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Overview

Christian Collberg is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with specific focus on subfields such as Software, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including:

  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Christian Collberg has contributed to publications in several venues, including:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Systems and Software

Notable recent papers include:

  • Control-Flow Deobfuscation using Trace-Informed Compositional Program Synthesis, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Reanalyst: Scalable Analysis of Reverse Engineering Activities, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • reAnalyst: Scalable Annotation of Reverse Engineering Activities, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • reAnalyst: Scalable annotation of reverse engineering activities, 2025, Journal of Systems and Software

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, namely:

  • Tab Zhang
  • Claire Taylor
  • Bart Coppens
  • Waleed Mebane
  • Bjorn De Sutter

Best Publications

  • A Taxonomy of Obfuscating Transformations

    Christian Collberg;C. Thomborson;Douglas Low

  • Watermarking, tamper-proofing, and obfuscation - tools for software protection

    C.S. Collberg;C. Thomborson

  • Manufacturing cheap, resilient, and stealthy opaque constructs

    Christian Collberg;Clark Thomborson;Douglas Low

  • Software watermarking: models and dynamic embeddings

    Christian Collberg;Clark Thomborson

  • Obfuscation techniques for enhancing software security

    Christian Sven Collberg;Clark David Thomborson;Douglas Wai Kok Low

  • A system for graph-based visualization of the evolution of software

    Christian Collberg;Stephen Kobourov;Jasvir Nagra;Jacob Pitts

  • Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection

    Christian Collberg;Jasvir Nagra

  • K-gram based software birthmarks

    Ginger Myles;Christian Collberg

  • Repeatability in computer systems research

    Christian Collberg;Todd A. Proebsting

  • Breaking abstractions and unstructuring data structures

    C. Collberg;C. Thomborson;D. Low

  • Dynamic path-based software watermarking

    C. Collberg;E. Carter;S. Debray;A. Huntwork

  • Detecting Software Theft via Whole Program Path Birthmarks

    Ginger Myles;Christian S. Collberg

  • Sandmark-A tool for software protection research

    C. Collberg;G.R. Myles;A. Huntwork

  • Code obfuscation against symbolic execution attacks

    Sebastian Banescu;Christian Collberg;Vijay Ganesh;Zack Newsham

  • Tamper detection in audit logs

    Richard T. Snodgrass;Shilong Stanley Yao;Christian Collberg

  • Software watermarking via opaque predicates: Implementation, analysis, and attacks

    Ginger Myles;Christian Collberg

  • Self-plagiarism in computer science

    Christian Collberg;Stephen Kobourov

  • Distributed application tamper detection via continuous software updates

    Christian Collberg;Sam Martin;Jonathan Myers;Jasvir Nagra

  • On the Limits of Software Watermarking

    Christian Collberg;C. Thomborson

  • Software Watermarking Through Register Allocation: Implementation, Analysis, and Attacks

    Ginger Myles;Christian S. Collberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Kobourov
Stephen G. Kobourov University of Arizona
Saumya K. Debray
Saumya K. Debray University of Arizona
Amir Herzberg
Amir Herzberg University of Connecticut
Paolo Tonella
Paolo Tonella Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Pretschner
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich
Scott E. Baker
Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jianmin Wang
Jianmin Wang Tsinghua University
Richard T. Snodgrass
Richard T. Snodgrass University of Arizona
Bjorn De Sutter
Bjorn De Sutter Ghent University

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