Received an NSF CAREER award in 2012 on a project titled “Automatic Learning of Adaptive Network-Centric Malware Detection Models.” Served in various capacities at international conferences such as ACM Internet Measurements Conference, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, etc. Published multiple papers in the field of security.
Research Experience
Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, and a faculty member of the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Education
Ph.D. from the University of Cagliari, Italy. Post-Doctoral Fellow at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Wenke Lee. Research Scholar at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
Background
Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, Director of the UGA Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy. Research interests include securing networked systems, web security, automating the analysis of security incidents, and defending networks from malware.