Roberto Perdisci

Roberto Perdisci

Associate Professor

Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor in Computer Science

Director of the UGA Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy

Department of Computer Science

University of Georgia

415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center

Athens, GA 30602-7404

Room: GSRC 423

e-mail: perdisci [ at ] uga [ dot ] edu || perdisci [ at ] gatech [ dot ] edu

phone: +1 (706) 542 3482

fax: +1 (706) 542 2966

Profiles: Google Scholar - ACM Library - Microsoft Academic - DBLP

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Georgia, where I hold the Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professorship in Computer Science and direct the UGA Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science and a faculty member of the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before joining UGA I was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, working under the supervision of Prof. Wenke Lee. I also worked as Principal Scientist at Damballa, Inc., and prior to joining Damballa I was Research Scholar at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari, Italy with the Pattern Recognition and Applications Group.

My research focuses on securing networked systems. I am particularly interested in web security, automating the analysis of security incidents, and defending networks from malware. I often combine systems research with machine learning and large-scale data mining techniques to solve challenging computer and network security problems. I am also interested in broader aspects of networked systems, including Internet-scale measurements, analysis and optimization of systems performance, and the design of networking protocols. In 2012, I received an NSF CAREER award on a project titled "Automatic Learning of Adaptive Network-Centric Malware Detection Models." Here you can find a list of my publications.

Recent Program Committee Service (complete list)

Usenix Security Symposium, 2021
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2021
2020 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020) - Artifact Evaluations Chair
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020)
The Web Conference 2020, Security & Privacy Track (WWW 2020)
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020
2019 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2019) - Artifact Evaluations Chair
22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2019)
14th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2019)
16th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2019 - Program Chair
The Web Conference, Security & Privacy Track (WWW 2019)
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019)
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019
1st Deep Learning and Security Workshop (co-located with IEEE S&P 2018) - Program Chair
The Web Conference, Security & Privacy Track (WWW 2018)
15th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2018

Selected Recent Publications (complete list)

[NDSS] Yonghwi Kwon, Weihang Wang, Jinho Jung, Kyu Hyung Lee, and Roberto Perdisci. "C2SR: Cybercrime Scene Reconstruction for Post-mortem Forensic Analysis". Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2021 [to appear]
[CCS] Joey Allen, Zheng Yang, Matthew Landen, Raghav Bhat, Harsh Grover, Andrew Chang, Yang Ji, Roberto Perdisci, Wenke Lee. "Mnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation System" ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM CCS 2020 [to appear]
[ACSAC] Daniele Ucci, Roberto Perdisci, Jaewoo Lee, Mustaque Ahamad. "Towards a Practical Differentially Private Collaborative Phone Blacklisting System". Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2020 (acceptance rate 23.2% = 70/302) [to appear][pre-print]
[IMC] Karthika Subramani, Xingzi Yuan, Omid Setayeshfar, Phani Vadrevu, Kyu Hyung Lee, Roberto Perdisci. "When Push Comes to Ads: Measuring the Rise of (Malicious) Push Advertising". ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2020 (acceptance rate 24.5% = 53/216) [to appear][pre-print]
[EuroS&P] Roberto Perdisci, Thomas Papastergiou, Omar Alrawi, Manos Antonakakis. "IoTFinder: Efficient Large-Scale Identification of IoT Devices via Passive DNS Traffic Analysis". IEEE European Symposium of Security & Privacy, EuroS&P 2020 (acceptance rate 14.6% = 38/261) [pdf]
[IMC] Phani Vadrevu, Roberto Perdisci. "What You See is NOT What You Get: Discovering and Tracking Social Engineering Ad Campaigns". ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2019 (acceptance rate 19.8% = 39/197) [pdf]
[AsiaCCS] Jienan Liu, Babak Rahbarinia, Roberto Perdisci, Haitao Du, Li Su. "Augmenting Telephone Spam Blacklists by Mining Large CDR Datasets". ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, AsiaCCS 2018 [pdf]
[AsiaCCS] Payas Gupta, Roberto Perdisci, Mustaque Ahamad. "Towards Measuring the Role of Phone Numbers in Twitter-Advertised Spam". ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, AsiaCCS 2018 [pdf]
[NDSS] Sharbani Pandit, Roberto Perdisci, Mustaque Ahamad, Payas Gupta. "Towards Measuring the Effectiveness of Telephony Blacklists". Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2018 [pdf]
[NDSS] Bo Li, Phani Vadrevu, Kyu Hyung Lee, Roberto Perdisci. "JSgraph: Enabling Reconstruction of Web Attacks via Efficient Tracking of Live In-Browser JavaScript Executions". Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2018 [pdf]
[CCS] Yizheng Chen, Yacin Nadji, Athanasios Kountouras, Fabian Monrose, Roberto Perdisci, Manos Antonakakis, Nikolaos Vasiloglou. "Practical Attacks Against Graph-based Clustering" ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM CCS 2017 (acceptance rate 18.1% = 151/836) [pdf]
[DSN] Babak Rahbarinia, Marco Balduzzi, Roberto Perdisci. "Exploring the Long Tail of (Malicious) Software Downloads". IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2017 (acceptance rate 22.3% = 49/220) [pdf]
[NDSS] Phani Vadrevu, Jienan Liu, Bo Li, Babak Rahbarinia, Kyu Hyung Lee, Roberto Perdisci. "Enabling Reconstruction of Attacks on Users via Efficient Browsing Snapshots". Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2017 (acceptance rate 16.1% = 68/423) [pdf,code]
[USENIX Sec] Terry Nelms, Roberto Perdisci, Manos Antonakakis, Mustaque Ahamad. "Towards Measuring and Mitigating Social Engineering Software Download Attacks." USENIX Security Symposium, 2016. (acceptance rate 15.6% = 72/463) [pdf]

