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Michael McLoughlin

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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-2347-6258ORCID · reported

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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 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.

Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
2 papers
Compilers and program optimization · 87% Program verification · 13%
Network and information security
1 paper
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation › key management › public key infrastructure
certificate validation
0.912025
Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict · USENIX Security Symposium 2025
Compilers and program optimization › code generation
instruction selection
0.912025
Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA Semantics · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2025
Compilers and program optimization
verified compilation
0.912025
Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA Semantics · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2025
Program verification › system verification
end-to-end verification
0.312025
Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict · USENIX Security Symposium 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

automated verification · 0.9ISA semantics · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict
Zhengyao Lin, Michael McLoughlin, Pratap Singh, Rory Brennan-Jones, Paul Hitchcox, Joshua Gancher, Bryan Parno
USENIX Security Symposium2
2025 Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA Semantics
abstract
Secure, performant execution of untrusted code—as promised by WebAssembly (Wasm)—requires correct compilation to native code that enforces a sandbox. Errors in instruction selection can undermine the sandbox’s guarantees, but prior verification work struggles to scale to the complexity of realistic industrial compilers. We present Arrival , an instruction-selection verifier for the Cranelift production Wasm-to-native compiler. Arrival enables end-to-end, high-assurance verification while reducing developer effort. Arrival ( 1 ) automatically reasons about chains of instruction-selection rules, thereby reducing the need for develop-er-supplied intermediate specifications, ( 2 ) introduces a lightweight, efficient method for reasoning about stateful instruction-selection rules, and ( 3 ) automatically derives high-assurance machine code specifications. Our work verifies nearly all AArch64 instruction-selection rules reachable from Wasm core. Furthermore, Arrival reduces the developer effort required: 60 % of all specifications benefit from our automation, thereby requiring 2.6 × fewer hand-written specifications than prior approaches. Arrival finds new bugs in Cranelift’s instruction selection, and it is viable for integration into production workflows.
Michael McLoughlin, Ashley Sheng, Chris Fallin, Bryan Parno, Fraser Brown, Alexa VanHattum
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.1