Gianluca Stringhini, PhD Student

Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Computer Security
Botnet Analysis, Intrusion Detection, Social Network Security, Malware Analysis, Spam Analysis, Underground Economy.

Publications

Conference Proceedings (4)
- Adam Doupe, Manuel Egele, Benjamin Caillat et al. (2011) Hit 'em Where it Hurts: A Live Security Exercise on Cyber Situational Awareness. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).
  http://cs.ucsb.edu/~gianluca/papers/c...
- Brett Stone-Gross, Thorsten Holz, Gianluca Stringhini et al. (2011) The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster's Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns. In 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET).
  http://cs.ucsb.edu/~gianluca/papers/c...
- Gianluca Stringhini, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna (2010) Detecting Spammers on Social Networks, 1-9. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.
  http://cs.ucsb.edu/~gianluca/papers/s...
- Gianluca Stringhini, Thorsten Holz, Brett Stone-Gross et al. BotMagnifier: Locating Spambots on the Internet. In 20th USENIX Security Symposium.
  http://cs.ucsb.edu/~gianluca/papers/b...

Awards and Grants

Jul 2011

Student Travel Grant for USENIX Security 2011 View website
Apr 2011

Student Travel Grant for Oakland 2011 View website
Mar 2011

Student Travel Grant for LEET 2011 View website
Dec 2010

ACSAC 2010 Best Student Paper Award View website

Biographical Information

I'm a third year PhD student at University of California, Santa Barbara, working as research assistant at the Computer Security lab. My research interests include many aspects of computer security, in particular social network security, spam and botnet analysis, and intrusion detection.