I'm a first year PhD student in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara, working in the Computer Security Group under the supervision of professors Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna. In the previous years, I have earned a Bachelor and a Master degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Master Degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
During my research work, I enjoy to spend time in delving into the following topics: malware analyis, shellcode analysis. I'm the author and maintainer of Shellzer, a shellcode analyzer that I developed for my Master thesis. Starting from November 2011, Shellzer is used by Wepawet to process the shellcode samples detected during the analysis. You can find more information here and here. More recently, I started to investigate the security of Android-based systems.
In the spare time, I play the piano and the guitar (currently not at the same time), and I enjoy playing poker, too. I love to participate in CTF competitions and, more in general, to waste time in solving every kind of mind-hack-oriented puzzles. I also wrote some challenges for the iCTF 2011: check them out!
