Curriculum Vitae

Education

09/2010 - Current
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
09/2008 - 06/2009
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
09/2004 - 06/2008
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with Honors
University of California, Santa Barbara

Publications

Conferences
Hit 'em Where it Hurts: A Live Security Exercise on Cyber Situational Awareness (pdf) (bibtex) (slides) (data)
Adam Doupé, Manuel Egele, Benjamin Caillat, Gianluca Stringhini, Gorkem Yakin, Ali Zand, Ludovico Cavedon, and Giovanni Vigna
Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2011), Austin, TX, December 2011.
Fear the EAR: Discovering and Mitigating Execution After Redirect Vulnerabilities (pdf) (bibtex) (slides) (code)
Adam Doupé, Bryce Boe, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2011). Chicago, IL, October 2011.
Why Johnny Can't Pentest: An Analysis of Black-box Web Vulnerability Scanners (pdf) (bibtex) (slides)
Adam Doupé, Marco Cova, and Giovanni Vigna
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2010). Bonn, Germany, July 2010.

Teaching History

Fall 2010 -- Teaching Assistant for Advanced Topic in Computer Security (CS279)
A graduate computer security course. Responsible for setting up the infrastructure for the students, 60 Xen virtual machines. Also was the administrator for the 2010 iCTF hacking competition.
Fall 2008 -- Teaching Assistant for Computer Security (CS177)
An upper division elective Computer Science course. Projects involved successfully exploiting a buffer overflow.
I was responsible for teaching one section a week which was dedicated to practical examples of hacking. Each week the class as a group tried to exploit different vulnerable programs.

Awards

Outstanding CS Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science Department -- Fall 2010
Outstanding CS Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science Department -- Fall 2008

Work Experience

Microsoft -- July 2009 - Sept. 2010
As a full-time Software Design Engineer I worked on a large Word add-in written in C# to improve the productivity of help content writers.
Microsoft Intern -- July 2008 - Sept. 2008
As an intern Software Design Engineer I worked on a large Word add-in written in C# to improve the productivity of help content writers.
VCEL (sold to fotochatter.com) -- Aug. 2005 - Nov. 2006
Involved in the design and start-up of a first generation mobile social network service.
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