Marcus Botacin
Assistant Professor at AppThreat
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Botacin is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University specializing in malware research, malware sandbox development, antivirus evaluation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics with 11 years of experience. He earned advanced degrees from UNICAMP and UFPR in Brazil, where his doctoral and graduate work included deep study of Brazilian financial/banking malware. At TAMU he combines academic research with industry-facing roles as a scientific advisor to AppThreat and CYMDALL, translating research into practical defenses. He actively mentors students and builds tooling that helps bridge academic analysis and operational threat detection. Marcus’s background spans hands-on malware analysis and systems security engineering, making him equally fluent in empirical evaluation and tool development. Based in College Station, he brings international training and a track record of turning forensic insights into deployable security techniques.
11 years of coding experience
Mestrado em Ciências da Computação, Segurança de Sistemas Computacionais, Mestrado em Ciências da Computação, Segurança de Sistemas Computacionais at Universidade Estadual de CampinasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
user-friendly9
angr8
python7
memory-safety6
type-safety6
malware6
clang6
monitoring5
programming-language4
system-programming4
typesafe3
llvm3
material-design1
compiler1
reverse-engineering1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marcusbotacin/marcusbotacin.github.io
Sep 2021 - Jul 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:305 pushes in 4 years 10 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
marcusbotacin/Automated.Malware.Generation
Jan 2023 - May 2026
Additional code and data for the automated malware generation paper
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
malware
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