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SIGSAC is the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn assistant professor at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Saltaformaggio was recognized for his Ph.D. dissertation, \u0026ldquo;Convicted by Memory: Automatically Recovering Spatial-Temporal Evidence from Memory Images.\u0026rdquo; He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaltaformaggio\u0026rsquo;s dissertation pioneered new cyber forensic techniques that help investigators solve crimes. Much of his work focused on memory image forensics, a key area in cyber forensics that involves recovering digital evidence from memory (RAM) images captured from the criminal or victim\u0026#39;s device such as a PC or smartphone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaltaformaggio\u0026rsquo;s dissertation challenged the state-of-the-art of memory forensics by breaking away from brute force data-carving approaches. Instead, his research developed a series of binary-analysis-driven techniques that automatically reconstruct and render in-memory forensic evidence, even if a suspect has locked or encrypted their device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the ECE faculty since this past July, Saltaformaggio leads the Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory. The CyFI Lab\u0026#39;s mission is to further the investigation of advanced cyber crimes and the analysis and prevention of next-generation malware attacks, particularly in mobile and IoT environments. He is also a member of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas. 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