A Bit about Me David Lie

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.  I am also part of the Computer Systems Lab at Toronto. Before that, I toiled as a student in Engineering Science until I graduated and went to sunny California to enjoy life as a graduate student in the Computer Systems Lab at Stanford University.  While there, I worked mainly on the XOM Secure Computing Architecture and The FLASH Shared Memory Multiprocessor projects.

Research

As we grow to rely more and more on computers, the security and trustworthiness of those systems becomes a bigger and bigger concern.  My research interests centre around hardware and software support for computer security and reliable computer systems.  Areas I specialize in include: securing modern commodity systems, real-time and compile-time detection of vulnerabilities, designing new secure architectures and hardware support for security.  I approach security from the areas of operating systems, distributed systems, and computer architecture.  For more details, please visit my research page.

Teaching

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Students

I am looking for motivated students with good software/hardware implementation skills and experience.  Students should have interests in computer security, computer architecture or operating systems.  If you are an admitted ECE or CS graduate student, please e-mail me for a meeting.  If you are interested in applying for graduate studies, please go here.  Before contacting me, please take a look at my current research projects.

You can also find information on my current students.

Professional Activities

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This page was last updated on 10/8/2007.