Maverick Woo
Project Scientist, CyLab
Maverick Woo is a systems scientist at the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 2009 and joined CyLab in 2011. Woo’s current research interests include software security and program analysis, with a focus on algorithm design and budget optimization.
Education
2009 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2000 BA, Engineering, Cornell University
Affiliations
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Three-peat for CMU hacking team at MITRE cybersecurity tournament
The winning streak continues for Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), who claimed first prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) competition for the third consecutive year.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CMU hacking team defends title at MITRE cybersecurity competition
For the second year in a row, Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, has taken home the top prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture-the-Flag (eCTF) cybersecurity competition.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CMU hacking team wins MITRE cybersecurity competition
Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team beat 31 other schools from around the world in designing a secure electronic device for aircrafts and attacking other teams’ designs.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Second round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its second round of funding, which will support ten IoT-related projects for one year.
CyLab
Gligor and Woo receive distinguished paper award at NDSS Symposium 2019
CyLab’s Virgil Gligor and Maverick Woo received the distinguished paper award at the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium in San Diego, California.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab’s Gligor and Woo receive Distinguished Paper Award for breakthrough result on establishing “root of trust”
In a breakthrough study, “Establishing Root of Trust Unconditionally,” CyLab researchers Virgil Gligor and Maverick Woo present a test that can be run on any computing device to show whether the device has been infected with malware or not.