Luca Demetrio

Short Bio

• Born in Genova, on 25/01/1993.
• 1/11/2017 to 20/01/2021: PhD student in Computer Science of the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering at University of Genoa
• 13/07/2016 to 9/9/2016: two month Internship with Miniclip Italia
• 25/07/2017: Graduated cum laude in Computer Science at University of Genoa

Publications

• Demetrio Luca, Coull E. Scott, Biggio Battista, Lagorio Giovanni, Armando Alessandro, Roli Fabio
  “Adversarial EXEmples: A Survey and Experimental Evaluation of Practical Attacks on Machine Learning for Windows Malware Detection”
  submitted to ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), waiting for review

• Demetrio Luca, Biggio Battista, Lagorio Giovanni, Roli Fabio, Armando Alessandro
  “Functionality-preserving Black-box Optimization of Adversarial Windows Malware”
  submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), waiting for review

• Demetrio Luca, Valenza Andrea, Costa Gabriele, Lagorio Giovanni
  “WAF-A-MoLE: evading web application firewalls through adversarial machine learning”
  in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2020)

• Valenza Andrea, Demetrio Luca, Costa Gabriele, Lagorio Giovanni
  “WAF-A-MoLE: An adversarial tool for assessing ML-based WAFs”
  in SoftwareX, Volume 11, 2020

• Demetrio Luca, Lagorio Giovanni, Ribaudo Marina, Russo Enrico and Valenza Andrea.
  “ZenHackAdemy: Ethical Hacking @ DIBRIS”
  in Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2019), Heraklion, Crete - Greece.

• Demetrio Luca, Biggio Battista, Lagorio Giovanni, Roli Fabio, Armando Alessandro
  “Explaining Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning to Adversarial Malware Binaries”
  in Proc. of the 3rd Italian Conference on CyberSecuritythe (ITASEC 2019), Pisa - Italy.

Posters & Talks

• Presented poster at CyberSecAI 2019
• Workshop talk at CyberSecAI 2020

Personal interests

• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Machine Learning
• Videogames Development

Teaching assistant activities

• Teacher assistant for Binary Analysis and Secure Coding (BASC) during academic year 2018-2019
• Teacher assistant for Tecniche avanzate di programmazione (TAP) during academic year 2017-2018
• Tutor for Algoritmi e Strutture Dati (ASD) during academic year 2016-2017 and 2017-2018
• Tutor for Introduzione alla programmazione (IP) during academic year 2016-2017 and 2017-2018

Other virtual places

• ZenHack CTF Team
• GitHub
• Twitter

Office

• Room 309: Via Dodecaneso, 35 I-16146 Genova, Italy

Contacts

• Email: luca.demetrio (A) dibris.unige.it