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📣 hogexmox

Looking for Research Ideas in Cybersecurity (Graduate Student)


Hi HN,

I'm a graduate student currently looking for a research topic in cybersecurity. I'm especially interested in analyzing source code to predict or detect vulnerabilities, but I've hit a bit of a wall and could use some fresh ideas.

If you know of any interesting or socially impactful problems—whether technical, theoretical, or policy-related—I'd really appreciate your suggestions. Anything is welcome. Thanks!

  👤 jonahbenton Accepted Answer ✓
You don't mention what wall you ran into looking at source for vulnerabilities, but- with the rapid rise of LLM generated source code, at the file, module and whole repo via agents level, a systematic analysis of vulnerabilities commonly introduced by such models, of prompt types that introduce more or fewer vulnerabilities, of agentic patterns that detect vulnerabilities, etc etc- this is a HUGE space that seems nearly completely unexplored.