William Sumner

Associate Professor
Computing Science

Areas of interest

Research Interests:
Automated debugging & debugging tools
Concurrency & parallelism
Program analysis & transformation

Teaching Interests:
Tools and methods for software quality
Compilers & runtime systems

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, United States, 2013
  • B.Sc., Computer Science, Hope College, United States, 2005

Selected Recent Publications

  • Identifying Execution Points for Dynamic Analyses. William N. Sumner and Xiangyu Zhang. In ASE 2013.
  • DRIP: A Framework for Purifying Trojaned Kernel Drivers. Zhongshu Gu, William N. Sumner, Zhui Deng, Xiangyu Zhang, and Dongyan Xu. In DSN 2013.
  • Comparative Causality: Explaining The Differences Between Executions. William N. Sumner and Xiangyu Zhang. In ICSE 2013.