Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey is researching a computer security technique called "Code Striping" at the Griffiss Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., this summer.
Bailey, who won a research associateship from the National Research Council to support his work, will explore how systems can be developed that prevent malicious programs from damaging systems. Bailey's work will explore ways that distributed computer systems can be insulated against programs written to damage the machines that they run on, like viruses
The National Research Council Associateship is awarded to "postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability" to infuse national laboratories with "bright, highly motivated, recent doctoral graduates and senior investigators with established records of research productivity."
The highly competitive Associateship award is designed to "afford an opportunity for research without the interruptions and distracting assignments of permanent career positions." Bailey will spend the summer investigating code stripping with permanent researchers at the former air force base in Rome, N.Y.
Bailey, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, recently received a National Science Foundation Grant to collaborate with colleagues at Florida State University to research language optimization. In June 2002 Bailey traveled to Berlin, Germany, to present a paper at the Joint Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for the Embedded Systems / Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems 2002. Bailey's previous research work is widely published in several conferences, including: the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, the ACM Conference on Language and Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems, and the European Conference on Parallel Computing.
