CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (expected 2026)
- University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
- Advisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Gazzillo
- Member of APPLeSEEd Lab
Bachelor of Engineering, Baku Higher Oil School, 2017 - 2022

Aug 2022 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant
- University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
- Duties include: Leading a team in kernel configuration research, engineering and deploying automation scripts, initiating configuration-aware fuzzing for Linux kernel security, and authoring research papers.
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Gazzillo
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024: Summer Intern
- Trail of Bits, New York City, NY
- Duties included: Contributing to value generation logic for Medusa, utilizing goroutines for data extraction and corpus collection, and refactoring the tracing logic of Medusa.
- Supervisor: Anish Naik
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023: Security Research Intern
- Margin Research, New York City, NY
- Duties included: Developing tools for open-source repositories, integrating custom security tools into the Reagent platform, and authoring a guide on smart contract vulnerabilities.
- Supervisor: Ian Roos

Can You Fuzz Me Now? Overcoming Configuration Blind Spots via Configuration-aware Kernel Fuzzing. Preprint 2023. Authors: Sanan Hasanov, Stefan Nagy, Paul Gazzillo. View Paper
A Little Goes a Long Way: Tuning Configuration Selection for Continuous Kernel Fuzzing. 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025. Authors: Sanan Hasanov, Stefan Nagy, Paul Gazzillo. View Paper