Paul Gazzillo

Recent Publication

Check out our paper from NIER track of ICSE 2026 “Build Code is Still Code: Finding the Antidote for Pipeline Poisoning” by Brent Pappas and Paul Gazzillo, where we propose “development phase isolation” as an antidote to pipeline poisoning, the cause of several recent high-profile attacks on software.

Publications

APPLeSEEd Lab

The Applied Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Education (APPLeSEEd) Lab tackles problems in software, security, and systems and cultivates computational thinking.

People

CyberSP Cluster

The Cyber Security and Privacy (CyberSP) Cluster is a university-wide research cluster formed as part of the Faculty Cluster Initiative that focuses on security and privacy in cyberspace.

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Paul Gazzillo is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. He received his PhD from NYU and previously worked as a Post-Doc at Yale and a Research Scholar at Stevens Institute. His research aims to make it easier to develop safe and secure software, and it spans program analysis, software engineering, and security. Projects include analysis of configurable software, software supply chain security, and corporate entity tracking. His work has been published in venues such as ICSE, ESEC/FSE, and PLDI and has been recognized with a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and an ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlight.

News

May 2026: Ryan Garfinkel is continuing in the lab as a PhD student!
May 2026: David Gusmao has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
Apr 2026: Brent Pappas gave a talk at ICSE NIER 2026 on our recent paper.
Apr 2026: I am excited to be joining the program committee for ASE NIER 2026!
Apr 2026: Arthur Amorim has received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
Mar 2026: Arthur's paper "From High-Level Types to Low-Level Monitors: Synthesizing Verified Runtime Checkers for MAVLink" has been accepted to NFM 2026!
Mar 2026: Javi's paper "Predicting Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Using Simple Metrics" has been accepted to CSCSU 2026!

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