Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

Assistant Professor, New York University

Joined

July 2019

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Emails

****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

New York University (nyu.edu)

2015 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Sal Stolfo

2014 – 2015

PhD Advisor

Wenke Lee

2008 – 2014

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

CRAKEN: Cybersecurity LLM Agent with Knowledge-Based Execution
Minghao Shao, Haoran Xi, NANDA RANI, Meet Udeshi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Kimberly Milner, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Sandeep K. Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
From Trace to Line: LLM Agent for Real-World OSS Vulnerability Localization
Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Muhammad Shafique, Ramesh Karri
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities
Talor Abramovich, Meet Udeshi, Minghao Shao, Kilian Lieret, Haoran Xi, Kimberly Milner, Sofija Jancheska, John Yang, Carlos E Jimenez, Farshad Khorrami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Muhammad Shafique, Karthik R Narasimhan, Ramesh Karri, Ofir Press
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
NYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security
Minghao Shao, Sofija Jancheska, Meet Udeshi, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Haoran Xi, Kimberly Milner, Boyuan Chen, Max Yin, Siddharth Garg, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
StarCoder: may the source be with you!
Raymond Li, Loubna Ben allal, Yangtian Zi, Niklas Muennighoff, Denis Kocetkov, Chenghao Mou, Marc Marone, Christopher Akiki, Jia LI, Jenny Chim, Qian Liu, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Terry Yue Zhuo, Thomas Wang, Olivier Dehaene, Joel Lamy-Poirier, Joao Monteiro, Nicolas Gontier, Ming-Ho Yee, Logesh Kumar Umapathi et al. (38 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

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Career & Education History

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Expertise

Publications

CRAKEN: Cybersecurity LLM Agent with Knowledge-Based Execution

From Trace to Line: LLM Agent for Real-World OSS Vulnerability Localization

EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities

NYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security

StarCoder: may the source be with you!

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