Recorded: 04/10/2024 CERIAS Security Seminar at Purdue University In Pursuit of Silent Flaws: Dataflow Analysis for Bugfinding and Triage Evan Sultanik, Trail of Bits Dr. Evan Sultanik is a principal computer security researcher at Trail of Bits. His recent research covers language-theoretic security, program analysis, detecting variability bugs via taint analysis, dependency analysis via program instrumentation, and consensus protocols for distributed ledgers. He is an editor of and frequent contributor to the offensive computer security journal "Proof of Concept or GTFO". Prior to joining Trail of Bits, Dr. Sultanik was the Chief Scientist at Digital Operatives and, prior to that, a Senior Research Scientist at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His dissertation was on the discovery of a family of combinatorial optimization problems the solutions for which can be approximated constant factor of optimal in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer or distributed system. This was a surprising result since many of the problems in the family are NP-Hard. In a life prior to academia, Evan was a professional software engineer. (Visit: www.cerias.purdue.edu)