Biography

I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of King’s College London, and part of the Cybersecurity Group (CYS).

My research interests lie at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, with particular focus on intrusion detection, adversarial ML, and systems security.

I am looking for strong Ph.D. students to join my research group. If you are interested, send me an email with your CV.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science as a member of WEBLab at University of Modena (Italy) in March 2017, and I spent most of 2016 as a visiting research scholar at University of Maryland, College Park (US). I have then held a two-year PostDoctoral position in the Systems Security Research Lab (S2Lab) in the UK.

• Nov 2019: Invited in Artifact Evaluation Committee of USENIX Security 2020
• Oct 2019: Invited for a presentation at SoSySec seminar at IRISA (Rennes, France) in Apr 2020
• Oct 2019: Invited in TPC of DIMVA 2020
• Oct 2019: We are presenting 3 research posters at Avast’s CyberSecAI Prague
• Sep 2019: Started as Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at King’s College London
• Aug 2019: Invited in TPC of AAAI 2020
• Aug 2019: Presented TESSERACT at the USENIX Security Symposium 2019
• Jul 2019: Our POSTER: Realistic Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem-Space has been accepted for presentation at USENIX Security Symposium!
• Apr 2019: Invited in the TPC of AISec (CCS workshop).
• Mar 2019: Camera ready of TESSERACT now available.
• Mar 2019: Our paper “DBank: Predictive Behavioral Analysis of Recent Android Banking Trojans” has been accepted at IEEE TDSC! More details soon.
• Feb 2019: Our paper “TESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time” has been accepted at USENIX Security Symposium 2019!
• Feb 2019: Member of TPC for Poster Track of IEEE S&P (Oakland).
• Feb 2019: Invited in the TPC of IEEE NCA 2019.
• Jan 2019: Attending USENIX ENIGMA 2019, where Prof. Cavallaro will present some of our findings on experimental bias in ML for security. See you in San Francisco! ✈

• Apr 2020: Presentation at SoSySec seminar at IRISA (Rennes, France)
• Aug 2019: TESSERACT paper presentation at USENIX Security Symposium (Video)
• Nov 2017: Network Security Analytics for Detection of Advanced Cyberattacks, invited talk at Dartmouth College, US

Technical Program Committee

• 2020: AAAI, DIMVA
• 2019: AAAI, IJCAI, Poster Track of IEEE S&P (Oakland), CARDS, AISec (CCS workshop), IEEE Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
• 2018: IJCAI-ECAI, IEEE BDAA Workshop, IEEE Smart Industries Workshop
• 2017: IEEE Network Computing and Applications (NCA)

Shadow Technical Program Committee

• 2019: IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland)
• 2018: IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland)

Artifact Evaluation PC

• 2020: USENIX Security
• 2019: ACSAC, USENIX WOOT, SOSP
• 2018: ACSAC

Workshop Chair

• 2019: CARDS

Review Service

• 2019: ACM Trans. Privacy and Security (TOPS), IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE S&P Magazine, IEEE Trans. Big Data, IEEE Trans. Engineering Management, Elsevier FGCS, Springer UK Books, Applied Sciences Journal
• 2018: IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (JMLC), Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications
• 2017: IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications
• 2016: IEEE Trans. Computational Social Systems (TCSS)

Sub-review service

• 2019: USENIX Security, ACM The Web Conference (WWW), IEEE Euro S&P, DIMVA, RAID
• 2018: ACM CCS, ACSAC, ARES Conference, Deep Learning for Security (DLS) Workshop (co-located IEEE Symp. S&P), ACM CODASPY
• 2017: IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing (TCC)
• 2016: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE NetSciCom
• 2015: IEEE Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications

2020

• Lecturer (Module Leader) for “Security Testing”, MSc Cybersecurity, King’s College London, UK

• Teaching part of “Security monitoring I - Malware analysis and detection” within the Master (~Specialization Course) in Cybersecurity at University of Bologna, Italy

2019

• Two-day module on “Machine Learning for Security” at Cyber Academy, a specialization course on cybersecurity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

• Seminars on “Machine Learning for Security”, as part of Malicious Software course, BSc in Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

2018

• Seminar on “Authentication and Access Control”, as part of Security Engineering course, MSc Computer Science, King’s College London, UK
• T.A. and Seminars on “Machine Learning for Security”, as part of Malicious Software course, BSc in Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

2017

• Several lectures and lab tutor for part of the “Network Systems and Applications” course, MSc in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

2016

• Seminars and T.A. for the “Computer Security” course, MSc in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

2015

• Several lectures and lab tutor for part of the “Network Systems and Applications” course, MSc in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Seminars and T.A. for the “Computer Security” course, MSc in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

2014

• Seminars and T.A. for “Network Systems and Applications” course, MSc in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy