Fabrizio Cicala
Ph.D. In Information Security
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFabrizio Cicala is a Ph.D. researcher in Information Security at Purdue University with a decade of experience investigating malware, mobile baseband behavior, Bluetooth, and IoT communication protocols. He combines reverse engineering, grammar-guided fuzzing, and protocol analysis with symbolic/concolic execution and model checking to uncover logical vulnerabilities in real-world implementations. His work spans practical ransomware decryption strategies, novel fuzzing for Android basebands, and privacy evaluations of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps, reflecting both offensive and defensive expertise. Based in West Lafayette, IN, he brings top academic credentials from Università degli Studi Roma Tre and a track record of translating formal methods into automated security testing tools. Notably, he focuses on making protocol testing systematic and scalable, aiming to bridge gaps between formal verification and hands-on vulnerability discovery.
10 years of coding experience
1° livello - Laurea L, Ingegneria Informatica, 97/110L, 1° livello - Laurea L, Ingegneria Informatica, 97/110L at Università degli Studi di Roma TreLaurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria informatica, 110/110 cum laude, Laurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria informatica, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli studi Roma TRE
Italian, English
Github Skills (19)
usrp9
pandora9
xposed9
opcodes9
adb9
testing8
csharp8
android7
dotnet-core7
dotnet7
fuzzing7
security6
fuzz-testing5
fsharp5
dynamic-analysis5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FabrizioCicala/BigData_project2
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
LucaJames/progetto-siw
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:41 pushes in 22 days
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