Marco Pistoia

Research Staff Member

Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)

Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. has worked for IBM Corporation since January 1996 and is currently a Research Staff Member in the Programming Languages and Software Engineering Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York.

He has written ten books, filed patents, and published papers and journal articles on various aspects of Program Analysis and Language-Based Security. Most recently, he has published his Ph.D. thesis, and has been the lead author of the books Enterprise Java Security, published by Addison-Wesley in 2004 (and available in Chinese since 2006), and Java 2 Network Security, published by Prentice Hall PTR in 1999. He has published and presented at numerous conferences, and has been invited to lecture at several research institutions worldwide. (See his complete list of publications, patents, and presentations).

Dr. Pistoia received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU), Brooklyn, New York in May 2005 with a thesis entitled A Unified Mathematical Model for Stack- and Role-Based Authorization Systems (advisor: Prof. Robert J. Flynn), and his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics summa cum laude from the University of Rome, Italy in July 1995, with a research thesis entitled Theory of Reductive Algebraic Groups and Their Representations (advisor: Prof. Silvana Abeasis). His mathematical interests include lattices and invariant theory. His computer interests include mobile-code security, component software, and static program analysis of object-oriented languages.

During his career, Dr. Pistoia has been the recipient of several awards, including an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, an IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, an IBM Research Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA), two IBM Research Outstanding Innovation Awards (OIAs), and a European Community Erasmus Fellowship Award. In September 2007, the Italian Ministry of University and Research, the National Conference of the Italian Presidents of Faculties of Sciences and Technologies, and Confindustria, Italy's leading organization representing all the Italian manufacturing and service companies, presented Marco Pistoia as one of the 70 most successful Italian mathematicians who graduated from an Italian university between the years 1980 and 2000. His biography was published in the book Matematici al Lavoro.



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Recent Activities

• ACSAC 2009, Program Committee Member
  
• PLDI 2009, Poster and Student Research Competition Chair
  
• PLAS 2009, Program Committee Member
  
• SSIRI 2009, Program Committee Member
  
• NDSS 2009, Program Committee Member

Last updated 29 Sep 2009