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Mark Sherman is a Technical Director at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, specifically leading the Cyber Security Foundations group within SEI’s CERT Division. His team's focus is on foundational research related to the software life cycle, emphasizing the building of secure software and conducting data-driven analysis in the field of cybersecurity. Prior to his role at CERT, Sherman gathered extensive experience at IBM and various startups, contributing to the development of mobile systems, integrated hardware-software appliances, as well as advancements in transaction processing, programming languages, compilers, virtualization, network protocols, and databases. With a prolific output, he has published over 50 papers on various topics in computer science.
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