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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Security and Dependability, Operating, Communication and Distributed Systems,Software Engineering and Programming Languages |
| Keywords | software fuzzing, moving target defenses, legacy software hardening, n-variant execution, dynamic code generation |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Irvine |
| Institution | University of California, Irvine |
| Institute | Department of Information & Computer Science |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Seifert | Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Ina Schaefer | Institut für Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig |
| Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Seifert | Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Franz is well known internationally for his pioneering contributions to just-in-time compilation and optimization. He invented the "Trace Tree Compilation" technique and – in a joint project with the Mozilla Foundation – the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler which was incorporated into the Firefox browser and had several hundred million daily users at its peak. He is also one of the founders of the "moving target defenses" paradigm in computer security. During his stay in Germany, Professor Franz will be focusing on cyber security topics, especially on security for the so-called Internet of Things, 5G mobile devices and automotive security. |