Vijay Ganesh

Research Scientist @ MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

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I am a research scientist at MIT working on efficient constraint solving algorithms and automated bug finding techniques. I completed my Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 2007.

Education

 

  • PhD and MS in computer science, Stanford University, CA, USA. September, 2007
  • MS in electrical engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA. September, 1998 - June, 2000
  • B-Tech in electronics & communications, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India. November, 1990 - November, 1994


Research Interests

 

  • Constraint Solvers for software reliability and security
  • Automated Bug Finding
  • Self Healing Software
  • Applications of Model Theory to Complexity Theory


Current Software Projects
    

    Constraint Solvers

 

  • STP: A Constraint Solver for Bit-vectors and Arrays
  • Hampi: A Solver for String Constraints (An extension of STP)
  • AvatarSAT: A Self-tuning SAT Solver


    Automated Bug Finding Tools

 

  • BuzzFuzz: A dynamic taint-based Directed Fuzzing Tool
  • jFuzz: A Concolic Whitebox Fuzzer for Java


Contact

 

  • Phone: 617-253-5881
  • Email: vganesh ‘at’ csail ‘dot’ mit ‘dot’ edu