Corina Pasareanu
Principal Systems Scientist, CyLab
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Corina Pasareanu is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, working at NASA Ames. She is affiliated with KBR and Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab. Her research interests include model checking, symbolic execution, compositional verification, probabilistic software analysis, autonomy, and security. She is the recipient of several awards, including ETAPS Test of Time Award (2021), ASE Most Influential Paper Award (2018), ESEC/FSE Test of Time Award (2018), ISSTA Retrospective Impact Paper Award (2018), ACM Impact Paper Award (2010), and ICSE 2010 Most Influential Paper Award (2010). She has been serving as Program/General Chair for several conferences including: ICSE 2025, SEFM 2021, FM 2021, ICST 2020, ISSTA 2020, ESEC/FSE 2018, CAV 2015, ISSTA 2014, ASE 2011, and NFM 2009. She is on the steering committees for ICSE, ESEC/FSE and ISSTA conferences. She is currently an associate editor for IEEE TSE and for STTT, Springer Nature.
Projects:
Enabling One-Line Rust Verification with Program Synthesis (AWS, Co-PI), Machine Learning for JavaScript Vulnerability Detection (C3.ai DTI, PI), Verifiable Personalization for Federated Learning (CyLab, PI), HUGS: Human-Guided Software Testing and Analysis for Scalable Bug Detection and Repair (NSF, PI), Safety of shared control in autonomous driving (Safe-SCAD) (Assuring Autonomy International Programme, Co-PI), Provably Robust Deep Learning (DARPA GARD, co-PI), Mera: Memoized Ranged Systematic Software Analyses (NSF, Co-PI), ISSTAC: Integrated Symbolic Execution for Space-Time Analysis of Code (DARPA, Co-PI), Symbolic PathFinder: Symbolic Execution for Java Bytecode (NASA, Main developer).
More information can be found on her personal webpage.
Education
2001 Ph.D., Computer Science, Kansas State University
1995 MS, Computer Science, University Politehcnica of Bucharest
1994 BS, Computer Science, University Politehcnica of Bucharest
Affiliations
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- authentication and passwords
- automotive and transportation security and privacy
- blockchain
- compositional verification
- cryptography
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- cybersecurity + privacy
- data security and privacy
- Formal methods
- formal methods for security
- language-based security
- ML and AI
- model checking and automated testing
- model-based development
- network security
- privacy
- probalistic software analysis
- protocol security
- security
- security of AI and ML
- software engineering
- software security
- systems security
- Usability and human behavior
- verification
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty earn Amazon Research Awards
CyLab’s Limin Jia, Bryan Parno and Corina Pasareanu recently received Amazon Research Awards in the category of automated reasoning.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
First round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers awarded AI security funding
CyLab’s Giulia Fanti, Corina Pasareanu, and Vyas Sekar have been awarded research funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
“Adulting” for cybersecurity, GANs, and more: CyLab’s 2022 seed funding awardees
Over $400K in seed funding has been awarded to 18 different faculty and staff across seven departments at Carnegie Mellon to support security and privacy research.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab names 2021 Presidential Fellows
Four high-achieving CyLab Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research have been awarded CyLab Presidential Fellowships.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
New tool automatically finds buffer overflow vulnerabilities
A team of CyLab researchers have designed a new tool that automatically checks for memory bugs—the types of bugs that can lead to buffer overflow exploits, a commonly deployed cyberattack.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Corina Pasareanu receives ETAPS’ Test of Time Award
Corina Pasareanu, a researcher in CyLab, has received a Test of Time Award from the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab’s Corina Pasareanu and colleagues receive $1.2 million grant to develop automated bug-finding techniques
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, UC-Berkeley, and UC-Santa Barbara to develop automated bug-detection and repair techniques that work at large scales.
CMU Silicon Valley
CMU-SV’s Top 10 of 2018
We are counting down to the new year with CMU-SV’s top 10 of 2018, celebrating novel projects, awards, and research wins from this past year.
CMU Engineering
Ready for takeoff
A team of researchers and students at CMU-SV are using simulation and AI technologies to optimize flight departure and arrival schedules for safety and efficiency.
CMU Engineering
Celebrating NASA with a history of collaboration
As NASA turns 60, the College of Engineering celebrates its history of partnerships with NASA: from research and competitions, to the CMU-SV campus located at NASA’s Ames Research Park.
CMU Engineering
Reducing complexity to increase security
Carnegie Mellon University team receives $7.5M ONR grant for software complexity reduction, or simplifying complex internet protocols to build greater security.