Recent News

[02/14/2019] I join the Editorial Board for ACM TOPS
[03/02/2018] Our papers titled "Towards Measuring the Role of Phone Numbers in Twitter-Advertised Spam" and "Augmenting Telephone Spam Blacklists by Mining Large CDR Datasets" have been accepted to AsiaCCS 2018.
[10/26/2017] Our paper "Towards Measuring the Effectiveness of Telephony Blacklists" has been accepted to NDSS 2018.
[10/26/2017] Our paper "JSgraph: Enabling Reconstruction of Web Attacks via Efficient Tracking of Live In-Browser JavaScript Executions" has been accepted to NDSS 2018.
[10/10/2017] We are organizing the 1st Deep Learning and Security Workshop (co-located with IEEE S&P 2018), please consider submitting your work!
[06/05/2017] I will be serving in the program committee for the 2018 WWW Conference (now The Web Conference)
[03/03/2017] Our paper on "Exploring the Long Tail of (Malicious) Software Downloads" has been accepted at DSN 2017
[01/20/2017] I will be serving in the program committee for the USENIX Security Symposium 2017
[11/14/2016] I will be serving in the program committee for DIMVA 2017.
[10/22/2016] Our paper on "Enabling Reconstruction of Attacks on Users via Efficient Browsing Snapshots" has been accepted to appear at NDSS 2017.
[10/18/2016] I will be serving in the program committee for the 2017 USENIX Security Symposium.
[9/19/2016] I received the Outstanding Reviewer Award at RAID 2016.
[5/16/2016] Our paper "Towards Measuring and Mitigating Social Engineering Software Downloads" has been accepted to the 2016 USENIX Security Symposium.
[2/02/2016] Two of our papers have been accepted to appear at AsiaCCS 2016
[9/25/2015] As promised in our ACM CCS 2015 paper, we have released the binaries and source code for our WebCapsule project.
[9/18/2015] Served as external co-examiner for a PhD dissertation at ETH Zurich (invited by Prof. Bernhard Plattner).
[9/17/2015] Gave a talk about our WebWitness project at ETH Zurich (invited by Prof. Adrian Perrig).
[7/22/2015] Our paper "WebCapsule: Towards a Lightweight Forensic Engine For Web Browsers" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2015.
[5/12/2015] Our paper "WebWitness: Investigating, Categorizing, and Mitigating Malware Download Paths" has been accepted to USENIX Security 2015.
[4/24/2015] Our paper "ASwatch: An AS Reputation System to Expose Bulletproof Hosting ASes" has been accepted to the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Conference
[4/16/2015] I received the 2015 UGA Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award
("awarded to an early career scholar in the sciences" - "[recognizes] the most promising up and coming researcher/scholar, whose trajectory projects remarkable success")
[4/14/2015] I will be presenting a short demo of AMICO at this year's RSA on April 21 at 2:30pm and again on April 22 at 1pm. We'll be in the DHS S&T booth (South Expo #S202).
[4/9/2015] I've been recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
[4/1/2015] We moved AMICO from Google Code to GitHub, and released the code under BSD license.
[2/25/2015] Our paper "Segugio: Efficient Behavior-Based Tracking of New Malware-Control Domains in Large ISP Networks" has been accepted to DSN 2015
I will be serving as the Workshops Chair for SecureComm 2015. Please consider submitting a workshop proposal.
We recently received funding through the DHS Transition To Practice program to transition our open-source AMICO malware download detection system to market.

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