Security Research Methods and Contribution Questions

Focuses on methodologies for security and vulnerability research and how researchers document and contribute findings. Candidates should be able to formulate research questions, design experiments or testbeds, apply static and dynamic analysis, fuzzing, reverse engineering, and instrumentation techniques, analyze results, and validate exploits or fixes. Understand responsible disclosure practices, coordination with vendors, vulnerability reporting workflows, and ethical and legal considerations. Be familiar with academic research practices for reproducibility, documentation, peer review, and publishing contributions to the security and cryptographic literature where applicable.