
Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California Area

Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California Area
Advanced research and teaching in computer science; training graduate students (both M.S. and Ph.D.) and undergraduate students.
Research interests include computer security, software engineering, and programming languages: malware detection and analysis (viruses, worms, spyware, etc); web application security (SQL injection, XSS, etc); automated software defect detection tools; open source software; clone detection and analysis; software testing and debugging; etc. Teaching interests include programming languages, compilers, software analysis and security, and software development.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Advanced research and teaching in Computer Science. Graduate and undergraduate student training. Managing a few large projects with over half a million dollar annual budget. Research interests include computer security, software engineering, and programming languages: malware detection and analysis (viruses, worms, spyware, etc.); web application security (SQL injection, XSS, etc); automated software defect detection tools; clone detection and analysis; open source software; intellectual property and patent violation checking; etc.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
November 2002 — June 2007 (4 years 8 months)
Advanced research and teaching in Computer Science. Graduate and undergraduate student training. Managing a few large projects with over half a million dollar annual budget. Research interests include computer security, software engineering, and programming languages: malware detection and analysis (viruses, worms, spyware, etc.); web application security (SQL injection, XSS, etc); automated software defect detection tools; clone detection and analysis; open source software; intellectual property and patent violation checking; etc.
Ph.D. , Computer Science (minor: Mathematics) , 1995 — 2002
M.S. , Computer Science , 1995 — 1997
B.S. , Computer Science , 1992 — 1995
B.A. , Mathematics , 1992 — 1995
Business 1991 — 1992
International Trade 1988 — 1991
Computer Security, Software Engineering, Programming Languages: virus and worm detection, web security, software analysis and security, code auditing tools, open source software, clone detection, code obfuscation, patent violation analysis, static analysis, dynamic analysis, software testing and debugging, virtual machines, firewalls, search engines, data analysis.
ACM, IEEE
IBM Software Quality Innovation Award; Marquis Who's Who in America; NSF CAREER Award; ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and Nominee; EAPLS Best Paper Award; UC Davis Outstanding Junior Engineering Faculty Award; UC Regents Fellowship; Dean's Honored Graduate of the Year in CS at UT Austin; Presidential Scholarship, UT Austin; Second Place in the ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest; Top 150 in US and Canada in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; First Prize Winner in the Shanghai High School Mathematics Competition.
See http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/cv.pdf for more information.