Robert McLaughlin

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I am a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara. I study smart contract security and decentralized finance. I am advised by Giovanni Vigna and Christopher Kruegel.

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Recent Publications

The Power of Default: Measuring the Effect of Slippage Tolerance in Decentralized Exchanges

Nir Chemaya, Dingyue Liu, Robert McLaughlin, Nicola Ruaro, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published in Financial Cryptography, 2024

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Not your Type! Detecting Storage Collision Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Nicola Ruaro, Fabio Gritti, Robert McLaughlin, Ilya Grishchenko, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published in NDSS, 2024

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A Large Scale Study of the Ethereum Arbitrage Ecosystem

Robert McLaughlin, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published in USENIX Security, 2023

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Confusum Contractum: Confused Deputy Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Fabio Gritti, Nicola Ruaro, Robert McLaughlin, Priyanka Bose, Dipanjan Das, Ilya Grishchenko, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published in USENIX Security, 2023

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Regulator: Dynamic Analysis to Detect ReDoS

Robert McLaughlin, Fabio Pagani, Noah Spahn, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published in USENIX Security, 2022

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