DANIELA ALVIM SEABRA DE OLIVEIRA

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Computer Science Department E mail: abqofe@r.postjobfree.com

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, ME

EDUCATION

2010 Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Dissertation: Virtual Machine based Mechanisms and Tools for Cyber Attack

Prevention, Analysis and Recovery

Advisor: Prof. S. Felix Wu (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1995)

Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais,

2001

Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Thesis: Performance Analysis of a Distributed Video on Demand Service

Advisor: Prof. Berthier Ribeiro Neto (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995)

Co Advisor: Prof. Sergio Vale Aguiar Campos (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1997)

Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais,

1999

Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Bachelor in Computer Science

RESEARCH INTERESTS

System security, especially prevention and recovery from malicious activities at the OS and architecture (virtual

machine) levels.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

07/2010 present Bowdoin College

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

03/2001 08/2004 Synergia Department of Computer Science Federal University of Minas Gerais

Quality Assurance Manager: in charge of Quality and Configuration

Management of all software developed in the organization.

Implementation Team Leader: coordinated the work of 15 people during Construction

Phase of software projects.

We developed software using Java and the Praxis Process, which is an

implementation of the Unified Process.

AWARDS AND HONORS

11/2009 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2009

Student Conferenceship Award $1525,00

10/2009 Cyber Security Awareness Week Research Award Finalist

NYU Poly (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)

Chosen as one of the eleven finalists.

Awarded an honorable mention.

09/2009 Interdisciplinary Networking in Sensing and Imaging: A Workshop to Promote Diversity

and Gender Balance for Prospective Faculty

NSF ADVANCE at Northeastern University

Chosen as one of the 33 students selected to attend the workshop (> 230 applicants).

09/2004 06/2005 University of California, Davis Graduate Group in Computer Science

Nonresident Tuition Fellowship

Support to graduate studies (Ph.D.)

CAPES (Improvement Coordination Foundation of Graduate Research) Fellowship (Brazil)

03/99 02/2001

Support to graduate studies (M.Sc.).

Field: Multimedia

03/98 02/99 FUNDEP (Research Development Foundation) Fellowship (Brazil)

Support to scientific investigation during undergraduate studies.

Field: Database

PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)

Daniela A. S. de Oliveira and S. Felix Wu. Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization Aware

1.

Collaborative Operating System. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2009.

Honolulu, Hawaii. December 2009.

2. Jedidiah R. Crandall, John Brevik, Shaozhi Ye, Gary Wassermann, Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Zhendong Su, S.

Felix Wu, and Frederic T. Chong. Putting Trojans on the Horns of a Dilemma: Redundancy for Information

Theft Detection. Special Issue on Security in Computing of the Transactions on Computational Sciences

Journal (Springer LNCS).

3. Ryan Iwahashi, Daniela Oliveira, S. Felix Wu, Jedidiah Crandall, Young Jun Heo, Jin Tae Oh, and Jong Soo

Jang. Towards Automatically Generating Double Free Vulnerability Signatures Using Petri Nets.

Information Security Conference (ISC). Taipei, Taiwan. September 2008.

4. Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary Wassermann, Shaozhi Ye, Felix Wu, Zhendong Su, and

Frederic T. Chong. Bezoar: Automated Virtual Machine based Full System Recovery from Control Flow

Hijacking Attacks. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Salvador

Bahia, Brazil. April 2008.

5. Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary M. Wassermann, S. Felix Wu, Zhendong Su, and

Frederic T. Chong. ExecRecorder: VM Based Full System Replay for Attack Analysis and System Recovery.

Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability ASID (with

ASPLOS). San Jose, CA. October, 2006.

6. Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary Wassermann, Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Zhendong Su, S. Felix Wu, and Frederic

T. Chong. Temporal Search: Detecting Hidden Malware Timebombs with Virtual Machines. International

Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).

San Jose, CA. October 2006.

7. Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos (Oliveira), Bruno Santos Pimentel, Fabiana Trindade Machado, Gisele Silva

Cardoso e Wilson de P dua Paula Filho. Personalization and Deployment of Quality Management Procedures

in the Context of a Software Process Improvement Program (original work in Portuguese), in the Proceedings

of the III Brazilian Symposium on Quality of Software (SBQS). Brasilia, DF, Brazil. June 2004.

8. Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira), Alex Borges Vieira, Berthier Ribeiro Neto and Sergio Vale Aguiar

Campos. Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Distributed Video on Demand Service. 2003 IEEE

International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, Texas,

USA. March 2003.

9. Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira), Alex Borges, Matheus Ribeiro, Joao Caram, Berthier Ribeiro Neto and

Sergio Campos. Architectures for a New Generation of VoD Servers (original work in Portuguese), VIII

Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems (SBMIDIA). Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.

October 2002.

10. Lucio Mauro Pereira, Berthier Ribeiro Neto and Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira). Performance Analysis of

a Video Server in Multiple Resolutions (original work in Portuguese), VIII Brazilian Symposium on

Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems (SBMIDIA). Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. October 2002.

11. Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira), Berthier Ribeiro Neto and Sergio V. A. Campos . Performance Analysis

of a Distributed Video on Demand Service (original work in Portuguese), VII Brazilian Symposium on

Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems (SBMIDIA). Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. October 2001.

12. Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira), Marcio T. Oliveira, Reuber G. Duarte, Antonio Alfredo F. Loureiro,

Geraldo Robson Mateus and Berthier Ribeiro Neto. Adaptive Exhibition of MPEG Video for Mobile

Environments (original work in Portuguese), III Brazilian Workshop on Wireless Communication and

Mobile Computing. Recife, PE, Brazil. August 2001.

13. Luciano Bertini, Sergio V. A. Campos, George L. Jamil, Autran Macedo, Berthier Ribeiro Neto, Claudemberg

F. Santos and Daniela A. S. dos Santos (Oliveira). Performance Analysis of the ALMADEM VoD Video

Server (original work in Portuguese), V Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems

(SBMIDIA). Goiania, GO, Brazil. June 1999.

INTERNSHIP

05/2008 08/2008 Microsoft Research, Redmond

Internship at the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC)

Internet security

Advisor: Dr. Yi Min Wang (Ph.D., UIUC, 1993 Director Internet Services Research Center)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

07/2005 06/2010 University of California, Davis

Research Assistant Computer Security Group

Malware protection, analysis and recovery.

Advisor: Prof. S. Felix Wu

Scientific Research during Master s course (M.Sc.)

03/99 02/2001

Multimedia Laboratory

Advisor: Prof. Berthier Ribeiro Neto

Co Advisor: Prof. Sergio Vale Aguiar Campos

Scientific Research during Undergraduate Studies (B.S.)

05/96 02/99

COPASA and Federal University of Minas Gerais Agreement

COPASA is one of the largest Brazilian companies for water treatment.

Researched strategies to migrate legacy systems to the Web environment.

Advisors: Prof. Alberto H. F. Laender (Ph.D., University of East Anglia, England, 1984)

Prof. Berthier Ribeiro Neto

Audiolab and Federal University of Minas Gerais Agreement

Researched schemes to perform data migration between relational and real time databases in the

XOMNI software. Used C language under QNX Operating System. XOMNI is a SCADA

(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software with specific functions for electric systems

control. This software has been used in many important Brazilian electricity provider companies.

Advisor: Prof. Claudionor Nunes Coelho Junior (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996)

FAPEMIG (Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais) Fellowship

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

In charge of a project which used the Prolog language to simplify Boolean logic expressions.

Advisor: Prof. Jose Lopes de Siqueira Neto (Docteur, Universit de Paris Sud, France, 1992) .

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

09/2009 12/2009 Associate Instructor: ECS 150 University of California, Davis

Dept. of Computer Science

Operating Systems

Teaching a large (65 students) required and upper division course to introduce the design and

implementation of modern operating systems. I planned the whole course, chose the text book,

prepared homework assignments, projects, exams, supervised the work of a TA, and held office

hours.

2006 05/2009 Guest Lecturer University of California, Davis

Dept. of Computer Science

Operating Systems and Computer Security courses (undergraduate and graduate).

09/2004 06/2005 Teaching Assistant University of California, Davis

Dept. of Computer Science

Subject: Computer Networks (ECS 152A)

Lectured a few classes, in charge of leading discussion sections, grading exams,

homework assignments and holding office hours.

08/97 12/99 Teaching Assistant Federal University of Minas Gerais

Dept. of Computer Science

Subject: Object Oriented Programming

Professor: Roberto da Silva Bigonha (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981)

In charge of grading exams and school assignments.

Subject: Computer Architecture I

Professor: Berthier Ribeiro Neto

In charge of grading homework assignments.

SERVICE

Reviewer for:

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2006.

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007

International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2007

International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization CGO (2010)

LANGUAGES

English: Read, write and speak fluently.

CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) University of Cambridge UK

December 2000.

ECPE (Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English) The University of Michigan USA

November 2000.

Spanish : intermediate level.

DELE Diploma de Espa ol como Lengua Extranjera (Initial Certificate in Spanish)

Universidad de Salamanca Spain November 2002

Portuguese : native speaker.

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