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UVA UVA's Cyber Defense Team is No. 2 In the Country
05-MAY-2025
The University of Virginia’s undergraduate cyber defense team earned an impressive second-place finish at the 2025 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, marking its best national performance in five years. Here is a picture of the team:
Standing: Nicholas Winschel, Jonathan Cooper, Charlotte Miller, Kyle McDonald, Shreyas Mayya, Austin Song, Austin Tran, Nikhil Boyalla, Benjamin Wolcott. Seated: James Greene, Iuri Vintonyak. Not pictured: Rushil Umaretiya.
See this UVA Engineering School story.
UVA Computer Network Security Club wins 2025 MACCDC
23-MAR-2025
The UVA Computer Network Security team took first place in the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC). This win advances the team to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competiton (NCCDC). This win is the third year in a row that the team has advanced to the NCCDC.Here is a picture of the team:
The team members are (from left to right): Austin Song, Austin Tran, Nikhil Boyalla, Charlotte Miller, Nicholas Winschel, Shreyas Mayya, Benjamin Wolcott, Jonathan Cooper, and Emil Baggs (Coach).
UVA-Led Cybersecurity Internship Program Wins National Innovation Award for Election Work
29-APR-2025
The Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP) led by the University of Virginia and developed in collaboration with other Virginia universities, the Virginia Department of Elections and the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative was awarded the Election Verification Netwrok (EVN) 2025 Innovation Award. The EVN award recognizes path breaking product development that greatly facilitates robust election verification and auditng.See this UVA Engineering School story.
Test Resource Management Center Contract
01-JAN-2025
We received funding to integrate our closed-source fuzzing technologies into the Test Resource Management Center's Vader Modular Fuzzer. In addition, we will be working on new approaches for harnessing and crash triage. More details can be found here.National Science Foundation Grant to Secure Scientific Software
01-OCT-2024
Very excited to start work on a new project with Professor Stefan Nagy at the University of Utah. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks to develop high-performance, systematic fuzzing techniques that can be applied to the scientific software ecosystem. More details can be found here.Outstanding Contribution to ACM
15-MAY-2024
I was honored to receive the 2023 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award. The ACM announcement is here.Blast from the Past
22-NOV-2018 14:00
I was doing some cleaning over the Thanksgiving break and I ran across these postcards from the advertising campaign for the C++ book Jim Cohoon and I wrote. The cards can be found here.Cyber Innovation & Society
16-MAY-2018 11:43:00
The kickoff meeting of the Cyber Innovation and Society was a big success. There were 37 people from across grounds who met and brainstormed about the next steps of CISI. The meeting began with opening remarks by the Vice President for Research, Melur K. "Ram" Ramasubramanian. Many great ideas came out of the meeting, and we are moving ahead. For more details, see CISI web page.DARPA CHASE
08-MAY-2018 11:43:00
A contract under the DARPA CHASE (Cyber Hunting at Scale) program was awarded on 08-May-2018. This $7.5M effort seeks to develop techniques to detect advanced threats, including DDoS, Ransomware, and Advanced Persistent Threats. The PIs are Malathi Veerraghavan, Jack Davidson, and Don Brown. The project is a collaborative effort with Virginia Tech, Northeastern University, and Commonwealth Computer Research. A project website is coming soon.Cyber Innovation & Society
05-JAN-2018 11:43:00
The Vice President for Research has selected the proposal "Cyber Innovation & Society" for funding under the University's Explore-to-Build program. For more information, see the CISI web page.HiPEAC 2018
23-JAN-2017 12:06:19
Jack Davidson will serve as program chair of HiPEAC 2018 to be held in Manchester, UK.Keynote at China National Computer Conference
16-NOV-2016 12:25:54
Jack Davidson gave a keynote at the China National Computer Conference in Taiyuan, China.Keynote at NASA Langley Research Center
04-OCT-2016 09:37:22
Jack Davidson gave a keynote, "A League of Extraordinary Machines: The First Steps to Autonomous Cyber Reasoning Systems"' at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. A follow-on interview is here.Sigma Series: A Forum on Science and Technology
04-OCT-2016 09:37:22
Jack Davidson presented a Sigma Series Lecture at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, VA. The talk, "A League of Extraordinary Machines: The First Steps to Autonomous Cyber Reasoning Systems" discusses the outcome and ramifications of DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge.DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge
04-AUG-2016 12:25:54
Team TechX (University of Virginia and Grammatech, Inc.) finished in second place in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge. The team took home a $1M prize.