Publications


[pdf] Byron Hawkins, Brian Demsky, Derek Bruening, and Qin Zhao. Optimizing Binary Translation for Dynamically Generated Code.
2015 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-15), February 2015, San Francisco, CA.
 
[pdf] Hyoun Kyu Cho, Tipp Moseley, Richard Hank, Derek Bruening, and Scott Mahlke. Instant Profiling: Instrumentation Sampling for Profiling Datacenter Applications.
2013 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-13), February 2013, Shenzhen, China.
 
[pdf] Konstantin Serebryany, Derek Bruening, Alexander Potapenko, and Dmitry Vyukov.
AddressSanitizer: A Fast Address Sanity Checker.
2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC-12), June 2012, Boston, MA.
 
[pdf] Derek Bruening, Qin Zhao, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Transparent Dynamic Instrumentation.
International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE-12), March 2012, London, UK.
 
[pdf] Derek Bruening and Qin Zhao.
Practical Memory Checking with Dr. Memory.
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-11), April 2011, Chamonix, France.
 
[pdf] Qin Zhao, David Koh, Syed Raza, Derek Bruening, Saman Amarasinghe, and Weng-Fai Wong.
Dynamic Cache Contention Detection in Multi-threaded Applications.
International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE-11), March 2011, Newport Beach, CA.
 
[pdf] Qin Zhao, Derek Bruening, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Efficient Memory Shadowing for 64-bit Architectures.
International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM-10), June 2010, Toronto, CA.
 
[pdf] Qin Zhao, Derek Bruening, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Umbra: Efficient and Scalable Memory Shadowing.
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-10), April 2010, Toronto, CA.
 
[pdf] Derek Bruening and Vladimir Kiriansky.
Process-Shared and Persistent Code Caches.
International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE-08), March 2008, Seattle, WA.
 
[pdf] Derek Bruening, Vladimir Kiriansky, Timothy Garnett, and Sanjeev Banerji.
Thread-Shared Software Code Caches.
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-06), March 2006, New York City, New York.
 
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[ps.gz]		 Derek Bruening and Saman Amarasinghe.
Maintaining Consistency and Bounding Capacity of Software Code Caches.
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-05), March 2005, San Jose, California.
 
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[defense]		 Derek Bruening.
Efficient, Transparent, and Comprehensive Runtime Code Manipulation.
Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, September 2004.
 
[pdf] Gregory Sullivan, Derek Bruening, Iris Baron, Timothy Garnett, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Dynamic Native Optimization of Interpreters.
ACM Workshop on Interpreters, Virtual Machines and Emulators (IVME-03), June 2003, San Diego, California.
 
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[ps.gz] 		Derek Bruening, Timothy Garnett, and Saman Amarasinghe.
An Infrastructure for Adaptive Dynamic Optimization.
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-03), March 2003, San Francisco, California.
Won the Best Presentation award.
 
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[ps.gz]		 Vladimir Kiriansky, Derek Bruening, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Secure Execution Via Program Shepherding.
11th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2002, San Francisco, California.
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[ps.gz]		 An earlier version was published as:
MIT/LCS Technical Memo, LCS-TM-625, February 2002.
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[ps.gz] 		An expanded version was published as:
Execution Model Enforcement Via Program Shepherding
MIT/LCS Technical Memo, LCS-TM-638, May 2003.
 
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[ps.gz] 		Derek Bruening, Evelyn Duesterwald, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Design and Implementation of a Dynamic Optimization Framework for Windows.
4th ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO-4), December 2001, Austin, Texas.
 
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[ps.gz]		 Derek Bruening, Srikrishna Devabhaktuni, and Saman Amarasinghe.
Softspec: Software-based Speculative Parallelism.
3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO-3), December 2000, Monterey, California.
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[ps.gz] 		An earlier version was published as:
MIT/LCS Technical Memo, LCS-TM-606, April 2000.
 
[ps.gz] Derek Bruening and Evelyn Duesterwald.
Exploring Optimal Compilation Unit Shapes for an Embedded Just-In-Time Compiler.
3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO-3), December 2000, Monterey, California.
 
[ps.gz] Derek Bruening and John Chapin.
Systematic Testing of Multithreaded Programs.
MIT/LCS Technical Memo, LCS-TM-607, April 2000.
 
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[ps.gz]		 Derek Bruening.
Systematic Testing of Multithreaded Java Programs.
Master's Thesis, MIT, May 1999. Won the Charles & Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award.
 
  S. T. Tuohy, D. Bruening, and N. M. Patrikalakis.
Visualization for AUV Non-Traditional Navigation Algorithm Development.
Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, June 1996, pp 380-390.
 

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