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Valentin Wüstholz

@vwuestholz.bsky.social

Principal Researcher and Co-founder at Diligence Security, previously at Consensys, ETH Zürich, UT Austin, Microsoft Research, and Google

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🎉 Excited to share that our paper "ARGUZZ: Testing zkVMs for Soundness and Completeness Bugs" was accepted to USENIX Security 2026.

Joint work with @vwuestholz.bsky.social and Maria Christakis

📑 Paper: mariachris.github.io/Pubs/SECURIT...
💻 Repository: github.com/Rigorous-Sof...

16.01.2026 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
YouTube video by Antithesis From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical

Youtube: youtu.be/oF7krd0TQks

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2PH7...

Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

26.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Are conference reviewers harsher when they have a submission of their own? My area of academia runs mainly on conferences, as opposed to journals. This means that a few times each year, hundreds of researchers simultaneously submit papers about their latest and greatest p…

Are conference reviewers harsher when they have a submission of their own? Post from @wicko3.bsky.social

johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...

20.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

📣 Fuzzing community: Stop obsessing over incremental metrics and objectives. We're stuck in a local optimum! True progress requires a focus on novelty and paradigm shifts to advance the state of the art. Let's innovate, not just optimize.

26.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Presented our #CCS25 paper yesterday in Taipei! 🎤

We introduce Circuzz, the first systematic fuzzing framework for zero-knowledge (ZK) pipelines.

📄 Paper: mariachris.github.io/Pubs/CCS-202...
💻 Repo: github.com/Rigorous-Sof...

with @isychev.bsky.social, @vwuestholz.bsky.social, Maria Christakis

15.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

03.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 3974    🔁 2407    💬 40    📌 140

The future of software engineering: "My program doesn't have bugs! 😡These are just some bad vibes!" 😎

07.05.2025 04:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our department in lovely Freiburg has an opening for a Full Professorship (W3) on Software Engineering (succession of Andreas Podelski) with a more technical and formal focus uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

26.03.2025 16:38 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
FUZZING'25 Workshop @ ISSTA The 4th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING) 2025 welcomes all researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners to present their latest research findings, empirical analyses, t...

#FUZZING'25 Deadline Extension
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If you have not finished your #FUZZING paper yet, you are in luck! :) We decided to extend the deadline to March 26, 2025!

🔗 fuzzingworkshop.github.io

//cc @rohan.padhye.org, László Szekeres,
@ruijiemeng.bsky.social, @mboehme.bsky.social

21.03.2025 12:26 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Tenure-Track Faculty in all areas related to Information Security and Artificial Intelligence (f/m/d) - extended call | CISPA | Jobs

Want security in research? And research in security? Actually, why not have both? "In view of the current geopolitical landscape", #CISPA has opened a new round of faculty positions, including CySec, SE, ML, theory:
jobs.cispa.saarland/jobs/detail/...

20.03.2025 10:37 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

📣 I have open PhD and postdoc positions in "Practically Usable Verification for Numerical Programs", located in Uppsala, Sweden.
Deadline to apply: 22 April. Start date is flexible.
Find the links to ad and application portals on my website: malyzajko.github.io

13.03.2025 15:37 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0