Engin Kirda

Research interests

• Systems, software, and network security
• Web security
• Binary analysis
• Malware detection

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Technical University of Vienna — Austria
• MS in Computer Science, Technical University of Vienna — Austria
• BS in Computer Science, Technical University of Vienna — Austria

Biography

Engin Kirda is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Kirda’s research focuses on malware analysis and detection, web application security, and practical aspects of social networking security. He is a co-founder of Lastline, Inc., a San-Jose-based company that specializes in the detection and prevention of advanced targeted malware. Additionally, he has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scholarly publications and has served on numerous program committees for international conferences and workshops.

Before joining Northeastern, Kirda held faculty positions at Institute Eurecom in the French Riviera and at the Technical University of Vienna, where he co-founded the Secure Systems Lab that is now distributed over five institutions in Europe and the United States.

Kirda served as program chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection in 2009, the European Workshop on Systems Security in 2010 and 2011, the USENIX Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats in 2012, and the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in 2015. He has also consulted the European Commission on emerging threats and gave a congressional briefing in Washington D.C. on advanced malware attacks and cyber-security.

Recent publications