Davide Berardi
Tenure Track Researcher at Universitas Mercatorum
Budrio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolDavide Berardi is a cybersecurity researcher and firmware-focused engineer with 12 years of experience bridging academia and industry from Budrio, Italy. Currently a tenure-track researcher at Universitas Mercatorum, he investigates industrial network security using virtualization and non-intrusive asset discovery, building on a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna. He has taught cybersecurity and real-time operating systems, co-founded a continuous-monitoring startup for industrial devices, and worked as a firmware engineer on multi/many-core ARM and GNU/Linux systems. Active in hands-on offensive research, his GitHub includes a practical exploit implementation for CVE-2021-4034, reflecting deep low-level C and systems expertise. Davide combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering—often focusing on non-disruptive monitoring and embedded-system hardening rather than flashy headlines.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaHigh School Electronics and Communications, High School Electronics and Communications at I.T.I.S. G. Bruno Budrio
Italian, English
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Github Skills (15)
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c1110
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security10
linux8
c998
cs506
kernel6
algorithm6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
berdav/CVE-2021-4034
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
CVE-2021-4034 1day
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Davide contributed to the development of an exploit for CVE-2021-4034, as indicated by the commit messages focusing on exploiting a security vulnerability. The commits involve writing C code to create a shared object (pwnkit.so) and a C program (dry-run-cve-2021-4034.c) to test the exploit. Further commits include modifications to avoid incompatibilities, and a dry run test implementation.
cvelinux1dayexploitcve-2021-4034
berdav/zsh-digraphs
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
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