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18.3.2025 11:19Hint: When bidding for papers to review in #HotCRP, you can use the "search" function for topics you want to excludeOn my way to Cordoba, Argentina, speaking about personalized fuzzing at #FACAS2025 https://sites.google.com/view/facas2025/ and the #RIO2025 Summer School https://rio2025.dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar
5.3.2025 17:43On my way to Cordoba, Argentina, speaking about personalized fuzzing at #FACAS2025 https://sites.google.com/view/facas2025/ and the #RIO2025...Last year, many airport e-gates abroad would suddenly deny me immigration because my printed name “DR. ZELLER” on my 2023 passport didn’t match its “ZELLER” electronic “name” field. So I paid 70€ to get a “fixed” 2025 passport with a new separate “title” field.
14.2.2025 07:59Last year, many airport e-gates abroad would suddenly deny me immigration because my printed name “DR. ZELLER” on my 2023 passport...On my way to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology @kitcybersec.bsky.social , giving a talk on „Personalized Fuzzing“ https://cybersec.kcist.kit.edu/661.php
12.2.2025 10:15On my way to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology @kitcybersec.bsky.social , giving a talk on „Personalized Fuzzing“..."You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
30.1.2025 13:12"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."Yesterday, I gave a commencement speech for the graduates of #Passau University. "The virtue of simplicity" reflected on the role of simplicity in science, both personal and universal, and how it is important for the future career of graduates. Enjoy! https://andreas-zeller.info/2025/01/25/The-Virtue-of-Simplicity.html
25.1.2025 07:37Yesterday, I gave a commencement speech for the graduates of #Passau University. "The virtue of simplicity" reflected on the role...Happy and honored to receive the 2025 ACM @SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award "For significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.“ The citation refers to my work on interactive textbooks such as @TheFuzzingBook https://fuzzingbook.org and @TheDebuggingBook https://debuggingbook.org. Thanks to all who helped making this possible!
24.1.2025 18:38Happy and honored to receive the 2025 ACM @SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award "For significant contributions and important innovations...Congratulations to the new @ACM Fellows of 2024, including Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, @herrdreyer Derek Dreyer, @timmenzies Tim Menzies, Mira Mezini, @Bashar Bashar Nuseibeh, Abhik Roychoudhury, and Ben Zorn. What a great year this is!
23.1.2025 07:36Congratulations to the new @ACM Fellows of 2024, including Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, @herrdreyer Derek Dreyer, @timmenzies Tim...First picture of the new #CISPA building! The inner circle alone has a diameter of 100 meters.
https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saar-pfalz-kreis/sanktingbert/cispa-neubau-als-topthema-bei-neujahrsempfang-in-st-ingbert_aid-123085571?share=8754c396ebe9e28858edc291f38e8a9e
#CISPA gets a new 350M€ building in St. Ingbert, bringing all its researchers under one roof. There’s space for over 1,000 employees! https://cispa.de/en/new-cispa-building-in-igb
14.1.2025 15:00#CISPA gets a new 350M€ building in St. Ingbert, bringing all its researchers under one roof. There’s space for over 1,000 employees!...My student Björn Mathis passed his PhD exam today! In his work, he developed new methods for fuzzing and analyzing parsers, mining input grammars, and more: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ePl_ZAoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
16.12.2024 17:08My student Björn Mathis passed his PhD exam today! In his work, he developed new methods for fuzzing and analyzing parsers, mining input...My student @MaxCamillo (of GDBFuzz fame) passed his PhD exam today and will henceforth be known as Dr. Eisele. Congratulations!
12.12.2024 18:13My student @MaxCamillo (of GDBFuzz fame) passed his PhD exam today and will henceforth be known as Dr. Eisele. Congratulations!Here’s the press release: https://cispa.de/en/academia-europaea-zeller
27.11.2024 17:56Here’s the press release: https://cispa.de/en/academia-europaea-zellerToday, I was formally introduced as a new member of the prestigious #Academia #Europeana, the Scientific Academy of Europe. I felt humbled in the presence of Nobel laureates and so many most excellent scientists! https://www.ae-info.org
27.11.2024 16:21Today, I was formally introduced as a new member of the prestigious #Academia #Europeana, the Scientific Academy of Europe. I felt humbled...On my way to beautiful #Wroclaw, Poland, visiting #BuildingBridges2024 https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/News/News2/Building%20Bridges%202024
25.11.2024 08:38On my way to beautiful #Wroclaw, Poland, visiting #BuildingBridges2024...In 2000, Rob Pike said "Systems Software Research is irrelevant", criticizing three trends:
1. Don’t build, measure. (Phenomenology, not new things.)
2. Don’t go for breadth, go for depth. (Microspecialization, not systems.)
3. Take an existing thing and tweak it.
How is LLM research different?
P.S. Rob Pike's rant is here: http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
Kudos to @sten for pointing me to it!
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8.11.2024 17:31Still shocked and now looking for new opportunities? At #CISPA, we have opened a new call for Tenured Faculty in Information Security, AI,...Today at the #ASE2024 poster sessions, learn how we use #ISLa to automatically solve Web form constraints for efficient Web fuzzing (w/ Björn Karthein). Paper is here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3691620.3695600
30.10.2024 16:07Today at the #ASE2024 poster sessions, learn how we use #ISLa to automatically solve Web form constraints for efficient Web fuzzing (w/...Today 5:20pm at #ASE2024 - FixKit, a collection of five program repair approaches for Python programs. Find the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3691620.3695347
29.10.2024 21:14Today 5:20pm at #ASE2024 - FixKit, a collection of five program repair approaches for Python programs. Find the paper here:...On my way to #ASE2024, the #Lufthansa flight crew went the extra mile to make me celebrate my birthday
28.10.2024 23:13On my way to #ASE2024, the #Lufthansa flight crew went the extra mile to make me celebrate my birthday