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.
Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS)
An Empirical Study of Information Flows in Real-World JavaScript
The Web Conference (WWW)
Anything to Hide? Studying Minified and Obfuscated Code in the Web
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
Leaky Images: Targeted Privacy Attacks in the Web.
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
SYNODE: Understanding and Automatically Preventing Injection Attacks on NODE.JS
Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE)
Saying ‘Hi!’ is not Enough: Mining Inputs for Effective Test Generation
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Monkey see, monkey do: effective generation of GUI tests with inferred macro events
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
SyncProf: detecting, localizing, and optimizing synchronization bottlenecks
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Nomen est omen
Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE)
Bita: Coverage-Guided, Automatic Testing of Actor Programs