Resumé for Mike Van Emmerik

email: emmerik at gmail dot com
web: http://vanemmerikfamily.com/mike

Seeking

Programming positions where low-level, technical knowledge and experience is important, e.g. binary tools, compiler back ends, embedded systems.

Interests

Disassembling and decompilation; binary translation; reverse engineering.

Skills

C 15 years
C++ 13 years
Assembler:
  x86 15 years
  SPARC 10 years
  68K 5 years
  Some experience with PA-RISC, Z80, 6502, 6800, 68HC11, 2650, 6502, 6809, and others back to the SC/MP.
Low level code 17 years (disassemblers, decompiler, binary translation, device drivers)
Other languages: some use of Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Unix scripts, sed, awk, Tcl/Tk, dBase, Lisp, Prologue, Simula, Snobol, Cobol
Digital electronics 8 years (test, redesign for testability, PC repair)

Work History
 

2001-2006	PhD student, University of Queensland. The topic is "Static Single Assignment for Decompilation".
2004	Consultant, Indec Consulting. Converted a BASIC application to C++ for RailCorp.
2003	Consultant, Indec Consulting. Assisted with investigations into the Waterfall train disaster.
2003	Consultant, LEA Detection Systems. A colleage and I successfully recovered missing source code for a C++ Windows application using the Boomerang decompiler and some manual editing. An experience paper was published in WCRE 2004.
1997-2001	Senior Research Assistant, University of Queensland. Main output: UQBT (a retargetable Binary Translator); I designed and wrote about 80% of the it. Some of the technical aspects included binary file formats, link maps for constructing the target binary at a specific virtual addresses, machine idiosyncrasies such as delay slots; register windows, and x86 floating point compares.
1995-1996	Contractor, Telstra Corporation. I designed and wrote the Windows Field Terminal (fault report management software). Windows 3.1, C++.
1993-1994	Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology. As part of the REVCOMP project, I assisted Cristina Cifuentes with her definitive PhD project, dcc (a machine code decompiler). The static library signature detection work for dcc was published in ASWEC '98 (Australian SoftWare Engineering Conference).
1990-1993	Developer, Telecom Australia. I was part of the DRIFT project (a multisession communications program with a scripting language). The work involved C++, emulations, hardware layers, interrupt routines, and some reverse engineering, including the use of PeriscopeTM hardware.
1983-1989	Engineer class 2, Telecom Workshops Brisbane. The work included digital electronics, dBase II/III programming, and the use of ATE (Automatic Testing Equipment). National factory control software rollout for 6 months (before Workshops were closed down).
1981-1982	Engineer class 1, Telecom Australia (now Telstra Corporation).

Publications

• Journals
• "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Science of Computer Programming, 40 (2001): 171-188
• "UQBT: Adaptable Binary Translation at Low Cost", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Computer, Vol 33, No 3, March 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 60-66
• Conferences
• "The Design of a Resourceable and Retargetable Binary Translator", C Cifuentes, M Van Emmerik, and N. Ramsey, Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Atlanta, USA, October 1999, IEEE-CS Press, pp 280-291.
• "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Pittsburgh, USA, May 1999, IEEE-CS Press, pp 192-199. Extended version as: "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", Technical Report 444, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Dec 1998.
• "Identifying Library Functions in Executable Files Using Patterns", Van Emmerik M. J., Proceedings of the 1998 Australian Software Engineering Conference, Adelaide, 9th to 13th November, 1998. An earlier version is available in postscript form.
• Workshops
• "Computer Security Analysis through Decompilation and High-Level Debugging", C Cifuentes, T Waddington, and M Van Emmerik,  Decompilation Techniques Workshop, Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany,  October 2001, IEEE-CS Press, pp 375-380.
• "Preliminary Experiences with the Use of the UQBT Binary Translation Framework", C Cifuentes, M Van Emmerik, D Ung, D Simon and T Waddington, Proceedings of the Workshop on Binary Translation, NewPort Beach, Oct 16, 1999. Technical Committee on Computer Architecture Newsletter, IEEE-CS Press, Dec 1999, pp 12-22.

• Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE): 1999 (Atlanta), 2000 (Brisbane; local arrangements), 2001 (Stuttgart).
• Decompilation workshop (part of WCRE 2001). Organised and chaired with Cristina Cifuentes.
• Workshop on Binary Translation: 1999 (Newport Beach), 2000 (Philadelphia).
• Reengineering week 2000  (EuroREF,  CSMR,  ReTIS) (Zurich, Switzerland; I presented a colleague's paper).
• Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC): 1998 (Adelaide, Australia).

• Bachelor of Engineering, University of Queensland, First Class Honours 1980.
• Bachelor of Science (Specialising in Computer Science), University of Queensland, 1979.
• I matriculated from St Edmunds' College, Ipswich, Queensland 1975. Dux of school; highest Tertiary Entrance score, straight 7s in year 12.

Pre employment
 

High school	Communications receiver; 5" CRO; serial computer (part completed). See nostalgia part 1.
University	TTL video terminal; 2650 DOS; 600 baud DECwriter; Z80 Resource (disassembler); ported arcade video game (Frogger on Scrambler); SCSI hard disk interface; external floppy disk units for Amiga. See nostalgia part 2.

• Administrator, Boomerang open source decompiler project: boomerang.sourceforge.net.
• Principal editor, DeCompilation wiki: www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DeCompilation.
• Various contributions to Wikipedia.

References

Provided on request.

Mike's Home Page

Last updated 9th Aug 2006: Updated and cleaned up; new sections email address