Marcello Maugeri
Marcello Maugeri

Security Researcher

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Catania, Italy. My aim is to bring fuzzing to the next level by designing sophisticated techniques to automate the process of finding vulnerabilities in multiprocess systems.

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Interests
  • Fuzzing
  • Systems Security
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Security Testing
  • IoT Security
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science

    University of Catania, Italy

  • Research Visitor

    King's College London, UK

  • PhD Visiting Student

    University of Genoa, Italy

  • Eunice Student

    Poznań University of Technology

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science

    University of Catania, Italy

  • Erasmus+ Student

    University College Dublin, Ireland

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science

    University of Catania, Italy

My Research

My ultimate objective is to leverage automated security testing techniques to contribute to the development of secure software systems.

I am currently working on improving the automation, in terms of applicability and efficiency, of Fuzzing in the context of Multiprocess Systems.

I am also interested in the application of Reinforcement Learning to Security Testing, and in the development of new techniques for IoT Security.

I am always looking to collaborate with motivated students and researchers. Please, feel free to contact me if you are interested in working together.

To get a feel of what I am working on, check out my recent publications and projects.

Recent Publications
(2024). User-Empowered Federated Learning in Automotive. TRUSTCHAIN 2024.
(2024). Wendigo: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Denial-of-Service Query Discovery in GraphQL. DLSP 2024.
(2024). Forkfuzz: Leveraging the Fork-Awareness in Coverage-Guided Fuzzing. SecAssure 2023.
(2023). Evaluating the Fork-Awareness of Coverage-Guided Fuzzers. ICISSP 2023.
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