Publications
As our faculty and students work to stay one step ahead of cyber threats, they are also making significant contributions to the body of literature that defines the cybersecurity field. Because our CCS-affiliated researchers are quite prolific in presenting at conferences and publishing in distinguished journals, it is not feasible to keep a comprehensive running list of all their publications. So, on this page, we recognize only those papers that received awards, either at the time of publication, or later on in acknowledgement of the continuing impact of the research.
If you are interested in reading more about the work of a particular CCS researcher, go directly to his or her webpage.
Names in boldface are affiliated with the Center for Cybersecurity, or were at the time the paper was written.
Distinguished Publications by CCS Researchers
All Publications: CCS Google Scholars
“Orion: A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Deep Learning”
Austin Ebel, Karthik Garimella, and Brandon Reagen
Best Paper, 2025 ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025
“Rethinking Trust in Forge-Based Git Security”
Aditya Sirish A. Yelgundhalli, Patrick Zielinski, Reza Curtmola, and Justin Cappos
Distinguished Paper Award, 32nd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2025
“Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community”
Kejsi Take, Victoria Zhong, Chris Geeng, Emmi Bevensee, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt
Honorable Mention, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social, 2024.
“Artemis: Defanging Software Supply Chain Attacks in Multi-repository Update Systems”
Marina Moore, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy, and Justin Cappos
Distinguished Paper with Artifacts, 2023 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2023
“Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions”
Hammond Pearce, Baleegh Ahmad, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, and Ramesh Karri
Best Machine Learning and Security Paper at the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, 2022.
“EdgeNet: A Multi-Tenant and Multi-Provider Edge Cloud”
Berat Can Senel, Maxime Mouchet, Justin Cappos, Olivier Fourmaux, Timur Friedman, and Rick McGeer
Best Paper Award at the 4th International Workshop of Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, April 2021
“Charting a Course Through Uncertain Environments: SEA Uses Past Problems to
Preston Moore, Justin Cappos, Phyllis Frankl, and Thomas Wies
Best Paper Award at the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019).
“Prevalence of Confusing Code in Software Projects – Atoms of Confusion in the Wild”
Daniel Gopstein, Henry Zhou, Phyllis Frankl, and Justin Cappos
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018)
“Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code”
Dan Gopstein, Jake Iannacone, Yu Yan, Lois Anne DeLong, Yanyan Zhuang, Martin K-C Yeh, and
Justin Cappos
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award of the 2017 Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2017)
Frank Imeson, Ariq Emtenan, Siddharth Garg, and Mahesh V. Tripunitara
Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013
“Survivable Key Compromise in Software Update Systems”
Justin Samuel, Nick Mathewson, Justin Cappos, and Roger Dingledine
Finalist for the 2010 CSAW AT&T Award for Best Applied Security Research Paper at the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’10)
“Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces“
Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno
Paper originally presented at the 20th USENIX Security Conference in 2011. Recognition awarded in August 2025