Saumya Debray's Research
Overview
My research is in the general area of program analysis and code optimization, with two main foci:
- Whole-system optimization, which aims to improve overall system performance, especially in the context of embedded systems, by considering all of the software deployed on the system in a holistic manner. An example of this is our work on reducing the memory footprint of the Linux kernel.
- Software Security and Malware analysis, which aims to develop techniques to reason about and understand the behavior of computer malware such as viruses and worms.
Projects
- SOLAR (Software Optimization and Link and Run Time). This project is investigating post-link-time program analysis and optimization techniques to improve software performance. [SOLAR Project web page]
- Malware Analysis. This project is developing tools and techniques for static and dynamic analysis of malware code.