Dr. Enkeleda Bardhi

Dr. Enkeleda Bardhi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bio

Enkeleda Bardhi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the at the Networked Systems Group at TU Delft, working with Prof. Fernando Kuipers on Future Network Services (FNS) project.

She obtained her Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome in 2024. Her academic background includes research positions at DIAG (Sapienza University), the SPRITZ Research Group (University of Padua), and internship roles during her PhD at Purdue University (PurNet) hosted by Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz and TU Delft hosted by Prof. Fernando Kuipers.

Her research focuses on network security, programmability, and neuro-symbolic AI applications in networking. Specifically, she develops robust ML-based solutions for traffic classification and network intrusion detection systems in programmable networks. Additionally, she leverages neuro-symbolic AI architectures to build transparent and interpretable network security systems. Lastly, her work explores how language models can assist Security Operations Centers (SOC) by reducing alert fatigue and streamlining rule generation. Her work has been published in top-tier venues including USENIX OSDI, IEEE Euro S&P, Elsevier FGCS, IEEE COMST, IEEE Network, IEEE LCN, and ACM ARES.

She is always open to collaborations and supervising motivated students. If interested, please drop an e-mail.

Recent News

  • [November 2025] --> Joined the Program Committee of Euro S&P 2026.
  • [October 2025] --> Hosted our ANSyA 2025 workshop in Bologna (IT). The workshop recorded 80+ participants, with two sessions of poster discussions and an outstanding keynote from Dr. Daria Stepanova, Bosch Center for AI, Germany.
    📸 Bits from ANSyA 2025

    (Leftmost) Organizers, (Middle) Posters and Attendance, (Rightmost) Keynote.

  • [July 2025] --> Hosted our HotDiML 2025 workshop in Glasgow (UK). It was a buzzing experience, with fruitful discussions and an engaging keynote from Prof. Giuseppe Antonio di Luna from Sapienza University of Rome.
    📸 Bits from HotDiML 2025

    (Left) Opening remarks, (Middle) Keynote, (Right) Best paper award.

  • [July 2025] --> Joined the Program Committee of AAAI-26.
  • [July 2025] --> Attending Euro S&P 2025 in the lovely Venice and presenting our O'MINE paper. O'MINE is a novel distributed DDoS detection mechanism, designed for programmable data-plane devices. Thanks to all the co-authors for this fruitful collaboration!
    📸 Bits from Euro S&P 2025

    (Left) O'MINE Talk, (Middle) Interactions with the community, (Right) Social Dinner Event Venue.

  • [May 2025] --> Joined the Organizing Committee of ECAI 2025 as Social Chair.
  • [April 2025] --> O'MINE paper accepted to Euro S&P '25!
  • [March-April 2025] --> Attending ASPLOS and EuroSys 2025, where I am also serving as a volunteer.
  • [February 2025] --> Attending ITASEC 2025 in Bologna (IT) and presenting the CARAVAN paper.
    📸 Bits from ITASEC 2025

    (Left) CARAVAN Talk, (Middle) With my dearest colleague, Dr. Alessandro Palma, (Right) Real lasagna.

  • [February 2025] --> ANSyA 2025 workshop is accepted at ECAI 2025.
  • [January 2025] --> HotDiML 2025 workshop is accepted at IEEE ICDCS 2025.
  • [December 2024] --> Joined as Shadow PC Member of CoNEXT 2025.
  • [November 2024] --> Attending The Annual Cybersecurity Next Generation Workshop in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • [October 2024] --> Attended Alice and Eve 2024 Workshop in Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • [October 2024] --> Today marks the start of my PostDoc position at the Networked Systems group at TU Delft.
  • [August 2024] --> Our paper entitled "Is AI a Trich or T(h)reat for Securing Programmable Data Planes?" is accepted at IEEE Network Magazine.
  • [August 2024] --> Joined the Program Committee of AAAI 2025.
  • [6 May 2024] --> I successfully defended my PhD thesis, entitled "Cybersecurity at the Intersection of Modern and Future Networking"!
    📸 Bits from my PhD Defense

    (Left) My PhD Advisors, (Middle-Left) Family, (Middle-Right) My partner and nephew, (Right) Celebration.

  • [March 2024] --> Our Caravan paper, in collaboration with Stanford and Purdue University, is accepted at Usenix OSDI 2024.
  • [November 2023] --> 🏆 Attending the NSF CRISP Workshop on Grand Challenges in Resilience organized at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, where I was awarded the second runner-up poster!
  • [May 2023] --> Attending EuroSys 2023 in Rome.
  • [August 2022] --> Attending the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022) in Vienna and presenting our paper "Sim2Testbed Transfer: NDN Performance Evaluation".
  • [July 2022] --> Attending the DeepLearn Summer School in Las Palmas.
  • [June 2022] --> Attending the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity ITASEC in Rome and presenting our ICN PATTA paper.
  • [June 2022] --> Serving as Student Volunteer for the EUROVIS 2022 in Rome.