Zack McKevitt

I am a recent MS Computer Science graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder where I worked under the supervision of Professor Tamara Lehman in the Computer Architecture research group. I am broadly interested in computer systems and applications of security and privacy.

I am currently employed as a researcher across two appointments:

• SEUP: Robust Detection and Correction of Radiation Errors for Commodity Microprocessors
  Faculty: Joseph Izraelevitz
  In conjunction with: Sandia National Labs.
• Node Replicated Kernel
  Faculty: Eric Keller
  In conjunction with: VMware Research.

During my MS, my research focus was on systematically identifying potential transient execution vulnerabilities in the gem5 simulator. The paper version of my thesis was presented at the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) 2023.

Before my MS, I also completed my BS in Computer Science at CU where my research was on using Recurrent Neural Networks for transient execution attack detection.