Jedidiah R. Crandall
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Computer Science Department
Office Number FEC 335. Office Hours: Mon 3-5pm and Thu 9-10am, or by appointment.

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 and Journal Publications:

• Jedidiah R. Crandall, John Brevik, Shaozhi Ye, Gary Wassermann, Daniela A.S. de Oliveira, Zhendong Su, S. Felix Wu, and Frederic T. Chong. Putting Trojans on the Horns of a Dilemma: Redundancy for Information Theft Detection. Accepted to the Special Issue on Security in Computing of the Transactions on Computational Sciences Journal (Springer LNCS). pdf

• Jedidiah R. Crandall, Roya Ensafi, Stephanie Forrest, Joshua Ladau, and Bilal Shebaro. The Ecology of Malware. In the Proceedings of 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. In the Proceedings of 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. In the Proceedings of 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, 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

• 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

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.