Biography

I’m a Post-Doctoral Researcher of the Systems Security Research Lab (S2Lab), between King’s College London and Royal Holloway, University of London. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in March 2017. I spent most of last year of my Ph.D. as a visiting research scholar at University of Maryland, College Park.

My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity, with particular focus on malware analysis, program analysis and (occasionally) traffic anomaly detection. If you are interested in my research, contact me!

• 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! ✈
• Dec 2018: Invited as PC Member of IJCAI 2019.
• Oct 2018: Attending ACM CCS 2018. See you in Toronto! ✈
• Sep 2018: Accepted POSTER paper at ACM CCS 2018
• Sep 2018: Invited in Artifact Evaluation PC of ACSAC 2018 (2nd tier security conference)
• Sep 2018: Invited in TPC of AAAI 2019
• Aug 2018: Attending ACM KDD 2018. See you in London! ✈

• Aug 2019: TESSERACT paper presentation at USENIX Security Symposium
• Nov 2017: Network Security Analytics for Detection of Advanced Cyberattacks, invited talk at Dartmouth College, US

Technical Program Committee

• 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 Symp. S&P (Oakland)
• 2018: IEEE Symp. S&P (Oakland)

Artifact Evaluation PC

• 2018: ACSAC

Workshop Chair

• 2019: CARDS

Review Service

• 2019: IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE S&P Magazine, IEEE Trans. Big Data, Elsevier FGCS, Springer Books
• 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

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