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Nov 2026 đŸ“ș Mohannad appeared on Al Jazeera to discuss recent cyber attacks on the financial sector — watch the segment.
Nov 2026 đŸ”„ Honored to be invited to serve on the USENIX SAIS’27 Program Committee.
Oct 2026 đŸ”„ Honored to be invited to serve on the SafeOSE ‘27 Program Committee (NDSS Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Open-Source Ecosystems and Standards).
Aug 2026 đŸ”„ Honored to be invited to serve on the NeurIPS FLMSec 2026 Program Committee.
Jul 2026 đŸ—Łïž Mohannad has been invited by Huawei’s Edinburgh Research Centre to deliver a talk on “Agentic AI Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities”.
Jun 2026 đŸŽ€ Mohannad has been invited as a panelist at the Edinburgh Bayes Coffee House panel “Agentic Programming: New Development Paradigm and Infrastructure in the AI Era”.
Jun 2026 đŸ—Łïž Mohannad delivered an invited talk, “From Research to Impact“, to the QCRI Summer 2026 intern cohort.
Feb 2026 đŸ”„ Our paper “BACFuzz: Exposing the Silence on Broken Access Control Vulnerabilities in Web Applications” has been accepted to DIMVA’26!
Nov 2025 đŸ”„ I discovered a critical bug in Syft SBOM generation tools, affecting software supply chain security.
Jul 2025 đŸ”„ I started my appointment as a Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI).
Jun 2025 đŸ”„ Our paper “An Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Large Language Models for Repairing Declarative Formal Specifications” has been accepted to EMSE’25!
May 2025 🏆 Our DSN’25 paper received the Distinguished Artifact Award!
Apr 2025 đŸ”„ Honored to be invited to serve on the IEEE S&P’26 Program Committee.
Mar 2025 đŸ”„ Our paper “Towards More Dependable Specifications: An Empirical Study Exploring the Synergy of Traditional and LLM-Based Repair Approaches” has been accepted to DSN’25!
Jan 2025 đŸ”„ I started my appointment as Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg.
Oct 2024 đŸ”„ Our paper “DepsRAG: Towards Agentic Reasoning and Planning for Software Dependency Management” has been accepted to the NeurIPS’24 Workshop on Open-World Agents!
Sep 2024 đŸ”„ Our patent “Computer Implemented Program Specialization” has issued (US 20220357933A1).
Aug 2024 đŸ”„ Two papers accepted to FEAST’24: “SoK: Software Debloating Landscape and Future Directions” and “Software Debloating from Exception-Handler Lenses”.
Jan 2024 đŸ”„ Released Python Dependency Chatbot (RAG over Knowledge Graph). Also, our patent “Method and Apparatus for Improved Security in Trigger Action Platforms” has issued (US 11856000B2).
Dec 2023 đŸ”„ Paper “Machine Learning Systems are Bloated and Vulnerable” accepted to SIGMETRICS’24. Also invited to serve on the CCS’24 TPC Software Security Track.
Nov 2023 đŸ”„ Our ONR grant “Holistic Debloating in the Age of LLM Technology” is funded. Thank you, ONR!
Jul 2023 đŸ”„ Released Langroid, a multi-agent LLM application framework for developers.
Jun 2023 đŸ”„ ONR open-sourced the tech-transferred versions of our debloating tools LMCAS and SLASH.
Dec 2022 đŸ”„ Paper “autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation with Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning” accepted to IEEE TSE.
Sep 2022 đŸ”„ Paper “Robust Learning against Relational Adversaries” accepted to NeurIPS’22 (oral-designated).
Jun 2022 đŸ”„ Paper “IoTCOM: Dissecting Interaction Threats in IoT Systems” accepted to IEEE TSE.
Feb 2022 đŸ”„ Paper “Lightweight, Multi-Stage, Compiler-Assisted Application Specialization” accepted to Euro S&P’22.
Jul 2021 đŸ”„ Paper “Practical Data Access Minimization in Trigger-Action Platforms” accepted to USENIX Security’22. Our debloating tool was accepted for Tech Transfer by ONR.
Apr 2020 🏆 Paper “Scalable Analysis of Interaction Threats in IoT Systems” (ISSTA’20) received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!
Dec 2018 đŸ”„ Paper “Detecting Vulnerable Android Inter-App Communication in Dynamically Loaded Code” accepted to INFOCOM’19.