Assistant Professor (RTDb) / Cybersecurity

SHORT BIO Davide Maiorca received from the University of Cagliari the Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering (110/110 cum laude) in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2016. He has been working at PRALab since 2012 and currently holds a position as a Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B) of Computer Engineering at the University of Cagliari.

His research fields include analyzing and detecting X86 and Android malware, malicious documents and multimedia applications (e.g., PDF, Microsoft Office), and Adversarial Machine Learning. In 2021, he received the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor (ING-INF/05). Dr. Maiorca authored more than 25 research papers and has served as a Program Committee member and reviewer for international conferences and journals. He is a member of IEEE, Computer Society, SMC, ACM, INSTICC, AIxIA and CVPL (ex-GIRPR – Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori Pattern Recognition).