"...There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world. There is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. - Edmond Dantès" Gogul Balakrishnan, 1210 West Dayton Street, #6355CS Madison, WI-53706. Phone: 1-608-263-0475 e-mail: bgogul[at]cs[dot]wisc[dot]edu

I was born in Pollachi, which is a small town in Tamilnadu (a state in the southern part of India). I finished my higher secondary eduation in 1997 and joined the Guindy College of Engineering (part of Anna University, Tamilnadu, India), where I majored in Computer Science and Engineering. In the Fall of 2001, I started my graduate studies in the computer sciences deparment of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then I have been working as a Research Assistant in the Wisconsin Safety Analyser(WiSA) project for Prof. Tom Reps.

I have been working on static analysis tools for programs without source code, with emphasis on security aspects like detecting buffer overruns in binaries, understanding possibly malicious programs (web-plugins, viruses, trojans, ...). As a first step, I have developed techniques to obtain an intermediate representation(IR) similar to the IR of a compiler's backend for a given x86 binary executable. More information can be found here.

Some of us who graduated from the computer science department of Anna University have been discussing the possibility of forming an alumni association that focuses on projects aimed at making the computer science department of AU even better. If you are an alumni of Anna University and are interested in our efforts, please visit our webpage for further details.