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Michael LeMay

Research Scientist

Intel Labs

Biography

Research Scientist with a focus on memory management architectures for security.

Interests

  • Formal specification and verification
  • Compiler-based security hardening
  • Anti-malware techniques
  • Computer architecture
  • Operating systems and virtualization

Education

  • MS, PhD, and Postdoc in Computer Science, 2012

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • BS in Computer Science, 2005

    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist

Intel Labs

Jun 2012 – Present Oregon
I define and evaluate innovative security architectures for mitigating exploits and malware. I draw on my expertise in architecture, compilers, operating systems, virtualization, HW/SW co-design, and formal methods to effectively devise solutions that are well-adapted to workload requirements.
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Student and Postdoc

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sep 2005 – May 2012 Illinois

Advisor: Carl A. Gunter

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow

PhD Dissertation: Compact Integrity-Aware Architectures

MS Thesis: Dependable Emergency-Response Networking Based on Retaskable Network Infrastructures

TA for Advanced Computer Security (Instructor: Carl A. Gunter)

TA for Advanced Operating Systems (Instructor: Samuel T. King)

Projects

FPGA-Powered Candy Dispenser

Touchless dispensing with a photoresistor sensor and a PWM-controlled servo

Using Intel MPX to harden SafeStack

Configuring bounds registers and extending LLVM and Clang to instrument code to help prevent corruption of the safe stacks.

HTTP-controlled MIDI Alert Bell Connected Via Ethernet

Based on Contiki OS with the lightweight X86 protection domain support that I implemented.

Python X10 CM19A driver (unofficial)

Unofficial driver for the X10 CM19A remote control interface in Python, now maintained by Burns Fisher.

X86 Lightweight Protection Domain Support for Contiki

Memory management based on paging, software-switched segments, or hardware task switching.

Publications

Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2015). Network-on-Chip Firewall: Countering Defective and Malicious System-on-Chip Hardware. Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency.

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Yong Yang, Lu Su, Mohammad Maifi Khan, Michael LeMay, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han (2014). Power-Based Diagnosis of Node Silence in Remote High-End Sensing Systems. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

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Jonathan Edwards, Ken Grewal, Michael LeMay, Scott H. Robinson, Ravi Sahita, Carl Woodward (2014). Protecting Sensor Data from Malware Attacks (pages 178-197). Intel Technology Journal.

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Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2012). Cumulative Attestation Kernels for Embedded Systems. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

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Omid Fatemieh, Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2011). Reliable telemetry in white spaces using remote attestation. ACSAC.

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Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2011). Enforcing Executing-Implies-Verified with the Integrity-Aware Processor. TRUST.

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Yong Yang, Lu Su, Mohammad Khan, Michael LeMay, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han (2010). Diagnostic Powertracing for Sensor Node Failure Analysis. IPSN.

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Alejandro Gutierrez, Apeksha Godiyal, Matt Stockton, Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter, Roy H. Campbell (2009). Sh@re: Negotiated audit in social networks. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

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Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2009). Cumulative Attestation Kernels for Embedded Systems. ESORICS.

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Michael LeMay, Jason J. Haas, Carl A. Gunter (2009). Collaborative Recommender Systems for Building Automation. HICSS.

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Michael LeMay, Rajesh Nelli, George Gross, Carl A. Gunter (2008). An Integrated Architecture for Demand Response Communications and Control (best paper award). HICSS.

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Michael LeMay, Carl A. Gunter (2007). Supporting Emergency-Response by Retasking Network Infrastructures. HotNets.

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Michael LeMay, Omid Fatemieh, Carl A. Gunter (2007). PolicyMorph: interactive policy transformations for a logical attribute-based access control framework. SACMAT.

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Michael LeMay, George Gross, Carl A. Gunter, Sanjam Garg (2007). Unified Architecture for Large-Scale Attested Metering. HICSS.

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Michael LeMay, Jack Tan (2006). Acoustic Surveillance of Physically Unmodified PCs. SAM.

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Michael D. LeMay, Jack S.E. Tan (2004). Comprehensive message control and assurance with the secure email transport protocol. EIT.

DOI

Michael LeMay, Jack Tan (2004). Abstracting Low-Level Network Programming With ACE, a Pattern-Oriented Network Programming Framework. SERP.

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Patents

Issued patents:

