Last updated 2015

Research

An old slide set on my research interests: VL-research-May2010.pdf .

Leader of Software Development Laboratory (SwDev).

I'm currently mainly interested of the following themes:

• All kind of software (interface) diversification research; applying it to ordinary OSs, web (browser), command shells, IoT, cloud, embedded, ...
• Advanced persistent threats.
• Honeypots.
• Data maining of security related data.
• Secure software engineering processes.
• Management of Technical Debt in software development
• Digitalisation related issues.
• Software evolution and large software artifacts
• Thich control flow
• Product Life-cycle Management.
• Agile software development and innovation activities.
• Object integrity, protective views.
• Using sweepline techniques for coastal area fetch (and similar) computations.
• MATINE funded project (Jan-Nov 2014) Operating system diversification for security purposes (Linux; temporary link).
• Local subproject of VTT Funded REPLICA (2011 - 2013) project on multicore architectures: language, compiler, software and algorithm development.
• Multicore architectures. Implementation of PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine) and related data routing problems. See my Academy of Finland funded (2009-2011) MOTH project.
• Code obfuscation against man-in-the-middle attacks. (temporary link)
• Embedding security monitors into various applications. See MPL .
• Developing better OO metrics.