About Me

Myself Since 2024, I am an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the Foundational and Experimental Security group of the Department of Computer Science. Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as an Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Research Canada. I received my B.E. and M.E. in Information Security from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and hold a Ph.D. in Information and Systems Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Lingyu Wang.

My research interests include security quantification, security metrics, software security, vulnerability assessment, cloud computing/5G security and privacy, and applied machine learning in security.

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News & Highlights

  • I am serving as Chair of the Security and Defense Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
  • New Publication: “EDMA: Entropy-Driven Multimodal Answering”, NeurIPS’ 26, Congrats Emanuele
  • New Publication: “Unavailable, Undocumented, or Unbuildable: A Reproducibility Study of WebAssembly Benchmarks”, ICSME ‘26, Congrats Apoorva
  • New Student: Elias has started his Ph.D. journey
  • New Publication: “Tool-Assisted CVSS Vulnerability Scoring: A Controlled Quantitative Study of Human Assessment”, CHI ‘26, Congrats Siqi and Minjie
  • New Publication: “NeuroWise: A Multi-Agent LLM “Glass-Box” System for Practicing Double-Empathy Communication with Autistic Partners”, CHI ‘26 Posters
  • Keynote:”Quantifiable Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI”, ACCSS Security & AI Workshop: Security and Privacy in the Age of Generative AI, Oct. 23rd, 2025
  • New Publication: “An AI Security Testbed for the 5G Core”, CloudCom ‘25
  • New Student: Apoorva Anand has started his Ph.D. journey
  • New Publication: “Cross-Level Security Verification for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)”, TDSC ‘25
  • Student Award: Emanuele received Student Merit Award at Society for Risk Analsysis (SRA) and will present “Large Language Models are Unreliable for Risk Summarization in Cyber Threat Intelligence” at the SRA Annual Meeting in Dec 7-10, 2025, Washington, DC.
  • Talk: Emanuele presented “The Risk Of Overlooking the Evaluation Of System-level Robustness in Aviation” in SRA Europe Benelux Conference 2025, Sep. 8-9, 2025
  • New Publication: “Understanding Home Router Configuration Habits & Attitudes”, CHI ‘25
  • Invited Talk: “Ask Not Whether CVSSv3.1 and v4 Scores are Inconsistent, But What Can You Do About It”, Vunlcon ‘25 (hosted by FIRST and the CVE Program)