Valentin Wüstholz
vwuestholz.bsky.social
Valentin Wüstholz
@vwuestholz.bsky.social
Principal Researcher and Co-founder at Diligence Security, previously at Consensys, ETH Zürich, UT Austin, Microsoft Research, and Google
📣 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.
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
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
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
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...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The future of software engineering: "My program doesn't have bugs! 😡These are just some bad vibes!" 😎
May 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
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...
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uni-freiburg.de
March 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
#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
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...
fuzzingworkshop.github.io
March 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
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/...
Tenure-Track Faculty in all areas related to Information Security and Artificial Intelligence (f/m/d) - extended call | CISPA | Jobs
jobs.cispa.saarland
March 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Valentin Wüstholz
📣 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
March 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM