Congratulations to SeclaBU for an impressive showing at 33rd USENIX!
Boston University Security Lab (SeclaBU) researchers published five papers, receiving a Distinguished Paper Award, at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, considered one of the most competitive venues for computer systems research. The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium only accepted 417 papers out of 2,276 submissions (acceptance rate of 18%).
SeclaBU USENIX Security Symposium publications included:
Distinguished Paper Award: “HYPERPILL: Fuzzing for Hypervisor-bugs by Leveraging the Hardware Virtualization Interface”
Authors: Alexander Bulekov, EPFL, Boston University, and Amazon; Qiang Liu, EPFL and Zhejiang University; Manuel Egele, Boston University; Mathias Payer, EPFL
“Pandawan: Quantifying Progress in Linux-based Firmware Rehosting”
Authors: Ioannis Angelakopoulos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Manuel Egele, Boston University
Authors: Rasoul Jahanshahi and Manuel Egele, Boston University
“Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation“
Authors: Pujan Paudel, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Rebecca Auger, Chris Wells, and Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University
“PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter”
Authors: Pujan Paudel and Chen Ling, Boston University; Jeremy Blackburn, Binghamton University; Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University
The Security Lab (SeclaBU) in the ECE Department at Boston University is led by ECE Professors Manuel Egele and Gianluca Stringhini. The lab works on securing software systems from threats such as software vulnerabilities, attacks, and other types of malicious and harmful activity. The members of the lab apply a variety of techniques from a number of fields (program analysis, machine learning, computational social science) to better understand such systems and the way in which people interact with them and misuse them, with the goal of coming up with solutions that are both effective and practical. Research from the lab is routinely published in top computer security venues (IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, Usenix Security) and top Web and measurement venues (WWW, ACM IMC, AAAI ICWSM).