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Cristian Cadar is Professor of Software Reliability in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Software Reliability Group, working on automatic techniques for increasing the reliability and security of software systems. Cristian’s research has been recognised by several prestigious awards, including the EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Award, the HVC Award, the BCS Roger Needham Award, the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, and the ACM CCS Test of Time Award. He also received an ERC Consolidator Grant and an EPSRC Early-Career Fellowship. Many of the research techniques he co-authored have been open-sourced and used by several groups in both academia and industry. In particular, he is co-author and the principal maintainer of the KLEE symbolic execution system, a popular system with a large user base. Cristian has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, and undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Contributions
2025
ESEC/FSE
2024
FUZZING
ISSTA
2030 Software Engineering
ESEC/FSE
FormaliSE
KLEE
- Author of Closing Remarks within the KLEE 2024-track
- Chair in Program Committee within the KLEE 2024-track
- Author of Mixed Fixed-point and Floating-point Symbolic Execution within the KLEE 2024-track
- Session Chair of Opening & Keynote (part of KLEE 2024)
- Author of Opening Remarks within the KLEE 2024-track
2023
FormaliSE
ESEC/FSE
- Author of Working with students, Building your research team within the New Faculty Symposium-track
- Session Chair of Empirical Studies I (part of Research Papers)
- Author of Breakout groups on "Proposal writing", "Picking research problems and promoting your work", and "Working with students, Building your research team" within the New Faculty Symposium-track
- Author of Picking research problems and promoting your work within the New Faculty Symposium-track
- Author of An Introduction to Compiler Fuzzing: State of the Art and Open Challenges within the Tutorials-track
- Panelist in Program Committee within the New Faculty Symposium-track
FUZZING
ISSTA
- Author of KDAlloc: The KLEE Deterministic Allocator within the Tool Demonstrations-track
- Author of GrayC: Greybox Fuzzing of Compilers and Analysers for C within the Technical Papers-track
- Session Chair of ISSTA 9: Testing 2 (part of Technical Papers)
- PC Member in Technical Papers within the Technical Papers-track
2022
ESEC/FSE
- Session Chair of Opening session + Distinguished paper awards (part of Plenary Events)
- Author of Past-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Symbolic Execution within the ESEC/FSE 2020-track
- Session Chair of Keynote II - Impact Paper Award by Gail Murphy (part of Plenary Events)
- Committee Member in Test of Time Award Committee
- Program Co-Chair in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
- Program Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Session Chair of ESEC/FSE 20 Services & APIs (part of ESEC/FSE 2020)
ISSTA
ICSE
- Committee Member in Mentors within the SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop-track
- Session Chair of Papers 3: Reliability and Safety (part of Technical Track)
- Session Chair of Reliability and Safety 1 (part of Technical Track)
- Panelist of Funding strategies within the NFS - New Faculty Symposium-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Technical Track-track