Lorenzo Cavallaro

A little bit about myself...

that's me

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science on February 2008 at the Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan, Italy) with a Dissertation titled "Comprehensive Memory Error Protection via Diversity and Taint-Tracking"

I got my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science on October 2004 at the Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan, Italy) with a final grade of 110/110 cum laude with a thesis titled "Analysis, Design and Realization of a Trusted Computing Platform Emulator"; unfortunately it is only available in Italian language, it's full of typos and actually the emulator is still a work in progress :-)

News

I'm spending a period as a Post Doctorate in the Computer Security Lab of the Department of Computer Science of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA, USA, working with Profs Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, and Richard A. Kemmerer

I spent from September 2006 to February 2008 a period in the Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University (State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook), NY, USA, as a visiting PhD student joining the lab led by Prof. R. Sekar.

Research Interest

Currently I am interested in several areas of Computer Security, even if this doesn't mean that I am fluent on those areas (the other way around, probably) :-). I am just trying to figure out how this wonderful "thing" we call world works out! Huh, am I exaggerating? Yes, maybe a little bit ;-) However, this is what turns me on, more or less, periodically (I am a libra, after all).

Here below you can just find few works I have been involved in recently and in the past. Please, consider this page as a real work in progress... even if I don't actually know when I'll be able to write down something that will look more beautiful and smart than this :-)

Publications

Technical Reports

Teaching Experiences

Since May 2003 I have had the luck of being involved as teaching assistant, lecturer or something like that in the following courses:

... as Teaching Assistant
... as Lecturer

Summer Schools

I have been one of the lucky people who have attended the Second Summer School Applied IT Security 2005 at the RWTH-Aachen University, 2005, Germany.

I have been one of the lucky people who have attended the Lugano Summer School on Dependable Software Systems at the University of Lugano, Switzerland July 17-22, 2006.

Talks

There are also few talks I gave over the time, even if the majority are in italian language only :-\ and few of them overlap to what I did in my teaching experiences (however, take a look at them :-))

Miscellanea

What else? Well, plenty of stuff to say I guess... better, I hope as everyone out there. But you know, I am an incredible lazy man when dealing with my personal page (huh, this is against me I know :-)) so I think I'll stop writing "soft thoughts" and boring you, leaving just a few final notes.

I used to love playing guitar even if I still love doing it currently, but due to laziness and mainly lack of time I hardly play it anymore :-(. As the majority of Italian people I like eating good food and sometime I try to do it by myself... yes, sometime :-).

Last but really not least, I love you, Simona... you know who you are, darling...

Huh, I was forgetting to show you some I-hope-nice pictures :-) about

... but they are not ready for presentation yet :-\