- Mar 2024
- Brent Pappas has won Faculty Cluster Initiative Student Scholarship from UCF. Congrats, Brent!
- Jan 2024
- Our paper "Maximizing Patch Coverage for Testing of Highly-Configurable Software without Exploding Build Times" has been accepted to FSE 2024!
- Nov 2023
- Martin de Salterain has joined the lab.
- Aug 2023
- Our paper "Semantic Analysis of Macro Usage for Portability" by Brent Pappas and Paul Gazzillo was accepted to ICSE 2024!
- June 2023
- Sanan Hasanov has reported a Linux Kernel bug that resulted in CVE-2023-3161.
- June 2023
- Sanan Hasanov will be interning at Margin Research Security. Congrats, Sanan!
- May 2023
- I was awarded a planning grant with Myra Cohen to develop community infrastructure for configurability research.
- May 2023
- Brent Pappas will be interning at Trail of Bits. Congrats, Brent!
- Apr 2023
- Rodrigo Vena Garcia has joined the lab!
- Feb 2023
- Sharu Abraham has joined the lab!
- Oct 2022
- Our paper "Bringing Together Configuration Research: Towards a Common Ground" by Paul Gazzillo and Myra B. Cohen was accepted to Onward 2022 Essays!
- Aug 2022
- Sanan Hasanov and Austin Lee Davis have joined the lab!
- Aug 2022
- I am excited to be joining the program committee for PLDI 2023.!
- Jun 2022
- Necip and I gave a talk at the Open Source Summit North American (slides).
- Jun 2022
- Stephen Maldonado has joined the lab!
- May 2022
- Tsehai Boucaud has joined the lab!
- May 2022
- First LKML bug report after Intel 0-day integrated kismet (code, paper), our Kconfig dependency analyzer, into their test robot! Thanks to Intel 0-day for the collaboration and congratulations to all the students (Necip, Jeho, and Julian)!
- Mar 2022
- I am excited to be joining the program committee for ISSRE 2022!
- Dec 2021
- Our paper "SugarC: Scalable Desugaring of Real-World Preprocessor Usage into Pure C" by Zach Patterson, Zenong Zhang, Brent Pappas, Shiyi Wei, and Paul Gazzillo was accepted to ICSE 2022!
- Sep 2021
- I gave a talk at the Open Source Summit Europe (slides).
- Sep 2021
- Zoran Kolega has joined the lab!
- Aug 2021
- I gave a talk at ESEC/FSE on "Finding Broken Linux Configuration Specifications by Statically Analyzing the Kconfig Language" (slides).
- Aug 2021
- I've received the DARPA Young Faculty Award!
- Aug 2021
- New graduate students have joined the lab: Julian and Kaarthik (who were both previously undergraduate researchers), Brent, and Ronaldo.
- May 2021
- Our paper "Finding Broken Linux Configuration Specifications by Statically Analyzing the Kconfig Language" by Jeho Oh, Necip Fazıl Yıldıran, Julian Braha, and Paul Gazzillo was accepted to ESEC/FSE 2021!
- Apr 2021
- I gave a talk at FOSD 2021, "Helping Linux Maintainers Localize Configurations: Progress towards a Comprehensive Solution" (slides) (demo).
- Feb 2021
- Our paper "SeMPE: Secure Multi Path Execution Architecture for Removing Conditional Branch Side Channels" by Andrea Mondelli, Paul Gazzillo, and Yan Solihin was accepted to DAC 2021!
- Nov 2020
- I gave a talk at ESEC/FSE on "Inferring and Securing Software Configurations using Automated Reasoning" (slides).
- Oct 2020
- I gave a talk at the Open Source Summit Europe (slides).
- Aug 2020
- I am excited to be joining the program committee for PLDI 2021!
- Aug 2020
- Necip Yildiran joined as a graduate research assistant.
- July 2020
- My paper "Inferring and Securing Software Configurations Using Automated Reasoning" was accepted into the ESEC/FSE 2020 Visions & Reflections track!
- June 2020
- Jeho Oh joined as a visiting graduate research assistant.
- May 2020
- Kmax Tool Suite Version 2.0 has been released.
- Mar 2020
- I gave a talk (video) (slides) at LibrePlanet 2020 along with Josh Santana.
- Jan 2020
- Congratulations to Julian Braha on his acceptance to a DAAD RISE research internship.
- Jan 2020
- My NSF CAREER award is now official!
