معرفی
Deian Stefan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research focuses on building secure systems through interdisciplinary approaches spanning security, programming languages, and systems. Key areas include WebAssembly security, JavaScript JITs, constant-time programming, memory safety, information flow control, and program analysis tools. He co-founded Intrinsic, a web-security startup later acquired by VMWare, and contributed to standards like W3C WebAppSec and Node.js Security Working Groups.
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (2015), advised by David Mazières, John C. Mitchell, and Alejandro Russo
- BE and ME in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union (2011)
Research Trends: His work targets secure systems (Web frameworks, sandboxing, runtime systems), language-based security (constant-time programming, memory safety), and verification for security. Recent publications focus on mitigating speculative execution attacks, hardware-assisted sandboxing, and WebAssembly security.
Awards & Recognition:
- Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2021 and IEEE MICRO Top Picks 2024
- Best Paper Award at CollaborateCom 2010
- 2010.01 Prize by Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB)
- Most Influential Paper Award at ICFP 2022
Teaching: He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses including Graduate Computer Security (CSE 227), Building Secure Systems with Rust, and Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms at UCSD since 2018. Prior teaching experience includes Stanford and Cooper Union.
