Twelfth LangSec Workshop

at IEEE Security & & Privacy, May 21, 2026

Workshop Program

Twelfth Language-theoretic Security (LangSec) IEEE Security & Privacy Workshop

Preliminary Program (All times are in US Pacific time)

8:30-8:40amOpening Words from the Organizers.
8:45-9:00amIn Memoriam Felix 'FX' Lindner
9:00-10:00amKeynote (Session chair: Sergey Bratus): Building a Security DSL Flywheel with Automated Reasoning, Tristan Ravitch (Amazon Web Services).
10:00-10:30amBreak
10:30am-12:00pmFirst Session: Research Papers (Session chair: TBA)
Seventy Years of Parsing: Theoretical and Practical Consequences, Zephyr Lucas (Dartmouth), Prashant Anantharaman (Narf Industries) and Sean Smith (Dartmouth).
JunId: Empowering Static Analysis with Asymptotically Optimal Intersection with Incomplete Sentences, Eric Alata (LAAS-CNRS, INSA) and Pierre-François Gimenez (Univ. Rennes, Inria, IRISA).
CBCL: Safe Self-Extending Agent Communication, Hugo O'Connor (Anuna Research).
PAPI: Provenance-Aware Parse Insertion for LangSec Mediation, J Peter Brady and Sean W Smith (Dartmouth).
noon-1:15pmLunch
1:15-2:15pmKeynote (Session chair: TBA): From Proof to Practice: Extracting Verified Programs to Modern C++, Joomy Korkut (Bloomberg).
2:15-2:45pm Second Session: Papers and Research Reports (Session chair: TBD)
Object-centric Tracing for Language-Theoretic Security in Low-Level Interfaces, Imani Palmer, Edmond Rogers and Rob Adams (UIUC).
PICKLEFUZZER: A Case Study in Fuzzing for Discrepancies Between Python Pickle Implementations, Justin Applegate and Andreas Kellas (Columbia U.).
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:30pmInvited talk: Large Language Models for Software Specification Synthesis, Julien Vanegue (Bloomberg).
3:30-5:00pmPanel: LangSec and AI for formal methods.
5:00-5:05pmClosing words from organizers