Brian Demsky is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include programming languages, software engineering, security, compilation, parallel software, program analysis, and program understanding. He received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 1998, his M.S. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2001, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2006.