Joey Defrancesco

About Joey Defrancesco

Vulnerability Researcher/Engineer at MIT Lincoln Labratory - Cyber-Physical Systems [About Me]Programmer/Hacker that enjoys low-level system programming, reverse engineering, exploitation, embedded system development, hardware design and tinkering. I have been programming since the end of middle school. I generally write most of my code in C/Python/Go. Sure. I’ll use Rust if I am forced…. Most of my current research endeavors involve Computer Hardware/IoT/Embedded-Systems. Recently, I have been doing work that combines security and AI/LLM/ML technologies… As it’s a relatively newer area of research (with respect to its impact on security and society) there are a ton of interesting problems to solve and questions to answer.In general, I like exploring and tinkering with new technologies/software/hardware. I oppose technical dogma, but I obviously have preferences for certain tools. Some of my favorites: neoVim, zsh/tmux, Binary Ninja/IDA Pro, GDB, and macOS/Linux. TS/SCIGitHub:

Experience

1. Vulnerabilty Research Cyber-physical Systems

   MIT Lincoln Laboratory

   Oct 2022 — Present · Lexington, MA, US

Education

• West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  Mathematics and Computer Science

• Penn State University

  Computer Science

  2008 — 2010

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Unix
• Arm 64 Assembly
• Ethical Hacking
• Mysql
• Web Development
• C++
• X86 Assembly
• Php
• Software Engineering
• Sql
• Linux
• Css
• Penetration Testing
• Operating Systems
• Java
• Html5
• Javascript
• Objective-C
• Perl
• Visual Basic
• Os X
• Reverse Engineering
• C
• Programming