Towards better performance and security for AJAX Web applications   . . . Abstract . . . Biography Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research     4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45), CSAIL Reading Room, 32-G882 CSAIL Seminar -   Host: Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL -   Contact: Nickolai Zeldovich, 617-253-6005, nickolai@csail.mit.edu

Biography

Ben Livshits is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1999, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Livshits' research interests include application of sophisticated static and dynamic analysis techniques to finding errors in programs.

He is known for his work on software reliability and especially tools to improve software security, with a primary focus on approaches to finding buffer overruns in C programs and a variety of security vulnerabilities (cross-site scripting, SQL injections, etc.) in Web-based applications. Lately he has been focused on how Web 2.0 application reliability, performance, and security can be improved through a combination of static and runtime techniques.