In a nutshell, I like to create systems that extract, analyze and explain unknown phenomena in any computer system, at any scale. I am interested in various topics under the “cyber security” and "cyber crime" umbrella terms, including threat analysis and intelligence, malware analysis, mobile malware, fraud analysis and detection, web- and social-network security and data visualization. A distinctive aspect of my work on threat analysis is the use of learning-based and otherwise data-driven approaches.

I am currently a Fixed Term Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano in Italy.

I have been the General Chair of DIMVA 2015, PC chair of EUC 2014 and PC member of several conferences and workshops including TRUST, MALCON, DIMVA, CSS, SecureComm, WISTP. I received a National grant (FIRB 2013) of about 250kEUR to investigate on advanced techniques for malware detection. Moreover, I am and I have been actively involved in 3 successful EU projects and 1 national project. I am very used to travel internationally because I have given several lectures and talks as an invited speaker at international venues and research schools. My research is recognized by other research groups with which I collaborate, namely: UCSB, FORTH, NEU, Stony Brook, KU Leven, and RHUL.

During my Doctorate (obtained Cum Laude at Politecnico di Milano), I made contributions in the field of intrusion detection: I developed and tested anomaly-based tools to mitigate Internet threats by (1) avoiding their spread via vulnerable web applications, (2) detecting unexpected activities in the operating system’s kernel (sing of malware infections or compromised processes), and (3) dealing with high number of alerts using alert correlation.

Location

Milan

Disciplines

• Information Science and Technology

Affiliation

Politecnico di Milano

Website

http://maggi.cc