Awards

🏆 Major awards

• ERC Consolidator Grant (2025)
  Highest distinction for a mid-career researcher in Europe [🔗].
• NUS Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award (2022)
  Recognition of NUS alumni who have brought honour to the University/School [🔗].
• ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019)
  Highest distinction for an early-career researcher in Australia [🔗].

🏅 Achievements

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ISSTA'25
• Spotlight paper @ ICLR (2025): Top-5% of accepted.
• Keynote @ SBFT (2025): Benchmarks are our measures of progress. Or are they?
• Keynote @ RAID (2024): How to solve cybersecurity once and for all.
  Invited as opinion piece @ IEEE Security and Privacy (Vol. 23; Issue 3).
• ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Paper Award @ CCS'24
• CACM Research Highlight (2023)
• Google Open Source Peer Award (2023)
• MaxPlanckResearch Spotlight (2023) [🔗]
• ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlight (2021)
• Monash Dean's Award for Research Excellence (ECR) (2019)
• Google Faculty Research Award (2019)
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE'20
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ESEC/FSE'20
• NUS Research Achievement Award (2013)

⚡ Peer esteem for individual group members:

• Marcel was invited as a PC chair for two of the top-4 conferences in SE: ASE'25 and ISSTA'26 (2025).
• Seongmin gave an invited tutorial at SBFT'25 on the magic of statistics for software testing (2025).
• Jing Liu won the Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at USENIX Sec'24 and CCS'24 (2024).
• Seongmin Lee won the CASA Jump.Start Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024).
• Seongmin Lee won the Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at USENIX Sec'24 (2024).
• Niklas Risse won 2nd place in the ACM ESEC/FSE'23 Student Research Competition (2023).
• Marcel won the Distinguished Reviewer Award @ ICSE'25, CCS'23, ICSE'23, and ICST'22 (2022-25).

❤️ Some love from the community:

• "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 [🔗].

🤓 Invitations to Expert Panels:

• CASA Summer School w/ E. Redmiles (Georgetown U), K. Rieck (TU Berlin), M. Lorenzi (Inria), T. Schneider (TU D'mund). 2025
• SBFT Panel of Experts w/ P. Krishnan (Oracle Labs), A. Arrieta (Mondragon U), and A. Crump (CISPA). 2025
• ERC Mock Panel (Chair) w/ F. Sarro (UCL), P. Tonella (UCI), and C. Cadar (Imperial College). 2025
• NUS Fuzzing Summer School w/ A. Aarya (Google), M. Payer (EPFL), V.T. Pham (Melbourne U), and A. Zeller (CISPA). 2024
• EPFL SuRI Summer School w/ H. Corrigan-Gibbs (MIT), M. Yu (Harvard), D. Balzarotti (EURECOM), A. Gorla (IMDEA), K. Winstein (Stanford) and others. 2023
• It Will Never Work in Theory w/ P. Devanbu (UC Davis), S. Zhou (U of Toronto), A. Serebrenik (TU Eindhoven), A. Mirian (UCSD) and others. 2023
• SBST (Search-based Software Testing) Panel of Experts w/ A. Zeller (CISPA), L. Briand (Luxembourg), M. Harmann (UCL/Meta), M. Cohen (Iowa), and P. Tonella (USI). 2022
• University of Zürich IFI Colloqium w/ Reid Holmes (UBC) and others. 2022
• Microsoft DS3 Panel on Fuzzing w/ J. Campbell (Principal SE @ Microsoft) and K. Serebryany (Principal SE @ Google). 2021
• ISSTA Discussion with Experts w/ M. Payer (EPFL). 2021
• ISSTA Summer School w/ E. Bodden (Paderborn / Fraunhofer IEM), C. Le Goues (CMU), S. Chandra (Meta), and others. 2021
• ETH Zürich, Workshop on Dependendable and Secure Software Systems w/ D. Gark (MPI-SWS), G. Candea (EPFL), N. Xie (Cambridge), J. Gottschlich (Intel), B. Cook (Amazon), N. Polikarpova (UCSD), and A. Miltner (UT Austin). 2021
• FuzzCon Europe w/ C. Lemieux (UC Berkeley), C. Holler (Mozilla), K. Serebryany (Google), A. Zeller (Saarland/CISPA), R. Amarnath (Bosch) and others. 2020