Ghassan Misherghi

email: web@gmw6.com

phone: `0x34762DE8D`

Postal address:

Ghassan Misherghi
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

publications

HDD: Hierarchical Delta Debugging.
Ghassan Misherghi and Zhendong Su.
Deckard: Scalable and Accurate Tree-based Detection of Code Clones.
Lingxiao Jiang, Ghassan Misherghi, Zhendong Su, and Stephane Glondu.
A General, Formal Framework for Evaluating Firewall Optimization Techniques.
Ghassan Misherghi, Lihua Yuan, Zhendong Su, Chen-Nee Chua, and Hao Chen.
Techniques for specifying bug patterns.
Daniel J. Quinlan, Richard W. Vuduc, and Ghassan Misherghi.
My masters thesis. Very similar to the HDD paper above, but with syntactically correct simplifiers generated automatically from language grammars.

software

HDD (requires antlr 2.7.7, swig, and python 2.5).
maxmem: a tool to determine the peak memory usage of a process in Linux. Rather than periodic sampling, maxmem checks memory use after all system calls.
My bashrc detects and configures any applications installed in ~/apps/. Uninstalling an application is as simple as rm -rf ~/apps/application_name.

about me

I'm a software engineer at Google. I attained my B.S. and M.S. from UC Davis. Writing software is a lot of fun: it's part craftsmanship, part maths, part empiricism, and part design. I recommend Peter Seibel's "Coders at Work" for some interviews that highlight many approaches to software development. I consider simplicity a virtue, and I try to apply that to many facets of my life. I enjoy music; my favorite sources include Tortoise, Silversun Pickups, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Radiohead. I play the piano from time to time. I enjoy food, but don't have a favorite cuisine.

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