Ryan Williams

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Northeastern University, Boston, MA	(expected) Winter 2025
PhD Computer Science
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	Dec. 2014
MS Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA	Jun. 2012
BS Mathematics
BA Design & Media Arts

Ryan Williams, Anthony Gavazzi, Engin Kirda (2024). Enhancing Network Security through Vulnerability Monitoring. NSS 2024.

Zachary Ratliff, Wittmann Goh, Abe Wieland, James Mickens, Ryan Williams (2024). Holepunch: Fast, Secure File Deletion with Crash Consistency. IEEE S&P 2024.

Ryan Williams, Anthony Gavazzi, Engin Kirda (2023). Solder: Retrofitting Legacy Code with Cross-Language Patches. SANER 2023.

Anthony Gavazzi, Ryan Williams, Engin Kirda, Long Lu, Andre King, Andy Davis, Tim Leek (2023). A Study of Multi-Factor and Risk-Based Authentication Availability. USENIX Security 2023.

Tongwei Ren, Ryan Williams, Sirshendu Ganguly, Lorenzo De Carli, Long Lu (2022). Breaking Embedded Software Homogeneity with Protocol Mutations. LNICST 2022.

Amogh Pradeep, Hira Javaid, Ryan Williams, Antoine Rault, David Choffnes, Stevens Le Blond, Bryan Alexander Ford (2022). Moby: A blackout-resistant anonymity network for mobile devices. PETS 2022.

Mansour Ahmadi, Reza Mirzazade Farkhani, Ryan Williams, Long Lu (2021). Finding Bugs Using Your Own Code: Detecting Functionally-similar yet Inconsistent Code. USENIX Security 2021.

Elin Carstensdottir, Erica Kleinman, Ryan Williams, Magy Seif Seif El-Nasr (2021). ”Naked and on Fire”: Examining Player Agency Experiences in Narrative-Focused Gameplay. CHI 2021.

Ryan Williams, Tongwei Ren, Lorenzo De Carli, Long Lu, Gillian Smith (2021). Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware. TOSEM 2021.

Alexander Heinricher, Ryan Williams, Ava Klingbeil, Alex Jordan (2021). Weldr: fusing binaries for simplified analysis. SOAP 2021.

Senior Research Scientist, BitSight Technologies	Aug. 2023 - present
Working on the product research team primarily focused on developing new methodologies for deriving graded risk vectors. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance risk scoring algorithms.
Research Assistant, Northeastern University	Sep. 2018 - present
Worked on various projects in the cybersecurity and privacy institute, mainly focused on program analysis and transformation for security. Mentored junior researchers on program analysis-related projects.
Staff Scientist, Raytheon BBN Technologies	Jun. 2014 - Aug. 2023
Worked as a developer and technical lead on numerous DARPA and IARPA projects in the networking and cybersecurity domains. Contributed to DARPA program proposals, wrote white papers, and published technical works. Worked part-time for the artificial and machine intelligence group with an NLP focus.

Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	Spring 2021
CS3740, Systems Security
Teaching Assistant, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	Fall 2020
CS3740, Systems Security

Reviewer, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Special Issue
Organization Committee, FEAST Workshop

Languages: C/C++, Rust, Python, OCaml, Java, JavaScript, Bash
Software: Coq, Spark, Hive, OpenSearch, SQL, Git, LaTeX, Docker