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.

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
• The SMTP 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
• Root shells
• Science fiction
• Longmont Potion Castle
• Tiling window managers

• Mass surveillance
• Proprietary software
• Locked bootloaders
• Advertisements

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