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2024

Welcome back Prof. Sang-Hoon Kim!

Prof. Sang-Hoon Kim from Ajou University, Korea visits SSRG for AY'24-25. Welcome back Sang-Hoon!

Congratulations Dr. Jang!

Our PhD student Jae-Won Jang who worked on the LLRM project has successfully defended his dissertation. Jae-Won has joined Northrop Grumman. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. Jang!

Welcome back Prof. Zhoulai Fu!

Prof. Zhoulai Fu from SUNY Korea visits SSRG for Summer'24. Welcome back Prof. Fu!

Welcome aboard Dr. Ruotong Yu!

Dr. Ruotong Yu has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard Ruotong!

Welcome back Prof. Ruslan Nikolaev!

Prof. Ruslan Nikolaev, our former Research Assistant Professor and now Assistant Professor at PennState visits SSRG for Summer'24. Welcome back Prof. Nikolaev!

Congratulations Robbie!

Our MS student, Robbie Platt, who worked on the LLRM project, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Anduril Industries. Best wishes Robbie!

Congratulations Aditya!

Our MS student, Aditya Gawali, who worked on the LLRM project, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Qualcomm. Best wishes Aditya!

Welcome aboard Basavesh!

Basavesh Shivakumar has joined SSRG as a research associate. Welcome aboard Basavesh!

Welcome aboard Dr. Swarn Priya!

Dr. Swarn Priya has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard Swarn!

2023


Best wishes Abilesh!

Our MS student, Abilesh Sundarasamy, a Popcorn Linux hacker, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined NVIDIA. Congratulations Abilesh!

Best wishes Sagar!

Our MEng student, Sagar Atla who worked on the LLRM project, has completed his MEng project and has joined MathWorks. Congratulations Sagar!

Best wishes Prof. An!

Our 2022 PhD graduate, Xiaoxin (Cindy) An has joined Shenzhen Technology University, China as an Assistant Professor. Best wishes Prof. An!

Welcome aboard Dr. Jonas Haglund!

Dr. Jonas Haglund has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard Jonas!

Welcome aboard Dr. Ali Shokri!

Dr. Ali Shokri has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard Ali!

Best wishes Prof. Wang!

Our Research Assistant Professor, Xiaoguang Wang has joined University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor. Best wishes Prof. Wang!

Best wishes Prof. Nico!

Our postdoctoral scholar, Nico Naus has joined The Open University, the Netherlands as an Assistant Professor. Best wishes Prof. Nico!

Welcome aboard Prof. Zhoulai Fu!

Prof. Zhoulai Fu from SUNY Korea visits SSRG for Summer'23. Welcome aboard Prof. Fu!

Congratulations Hemanth!

Our MS student, Hemanth Ramesh, a Popcorn Linux hacker, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Synopsys. Best wishes Hemanth!

Congratulations Mohamed!

Our MS student, Mohamed Husain, a Popcorn Linux hacker, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Apple. Best wishes Mohamed!

Welcome aboard Dr. Khushboo Rani!

Dr. Khushboo Rani has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard Khushboo!

Congratulations Sandeep!

Our MS student, Sandeep Errabelly, a Popcorn Linux hacker, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Apple. Best wishes Sandeep!

Congratulations Dr. Sung and Dr. Mehrab!

Our PhD students Mincheol Sung and Fazla Mehrab who worked on the LibrettOS project have successfully defended their dissertations. Mincheol has joined VMware and Mehrab has joined ByteDance. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. Sung and Dr. Mehrab!

Congratulations Dr. Bockenek!

Our PhD student Joshua Bockenek who worked on the LLRM project has successfully defended his dissertation. Josh has joined the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. Bockenek!

Welcome aboard Dr. David Narvaez!

Dr. David Narvaez has joined SSRG as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome aboard David!

2022


Congratulations Abhishek!

Our MS student, Abhishek Bapat, a Popcorn Linux hacker, has successfully defended his thesis and has joined Zoox. Best wishes Abhishek!

Our newly minted PhDs!

Our PhD students Xiaoxin (Cindy) An who worked on the LLRM project, and Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang, a Popcorn Linux hacker, have successfully defended their dissertations. Jack has joined ByteDance in Mountain View, CA. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. An and Dr. Chuang!

Congratulations graduates!

