Formal Verification Research @ KU

We are interested in various research topics for improving the safety and reliability of software, including:

• Safety verification for proving the absence of vulnerabilities and errors in software.
• Symbolic execution for finding vulnerabilities and errors in software.
• Efficient decision procedures for first-order theories for making formal verification tools more practical.

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Introduction to Our Research

• Introduction to Program Analysis Techniques with Applications to Smart Contract Security.
  8 Sep 2023. GIST EECS Colloquium
  [slides]

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Recent Research Projects

• Automatically fixing security vulnerabilities in smart contracts
  [FSE'23 paper] [slides]



• Automatically finding critical bugs in SMT solvers
  [ICSE'23 paper] [slides]



• Automatically finding security vulnerabilities in smart contracts
  [USENIX Security'21 paper] [slides] [media]



• Automatically verifying the safety of smart contracts
  [IEEE S&P'20 paper] [slides]



• Automatically generating feedback for functional programming assignments
  [OOPSLA'18 paper] [slides]