Andrea Mambretti
Staff Research Scientist at IBM
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAndrea Mambretti is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research Zurich with 13 years of experience in systems security, specializing in operating systems, program analysis and compilers. He holds a PhD from Northeastern University’s SecLab and began his research trajectory at Politecnico di Milano, collaborating with prominent security labs and faculty. Andrea’s work spans academic and industrial research, including multiple IBM research internships that led to a permanent research role and promotion to staff. He researches speculative execution attacks and mitigations and brings practical offensive experience from competing on CTF teams like Tower of Hanoi and Shellphish. Known for blending deep program-analysis skills with low-level systems expertise, he often bridges theoretical findings with implementable defenses. Based in Zurich, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on security engineering at scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Speaker @ MIT Workshop with Politecnico di MilanoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security at Northeastern University1st SysSec Summer SchoolPerito informatico, Perito informatico at ITIS badoniMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, 101/110, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 101/110 at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian
Github Skills (40)
lava10
vulnerability9
security9
scale9
large-scale8
coverage8
testing6
x865
portable-executable5
xmake5
qemu5
kvm4
get-started4
linux4
windows4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-research/speculator
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:110 commits, 76 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 3 months
IBM/system-security-research-updates
Jun 2021 - Mar 2024
system security research updates
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
security-toolssecurity-researchsecurityupdatesadministrator
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