific Languages
  • E*, an event stream processing language for cyber attack detection.
  • Q*, the programming/query language underpinning Websheets.
  • FQ, forensic query language for cyber attack investigation and threat hunting.
  • DML, a language for teaching Discrete Math and CS Foundations.

Teaching

• Foundations of Computer Science (CSE 150)
• Compiler Design (CSE 304/504)
• System Security (CSE 509)
• Algorithms (CSE 548)

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