Our Master's students and Popcorn Linux hackers Balvansh Heerekar, Ashwin Krishnakumar, and Naarayanan VSathish have successfully defended their MS theses and project. Balvansh has joined Splunk, Ashwin has joined Apple, and Naarayanan has joined Qualcomm. Best wishes graduates!

2021


Congratulations Dr. Nikolaev!

Our Research Assistant Professor, Dr. Ruslan Nikolaev has joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations and best wishes Prof. Nikolaev!

Welcome aboard Drs. Ashouri and Naus!

Dr. Mohammadreza Ashouri and Dr. Nico Naus have joined SSRG as postdoctoral scholars. Welcome aboard postdocs!

Congratulations PhD Prelim-ers!

Our PhD students Mincheol Sung, Jae-Won Jang, and Md Syadus Sefat have successfully defended their dissertation proposals. Congratulations ABD-ers!

Congratulations graduates!

Our MS students Chris Blackburn and Abhijit Mahurkar have successfully defended their theses. Chris has joined Lockheed Martin and Abhijit has joined Analog Devices. Best wishes graduates!

Our newly minted PhD!

Our PhD student Balaji Arun has successfully defended his thesis. Balaji has joined LinkedIn in Mountain View, CA. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. Arun!

2020


LLRM project's decompilation paper receives Best Paper award!

LLRM project's C code decompilation paper received the Best Paper award at the SEFM 2020 conference. Congratulations LLRMers!

Congratulations PhD Proposers!

Our PhD students Xiaoxin An, Ho-Ren Chuang, and Fazla Mehrab have successfully defended their PhD proposals. Congratulations!

Congratulations graduates!

Our MS students Abhijith Bharadwaj, Hassan Nadeem, and SengMing Yeoh have successfully defended their MS theses. Abhijith has joined Intel India, Hassan has joined Bloomberg, and SengMing has joined Amazon. Best wishes graduates!

LLRM project's FMUC paper has been nominated for EASST award!

LLRM project's FMUC paper has been nominated for the TACAS 2020 EASST Award for Systematic and Rigorous Engineering of Software & Systems. Congratulations LLRMers!

2019


Welcome to Prof. Horta!

Dr. Edson Horta has joined SSRG as a Research Assistant Professor. Welcome aboard Dr. Horta!

Popcorn Linux tutorial at SOSP 2019

Popcorn-ers are presenting a tutorial on the Popcorn Linux project at the 2019 ACM SOSP conference. See video teaser!

Go HermiTux-ers!

Our HermiTux paper won the best paper award at VEE 2019. Congratulations HermiTux-ers!

Our newly minted PhD!

Our PhD student Rob Lyerly has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Rob has joined Facebook in Boston, MA. Congratulations and best wishes Dr. Lyerly!

2018


Our new project: HermiTux!

SSRG's latest project, HermiTux enables native Linux executables to run as a unikernel operating system. Check out sources!

Congratulations graduates!

Our direct PhD students Mincheol Sung and Fazla Mehrab and MS student Anthony Carno have defended their MS theses. Congratulations guys! Anthony has joined Lockheed Martin in CA. Best Wishes Anthony!

Congratulations graduates!

Our MS students Daniel Chiba and Mohit Garg have defended their MS theses. Congratulations Daniel, Mohit!

Congratulations Professors Barbalace and Kim!

Former SSRGers and Popcorners, Dr. Antonio Barbalace and Dr. Sang-Hoon Kim, have respectively joined the Department of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, and the Department of Software and Computer Engineering at Ajou University, South Korea, as Assistant Professors. Congratulations Antonio and Sang-Hoon! Our best wishes.

Welcome to our new postdoc!

Dr. Xiaoguang Wang has joined the SSRG and the Popcorn Linux project as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome aboard Dr. Wang!

Congratulations Prof. Olivier!

Our postdoctoral research Dr. Pierre Olivier has been promoted to a Research Assistant Professor! Congratulations Prof. Olivier!

Lerna paper wins best paper award!

Our HydraVM project's Lerna paper won the best paper award at the 2018 ACM Systor conference. Congratulations folks!

We are recruiting!

See our recruitment advertisements for various research positions here.

2017


Josh defends M.S. thesis

Our direct-Ph.D. student, Joshua Bockenek, successfully defended his M.S. thesis on December 8th, 2017. Congratulations Josh!

Welcome to Dr. Tuong!

Dr. Frederic Tuong has joined the SSRG as a postdoc. Welcome aboard Dr. Tuong!