Roberto perdisci

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


I am a 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 Selected Publications (complete list)

  • [EuroS&P] Karthika Subramani, Jordan Jueckstock, Alexandros Kapravelos, Roberto Perdisci. "SoK: Workerounds - Categorizing Service Worker Attacks and Mitigations". IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2022

  • [DIMVA] Karthika Subramani, Roberto Perdisci, Maria Konte. "Detecting and Measuring In-The-Wild DRDoS Attacks at IXPs". Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2021

  • [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

  • [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

  • [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]


Recent Program Committee Service (complete list)