Cyber Grand Challenge
Finalists
Meet the Finalists
DARPA has invited the following seven teams to the CGC Final Event based on their scores in the June 2015 CGC Qualifying Event:
The only system that was built from scratch
CSDS consists of Dr. Jia Song, a research assistant professor and Dr. Jim Alves-Foss, director of CSDS. CSDS is building a new and innovative custom tool suite to participate in the Cyber Grand Challenge.
Team Members: Dr. Jia Song, Dr. Jim Alves-Foss
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Achieved top performance score; the only team that improved memory usage
Deep Red is composed of a small team of specialized engineers from Raytheon. The team name pays homage to both Raytheon's red logo and IBM's Deep Blue computing project that was designed to take on the world's grand masters of chess.
Team Members: Andrew Calvano, Shaun Davenport, Matt Heine, Eric Lee, Dan Smith, Corbin Souffrant, Dr. Stan Ponomarev, Steve Schmidt & Mike Stevenson
Led by: Tim Bryant, Brian Knudson
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Sole team to score on five challenges
disekt is a computer security team that participates in various Capture the Flag security competitions hosted by other teams, universities and organizations from around the world.
Team Members: Michael Contreras, Robert Lee Harrison, Yeongjin Jang, Taesoo Kim, Byoungyoung Lee, Kang Li, Chengyu Song, Kevin J. Warrick, & Insu Yun
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Sole creator of Proof-of-Vulnerabilities for 12 challenges
Initially founded by Professor David Brumley, Thanassis Avgerinos and Alex Rebert, ForAllSecure has grown to nine employees in Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Bay Area. ForAllSecure’s technology is the result of more than a decade of program analysis research at Carnegie Mellon University
Team Members: John Davis, Ryan Goulden, Chelsea Mastilak, Tyler Nighswander
Led by: Professor David Brumley, Thanassis Avgerinos, and Alex Rebert.
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Student-led effort, including the youngest program analyst expert
Shellphish started at the University of California, Santa Barbara as the SecLab hacking team. As members graduated and moved, the team expanded to include other locations such as Boston/Massachusetts, Alpes-Maritimes/France, London/United Kingdom and other exotic locations. Shellphish has participated in more DEF CON CTF editions than any other team.
Team Members: Antonio Bianchi, Kevin Borgolte, Jacopo Corbetta, Francesco Disperati, Andrew Dutcher, John Grosen, Aravind Machiry, Chris Salls, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Nick Stephens, & Ruoyu “Fish” Wang
Led by: Professor Giovanni Vigna (Leader), Yan Shoshitaishvili (Captain)
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Charlottesville, VA
Finished the CGC Qualifying Event in the first six hours
The TECHx team consists of leading software analysis experts from GrammaTech, Inc. and the University of Virginia. GrammaTech and UVA are co-developers of an automatic software-hardening technology called PEASOUP ("Preventing Exploits of Software Of Uncertain Provenance").
Team Members: Dr. Michele Co, Will Hawkins, Dr. Jason Hiser, Dr. Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Ducson Nguyen, Derek Morris, Eric Rizzi, Dr. Eric Schulte
Led by: Dr. David Melski & Professor Jack Davidson
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Syracuse, NY
International team that spans 11 time zones
CodeJitsu brings together researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, Cyberhaven, and Syracuse. The CodeJitsu CRS is based on automated binary analysis and hardening.
Team Members:
UC Berkeley: Mauro Matteo Cascella, Luca Guerra, Riccardo Schirone, Jonas Wagner
Cyberhaven: Dr. Radu Banabic, Dr. Vitaly Chipounov, Dr. Aristide Fattori, Dr. Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Dr. Cristian Zamfir
Syracuse University: Yue Duan, Wei Song, Jinghan Wang, Rundong Zhou
Led by: Professor Dawn Song, Professor George Candea, Professor Heng Yin, and Researcher Chao Zhang
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
Moscow, ID
The only system that was built from scratch
CSDS consists of Dr. Jia Song, a research assistant professor and Dr. Jim Alves-Foss, director of CSDS. CSDS is building a new and innovative custom tool suite to participate in the Cyber Grand Challenge.
