Paul Gazzillo

Paul Gazzillo is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, affiliated with the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD from New York University and has held postdoctoral positions at Yale University and Stevens Institute of Technology. His research focuses on making software development safer and more secure, with emphasis on program analysis, software engineering, and security. Key areas include analyzing configurable software systems, securing software configurations, and mitigating side-channel attacks.

Education: PhD in Computer Science (NYU, 2016), MS (NYU, 2011), BS in Computer Science and Mathematics (Rutgers, 2003). Awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2020) and DARPA Young Faculty Award (2021). He leads the APPLeSEEd Lab and contributes to the Cyber Security and Privacy Research Cluster at UCF.

Research highlights include tools like Krepair, Kismet, and SugarC for analyzing and securing software configurations. His work has been published in top venues such as ICSE, FSE, and PLDI. He actively mentors students in PhD, MS, and undergraduate research, focusing on topics like configuration-aware fuzzing and macro semantics.

Grants include NSF funding for projects on configuration security and corporate entity tracking. Teaching includes courses on compilers, operating systems, and program analysis. He serves on program committees for major conferences and contributes to academic and industry outreach programs like Camp Connect and STEM Day.