Otso Barron

I am an undergraduate student studying computer science at Oregon State University interested in systems security.

Some of my highlights at OSU:

I worked as a Research Assistant in the Algorithms for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Group advised by Dr. Liang Huang.
President of OSUSEC and captain of our CTF team, a top academic team. My favorite challenge categories are binary exploitation and reverse-engineering.
Won regional CCDC competition (PRCCDC) 3 times, advancing to nationals.
President of the ACM student chapter at OSU (2022-2024) where, among many things, I train and compete in ACM ICPC contests!

Google Summer of Code with Pwndbg
Extended GDB through the Pwndbg plugin to contextualize the actions of assembly instructions in x86, ARM, MIPS, and RISC-V. While stepping through a binary, there is now text that indicates the concrete actions that each instruction takes. Using emulation, it can display the results of future instructions that the process has yet to execute.
NextJudge
A self-proposed senior capstone project—a modern and open-source ICPC-style code judging platform with focuses on usability, extensibility, performance, and security.