Edward J. Schwartz

Introduction

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in almost all aspects of Computer Security. Currently, I am most interested in designing and verifying secure network protocols, practical techniques for protecting against commonplace vulnerabilities (buffer overflows, integer overflows, etc.), binary program analysis, and applications of trusted computing.

Contact information

Feel free to get in touch with me. Email is by far the best way to get in touch with me.

Office

Office 2131B in the Collaborative Innovation Center Building
4720 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Email

edmc...@cmu.edu

Phone

(636) 336-2626

Fax

(412) 268-5531 (shared)

Resume/CV

I have a résumé available. Please contact me if you'd like to see it.

Research

Refereed Conference Papers

• Edward J. Schwartz, Thanassis Avgerinos, David Brumley. Q: Exploit Hardening Made Easy, (PDF) (PDF Slides) (PPTX Slides) (Video) (Audio) Proceedings of the Usenix Security Symposium 2011.
• David Brumley, Ivan Jager, Thanassis Avgerinos, Edward J. Schwartz. BAP: A Binary Analysis Platform, (PDF) (PDF Slides) Proceedings of Computer Aided Verification 2011.
• Edward J. Schwartz, Thanassis Avgerinos, David Brumley. All You Ever Wanted to Know About Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but might have been afraid to ask), (PDF) Invited Paper at 2010 Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WooT).
• Edward J. Schwartz, Thanassis Avgerinos, David Brumley. All You Ever Wanted to Know About Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but might have been afraid to ask), (PDF) (PDF Slides) Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
• Edward J. Schwartz, David Brumley, Jonathan M. McCune. A Contractual Anonymity System, (PDF) (PDF Slides) Proceedings of the 2010 Network and Distributed System Security Syposium.
• Kevin Mills, Edward Schwartz, Jian Yuan. How to Model a TCP/IP Network using only 20 Parameters, Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference.
• Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy. Interactive SIGHT into Information Graphics, (PDF) Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Web Accessibiliy (W4A).
• Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, and Peng Wu. Accessible Bar Charts for Visually Impaired Users, (PDF) Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies.
• Edward Schwartz and Stephanie Elzer. An Introduction to COM, ATL and the Windows API Through Creation of an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object, (DOC) Proceedings of the 2007 Pennsylvania Association of Computing and Information Science Educators Conference.
• Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. A Browser Extension for Providing Visually Impaired Users Access to the Content of Bar Charts on the Web, (PDF) Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Demir, S., Oliver, D., Schwartz, E., Elzer, S., Carberry, S., Mccoy, K. F., et al. Interactive SIGHT: textual access to simple bar charts, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2010, 16(3), doi:10.1080/13614568.2010.534186

Magazine articles, technical reports, book chapters, theses, and posters

• Edward J. Schwartz. The Danger of Unrandomized Code. (PDF for Usenix Members) (Issue Information) Usenix ;login: Magazine, December 2011, Volume 36, Number 6.
• K. Mills, J. Filliben, D. Cho, E. Schwartz, and D. Genin. Study of Proposed Internet Congestion-Control Mechanisms, (Draft) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study.
• Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir and Peng Wu. Bar Charts in Popular Media: Conveying Their Message to Visually Impaired Users via Speech, Book chapter in Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Springer, 2009.
• Edward J. Schwartz, David Brumley, and Jonathan M. McCune. Contractual Anonymity, (PDF) Poster in CyLab Partner's Conference.
• Edward J. Schwartz, David Brumley, and Jonathan M. McCune. Contractual Anonymity, (PDF) Technical report CMU-CS-09-144 of School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Edward Schwartz. Contractual Anonymity, (PDF) Master's thesis.
• Edward Schwartz. A Browser Extension for Providing Visually Impaired Users Access to the Content of Bar Charts on the Web, Undergraduate thesis.

Competitions

• 1st place at iCTF 2010 (CMU team)
• 2nd place at National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2006 & 2007 (MU team)

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