| May 26, 2026 |
Our new preprint, SEC-bench Pro, evaluates frontier models on long-horizon vulnerability discovery across browser engines and the Linux kernel.
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| May 18, 2026 |
Joined  OpenAI as a Research Intern for summer 2026.
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| May 06, 2026 |
Our new preprint, Agentic Vulnerability Reasoning on COTS Binaries, introduces SLYP for end-to-end vulnerability discovery and validation on production binaries.
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| Apr 01, 2026 |
Recognized by  Microsoft as a Most Valuable Security Researcher for 2026 Q1, marking four consecutive quarterly recognitions.
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| Sep 22, 2025 |
Awarded $10k in credits from OpenAI for my research on AI for Cybersecurity
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| Sep 18, 2025 |
SEC-bench has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Main Track
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| Jul 17, 2025 |
Listed on MSRC’s 2025 Most Valuable Security Researcher Leaderboard along with 10+ CVEs
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| May 19, 2025 |
Started Applied Scientist Intern position at  for this summer!
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| May 21, 2024 |
BENZENE awarded the Distinguished Paper Award (<1% of 1463 submissions) at IEEE S&P 2024 
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| May 01, 2024 |
Our illinoiSE team has advanced to the DARPA AIxCC Semifinals! (Awarded $20k in credits)
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| Jul 11, 2023 |
BENZENE accepted in IEEE S&P 2024 
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