Awards
Achievements of the MPI SoftSec group:
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2025)
- NUS Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award (2024)
- ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019)
- Monash Dean's Award for Research Excellence (ECR) (2019)
- NUS Research Achievement Award (2013)
- Google Faculty Research Award (2019)
- Google Open Source Peer Award (2023)
- CACM Research Highlight (2023)
- ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlight (2021)
- ICLR Spotlight paper (Top-5%) @ ICLR'25
- ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Paper Award @ CCS'24
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE'20
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ESEC/FSE'20
- MaxPlanckResearch Spotlight (2023) [🔗]
- Jing Liu won the Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at USENIX Sec'24 and CCS'24.
- Seongmin Lee won the CASA Jump.Start Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Seongmin Lee won the Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at USENIX Sec'24.
- Niklas Risse won 2nd place in the ACM ESEC/FSE'23 Student Research Competition.
- Marcel won the Distinguished Reviewer Award @ ICSE'25, CCS'23, ICSE'23, and ICST'22.
- Marcel was invited as a keynote speaker at RAID'24 and SBFT'25.
- Marcel will be a PC chair for two of the three largest conferences in SE: ASE'25 and ISSTA'26.
- "This is the best paper on computer security I have read. Ever." -- R. Jellinghaus (Microsoft) [🔗]
- "This work is still one of the most relevant fuzzing / vuln research papers years later."---D. Maier (Google) [🔗]
- "This is actually what it "feels" like to fuzz things. Highly recommended."---B. Falk (Gamozo Labs; Pwnie Award'20) [🔗]
- "Marcel and his collaborators have done some awesome work in fuzzing [..]."---J. Yang (MIT PhD -> Akita Founder) [🔗]
- ACM FUZZING'24, which we co-founded in '21, drew 137 registrants--⅓ of the conference (ISSTA) it was co-located with [🔗].