HI, I AM
EHSAN
FIROUZI.

SOFTWARE SECURITY RESEARCHER AT DIGIT RESEARCH CENTER

about me

I am a software engineer and security researcher, currently a researcher in the Secure Software Engineering (SSE) research group at TU Clausthal, Germany. My research interests focus on mining software repositories for security applications. I hold an M.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering with a specialization in Secure Computing from Shiraz University, obtained in 2020.

Email

Ehsan.fir@gmail.com

Ehsan Firouzi

experience

2022 - Now

Secure Software Engineering Researcher

TU Clausthal (DIGIT) • Goslar, Germany

2016 - 2022

Senior Software Developer & Software Developer Team

Pars Diamond • Shiraz, Iran

2012 - 2022

Software Expert & System Analyzer

Fars Deeds and Real Estate • Shiraz, Iran

2008 - 2010

Teaching C# & XML

Noavaran Danesh Faragir Institute • Shiraz, Iran

publications

2026

Journal

Can generative AI detect and fix real-world cryptographic misuses? PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Mohammad Ghafari

Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

2024

Journal

Time to Separate from StackOverflow and Match with ChatGPT for Encryption PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Mohammad Ghafari

Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

Conference

ChatGPT's Potential in Cryptography Misuse Detection: A Comparative Analysis with Static Analysis Tools PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Mohammad Ghafari, Mike Ebrahimi

18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

From Struggle to Simplicity with a Usable and Secure API for Encryption in Java PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Ammar Mansuri, Mohammad Ghafari, Maziar Kaveh

18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

LLM Security Guard for Code PDF

Arya Kavian, Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem Kallehbasti, Sajjad Kazemi, Ehsan Firouzi, Mohammad Ghafari

28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)

2020

Conference

On the use of c# unsafe code context: An empirical study of stack overflow PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Ashkan Sami, Foutse Khomh, Gias Uddin

14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

2019

Workshop

Visual Studio automated refactoring tool should improve development time, but ReSharper led to more solution-build failures PDF

Ehsan Firouzi, Ashkan Sami

2019 IEEE Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Interaction Histories (MAINT) Co-located with SANER

services

MSR Junior PC 2026
Student Volunteer at EASE 2025
MSR Junior PC 2025
Student Volunteer at ESEM 2024

teaching

2022-2023

Winter Semester (WS)

Secure Coding

Buffer Overflow Detection, Code Injection and Mitigation

Summer Semester (SS)

Secure IT Systems

Vulnerability in the Wild (Stack Overflow, GitHub, AI Generated Codes)

2023-2024

Winter Semester (WS)

Secure Coding

Buffer Overflow Detection, Code Injection and Mitigation

Summer Semester (SS)

Secure IT Systems

Vulnerability in the Wild (Stack Overflow, GitHub, AI Generated Codes)

contact me

Ehsan Firouzi

Email

Ehsan.fir@gmail.com