Charlie Curtsinger

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Overview

I am a third year MS/PhD graduate student in the Computer Science department. I work with Emery Berger in the PLASMA research group.

Research

I am interested in improving the reliability and performance of existing software, particularly concurrent programs.

• DThreads: Efficient and Deterministic Multithreading

  I worked with Tongping Liu on Dthreads, a drop-in replacement for pthreads that guarantees determininstic execution of parallel programs. Dthreads will appear at SOSP in October 2011.

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• Zozzle: Low-overhead Mostly Static JavaScript Malware Detection

  As an intern at Microsoft Research, I worked with Ben Zorn, Ben Livshits, and Christian Seifert to build Zozzle. Zozzle uses an efficient statistical classifier to identify JavaScript malware. Zozzle is currently deployed as part of the Bing infrastructure. This work appeared at USENIX Security in August 2011.

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Experience

• Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts, 2009 to present.
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research, 2010.

Education

• B.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2009.

Awards

• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2010.
• Honorable Mention, NSF Gradaute Research Fellowship Program, 2009.