All News
- Mar 2025 Invited opinion piece on how to solve cybersecurity once and for all soon to appear at IEEE S&P journal (Vol.23, Issue 3)!
- Feb 2025 Our paper on a beautiful statistical riddle about the undiscovered is an ICLR’25 Spotlight (Top 5%). Congrats Seongmin!
- Dec 2024 We won an ERC Consolidator grant 🏆 (2M €; 5 years), i.e., the first ERC CoG in SE (and 3rd in Security) in Europe in 5 years!
- Oct 2024 We are excited to host an amazing set of researchers in the past and coming months: Eleonora Losiouk (U of Padova, IT; 4m), Neil Walkinshaw (U of Sheffield, UK; 2d), Yizheng Chen (UMD, US; virtual), Andreas Zeller (CISPA; 2d), Abhik Roychoudhury (NUS, SG; 1wk).
- Oct 2024 Marcel gave a keynote at RAID’24 and has been invited to serve as program chair of ASE’25 and ISSTA’26.
- Oct 2024 Our CCS’24 paper on finding side-channels due to future microarchs won the ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Paper Award.
- Jul 2024 Paper on the statistical program analysis for privacy accepted at ICSE’25! Congrats to Seongmin and Shreyas!
- Apr 2024 Paper on evaluating the capabilities of ML for vulnerability discovery accepted at USENIX Sec’24. Congrats Nikas!
- Feb 2024 Marcel is honored and incredibly grateful to receive the NUS Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award!
- Dec 2023 Niklas Risse wins 2nd place in the ACM ESEC/FSE Student Research Compentition. Congrats Niklas!
- Oct 2023 Our discovery of a connection between fuzzing and information theory is this month’s CACM research highlight! CACM is the monthly journal sent to all members of the ACM. The CACM Technical Perspective was written by the amazing Prof Gordon Fraser.
- Oct 2023 Paper on protocol fuzzing equipped with LLMs to interrogate protocol RFCs accepted at NDSS’24! Congrats Ruijie and team!
- Oct 2023 Teaching a seminar on software and network security with Kevin Borgolte! Looking forward to the papers and experiments!
- Aug 2023 Created a new web presence for the MPI Software Security Group.
- Aug 2023 Co-organized the CASA Summer School on Software Security in Bochum. Thanks to all the speakers and participants!
- Aug 2023 Two papers on statistical reasoning about programs accepted at ESEC/FSE’23 and ASE’23. Congrats Seongmin and Nikhil et al.!
- Jul 2023 Journal extension of our work on human-in-the-loop automatic program repair to appear at the IEEE TSE! Congrats Charaka et al!
- Jun 2023 Co-organized the FUZZING’23 workshop and the SBFT Fuzzing Tool Competition! Great way to catch up.
- Apr 2023 Featured in Max Planck Research Magazin: Schlupfloch im Programm (German).