Alessandro Palma

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.  My research focuses on automated and quantifiable cyber risk assessment, both from a technical perspective --researching attack modeling, attack graphs, and probabilistic methods-- and from an operational perspective by providing decision support for security operations and their integration into autonomic cybersecurity, such as self-protecting systems.​

I am interested in how interactive visualization and visual analytics can help analysts understand complex attack surfaces, evolving risks, and remediation priorities more intuitively. To this aim, my work also investigates progressive data analysis for real-time exploration of security data to make cyber risk assessment more adaptive, explainable, and actionable for both human operators and automated defense mechanisms.

I earned a Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science with Laude at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where I also earned an MSc in Engineering in Computer Science. In 2022, I worked as a research fellow with CINI Cyber Security National Laboratory on Open Source INTelligence (OSINT). 

During my Ph.D., I was a visiting scholar at Télécom SudParis - Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
More recently, I've been a visiting researcher at University of Patras.