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Overview

Benjamin Livshits is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science with a focus on several specialized subfields. Their research spans Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Computer Networks and Communications, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Cryptography and Data Security, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Spam and Phishing Detection.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Benjamin Livshits include:

  • Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • A study of inline assembly in solidity smart contracts (2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages)
  • STAR (2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security)
  • A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Measuring the Privacy vs. Compatibility Trade-off in Preventing Third-Party Stateful Tracking (2022, Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022)

Benjamin Livshits frequently publishes in these venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

Key co-authors collaborating with Benjamin Livshits include:

  • Arthur Gervais
  • Stefanos Chaliasos
  • Liyi Zhou
  • Hamed Haddadi
  • Krzysztof Gogol

Benjamin Livshits has contributed to at least 68 publications in Computer Science, with significant work focused on 32 publications in Artificial Intelligence and 24 in Information Systems, indicating a strong interdisciplinary approach within computing and data-related fields.

Best Publications

  • Finding application errors and security flaws using PQL: a program query language

    Michael Martin;Benjamin Livshits;Monica S. Lam

  • DynaMine: finding common error patterns by mining software revision histories

    Benjamin Livshits;Thomas Zimmermann

  • ZOZZLE: fast and precise in-browser JavaScript malware detection

    Charlie Curtsinger;Benjamin Livshits;Benjamin Zorn;Christian Seifert

  • AjaxScope: A Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-Side Behavior of Web 2.0 Applications

    Emre Kiciman;Benjamin Livshits

  • NOZZLE: a defense against heap-spraying code injection attacks

    Paruj Ratanaworabhan;Benjamin Livshits;Benjamin Zorn

  • In defense of soundiness: a manifesto

    Benjamin Livshits;Manu Sridharan;Yannis Smaragdakis;Ondřej Lhoták

  • GATEKEEPER: mostly static enforcement of security and reliability policies for javascript code

    Salvatore Guarnieri;Benjamin Livshits

  • ConScript: Specifying and Enforcing Fine-Grained Security Policies for JavaScript in the Browser

    Leo A. Meyerovich;Benjamin Livshits

  • Rozzle: De-cloaking Internet Malware

    C. Kolbitsch;B. Livshits;B. Zorn;C. Seifert

  • Context-sensitive program analysis as database queries

    Monica S. Lam;John Whaley;V. Benjamin Livshits;Michael C. Martin

  • Reflection analysis for java

    Benjamin Livshits;John Whaley;Monica S. Lam

  • Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit

    Kaihua Qin;Liyi Zhou;Benjamin Livshits;Arthur Gervais

  • JSMeter: comparing the behavior of JavaScript benchmarks with real web applications

    Paruj Ratanaworabhan;Benjamin Livshits;Benjamin G. Zorn

  • Fast and precise sanitizer analysis with BEK

    Pieter Hooimeijer;Benjamin Livshits;David Molnar;Prateek Saxena

  • PriVaricator: Deceiving Fingerprinters with Little White Lies

    Nick Nikiforakis;Wouter Joosen;Benjamin Livshits

  • Merlin: specification inference for explicit information flow problems

    Benjamin Livshits;Aditya V. Nori;Sriram K. Rajamani;Anindya Banerjee

  • EthIR: A Framework for High-Level Analysis of Ethereum Bytecode

    Elvira Albert;Pablo Gordillo;Benjamin Livshits;Albert Rubio

  • Symbolic finite state transducers: algorithms and applications

    Margus Veanes;Pieter Hooimeijer;Benjamin Livshits;David Molnar

  • Verified Security for Browser Extensions

    Arjun Guha;Matthew Fredrikson;Benjamin Livshits;Nikhil Swamy

  • Combining personalization and privacy locally on devices

    Benjamin Livshits;Andrew Joseph Davidson

  • Securing web applications with static and dynamic information flow tracking

    Monica S. Lam;Michael Martin;Benjamin Livshits;John Whaley

Frequent Co-Authors

David Molnar
David Molnar Microsoft (United States)
Benjamin G. Zorn
Benjamin G. Zorn Microsoft (United States)
Emre Kiciman
Emre Kiciman Microsoft (United States)
Margus Veanes
Margus Veanes Microsoft (United States)
Madanlal Musuvathi
Madanlal Musuvathi Microsoft (United States)
Hamed Haddadi
Hamed Haddadi Imperial College London
Monica S. Lam
Monica S. Lam Stanford University
Thomas Zimmermann
Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft (United States)
Eyal Ofek
Eyal Ofek Microsoft (United States)

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