About

I'm Brad Swain, a security engineer at Trail of Bits. Find me on GitHub.

Writing

• Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions — Trail of Bits, 2025
• Don't recurse on untrusted input — Trail of Bits, 2025

Talks

• Low-Effort DoS with Recursion — DistrictCon Year 0, 2025
• OMPRacer: A Scalable and Precise Static Race Detector for OpenMP Programs — SC20, 2020

Publications

• PUS: A Fast and Highly Efficient Solver for Inclusion-based Pointer Analysis — ICSE 2022. Distinguished Paper Award.
  Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Bradley Swain, Jeff Huang
• OpenRace: An Open Source Framework for Statically Detecting Data Races — Correctness @ SC 2021.
  Bradley Swain, Bozhen Liu, Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Addison Crump, Rohan Khera, Jeff Huang
• OMPRacer: A Scalable and Precise Static Race Detector for OpenMP Programs — SC20.
  Bradley Swain, Yanze Li, Peiming Liu, Ignacio Laguna, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Jeff Huang