Team Members: Dr. Jia Song, Dr. Jim Alves-Foss
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Open Track
Arlington, VA
Achieved top performance score; the only team that improved memory usage
Deep Red is composed of a small team of specialized engineers from Raytheon. The team name pays homage to both Raytheon's red logo and IBM's Deep Blue computing project that was designed to take on the world's grand masters of chess.
Team Members: Andrew Calvano, Shaun Davenport, Matt Heine, Eric Lee, Dan Smith, Corbin Souffrant, Dr. Stan Ponomarev, Steve Schmidt & Mike Stevenson
Led by: Tim Bryant, Brian Knudson
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Open Track
Athens, GA
Sole team to score on five challenges
disekt is a computer security team that participates in various Capture the Flag security competitions hosted by other teams, universities and organizations from around the world.
Team Members: Michael Contreras, Robert Lee Harrison, Yeongjin Jang, Taesoo Kim, Byoungyoung Lee, Kang Li, Chengyu Song, Kevin J. Warrick, & Insu Yun
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Open Track
Pittsburgh, PA
Sole creator of Proof-of-Vulnerabilities for 12 challenges
Initially founded by Professor David Brumley, Thanassis Avgerinos and Alex Rebert, ForAllSecure has grown to nine employees in Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Bay Area. ForAllSecure’s technology is the result of more than a decade of program analysis research at Carnegie Mellon University
Team Members: John Davis, Ryan Goulden, Chelsea Mastilak, Tyler Nighswander
Led by: Professor David Brumley, Thanassis Avgerinos, and Alex Rebert.
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Proposal Track
Santa Barbara, CA
Student-led effort, including the youngest program analyst expert
Shellphish started at the University of California, Santa Barbara as the SecLab hacking team. As members graduated and moved, the team expanded to include other locations such as Boston/Massachusetts, Alpes-Maritimes/France, London/United Kingdom and other exotic locations. Shellphish has participated in more DEF CON CTF editions than any other team.
Team Members: Antonio Bianchi, Kevin Borgolte, Jacopo Corbetta, Francesco Disperati, Andrew Dutcher, John Grosen, Aravind Machiry, Chris Salls, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Nick Stephens, & Ruoyu “Fish” Wang
Led by: Professor Giovanni Vigna (Leader), Yan Shoshitaishvili (Captain)
Open Track: Initially self-funded
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Open Track
Ithaca, NY
Charlottesville, VA
Finished the CGC Qualifying Event in the first six hours
The TECHx team consists of leading software analysis experts from GrammaTech, Inc. and the University of Virginia. GrammaTech and UVA are co-developers of an automatic software-hardening technology called PEASOUP ("Preventing Exploits of Software Of Uncertain Provenance").
Team Members: Dr. Michele Co, Will Hawkins, Dr. Jason Hiser, Dr. Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Ducson Nguyen, Derek Morris, Eric Rizzi, Dr. Eric Schulte
Led by: Dr. David Melski & Professor Jack Davidson
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Proposal Track
Berkeley, CA
Lausanne, Switzerland
Syracuse, NY
International team that spans 11 time zones
CodeJitsu brings together researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, Cyberhaven, and Syracuse. The CodeJitsu CRS is based on automated binary analysis and hardening.
Team Members:
UC Berkeley: Mauro Matteo Cascella, Luca Guerra, Riccardo Schirone, Jonas Wagner
Cyberhaven: Dr. Radu Banabic, Dr. Vitaly Chipounov, Dr. Aristide Fattori, Dr. Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Dr. Cristian Zamfir
Syracuse University: Yue Duan, Wei Song, Jinghan Wang, Rundong Zhou
Led by: Professor Dawn Song, Professor George Candea, Professor Heng Yin, and Researcher Chao Zhang
Proposal Track: Initially funded through a government contract with DARPA.
* Each Proposal Track and Open Track team earned a $750,000 prize at the CGC Qualifying Event to help them prepare for the CGC Final Event.
*Proposal Track