Dr. Malachi Jones is a security researcher at MITRE located in Central Maryland and has over 10 years of combined experience performing security research work in academia and industry. As a security researcher, he specializes in automating reverse engineering by leveraging intermediate representation languages and Machine Learning Techniques. Malachi has developed (as an independent effort) a 3-day course titled "Automating Reverse Engineering with Machine Learning and Binary Analysis" that he teaches internally at MITRE as a part of the MITRE Institute. He also leads a company-wide effort to automate reverse engineering processes and serves as a principal investigator on an automated reverse engineering research effort. Before joining MITRE, Malachi worked as an embedded security researcher at Booz Allen Dark Labs where he developed tools that leveraged llvm IR to perform automated vulnerability assessment. In addition, he was also an instructor with Booz Allen's internal reverse engineering training program. Prior to Dark Labs, he worked as a vulnerability researcher at a defense contractor in Melbourne, FL for over two years. Dr. Jones holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. and PhD from Georgia Tech. His graduate work at Georgia Tech focused on modeling cyber security problems in a Game Theoretic framework to perform actionable cyber-attack forecasting. In addition to his work at MITRE, he is separately conducting independent research on pairing Memory Forensics with Binary Analysis and Machine Learning to detect malware and rootkits in an automated fashion.
