Faculty
2024: ERC Proof of Concept Grant
2022: ACM Distinguished Member
2019: ERC Starting Grant
2013: Ernst-Denert Software Engineering Award
Emmy Noether grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Best/distinguished paper awards at FSE (3x), ISSTA, ASE, ASPLOS, and MSR
Prof. Dr. Michael Pradel is a tenured faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and a full professor at the University of Stuttgart, which he joined after a PhD at ETH Zurich, a post-doc at UC Berkeley, an assistant professorship at TU Darmstadt. He has visited Facebook, UC Berkeley, and UCLA for sabbaticals. His research interests span software engineering, programming languages, security, and machine learning, with a focus on tools and techniques for building reliable, efficient, and secure software. In particular, he is interested in neural-symbolic software analysis, analyzing web applications, dynamic analysis, and test generation. Michael has been recognized through the Ernst-Denert Software Engineering Award, an Emmy Noether grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG), two ERC grants, best/distinguished paper awards at FSE (3x), ISSTA, ASE, ASPLOS, and MSR, and by being named an ACM Distinguished Member.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Resource Usage and Optimization Opportunities in Workflows of GitHub Actions
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Beware of the Unexpected: Bimodal Taint Analysis
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
When to Say What: Learning to Find Condition-Message Inconsistencies
ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
Finding the Dwarf: Recovering Precise Types from WebAssembly Binaries
Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Wobfuscator: Obfuscating JavaScript Malware via Opportunistic Translation to WebAssembly
International Conference on Software Engineering - Companion (ICSE-Companion)
CrystalBLEU: Precisely and Efficiently Measuring the Similarity of Code
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Nessie
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Thinking Like a Developer? Comparing the Attention of Humans with Neural Models of Code
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Preventing Dynamic Library Compromise on Node.js via RWX-Based Privilege Reduction