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Nicolaas Weideman

Research Assistant

Education

MSc, Computer Science, Stellenbosch University
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, Stellenbosch University
BSc, Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University

Bio

Nicolaas is a graduate research assistant at the Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, working in binary program analysis research under supervision of Prof. Mirkovic, Dr. Hauser and Dr. Garcia. He completed his bachelor's and master's degree at Stellenbosch University. For his master's thesis, he did research in static analysis of regular expressions to identify those which may lead to regular expression denial-of-service. His research interests lie in cyber security, specifically binary program analysis for vulnerability detection and mitigation. He is currently working towards his PhD in this research area.