Scholar
Giancarlo Pellegrino
Google Scholar ID: PC_RNUcAAAAJ
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,781
H-index
20
i10-index
28
Publications
20
Co-authors
37
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers and received several best paper and distinguished paper awards. For example:
- - IEEE EuroS&P 2025 Best Paper Award: CHARON: Polyglot Code Analysis for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Scripting Languages Native Extensions
- - CHI 2025 Best Paper Award: Permission Rationales in the Web Ecosystem: An Exploration of Rationale Text and Design Patterns
- - IEEE SP ‘24 Distinguished Paper Award: The Great Request Robbery: An Empirical Study of Client-side Request Hijacking Vulnerabilities on the Web
- - IEEE SP ‘23 2x Distinguished Paper Awards: It’s (DOM) Clobbering Time: Attack Techniques, Prevalence, and Defenses and The Leaky Web: Automated Discovery of Cross-Site Information Leaks in Browsers and the Web
Research Experience
- Leads the Application Security research group, with research areas including autonomous vulnerability detection and analysis, security of the web platform and emerging technologies, and cyberattacks.
Background
- Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, leading the Application Security (AppSec) research group. Research interests include web security and web application security, security of emerging technology (e.g., metaverse/WebXR), program analysis (e.g., dynamic/static, client and server), and ML/AI for program analysis.
Miscellany
- Serves as a PC member or chair for multiple international conferences such as USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, etc.
