Service

Organizing committee
- Organizing Chair at the International Workshop on Hot Topics at the Intersection of Distributed Machine Learning and Security (HotDiSec) 2026, co-located with ESORICS 2026 (CORE:A)
- 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 (ECAI 2025)
- Local Arrangement Chair for TMA 2026
- Organizing Chair for the TU Delft Networked Systems Peers Meeting
Program committee
External Reviewer
- European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2025
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025
- 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 2025
- Student volunteer for EuroSys 2023 and 2025
- Student volunteer for EuroVis 2022

Students

Currently supervising

Joaquin Cava Angrill, TU Delft (expected graduation Dec 2026)
Johannes Ijpma, TU Delft (co-supervised with Dr. Kees Kroep; expected graduation Jul 2026)
Raoul Saad, TU Delft (expected graduation Jul 2026)
Anna Visman, TU Delft (expected graduation Jul 2026)
Sofia Burkow, TU Delft (co-supervised with Dr. Andrea Agiollo; expected graduation Jul 2026)
Manya Narkar, TU Delft (expected graduation Jul 2026)

Graduated

Andrea Ciccotti, Sapienza Univerity of Rome (graduated Jan 2026)
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

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”

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)

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

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