  1. 10,884,952 (2021): Enforcing memory operand types using protection keys (Google Patents link may not yet be available)
  2. 10,860,709 (2020): Encoded inline capabilities
  3. 10,795,997 (2020): Hardened safe stack for return oriented programming attack mitigation
  4. 10,785,028 (2020): Protection of keys and sensitive data from attack within microprocessor architecture
  5. 10,769,272 (2020): Technology to protect virtual machines from malicious virtual machine managers
  6. 10,706,164 (2020): Crypto-enforced capabilities for isolation
  7. 10,642,752 (2020): Auxiliary processor resources
  8. 10,558,582 (2020): Technologies for execute only transactional memory
  9. 10,515,023 (2019): System for address mapping and translation protection
  10. 10,503,664 (2019): Virtual machine manager for address mapping and translation protection
  11. 10,453,114 (2019): Selective sharing of user information based on contextual relationship information, such as to crowd-source gifts of interest to a recipient
  12. 10,452,848 (2019): Memory scanning methods and apparatus
  13. 10,324,863 (2019): Protected memory view for nested page table access by virtual machine guests
  14. 10,318,733 (2019): Techniques for detecting malware with minimal performance degradation
  15. 10,235,301 (2019): Dynamic page table edit control
  16. 10,216,522 (2019): Technologies for indirect branch target security
  17. 10,157,277 (2018): Technologies for object-oriented memory management with extended segmentation
  18. 10,152,612 (2018): Cryptographic operations for secure page mapping in a virtual machine environment
  19. 10,104,122 (2018): Verified sensor data processing
  20. 10,061,918 (2018): System, apparatus and method for filtering memory access logging in a processor
  21. 10,007,784 (2018): Technologies for control flow exploit mitigation using processor trace
  22. 9,954,950 (2018): Attestable information flow control in computer systems
  23. 9,858,411 (2018): Execution profiling mechanism
  24. 9,830,162 (2017): Technologies for indirect branch target security
  25. 9,817,976 (2017): Techniques for detecting malware with minimal performance degradation
  26. 9,805,194 (2017): Memory scanning methods and apparatus
  27. 9,792,222 (2017): Validating virtual address translation by virtual machine monitor utilizing address validation structure to validate tentative guest physical address and aborting based on flag in extended page table requiring an expected guest physical address in the address validation structure
  28. 9,710,393 (2017): Dynamic page table edit control
  29. 9,703,703 (2017): Control of entry into protected memory views
  30. 9,665,373 (2017): Protecting confidential data with transactional processing in execute-only memory
  31. 9,501,637 (2016): Hardware shadow stack support for legacy guests
  32. 9,335,943 (2016): Method and apparatus for fine grain memory protection
  33. 9,124,635 (2015): Verified sensor data processing
  34. 8,458,791 (2013): Hardware-implemented hypervisor for root-of-trust monitoring and control of computer system
  35. 7,774,411 (2010): Secure electronic message transport protocol

Published patent applications:

  1. 16/998,913: PROTECTION OF KEYS AND SENSITIVE DATA FROM ATTACK WITHIN MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE
  2. 16/998,912: SECURITY CHECK SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY ALLOCATIONS
  3. 16/862,022: MEMORY WRITE FOR OWNERSHIP ACCESS IN A CORE
  4. 16/776,467: CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING ENGINE FOR MEMORY LOAD AND STORE UNITS OF A MICROARCHITECTURE PIPELINE
  5. 16/740,359: CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING USING ENCRYPTED BASE ADDRESSES AND USED IN MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENTS
  6. 16/724,105: MICROPROCESSOR PIPELINE CIRCUITRY TO SUPPORT CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING
  7. 16/724,026: DATA ENCRYPTION BASED ON IMMUTABLE POINTERS
  8. 16/723,977: CRYPTOGRAPHIC ISOLATION OF MEMORY COMPARTMENTS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
  9. 16/723,468: BINDING OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS TO CONTEXT OR SPECULATIVE EXECUTION RESTRICTIONS
  10. 16/722,707: CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING USING ENCRYPTED BASE ADDRESSES AND USED IN MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENTS
  11. 16/722,342: POINTER BASED DATA ENCRYPTION
  12. 16/709,837: PROCESSOR HARDWARE AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR SHA3 CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS
  13. WO2020096639: Function as a Service (FaaS) System Enhancements
  14. 16/024,257: Memory tagging for side-channel defense, memory safety, and sandboxing
  15. 15/859,142: Apparatus and method for pausing processor trace for efficient analysis
  16. 15/721,553: Installing and manipulating a secure virtual machine image through an untrusted hypervisor
  17. 15/713,573: Methods and arrangements to determine physical resource assignments
  18. 16/040,193: System, method and apparatus for automatic program compartmentalization
  19. 16/024,089: Techniques to provide function-level isolation with capability-based security
  20. 15/273,286: Access control
  21. 15/201,018: Regulating control transfers for execute-only code execution

Skills

C/C++

App, kernel, and hypervisor development for Linux, Windows, and embedded systems with Boost and generics experience

Rust

Go

SMT-LIB / Z3

SAT/SMT solver (completed Coursera course)

X86 Assembly

Somewhat familar with assembly language for other architectures as well

LLVM/Clang

Compiler framework

Bluespec SystemVerilog

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) language based on Term-Rewriting Systems

Maude

Model checker based on Term-Rewriting Systems and Linear-Temporal Logic

Isabelle/HOL

Interactive theorem prover

Python

Verilog/VHDL

Experience using Intel Quartus and Xilinx Vivado FPGA toolchains. Experience using Synopsys VCS and Mentor Graphics Modelsim simulators. Experience extending and maintaining an in-house Verilog simulator during an internship with Cray, Inc.

Prolog

Logic programming language

Professional Service and Volunteering

Professional society memberships:

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • IEEE

PC member:

  • TRUST 2010 & 2011

Journal reviews:

  • 2019 IEEE Transactions on Networking
  • 2013 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
  • 2009 Journal of Computer Security (JCS)
  • 2009 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
  • 2007 ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
  • 2005 ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)

Conference and workshop reviews:

  • 2013 IEEE PowerTech
  • 2009 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • 2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)
  • 2008 IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY)
  • 2008 Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
  • 2007 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
  • 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
  • 2006 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
  • 2006 IFIP International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICCIP)
  • 2006 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)

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