Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
TU Darmstadt
Hochschulstrasse 10, Robert-Piloty-Gebäude (S2|02), room D216
64289 Darmstadt
E-mail: cris.staicu@gmail.com
Telephone number: +49-6151-1622391
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About me
I am a Ph.D. student at TU Darmstadt, advised by Prof. Dr. Michael Pradel. My current research interest is on applying programming language techniques to security problems. In particular, I am working on finding and preventing vulnerabilities specific to server-side JavaScript programs and libraries.
Education
- October 2014 - Present Ph.D. Student at TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 2014 Masters in Security and Privacy, EIT Digital Master School
double degree: University of Trento, Italy and University of Twente, Netherlands - 2011 Bachelor in Automation and Computer Science, Universitatea Politehnica din Timișoara, Romania
Research Work
- ICSE 2020 (to appear)
Extracting Taint Specifications for JavaScript Libraries
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Martin Toldam Torp, Max Schäfer, Anders Møller, Michael Pradel
(paper, poster) - USENIX Security 2019
Leaky Images: Targeted Privacy Attacks in the Web
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel
(paper) - USENIX Security 2019
Small World with High Risks: A Study of Security Threats in the npm Ecosystem
Markus Zimmermann, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Cam Tenny, Michael Pradel
(paper, reviewed by The Morning Paper) - The Web Conference 2019
Anything to Hide? Studying Minified and Obfuscated Code in the Web
Philippe Skolka, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel
(paper, presentation, dataset) - PLAS@CCS 2019
An Empirical Study of Information Flows in Real-World JavaScript
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Daniel Schoepe, Musard Balliu, Michael Pradel, Andrei Sabelfeld
(paper, presentation) - USENIX Security 2018
Freezing the Web: A Study of ReDoS Vulnerabilities in JavaScript-based Web Servers
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel
(paper, presentation, video, reviewed by Bleeping Computer, Naked Security and TU Darmstadt website) - NDSS 2018
Synode: Understanding and Automatically Preventing Injection Attacks on Node.js
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits
(paper, presentation, video, reviewed by The Morning Paper) - ASE 2017
Saying ‘Hi!’ Is Not Enough: Mining Inputs for Effective Test Generation
Luca Della Toffola, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel
(paper) - CSUR 2017
A Survey of Dynamic Analysis and Test Generation for JavaScript
Esben Andreasen, Liang Gong, Anders Møller, Michael Pradel, Marija Selakovic, Koushik Sen, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
(paper) - SSBSE 2016
Search Based Clustering for Protecting Software with Diversified Updates
Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Falcarin, Alessandro Cabutto, Yosief Weldezghi Frezghi, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
(paper) - ICSE 2016
Nomen Est Omen: Exploring and Exploiting Similarities between Argument and Parameter Names
Hui Liu, Qiurong Liu, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Yue Luo.
(paper, presentation) - PLDI Student Research Competition 2015
An Empirical Study of Implicit Information Flow
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
(poster, presentation) - Master Thesis (2014)
Evaluation of HIMMO with Long Identifiers, an Extension of the HIMMO Key Establishment Scheme
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
Work done during an internship at Philips Research Eindhoven, supervised by Oscar García Morchon and Andreas Peter.
(thesis, presentation) - Bachelor Thesis (2007)
SherlockJ - Unealta de Depanarea Statistic a Programelor Java (in Romanian)
supervised by Prof. Marius Minea
(thesis, presentation)
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