- Jan 2020
- Alexandra Arriola and Reeder Ward have joined as undergraduate research assistants.
- Jan 2020
- Went on a podcast to discuss privacy considerations for consumer smart devices.
- Dec 2019
- Went on local news to discuss tips for consumer cybersecurity.
- Oct 2019
- Julian Braha, Kai Garcia, Jacob Thomas, and Connor Westcott ran our Stem Day event "What Is Inside My Computer?".
- Oct 2019
- Genoveva Fossas has joined as an undergraduate research assistant.
- Aug 2019
- I gave a talk, "Good Engineering Makes for Good Science", at The Third ROSE Festival at ESEC/FSE 2019
- Aug 2019
- Sayma Sultana has joined as a graduate research assistant.
- Aug 2019
- Our paper, "Conflict Abstractions and Shadow Speculation for Optimistic Transactional Objects", has been accepted to APLAS 2019!
- Aug 2019
- A pre-release of the latest version of Kmax with many new improvements to performance, functionality, documentation, and testing.
- July 2019
- Kaarthik Alagappan and Julian Braha will be working with me as undergraduate research assistants.
- July 2019
- Preprint of "An Empirical Study of Real-World Variability Bugs Detected by Variability-Oblivious Tools" now available.
- June 2019
- Our challenge solution paper "t-wise Coverage by Uniform Sampling" was accepted to the SPLC Challenge Track.
- June 2019
- I hosted Computer Science sessions at UCF's Camp Connect.
- June 2019
- Slides from my talk "Conditional Compilation is Dead, Long Live Conditional Compilation!" at ICSE 2019 now available.
- June 2019
- Our journal article "Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts" was accepted to the journal Distributed Computing.
- May 2019
- Our paper, "An Empirical Study of Real-World Variability Bugs Detected by Variability-Oblivious Tools", has been accepted to ESEC/FSE!
- May 2019
- I gave a guest talk at SNAPL, "Can We Replace the Preprocessor by Extending C?".
- May 2019
- I gave an invited talk, "Security Considerations for Highly-Configurable Software", at the 1st International Conference on Smart Tourism, Smart Cities and Enabling Technologies.
- April 2019
- Josh Santana and Pradheep Kethi-Reddy will be working with me over the summer thanks to generous funding from the NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates.
- Jan 2019
- Jin Koay has joined as an undergraduate research assistant.
- Dec 2018
- Our paper "Conditional Compilation is Dead, Long Live Conditional Compilation!" has been accepted to ICSE NIER!
- Sep 2018
- I gave a talk on our SPLC Challenge Track paper "Localizing Configurations in Highly-Configurable Systems".
- Aug 2018
- Joined University of Central Florida as an assistant professor.
- May 2018
- I was awarded a collaborative grant from the NSF on analyzing configurable systems.
- Apr 2018
- I am excited to be joining UCF as an assistant professor this August!
- Mar 2018
- We contributed "How to add concurrency to smart contracts" to the new Distributed Computing column of the Bulletin of the EATCS.
- Feb 2018
- I'm excited to be on the program committee for the SPLC Challenge Track. Try solving one of the challenges!
- Jan 2018
- Our paper "On-the-Chain Proofs for 'Off-the-Chain' Safety" was accepted at WTSC 2018!
- Jan 2018
- Our SPLC challenge case, "Localizing Configurations in Highly-Configurable Systems", has been accepted!
- Sep 2017
- Our smart contract concurrency paper was featured on the morning blog.
- Aug 2017
- Slides from my talk on "Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts" at PODC 2017 now available.
- Jul 2017
- Slides from my ESEC FSE 2017 talk on Kmax now available.
- Jul 2017
- Preprint of ESEC/FSE 2017 paper on Kmax now up.
- Jul 2017
- I gave a talk at PODC 2017 on "Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts".
- Jun 2017
- Video and slides of my PLDI 2017 talk on our timing channel static analysis work now available.
- Jun 2017
- My paper on Makefile analysis will appear at ESEC/FSE 2017.
- Jun 2017
- I gave a talk at PLDI 2017 on our timing channel static analysis paper.
- Jun 2017
- Gave a talk at NEPLS on our upcoming PLDI 2017 paper
- May 2017
- Our paper "Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts" will appear at PODC 2017.
- Mar 2017
- Gave a talk at FOSD 2017 on "Enabling Variability-Aware Software Tools"
