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W. Michael Petullo
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
W. Michael Petullo
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Specialty area(s)
Software and network security
Operating system design and implementation
Open-source software development
Brief biography
I joined the UW–L faculty after a 20-year career in the Army. My later Army assignments included teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and leading an organization responsible for developing software and hardware capabilities for use in cyber operations. I deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. I spend much of my time outside of the classroom managing a woodland property and hobby farm north of La Crosse. I am originally from Waterloo, Iowa.
Current courses at UWL
CS120, Software Design I
CS410/510, Open Source Development
CS455/555, Fundamentals of Information Security
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.S. in Computer Science, DePaul University
B.S. in Computer Science, Drake University
Career
Teaching history
CS120, Software Design I
CS356, Software Exploitation
CS410/510, Open Source Development
CS441, Operating System Concepts
CS455/555, Fundamentals of Information Security
CS456/556, Secure Software Development
Research and publishing
Courses as Code: The Aquinas Learning System by W. Michael Petullo
The Industrial Age of Hacking by Tim Nosco, Jared Ziegler, Zechariah Clark, Davy Marrero, Todd Finkler, Andrew Barbarello, and W. Michael Petullo
PivotWall: SDN-Based Information Flow Control by T.J. O'Connor, William Enck, W. Michael Petullo, and Akash Verma
Using VisorFlow to Control Information Flow without Modifying the Operating System Kernel or its Userspace by Matt Shockley, Chris Maixner, Ryan Johnson, Mitch DeRidder, and W. Michael Petullo
Studying Naïve Users and the Insider Threat with SimpleFlow by Ryan Johnson, Jessie Lass, and W. Michael Petullo
The Use of Cyber-Defense Exercises in Undergraduate Computing Education by W. Michael Petullo, Kyle Moses, Ben Klimkowski, Ryan Hand, and Karl Olson
Improving Application Security Through TLS-Library Redesign by Leo St. Amour and W. Michael Petullo
On the Generality and Convenience of Etypes by W. Michael Petullo and Joseph Suh
Teaching Computer Security by Kyle V. Moses and W. Michael Petullo
Ethos' Deeply Integrated Distributed Types by W. Michael Petullo, Jon A. Solworth, Wenyuan Fei, and Pat Gavlin
MinimaLT: Minimal-latency Networking Through Better Security by W. Michael Petullo, Xu Zhang, Jon A. Solworth, Daniel J. Bernstein, and Tanja Lange
Rethinking Operating System Interfaces to Support Robust Network Applications by W. Michael Petullo
Simple-to-use, Secure-by-design Networking in Ethos by W. Michael Petullo and Jon A. Solworth
The Lazy Kernel Hacker and Application Programmer by W. Michael Petullo and Jon A. Solworth
Rethinking Operating System Interfaces to Support Robust Applications by W. Michael Petullo and Jon A. Solworth
Digital identity security architecture in Ethos by W. Michael Petullo and Jon A. Solworth
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