Stefan Nagy
I'm an Assistant Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2022 and my Bachelor's from The University of Illinois in 2016.
Broadly, I am interested in security, software, and systems. Some areas I work in include software testing, binary analysis, vulnerability triage, and bug repair. I am especially interested in making efficient and effective quality assurance possible for opaque and otherwise challenging software and systems.
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3446 Merrill Engineering (MEB) 50 Central Campus Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 |
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| snagy@cs.utah.edu | |
| +1 801-581-8224 |
| Application / Kernel Security: | ICSE'25 CCS'23 ACSAC'22 ICSE'18 |
| Binary Reverse Engineering: | CCS'21 USENIX'21 Oakland'19 |
| Security Ethics / Education: | ISTAS'19 ICDF2C'15 |
| Digital Forensics: | SADFE'15 ICDF2C'15 |
| CS 4440: Introduction to Computer Security | Website |
| CS 5963 / 6963: Applied Software Security Testing | Website |
A Little Goes a Long Way: Tuning Configuration Selection for Continuous Kernel Fuzzing.
Sanan Hasanov, Stefan Nagy, and Paul Gazzillo.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25).
No Linux, No Problem: Fast and Correct Windows Binary Fuzzing via Target-embedded Snapshotting.
Leo Stone, Rishi Ranjan, Stefan Nagy, and Matthew Hicks.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'23).
Profile-guided System Optimizations for Accelerated Greybox Fuzzing.
Yunhang Zhang, Chengbin Pang, Stefan Nagy, Xun Chen, and Jun Xu.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23).
The Fun in Fuzzing: The Debugging Technique Comes into Its Own.
Stefan Nagy, Peter Alvaro.
ACM Queue Magazine.
One Fuzz Doesn’t Fit All: Optimizing Directed Fuzzing via Target-tailored Program State Restriction.
Prashast Srivastava, Stefan Nagy, Matthew Hicks, Antonio Bianchi, and Mathias Payer.
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'22).
Practical Feedback and Instrumentation Enhancements for Performant Security Testing of Closed-source Executables.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Ph.D. Thesis).
Same Coverage, Less Bloat: Accelerating Binary-only Fuzzing with Coverage-preserving Coverage-guided Tracing.
Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'21).
Breaking Through Binaries: Compiler-quality Instrumentation for Better Binary-only Fuzzing.
Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'21).
A Case Study on a Sustainable Framework for Ethically Aware Predictive Modeling.
Thomas Lux, Stefan Nagy, Mohammed Almanaa, Sirui Yao, Reid Bixler.
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'19).
Full-speed Fuzzing: Reducing Fuzzing Overhead through Coverage-guided Tracing.
Stefan Nagy, Matthew Hicks.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland'19).
Secure Coding Practices in Java: Challenges and Vulnerabilities.
Na Meng, Stefan Nagy, Danfeng Yao, Wenjie Zhuang, Gustavo Argoty.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18).
Digital Forensics Education: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum Model.
Imani Palmer, Elaine Wood, Stefan Nagy, Gabriela Garcia, Masooda Bashir, Roy Campbell.
International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C'15).
Schedule-Based Side-Channel Attack in Fixed-Priority Real-time Systems.
Chien-Ying Chen, Amiremad Ghassami, Stefan Nagy, Man-Ki Yoon, Sibin Mohan, Negar Kiyavash, Rakesh B Bobba, Rodolfo Pellizzoni.
Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship.
An Empirical Study on Current Models for Reasoning about Digital Evidence.
Stefan Nagy, Imani Palmer, Sathya Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou, Roy Campbell.
Intl. Conf. on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE'15).
