Austin Babcock is pursuing his Master's in Computer Science at Dakota State University, where he works as a security researcher at VERONA Lab under Dr. Bramwell Brizendine. Austin has extensively studied code-reuse attacks, doing research into the fundamentals of Jump-oriented Programming (JOP) in the Windows environment, in addition to developing JOP exploits. Austin also currently works at VERONA Lab with Dr. Brizendine on developing a shellcode analysis framework that is supported by an NSA grant.