Awards

🏆 Major awards

ERC Consolidator Grant (2025)
Highest distinction for a mid-career researcher in Europe.
NUS Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award (2024)
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

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