Ken Roe

roe@cs.jhu.edu

Shaffer 204

Who Am I?

I'm a first year graduate student. I started in the Fall of 2010. I decided to return to graduate school after working in Silicon Valley for many years. I spent many years experimenting with formal verification techniques as a hobby and decided it was time to return and make a career of the hobby.

Research

I am developing a static analysis tool for C programs. My initial goal is to build a tool that can eliminate many common memory allocation errors. Eventually, I would like to address many complex types of errors including those that arise from complex intricate interactions between data structures. A few years ago, I developed an SMT prover. See the talks and papers below for more details.

My advisor is Scott Smith

Side projects

I am an avid mobile developer. Check out the folowing web site for more information: http://www.roemobiledevelopment.com. If you are thinking of getting into iPhone development, I will warn that you will most likely not get rich from it. I do get a fairly steady income from my apps. However, I could make more money working at a job (wasting venture capital on someone else's iPhone app ideas)

Talks, Papers and Code

My CAV'06 talk

My CAV'06 paper on The Heuristic Theorem Prover The Heuristic Theorem Prover: Yet another SMT Modulo Theorem Prover (Tool Paper)

A Talk I gave at IBM.

A paper I submitted to ITP2011.

A Coq model that goes along with the ITP2011 paper.

A paper I submitted to ITP2013.

A Coq model that goes along with the ITP2013 paper.

CV

XSS attack game resources

Presentation

Web site