Publications


2025

A Little Goes a Long Way: Tuning Configuration Selection for Continuous Kernel Fuzzing.
Sanan Hasanov, Stefan Nagy, and Paul Gazzillo.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25).


2023

No Linux, No Problem: Fast and Correct Windows Binary Fuzzing via Target-embedded Snapshotting.
Leo Stone, Rishi Ranjan, Stefan Nagy, and Matthew Hicks.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'23).


2023

Profile-guided System Optimizations for Accelerated Greybox Fuzzing.
Yunhang Zhang, Chengbin Pang, Stefan Nagy, Xun Chen, and Jun Xu.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23).


2023

The Fun in Fuzzing: The Debugging Technique Comes into Its Own.
Stefan Nagy, Peter Alvaro.
ACM Queue Magazine.


2022

One Fuzz Doesn’t Fit All: Optimizing Directed Fuzzing via Target-tailored Program State Restriction.
Prashast Srivastava, Stefan Nagy, Matthew Hicks, Antonio Bianchi, and Mathias Payer.
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'22).



2021

Same Coverage, Less Bloat: Accelerating Binary-only Fuzzing with Coverage-preserving Coverage-guided Tracing.
Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'21).


2021

Breaking Through Binaries: Compiler-quality Instrumentation for Better Binary-only Fuzzing.
Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'21).


2019

A Case Study on a Sustainable Framework for Ethically Aware Predictive Modeling.
Thomas Lux, Stefan Nagy, Mohammed Almanaa, Sirui Yao, Reid Bixler.
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'19).


2019

Full-speed Fuzzing: Reducing Fuzzing Overhead through Coverage-guided Tracing.
Stefan Nagy, Matthew Hicks.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland'19).


2018

Secure Coding Practices in Java: Challenges and Vulnerabilities.
Na Meng, Stefan Nagy, Danfeng Yao, Wenjie Zhuang, Gustavo Argoty.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18).


2015

Digital Forensics Education: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum Model.
Imani Palmer, Elaine Wood, Stefan Nagy, Gabriela Garcia, Masooda Bashir, Roy Campbell.
International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C'15).


2015

Schedule-Based Side-Channel Attack in Fixed-Priority Real-time Systems.
Chien-Ying Chen, Amiremad Ghassami, Stefan Nagy, Man-Ki Yoon, Sibin Mohan, Negar Kiyavash, Rakesh B Bobba, Rodolfo Pellizzoni.
Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship.


2015

An Empirical Study on Current Models for Reasoning about Digital Evidence.
Stefan Nagy, Imani Palmer, Sathya Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou, Roy Campbell.
Intl. Conf. on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE'15).