About me
I am a Senior Researcher in the Security Research team at SAP and I’m based in Sophia-Antipolis, in Southern France; I have been with SAP since 2010.
Current interests
My current interests are primarily in software security with an emphasis on ways to ensure a secure consumption of open-source software in large enterprise applications and the use of machine-learning to address this challenge (please see my publications page for more details and links to pre-prints). I am member of the team that makes SAP’s open-source vulnerability-assessment-tool (internally known as Vulas), which was released under the Apache 2.0 license at the end of 2018. In February 2019 we also released the vulnerability dataset that fuels Vulas.
Past experience
Before joining SAP Security Research, I was a post-doc fellow and then a full-time researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) (Pisa, Italy) in Antonia Bertolino’s lab, where I spent four years overall.
In 2005 and 2006, during my PhD, I had the pleasure to be a visiting researcher in Dorina Petriu’s team, at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Education
I received both my PhD (2007) and my Master’s degree (2003) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ (Italy), under the guidance of Vincenzo Grassi and Raffaela Mirandola.
Additional information
You may find additional information about me on LinkedIn and on Google Scholar.
Interests
- Software Security
- Software Engineering
- Security of Open-Source Software
- Machine Learning
Education
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PhD in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, 2007
University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'
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MEng in Computer Science/Engineering, 2003
University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'