Giorgio Giacinto Full Professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica - University of Cagliari (Italy), Cybersecurity National Lab of the CINI

Giorgio Giacinto is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Since 1995 he joined the research group on Pattern Recognition and Applications (PRA Lab), in which he leads the Computer Security unit. His research interests are in the field of pattern recognition and machine learning for cybersecurity, such as malware analysis and detection, web application security, malicious behaviour detection, phishing detection, etc. He is the coordinator of the MSc course in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cagliari. He also serves as the International student mobility coordinator for the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.

Prof. Giacinto has been serving either as the coordinator, or as a member of the technical management board, in many R&D projects at the local, national and European level. He is a member of the Cybersecurity National Lab of the CINI consortium where he serves as the contact point for the node at the University of Cagliari. He is also an active member of the WG6 (Scientific, Research and Innovation Agenda Working Group) of the European Cybersecurity Organization (ECSO), as a representative of the CINI consortium.

In 2015, he co-founded the spin-off company Pluribus One that is bringing to the market the most valuable products of the activities carried out by the PRA Lab research group.

Prof. Giacinto has been serving as a Program Committee member in international conferences and workshops, and he also serves as associate editor of the “Information Fusion” journal. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM.