Fabrizio Cicala

Ph.D. in Information Security presso Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN, United States

Details

Experience: 2019 : Present

Purdue University

Ph.D. in Information Security

Company: Purdue University

Spoken Language: Inglese, Italiano

About

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.

My research focuses on Information Security and Privacy, specifically on malware analysis and investigation of communication protocols in smartphones, Bluetooth devices, and IoT devices.

Throughout my work, I investigated modern ransomware encryption strategies through reverse engineering techniques, the baseband functionalities of Android smartphones proposing a novel grammar-guided evolutionary fuzzing approach, and communication protocols for IoT devices evaluating and enhancing the security and privacy of the IoT networks.

I also examined the privacy provided in recent contact tracing applications proposed to combat the spreading of COVID-19.

Currently, I am exploring the systematic analysis of communication protocols (e.g., Bluetooth) by applying symbolic and concolic execution techniques, model checking, and Finite State Machine analysis. My aim is to automatically evaluate logical vulnerabilities in popular communication protocol implementations.