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Neil P. Thimmaiah
dblp:406/6889
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-1834-6567ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Systems and software security · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program analysis · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security › exploitation
exploit generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | FIXX: FInding eXploits from eXamples · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Systems and software security
vulnerability discovery |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | FIXX: FInding eXploits from eXamples · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Program analysis
dynamic analysis |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | FIXX: FInding eXploits from eXamples · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
example-based learning · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SemFinder: A Semantics-Based Approach to Enhance Vulnerability Analysis in Web ApplicationsabstractModern web applications are becoming increasingly complex. They include multiple dynamic runtime constructs that are difficult to analyze by static application security testing (SAST) tools. These tools often use a graph representation of the code for their analysis. However, built statically, such graphs may miss important data and control flows dependent on runtime information. In addition, the presence of difficult-to-analyze code patterns in modern web applications, referred to as testability tarpits, further reduces the accuracy of statically built graphs. As a result, current SAST tools have several false negatives because of 'hidden' paths, which are not present in the graphs. In this paper, we present SemFinder, an approach designed to automatically detect such hidden paths. SemFinder uses natural language semantics to hypothesize connections between different locations in the code based on the meaning and similarity of the variables in those locations and test those hypotheses dynamically. We evaluate SemFinder on 30 PHP applications and discover 215 new exploitable hidden paths with respect to existing SAST tools, leading to the submission of 31 new CVEs. Neil P. Thimmaiah, Rigel Gjomemo, V. N. Venkatakrishnan |
CODASPY | 1 |
| 2025 | FIXX: FInding eXploits from eXamples
Neil P. Thimmaiah, Yashashvi J. Dave, Rigel Gjomemo, V. N. Venkatakrishnan |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |