• Oct 2020
  • Two new preprints published on arXiv! (see publications list)
  • Invited Talk at Boise State University’s Computing Colloquium (Oct 2)
  • Joined Editorial Board of Frontiers in Communications and Networks
• Sep 2020
  • Invited in TPC of AAAI 2021 and ICLR 2021
• Aug 2020
  • Our paper “GLYPH: Efficient ML-based Detection of Heap Spraying Attacks” has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)!
• Jul 2020
  • My talk about Glyph has been selected for presentation in October at AVAST’s CyberSecAI 2020!
  • I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” at DIMVA 2020!
• May 2020
  • Our S&P’20 paper presentation has been selected as Best Video Presentation.
• Apr 2020
  • The 60-second trailer of our S&P’20 paper is live! Kudos to our co-author Feargus for the technical skills :-)
  • Invited to hold a Virtual Seminar at Inria, Rennes on June 19, 2020
  • Invited to hold a Virtual InfoSec Seminar at UCL on May 7, 2020
• Feb 2020
  • Our paper “Intriguing Properties of Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem Space” has been accepted to appear in IEEE Symp. Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2020!
  • Our paper “A Data-Driven Characterization of Android Spyware” has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems!
  • Invited Seminar on TESSERACT at ISG Weekly Seminars
• Jan 2020
  • Invited in Dagstuhl Seminar on the Security of Machine Learning (scheduled for end-of-Aug 2020)
  • Invited in the following Technical Program Committees: SafeML 2020 (ECAI Workshop), ARES 2020, IEEE Trustcom 2020, DLS 2020 (IEEE Symp. S&P Workshop)

• June 19, 2020: Virtual Seminar at SoSySec seminar at IRISA (Rennes, France)
• May 7, 2020: Virtual InfoSec Seminar at University College London, UK
• Feb 2020: Invited Seminar about TESSERACT at ISG Seminars at Royal Holloway, University of London
• 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

Reviewing Awards

• Oustanding Reviewer Award — DIMVA 2020
• Distinguished PC Member — IJCAI 2018

Technical Program Committee

• ICML — 2020
• ICLR — 2021
• DLS (Workshop of IEEE Symp. S&P) — 2020
• DSML (DSN Workshop) — 2020
• DIMVA — 2020
• MLCS (Workshop of ECML PKDD) — 2020
• EuroSec Workshop — 2020
• ARES — 2020
• SafeML (ECAI workshop)— 2020
• IJCAI — 2018, 2019, 2020
• AAAI — 2019, 2020, 2021
• IEEE TrustCom — 2020
• AISec (CCS workshop) — 2019
• Poster Track of IEEE Symp. S&P (Oakland) — 2019
• Poster/Demo Track of ACM CCS — 2020
• IEEE Network Computing and Applications (NCA) — 2017, 2019, 2020
• CARDS — 2019
• IEEE Smart Industries Workshop — 2018
• IEEE BDAA Workshop — 2018

Shadow Technical Program Committee

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

Artifact Evaluation PC

• USENIX Security Symposium — 2020
• ACSAC — 2018, 2019
• SOSP — 2019
• USENIX WOOT — 2019

Workshop Chair

• CARDS — 2019

Editorial Boards of Journals

• Frontiers in Communications and Networks — since 2020

Review Service

• ACM Trans. Privacy and Security (TOPS) — 2019, 2020
• IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) — 2018, 2019
• IEEE S&P Magazine — 2019
• Elsevier Computer Networks Journal — 2018
• IEEE Trans. Big Data — 2019
• IEEE Trans. Engineering Management — 2019
• Elsevier FGCS — 2019
• Springer UK Books — 2019
• Applied Sciences Journal — 2019
• International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (JMLC) — 2018
• Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) — 2017, 2018
• Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications — 2017, 2018
• IEEE Trans. Computational Social Systems (TCSS) — 2016

Sub-review service

• USENIX Security Symposium — 2019, 2020
• ACM The Web Conference (WWW) — 2019
• IEEE Euro S&P — 2019
• DIMVA — 2019
• RAID — 2019
• ACM CCS — 2018
• ACSAC — 2018
• ARES Conference — 2018
• Deep Learning for Security (IEEE S&P workshop) — 2018
• ACM CODASPY — 2018
• IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing — 2017
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) — 2016
• IEEE NetSciCom — 2016
• IEEE Network Computing and Applications (NCA) — 2015
• Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications — 2015

2021

• Module Leader for “Security Testing”, MSc Cyber Security, 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

2020

• Lecturer (Module Leader) for “Security Testing”, MSc Cyber Security, 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