Stephen Chong

Research Interests

My research aims to help programmers write trustworthy programs. My primary area of interest is language-based security: using programming language techniques to provide information security assurance.

Recent publications

• Self-Identifying Sensor Data, IPSN 2010.
• Provenance: A Future History, OOPSLA Onward! 2009.
• Deriving Epistemic Conclusions from Agent Architecture, TARK 2009.
• Towards Semantics for Provenance Security, TaPP 2009.
• More...

Information for prospective students

I am looking for talented and motivated students to work with, both undergraduate and graduate. More information can be found here.

Teaching

In Spring 2010 I am teaching CS152: Programming Languages. This course is an introduction to the formal semantics of programming languages. See the course website for more details.

Previous courses: Fall 2009, CS252r: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages.

Affiliations

• Center for Research on Computation and Society
• Non-resident tutor of Adams House
• Programming Languages at Harvard
• Systems Research at Harvard (SYRAH)

Current activities

• Co-chair (with Ben Livshits) of APLWACA 2010.
• Program committee Bytecode 2010.
• Program committee WebApps '10.
• Program committee CSF 2010.
• Program committee FCS-PrivMod 2010.
• Program committee CCS 2010.

Past activities

• Co-chair (with David Naumann) of PLAS 2009.
• Program committees: ASIAN 2009, HotSec '09, FCS09, CSF 2008, PLAS 2007.

Brief bio

I completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in August 2008, under the guidance of Andrew Myers. Prior to graduate school, I spent several years working as a consultant and contractor. I received a B.Sc.(Hons) and B.A. from Victoria University of Wellington, in Wellington, New Zealand.