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Dr. Michael Rodler

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Bio

Michael Rodler was a research assistant at the system security lab at the University Duisburg-Essen. He did his PhD on Software (In)Security of Smart Contracts and Trusted Enclaves. Currently, he is working for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Curriculum Vitae

YearPosition / Study Program
2017 - 2022Research Assistant at University Duisburg-Essen
10/2013 - 06/2017Master degree course Computer Science at Technical University Graz (graduated with Dipl.-Ing. equivalent to MSc)
10/2009 - 07/2013Study program Secure Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Campus Hagenberg (graduated with BSc)

Honours and Awards

Publications

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  • Oussama Draissi, Tobias Cloosters, David Klein, Michael Rodler, Marius Musch, Martin Johns and Lucas Davi: Wemby’s Web: Hunting for Memory Corruption in WebAssembly. In: ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Trondheim, Norway, 34. Edition, jun 2025.   [DOI]
  • Jens-Rene Giesen, Sebastien Andreina, Michael Rodler, Ghassan Karame and Lucas Davi: HCC: A Language-Independent Hardening Contract Compiler for Smart Contracts. In: Proc. of 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Springer, Munich, Germany, 2025.  
  • Michael Rodler, David Paaßen, Wenting Li, Lukas Bernhard, Thorsten Holz, Ghassan Karame and Lucas Davi: EF/CF: High Performance Smart Contract Fuzzing for Exploit Generation. In: Proc. of 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroSP), , jul 2023.  
  • Jens-Rene Giesen, Sebastien Andreina, Michael Rodler, Ghassan O. Karame and Lucas Davi: Tutorial: Analyzing, Exploiting, and Patching Smart Contracts in Ethereum. In: Proc. of 7th IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), , oct 2022.  
  • Lukas Bernhard, Michael Rodler, Thorsten Holz and Lucas Davi: xTag: Mitigating Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities via Software-Based Pointer Tagging on Intel x86-64. In: Proc. of 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, , jun 2022.  
  • David Paaßen, Sebastian Surminski, Michael Rodler and Lucas Davi: My Fuzzer Beats Them All! Developing a Framework for Fair Evaluation and Comparison of Fuzzers. In: Proc. of 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Volume 2021, Springer International Publishing, Darmstadt, oct 2021.  
  • Michael Rodler, Wenting Li, Ghassan O. Karame and Lucas Davi: EVMPatch: Timely and Automated Patching of Ethereum Smart Contracts. In: Proc. of 30th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, aug 2021.  
  • Tobias Cloosters, Michael Rodler and Lucas Davi: TeeRex: Discovery and Exploitation of Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in SGX Enclaves. In: Proc. of 29th USENIX Security Symposium, , aug 2020.  
  • Sridhar Adepu, Ferdinand Brasser, Luis Garcia, Michael Rodler, Lucas Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Saman Zonouz: Control Behavior Integrity for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems. In: 11th IEEE/ACM Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'20), , apr 2020.  
  • Michael Rodler, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame and Lucas Davi: Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks. In: Proc. of 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), , feb 2019.  
  • Sebastian Surminski, Michael Rodler and Lucas Davi: Poster: Automated Evaluation of Fuzzers. In: Proc. of 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), , feb 2019.  
  • Thomas Eder, Michael Rodler, Dieter Vymazal and Markus Zeilinger: ANANAS - A Framework for Analyzing Android Applications.Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2013 Eighth International Conference on, nov 2013.   [DOI]

    • Talks

    • Rodler, Michael: Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks. ACM AFT, 21st Oct 2019, Zürich.
    • Rodler, Michael: Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 27th Feb 2019, San Diego.

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