VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Alex Eastman
dblp:375/7499
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-8774-8885ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Cyber-physical and IoT security · 67% Systems and software security · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cyber-physical and IoT security
embedded system security |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions · CCS 2025 |
Cyber-physical and IoT security › embedded system security
microcontroller security |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions · CCS 2025 |
Systems and software security
vulnerability analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions · CCS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
qualitative study · 0.9competition data analysis · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF CompetitionsabstractMicrocontroller systems are integral to our daily lives, powering mission-critical applications such as vehicles, medical devices, and industrial control systems. Therefore, it is essential to investigate and outline the challenges encountered in developing secure microcontroller systems. While previous research has focused solely on microcontroller firmware analysis to identify and characterize vulnerabilities, our study uniquely leverages data from the 2023 and 2024 MITRE eCTF team submissions and post-competition interviews. This approach allows us to dissect the entire lifecycle of secure microcontroller system development from both technical and perceptual perspectives, providing deeper insights into how these vulnerabilities emerge in the first place. Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Kai Kaufman, Md. Armanuzzaman, Xi Tan 0002, Katherine Jesse, Robert J. Walls, Ziming Zhao 0001 |
CCS | 3 |