About

I'm a PhD student in Cybersecurity at Sapienza University of Rome. My research interests are at the intersection of AI and Cybersecurity.

Current focus areas include: Reverse Engineering & LLMs, Social Bots & LLMs, Security for Agentic AI systems

Researcher at NetSecurity Lab headed by Professor Angelo Spognardi.

Publications | Education | Experience

Experience

Purdue University

Research Collaborator

2025/03 — Present

PI: Dr. Z. Berkay Celik

Agentic AI MCP A2A Multi-Agent Systems

National Research Council - Institute for Informatics and Telematics (CNR-IIT)

Research Collaborator (contract)

2025/09 — 2025/12

PI: Senior Researcher Marinella Petrocchi

Social Network Anomaly Detection Disinformation Social Bots LLMs

Sapienza University of Rome

Graduate Researcher (with research scholarship)

2025/03 — 2025/05

PI: Professor Angelo Spognardi

Malware Analysis LLMs Reverse Engineering IPv6 Security Covert Channels

Sapienza University of Rome

Graduate Researcher (with research scholarship)

2024/01 — 2025/01

PI: Professor Angelo Spognardi

Social Network Anomaly Detection Disinformation Social Bots

Education

Sapienza University of Rome

PhD in Cybersecurity

2025/10 — Present

Sapienza University of Rome

Master's Degree (MSc) in Cybersecurity

2023/10 — 2025/10

Thesis: DecompilerAI: From Raw Decompiler Output to Actionable Intelligence in Stripped Executable Analysis with LLMs
Grade: 110/110 Cum Laude

Sapienza University of Rome

Bachelor's Degree (BSc) in Computer Science

2020/10 — 2023/07

Thesis: A novel genetic approach for Social Bot detection
Grade: 110/110 Cum Laude

Liceo Scientifico Socrate

High School in Scientific Studies

2015 — 2020

Publications

BotVerse: Real-Time Event-Driven Simulation of Social Agents
@ 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems · 2026
Authors: Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi
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Formalizing the Safety, Security, and Functional Properties of Agentic AI Systems
@ ICLR Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond · 2026
Authors: Edoardo Allegrini, Ananth Shreekumar, Z. Berkay Celik
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Deciphering Social Behaviour: a Novel Biological Approach For Social Users Classification
@ 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing · 2025
Authors: Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi
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A Proposal for Uncovering Hidden Social Bots via Genetic Similarity
@ 27th International Conference on Discovery Science · 2024
Authors: Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi
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