ICE is an inter-disciplinary and inter-department R&D Center at ETH Zurich, formed by the SRI group (Computer Science) and the NSG group (Electrical Engineering).

Learn more about our research areas:

Safe Artificial
Intelligence
Blockchain
Security
Programmable
Networks
Machine Learning
for Programming


Start-ups

  • ChainSecurity - an ICE startup bringing the first automated formal audit platform for blockchains.
  • DeepCode - an ICE startup offering the first AI-based code review system.

Systems

The ICE center has already released a number of systems including:

  • NetDice - probabilistic verification of network configurations.
  • Securify - automatic security verification of blockchain smart contracts.
  • Bayonet - probabilistic inference and synthesis for computer networks.
  • SyNET - automatic configuration synthesis for networks and data centers.
  • Net2Text - Q&A NLP system for network and data center introspection.
  • JSNice - Statistical renaming, type inference, and deobfuscation for Java script.
  • DeGuard - Statistical deobfusacation for Android applications.
  • SDNRacer - automated detection of concurrency bugs in software-defined networks.
  • BTC-Hijack - system highlighting security flaws in existing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Publications

Probabilistic Verification of Network Configurations
Samuel Steffen, Timon Gehr, Petar Tsankov, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
ACM SIGCOMM 2020

VerX: Functional Verification of Smart Contracts
Anton Permenev, Dimitar Dimitrov, Petar Tsankov, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Martin Vechev
IEEE S&P 2020

Config2Spec: Mining Network Specifications from Network Configurations
Rudiger Birkner, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
NSDI 2020

zkay: Specifying and Enforcing Data Privacy in Smart Contracts
Samuel Steffen, Benjamin Bichsel, Mario Gersbach, Noa Melchior, Petar Tsankov, Martin Vechev
ACM CCS 2019

Learning to Fuzz from Symbolic Execution with Application to Smart Contracts
Jingxuan He, Mislav Balunovic, Nodar Ambroladze, Petar Tsankov, Martin Vechev
ACM CCS 2019

Securify: Practical Security Analysis of Smart Contracts
Petar Tsankov, Andrei Dan, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Arthur Gervais, Florian Buenzli, Martin Vechev
ACM CCS 2018

DEBIN: Predicting Debug Information in Stripped Binaries
Jingxuan He, Pesho Ivanov, Petar Tsankov, Veselin Raychev, Martin Vechev
ACM CCS 2018

DP-Finder: Finding Differential Privacy Violations by Sampling and Optimization
Benjamin Bichsel, Timon Gehr, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Petar Tsankov, Martin Vechev
ACM CCS 2018

NetHide: Secure and Practical Network Topology Obfuscation
Roland Meier, Petar Tsankov, Vincent Lenders, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
USENIX Security 2018

Bayonet: Probabilistic Inference for Networks
Timon Gehr, Sasa Misailovic, Petar Tsankov, Laurent Vanbever, Pascal Wiesmann, Martin Vechev
PLDI 2018

Inferring Crypto API Rules from Code Changes
Rumen Paletov, Petar Tsankov, Veselin Raychev, Martin Vechev
PLDI 2018

NetComplete: Practical Network-Wide Configuration Synthesis with Autocompletion
Ahmed El-Hassany, Petar Tsankov, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
NSDI 2018

Net2Text: Interactive Summarization of Network Forwarding Behaviors
Rüdiger Birkner, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
NSDI 2018

Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies
Maria Apostolaki, Aviv Zohar, Laurent Vanbever
S&P 2017.

Network-wide Configuration Synthesis
Ahmed El-Hassany, Petar Tsankov, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
CAV 2017

BigBug: Practical Concurrency Analysis for SDN
Roman May, Ahmed El-Hassany, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
SOSR 2017

SDNRacer: Concurrency Analysis for Software-Defined Networks
Ahmed El-Hassany, Jeremie Miserez, Pavol Bielik, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev
PLDI 2016

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