Jed Crandall's Website @ U.N.M.

Jedidiah R. Crandall
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Computer Science Department
Office Number FEC 345B.

I'm currently advising Mohammed Al-Saleh, Roya Ensafi, Jong Park, and Bilal Shebaro. I also have the pleasure of working with Matthew Barrick and Sandy Turner.

I'm currently teaching CS 341l.

I'll be teaching a 491/591 on computer security and privacy in the fall.

Past Courses: CS 591 S08, CS 341l F07.

For more information about ConceptDoppler check out http://www.conceptdoppler.org/

For information about my work on malicious code see my thesis.

I received my Ph.D. in June 2007 from the Computer Science department at U.C. Davis. My undergraduate degree is from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.

Program Committees:

30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland '09)
European Workshop on System Security 2009 (EUROSEC)

Conference Publications:

Jedidiah R. Crandall, Roya Ensafi, Stephanie Forrest, Joshua Ladau, and Bilal Shebaro. The Ecology of Malware. Accepted to the New Security Pardigms Workshop (NSPW 2008). Olympic Valley, California. September 2008. pdf
Ryan Iwahashi, Daniela Oliveira, S. Felix Wu, Jedidiah Crandall, Young-Jun Heo, Jin-Tae Oh, and Jong-Soo Jang. Toward Automatically Generating Double-Free Vulnerability Signatures Using Petri Nets. Accepted to the 11th Information Security Conference (ISC 2008). Taipei, Taiwan. September 2008.
Daniela A.S. de Oliveira, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary Wassermann, Shaozhi Ye, Felix Wu, Zhendong Su, and Frederic T. Chong. Bezoar: Automated Virtual Machine-based Full-System Recovery from Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks. Accepted to the 2008 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008). Salvador-Bahia, Brazil. April 2008. link
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Michael Byrd, Earl Barr, and Rich East. ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship. In the Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007). Alexandria, Virginia. October 2007. pdf
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary Wassermann, Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Zhendong Su, S. Felix Wu, and Frederic T. Chong. Temporal Search: Detecting Hidden Malware Timebombs with Virtual Machines. In the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS XII). San Jose, CA. October 2006. pdf
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Zhendong Su, S. Felix Wu, and Frederic T. Chong. On Deriving Unknown Vulnerabilities from Zero-Day Polymorphic and Metamorphic Worm Exploits. In the proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2005). Alexandria, Virginia. November 2005. pdf
Jedidiah R. Crandall, S. Felix Wu, and Frederic T. Chong. Experiences Using Minos as A Tool for Capturing and Analyzing Novel Worms for Unknown Vulnerabilities. GI/IEEE SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2005). Vienna, Austria. July 2005. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pdf, slides
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Frederic T. Chong. Minos: Control Data Attack Prevention Orthogonal to Memory Model. In the Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37). Portland, Oregon. December 2004. pdf
John Oliver, Ravishankar Rao, Paul Sultana, Jedidiah Crandall, Erik Czernikowski, Leslie Jones IV, Diana Franklin, Venkatesh Akella, and Frederic T. Chong. Synchroscalar: A Multiple Clock Domain, Power-Aware, Tile-Based Embedded Processor. In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2004). Munich, Germany. June 2004. link

Journal Publications:

Jedidiah R. Crandall, Frederic T. Chong, and S. Felix Wu. Minos: Architectural Support for Protecting Control Data. Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO). Volume 3, Issue 4 (December 2006). pdf

Workshops:

Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary M. Wassermann, S. Felix Wu, Zhendong Su, and Frederic T. Chong. ExecRecorder: VM-Based Full-System Replay for Attack Analysis and System Recovery. Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability (ASID). San Jose, California. October 2006. link
Jedidiah R. Crandall and Frederic T. Chong. A Security Assessment of the Minos Architecture. Workshop on Architectural Support for Security and Anti-virus (WASSA). Boston, Massachusetts. October 2004. pdf
Ravishankar Rao, John Oliver, Paul Sultana, Jedidiah Crandall, Erik Czernikowski, Leslie W. Jones IV, Dean Copsey, Diana Keen, Venkatesh Akella, and Frederic T. Chong. Synchroscalar: Initial Lessons in Power-Aware Design of a Tile-Based Embedded Architecture. Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS) in conjunction with MICRO-36. San Diego, California. December 2003. link

Talks:

Jedidiah R. Crandall. Minos: A Tool for Capturing and Analyzing Novel Worms for Unknown Vulnerabilities. Invited talk at the 2nd Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM). Fairfax, Virginia. October 2004. slides

Jedidiah R. Crandall. Temporal Search: Detecting Hidden Malware Timebombs with Virtual Machines. Talk given at the ARO-DARPA-DHS Special Workshop on Botnets. Alexandria, Virginia. June 2006. slides

Jedidiah R. Crandall. ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship. Talk given at the UNM CS dept. colloquim, Sandia National Labs CSRI colloquim, and U.C. Davis.

For worm and virus research the details are very important and very difficult to get right so I've compiled an errata list for the above papers so as not to add to the misinformation that's out there.

Latest source code from the DACODA repository
Older version of DACODA source code, but contains dacodanotes.txt that might be helpful.

Here are instructions for being able to compile Chinese text with pdflatex.

Here's some pictures of my niece.