Education
- PhD in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2006
-Postdoctoral researcher in computer security at University of California - Santa Barbara (2006 - 2008)

Teaching
He is currently Assistant Professor within the Department of Networking and Security where he teaches software development.

Industrial experience
Before joining EURECOM, Davide spent almost two years in Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at UCSB, working in the Computer Security Lab with Professor Giovanni Vigna

and Professor Richard Kemmerer.

In 2007 he participated in the red team involved in testing the capability and security of the voting machines certified for use in the State of Ohio (Project Everest) and he was also a member of the red team in the topto-bottom review of the electronic voting machines certified for use in California.

Major research interests
His research interests include most aspects of system security and in particular the areas of intrusion detection and prevention, binary and malware analysis, reverse engineering, and web security.

Visibility, membership, committee
He has been a program committee member for several international conferences and workshops. He was publication chair for RAID 09.
He was a member of the red team involved in testing the capability and security of the voting machines certified for use in the State of Ohio (Project Everest) and in the top-to-bottom review of the electronic voting machines certified for use in California.

 

Additional information

Current research topics  Advanced malware analysis, with a particular focus on techniques to identify and classify malicious code that implements countermeasures to avoid automatic analysis. New threats in web security.   Selected publications D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, G. Vigna «Multi-Module Vulnerability Analysis of Web-based Applications» Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (ACM CCS) 2007 D. Balzarotti, G. Banks, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, R. Kemmerer, W. Robertson, F. Valeur, G. Vigna «Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Realworld Electronic Voting Systems» International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) - Seattle, WA, July 20-24 2008 G. Vigna, W. Robertson, and D. Balzarotti «Testing Network-based Intrusion Detection Signatures Using Mutant Exploits» Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (ACM CCS 2004) D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, N. Jovanovic, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna «Saner: Composing Static and Dynamic Analysis to Validate Sanitization in Web Applications» Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - Oakland, California, May 18-21, 2008.