I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Computer Security Lab at UC Davis working under Hao Chen. My current research interests include privacy preserving technologies, information flow security, and practical security improvements to existing technologies. In particular, I am currently working on new mechanisms for deniable communication and attempting to make vulnerable existing technologies more resistant to attack. Previously, I participated in work on evading network-based signature generation systems for polymorphic worms -- a line of work that I began during a brief stint in the the Computer Security Group at UC Santa Barbara under Giovanni Vigna. For more information on my research, please see my publication list.
Publications
Multi-party Off-the-Record Messaging. Ian Goldberg, Berkant Ustaoglu, Matthew Van Gundy, and Hao Chen. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, November 2009.
[paper] [slides] [BibTeX] [Errata]Noncespaces: Using Randomization to Enforce Information Flow Tracking and Thwart Cross-Site Scripting Attacks. Matthew Van Gundy and Hao Chen. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2009.
[paper] [slides] [BibTeX]Feature Omission Vulnerabilities: Thwarting Signature Generation for Polymorphic Worms. Matthew Van Gundy, Hao Chen, Zhendong Su, and Giovanni Vigna. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Miami, FL, December 2007.
[paper] [BibTeX]Catch Me, If You Can: Evading Network Signatures with Web-based Polymorphic Worms. Matthew Van Gundy, Davide Balzarotti, and Giovanni Vigna. In Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), Boston, MA, August 2007.
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Teaching
- Winter 2011: ECS 60 Data Structures and Programming
Credits
Any illustrations on this site were graciously created by Jessi, my dear wife.