Ben Kallus

Hi.

I'm Ben. I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. My advisor is Sean W. Smith. You can usually find me in ECSC 214.

I graduated from Hamilton College in 2021 with a double major in mathematics and computer science. Before that, I went to Loomis Chaffee. I am originally from Montgomery, NY.

Here are my opinions about books I read recently.

Here's the music I'm listening to.

These are my blog posts.

These are some patches I've had merged in various free software projects.

The primary things that I'm working on:

• ABI Sanitizer
• Heap Explorer
• Submitting hardening patches to glibc malloc
• Redesigning Dartmouth's introductory systems programming course
• The HTTP Garden

This is what I look like.

Some things I like:

• My Himalayan cats, David and Dale
• Finding bugs
• Memory allocators
• Running new software on old hardware
• Unlocked bootloaders
• Science fiction
• EarthBound
• Longmont Potion Castle
• Tiling window managers
• Cruelty Squad

• Mass surveillance
• Proprietary software
• Locked bootloaders
• Advertisements
• Social media

The best way to reach me is in person or through email.