Research Interests

My main research interests are in software engineering and human-computer interaction, but I have broad interests in computing and how it affects humans.

I have worked in the areas of computer virus analysis and defense, clone detection, reverse engineering tools, design, adoption-centric software engineering, usability, cognitive support, software visualization, program comprehension, program translation, formal methods and environments, proof environments, and software copyrights.

I also have keen interests in interdisciplinary work, privacy, intellectual property, legal aspects of computing, and open source software.

Current Resarch

My main research is on methods and models for comparing and analyzing malicious software such as viruses, worms, and Trojans. My focus there is on program analysis techniques and malware comprehension environments.

A significant chunk of my attention is devoted to the Vilo project, which seeks to generate methods for matching malicious programs such as viruses and worms. We have a lot of other stuff going on in the lab, though, including transformations for undoing metamorphism, obfuscation and deobfuscation, malware design spaces, and unpacking.

You can read about several of our projects here.

Student Supervision

• Mohamed Chouchane
• Matt Hayes
• Christopher Thompson

Recent Activities

Workshop/Working Session Chair

• Dagstuhl Seminar on Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software (DRASIS)
• 2nd International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones
• Towards a Clone Detection Benchmark Suite and Results Archive

PC Member

• Seventh IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2007)
• 2nd International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research (WISER 2006)
• International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2004)

Contact Information

Andrew Walenstein
Center for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70502