SAS 2026

Welcome to the website of the 33rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2026). Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served for more than 30 years as the primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area.

The Symposium will be held from October 6th to 8th at the Oakland Marriott City Centre hotel.

The winner of the 2026 Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award is Sebastien Bonduelle for the paper Determinism Analysis and its Application to Evaluation Order Independence.

Static Analysis 33rd International Symposium, SAS 2026, Oakland, CA, USA, October 6–8, 2026, Proceedings

Keynotes and Tutorials

Agentic Code Reasoning

Satish Chandra

Automated Repair of Pluggable Type Checker Warnings

Manu Sridharan

Thread-Modular Abstract Interpretation with Goblint

Michael Schwarz, Vesal Vojdani

Static Analysis of Quantum Programs

Jens Palsberg

Accepted Papers

Call for Papers

Static Analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served for over 30 years as the primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area.

Topics

The technical program for SAS 2026 will consist of invited lectures and presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcomed on all aspects of program analysis, including, but not limited to:

• Abstract interpretation
• Automated deduction
• Data flow analysis
• Debugging techniques
• Deductive methods
• Emerging applications
• Model-checking
• Data science
• Program optimizations and transformations
• Program synthesis
• Program verification
• Machine learning and verification
• Security analysis
• Tool environments and architectures
• Theoretical frameworks
• Type checking
• Distributed or networked systems

Apart from the above topics, SAS 2026 welcomes papers in two special topics:

1. Static Analysis and AI: Focusing on the application of static analyzers to enhance Code LLMs and Coding Agents, and conversely, the utilization of Code LLMs and Coding Agents to improve static analyzers.
2. Static Analysis and Education: Covering tools and techniques for teaching static analysis to undergraduate and graduate students, and strategies for incorporating static analysis into CS education, particularly in lower-division undergraduate courses.

All paper submissions will be evaluated on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.

We welcome regular papers as well as papers focusing on any of the following in the NEAT (New questions/areas, Experience, Announcement, Tool) category:

• Well-motivated discussion of new questions or new areas.
• Experience with static analysis tools, Industrial Reports, and Case Studies
• Brief announcements of work in progress
• Tool papers

If you are submitting to the NEAT category rather than as a regular paper, please ensure your submission title is formatted as: “NEAT: your original paper title”. Note that both regular and NEAT submissions share the same page limits.

Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. We do not impose a page limit for submitted papers but we encourage brevity as reviewers have a limited time that they can spend on each paper. With the exception of NEAT papers, all papers will follow a double-blind reviewing process. The identity of the authors for the NEAT papers will be therefore known to the reviewers.

Papers must be written and presented in English. A submitted paper must describe original work and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings.

All submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. The review process will include a rebuttal period where authors have the opportunity to respond to preliminary reviews on the paper.

Radhia Cousot Award

The program committee will select an accepted regular paper for the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award in memory of Radhia Cousot and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, as well as being one of the main promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences.

Artifacts

As in previous years, we encourage authors to submit a virtual machine image containing any artifacts and evaluations presented in the paper. Artifact submission is optional. Artifact evaluation will be concurrent with paper review. For more details, please visit the SAS 2026 Artifacts page.

Submission Details

Double-Blind Requirement

All regular papers will follow a double-blind process, where author names and affiliations are hidden for the review. To facilitate this process, submitted regular papers must adhere to the following: (1) Author names and affiliations must be omitted and (2) References to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure.

NEAT Papers Content

New problems papers are an opportunity to discuss visions, challenges, experiences, problems, and impactful solutions in the field of static analysis from both a research and applications perspective. Such papers are encouraged to take assertive positions and be forward-looking and aim for lively and insightful discussions that are influential to future research directions in static analysis. NEAT papers will be handled in singe-blind way. User experience & Industrial reports & Case studies papers describe the use of static analysis in industrial settings or in any chosen application domains. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present original research results but are expected to contain applications of static analysis as well as a comprehensive evaluation in the chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting, reflect on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience, and compare experiences with different analyzers highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Brief announcements of work in progress papers may describe work in progress. A submission that is not selected for regular presentation may be invited for a brief announcement.

Submission Guidelines

The SAS 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in their LNCS series. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, for LaTeX, Overleaf, or Word, for the preparation of their papers. The corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.