The EECS Department welcomes Dr. Shuo Chen, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research.

Chen will present a talk entitled "Reflections about Security Research in an Industrial Lab" on Friday, September 29 at 12:00 PM in Tech Room L440.

Abstract: In this talk, I will share my thoughts about security research opportunities in an industrial lab. I will briefly explain why a company invests in security research, the differences between an engineer role and a researcher role, and the advantages and disadvantages of a researcher. Based on these thoughts, the main content of my talk is to explain three types of research opportunities in an actual engineering environment: (1) to take a holistic view about a real-world system; (2) to understand engineering challenges for a technology that academics feel overly optimistic about, and develop something that is really feasible; (3) to understand engineering contexts and turn a pessimistic theoretical result into a useful technology in reality. The discussion is mainly based on my own projects, but is also inspired by others. I hope the talk give Ph.D. students a new perspective thinking about "research" as they transition from schools into industrial labs.

Bio: Shuo Chen is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond. His interest is on studying operational systems to understand their security challenges and develop systematic solutions. He spends significant time studying problems about software-as-a-service, browser, web privacy/security and memory-based issues. His research led to several real-world security pushes, such as a cross-company effort to fix browser bugs that compromise HTTPS security; Microsoft Internet Explorer team's effort to systematically fix GUI-spoofing (phishing) bugs; a cross-company effort to fix logic bugs in e-commerce, online payment and single-sign-on services. He received numerous acknowledgements from Microsoft and other major companies for these discoveries and helps. In the past few years, he developed a practical program verification technology to give a higher correctness/security assurance to the implementations of web-based protocols. His research was often covered by the media, such as CNN, CNET, MIT Tech Review, Ars Technica, etc.

Shuo served on the program committees for IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, WWW, etc. Shuo obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his master's and bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and Peking University.

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