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        							<img class="img-responsive center-block" itemprop="image" src="/files/11292//sean_suit.jpg" alt="Personal photo - Sean Heelan" /></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-dark-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><p><strong> <span itemprop="givenName">Sean</span> <span itemprop="familyName">Heelan</span> <span itemprop="honorificSuffix"></span></strong></p><p></p><div itemprop="jobTitle" class="indent">Doctoral Student</div><p></p><p></p><div class="indent"><span itemprop="jobTitle">Student</span>, <span itemprop="memberof" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://www.schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="url" content="http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk"><a href="http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk" class="panel-link"><span itemprop="legalName">Balliol College</span></a></span></div><p></p>Leaving date: 21st October 2020<p class="no-bottom-margin"></p></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-light-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"></div></div></div></div><h2>Selected Publications</h2><p><a href="/people/publications/date/Sean.Heelan.html" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">View All</a><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/manage" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">Manage publications</a></p><ul class="list-unbulleted list-unbulleted-spaced"><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Gollum: Modular and Greybox Exploit Generation for Heap Overflows in Interpreters </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Sean Heelan&#x201a; Tom Melham and Daniel Kroening  </em> </p>
	
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security</em>.
        
                Pages 1689&#x2013;1706.
            New York&#x201a; NY&#x201a; USA.
        2019.
        ACM.
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  				</li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Automatic Heap Layout Manipulation for Exploitation </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Sean Heelan&#x201a; Tom Melham and Daniel Kroening  </em> </p>
	
	
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            In  
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            27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18)</em>.
        
                Pages 763&#x2013;779.
            Baltimore&#x201a; MD.
        2018.
        USENIX Association.
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