Research
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
StorFuzz: Using Data Diversity to Overcome Fuzzing Plateaus
Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),
Hallucinating Certificates: Differential Testing of TLS Certificate Validation Using Generative Language Models
Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),
The Things That Count: Coverage Evaluation Under the Microscope (Registered Report)
Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING),
Pogofuzz: Profile-Guided Optimization for Fuzzing (Registered Report)
Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING),
Large-Scale Security Analysis of Real-World Backend Deployments Speaking IoT-Focused Protocols
Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID),
Current Projects
Investigating the Impact of DNS Centralization and Regional Discrepancies on the Security, Stability, Performance, and Resilience of DNS-dependent Applications
Supported by the ICANN Grant Program.Jun 2025–May 2027Analyzing and Understanding the Increasing (Real) Centralization of the Internet
Supported by the Internet Society Foundation.Jan 2024–Aug 2026Testing and Explaining the Limits of Machine Learning for Automated Vulnerability Discovery
Joint project with Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck (TU Berlin) and Dr. Marcel Böhme (MPI Security & Privacy). Supported by the DFG Excellence Cluster CASA.Oct 2023–Oct 2026A Bayesian Framework for Automated Vulnerability Discovery
Supported by the DFG Excellence Cluster CASA.Sep 2022–Mar 2026