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D-Index
44
Citations
14379
World Ranking
7391
National Ranking
3222

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David Brumley is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications

Brumley's publications have appeared in peer-reviewed venues, primarily in the journal Chemical Reviews. One of their recent papers is titled Nonenzymatic Reactions in Natural Product Formation, published in 2022 in Chemical Reviews. This publication has received 30 citations.

The research involves collaborations with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Leah M. Bouthillette
  • Victor Aniebok
  • Dominic A. Colosimo
  • John B. MacMillan

Within their subfields of study, Brumley has worked on Biotechnology and Pharmacology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to biological and medical sciences.

They were recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013, an acknowledgment within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Remote timing attacks are practical

    David Brumley;Dan Boneh

  • BitBlaze: A New Approach to Computer Security via Binary Analysis

    Dawn Song;David Brumley;Heng Yin;Juan Caballero

  • All You Ever Wanted to Know about Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but Might Have Been Afraid to Ask)

    Edward J. Schwartz;Thanassis Avgerinos;David Brumley

  • Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code

    Sang Kil Cha;T. Avgerinos;A. Rebert;D. Brumley

  • BAP: a binary analysis platform

    David Brumley;Ivan Jager;Thanassis Avgerinos;Edward J. Schwartz

  • An empirical study of cryptographic misuse in android applications

    Manuel Egele;David Brumley;Yanick Fratantonio;Christopher Kruegel

  • Automatic exploit generation

    Thanassis Avgerinos;Sang Kil Cha;Alexandre Rebert;Edward J. Schwartz

  • Towards Automated Dynamic Analysis for Linux-based Embedded Firmware

    Daming D. Chen;Manuel Egele;Maverick Woo;David Brumley

  • Towards automatic generation of vulnerability-based signatures

    D. Brumley;J. Newsome;D. Song;Hao Wang

  • BitShred: feature hashing malware for scalable triage and semantic analysis

    Jiyong Jang;David Brumley;Shobha Venkataraman

  • Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications

    D. Brumley;P. Poosankam;D. Song;Jiang Zheng

  • Enhancing symbolic execution with veritesting

    Thanassis Avgerinos;Alexandre Rebert;Sang Kil Cha;David Brumley

  • Automatically Identifying Trigger-based Behavior in Malware

    David Brumley;Cody Hartwig;Zhenkai Liang;James Newsome

  • Q: exploit hardening made easy

    Edward J. Schwartz;Thanassis Avgerinos;David Brumley

  • Program-Adaptive Mutational Fuzzing

    Sang Kil Cha;Maverick Woo;David Brumley

  • Privtrans: automatically partitioning programs for privilege separation

    David Brumley;Dawn Song

  • ReDeBug: Finding Unpatched Code Clones in Entire OS Distributions

    Jiyong Jang;A. Agrawal;D. Brumley

  • AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation

    Thanassis Avgerinos;Sang Kil Cha;Brent Lim Tze Hao;David Brumley

  • Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software

    Constantine Sapuntzakis;David Brumley;Ramesh Chandra;Nickolai Zeldovich

  • Graphical user interface for a display screen

    Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas;Christian Colando;Sears Young;Lisa Osse

  • Virtual Appliance Management

    Monica Sin-Ling Lam;Constantine Paul Sapuntzakis;Ramesh U. V. Chandra;Nickolai Borisovich Zeldovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Dawn Song
Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley
Zhenkai Liang
Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore
Heng Yin
Heng Yin University of California, Riverside
Somesh Jha
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monica S. Lam
Monica S. Lam Stanford University
Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University
Manuel Egele
Manuel Egele Boston University
Christopher Kruegel
Christopher Kruegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh Stanford University

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