Masters Thesis Defense “Extracting Information from Subroutines using Static Analysis Semantics” By Luke Burnett

Webex Link:

https://wright.webex.com/wright/j.php?MTID=m627c2917beab40ac123372a29b74cb0b

Committee:  Drs. Junjie Zhang, Advisor, Keke Chen, and Meilin Liu

ABSTRACT:

Understanding how a system component can interact with other services can take an immeasurable amount of time. Reverse engineering embedded and large systems can rely on understanding how components interact with one another. This process is time consuming and can sometimes be generalized through certain behavior. We will be explaining two such complicated systems and highlighting similarities between them. We will show that through static analysis you can capture compiler behavior and apply it to the understanding of a function, reducing the total time required to understand a component of whichever system you are learning.