Service

• Organizing committee
  • Organizing Chair at the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Distributed Machine Learning (HotDiML) 2025, co-located with IEEE ICDCS 2025 (CORE:A)
  • Organizing Chair at the 1st Workshop on Advanced Neuro-Symbolic Applications (ANSyA) 2025, co-located with ECAI 2025 (CORE:A)
  • Social Chair at the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• Program committee
  • The International Workshop on EXplainable and TRAnsparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS) 2025
  • The International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2025
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
  • The International Workshop on EXplainable and TRAnsparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS) 2024
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023
• External Reviewer
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2025
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2024
  • The International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2024
  • Elsevier Computer Networks Journal (COMNET) 2023
  • Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC) 2022
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing​ (ICASSP) 2022
  • The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS) 2021
• Other
  • Volunteer for ASPLOS and EuroSys 2025
  • Student volunteer for EuroSys 2023
  • Student volunteer for EuroVis 2022

Honors and Awards

• SRC JUMP 2.0 Best Paper Award, 2024 for “CARAVAN: Practical Online Learning of In-network ML Models with Labeling Agents
• NSF CRISP Workshop Second Poster Runner-up, 2023 for “O’MINE: A Novel Collaborative DDoS Detection Mechanism for Programmable Data-Planes”

Funding

• Research project funding: “The Trick and T(h)reat of Artificial Intelligence in Programmable Network”; Progetti per Avvio alla Ricerca, Tipo 2, Sapienza University of Rome; Total: 2000€ (2023-2024)
• Research project funding: “The-old-meets-the-new: Securing the IoT Networks through Artificial Intelligence Solutions and Emerging Technologies”; Progetti per Avvio alla Ricerca, Tipo 1, Sapienza University of Rome; Total: 1000€ (2022-2023)

Supervised Students

• Andrea Ciccotti, Sapienza Univerity of Rome
• Martina Sgnaolin, Master Thesis with title “Towards the White-Box Security of Programmable Dataplane Networks” @ Sapienza University of Rome
• Elisa Berti, Master Thesis @ Sapienza University of Rome
• Ahmed Taffal, Master Thesis with title “Assessment for Named Data Networking Through a Real Testbed” @ Sapienza University of Rome

Visiting

• August to November 2023: Visiting Research Scholar
  • Purdue University
  • Duties included: Researching with Purdue University’s Networking and Systems Lab (PurNET) on the integration of Machine Learning (ML)-based security mechanisms on the programmable network devices
  • Supervisor: Prof. Muhammad Shahbaz
• October 2022 to February 2023: Visiting Research Scholar
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Duties included: Researching with the Embedded and Networked Systems (ENS) group on security mechanisms on the constrained programmable network devices.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Fernando Kuipers

Skills

• Cybersecurity:
  • Ethical Hacking
  • Network Security
  • Privacy
• Programmable network devices:
  • Intel Tofino switches
  • FPGAs
• Networking:
  • Information-centric Networking
  • Software-Defined Networking
• Machine Learning:
  • Supervised-learning algorithms
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) for network security
• Coding:
  • High intermediate skills of: Python, C, C++, MySQL, Matlab, OpenCV
  • Good knowledge of: HTML and Java
• Other:
  • Presentation, planning, organization, creative problem-solving, teamwork, active listening, adapability, analytical thinking, decision making and self-organisation