team

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Ph.D. Students

Shae McFadden
Shae McFadden
2023–present
Deep Reinforcement Learning and Security
Xin Fan Guo
Xin Fan Guo
2023–present
Model-driven Intrusion Detection
Wael Mahlous
2025–present
Enhancing Crime Detection and Investigation in the IoT era
Co-supervised with Dr. Anna Maria Mandalari and Dr. Nilufer Tuptuk
Sam Beattie
2026–present

PostDocs

Mario D'Onghia
Mario D'Onghia
2024–present
Research Fellow on Trustworthy ML for Malware Detection

BSc Research Internships

Ruihong Xu
Summer 2026
UCL CS Summer Internship
Yash Narain
Summer 2026
Internship of Laidlaw Scholarship

Past Members: Ph.D. Alumni

  • Theo Chow (2021–2026)
    • Ph.D. Thesis title: “Addressing Dataset Bias in Android Malware Classifiers under Distribution Shift”
    • First job after graduation: ML Researcher and Engineer @ Aeris-UK
  • Jacopo Cortellazzi (2019–2024)
    • Ph.D. Thesis title: “Robustness of Machine Learning-based Malware Detection Models”
    • First job after graduation: AI Security Researcher @ Apple
  • Marcus Zeliang Kan (2019–2024)
    • Ph.D. Thesis title: “Evaluating and Mitigating Concept Drift in Machine Learning Security Tasks”
    • First job after graduation: AI Security Researcher @ HiddenLayer
  • Feargus Pendlebury (2017–2021), as Second Supervisor
    • Ph.D. Thesis title: “Machine Learning for Security in Hostile Environments”
    • First job after graduation: Software Engineer @ Meta

Past Members: PostDocs

  • Mario Lilli (2024–2026), KTP Research Associate on Formal Methods for Security at King’s College London (co-supervised with Prof. Luca Viganò and ControlPlane)
    • First job after position: Senior Security Researcher @ Darktrace

Past Members: Research Visitors

  • Silvio Russo (May 2025, 6 months), University of Bologna, Italy
  • Jenjira Jaimunk (April 2025, 2 months), Chiang Mai University, Thailand
  • Alessandro Sanna (Mar 2024, 3 months), University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Hamid Bostani (Oct 2023, 6 months), Radboud University, Netherlands
  • Marcello Maugeri (Oct 2023, 6 months), University of Catania, Italy
  • Feng Wei (Oct 2023, 6 months), University at Buffalo, USA
  • Mario D’Onghia (May 2023, 6 months), Politecnico of Milan, Italy
  • Malik Al-Essa (Mar 2023, 6 months), University of Bari, Italy
  • Giuseppina Andresini (2021), University of Bari, Italy
  • Dr. Daniel Arp (Sep 2022, 6 months), TU Berlin, Germany
  • Ilias Tsingenopoulos (Jan 2023, 3 months), KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Shae McFadden, King’s College London, UK

Past Members: BSc Research Internships

  • Jeevan Jutla (2023), King’s College London, UK
  • Shae McFadden (2023), King’s College London, UK
  • Adil Farooq (2022), Georgia Tech, USA
  • Zhuo Ying Jiang Li (2022), King’s College London, UK
  • Harivallabha Rangarajan (2020–2021), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India
  • Federico Barbero (2018), King’s College London, UK
  • Zakir Singh (2019–2021), King’s College London, UK
  • Cliona Mulligan (2020), King’s College London, UK
  • Piotr Kurek (2021), King’s College London, UK
  • Emiliyana Tsanova (2021), King’s College London, UK
  • Priya Pillaipakkam Madapusi (2021), King’s College London, UK