Luca Demetrio
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at sAIfer Lab - Joint Lab on Safety and Security of AI
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Demetrio is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and PhD in Computer Science based in Genoa, Italy, with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI safety, security, and software engineering. He progressed from PhD student to postdoc and faculty roles within Italian universities and now leads research at the sAIfer Lab, focusing on trustworthy and secure AI systems. Comfortable with both academic rigor and practical development, he champions strong engineering practices—unit testing and exploitation techniques—applied to AI robustness and vulnerability analysis. His background includes industry exposure at Miniclip, reflecting an appreciation for real-world software constraints and game-driven perspectives on systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who blends playful curiosity (videogames) with disciplined methods to produce reproducible, security-minded research outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Università degli Studi di Genova
Github Skills (185)
web-application-firewall10
parser10
waf10
gif-animation10
messenger10
pe-analyzer10
animated10
detectors10
menubar10
telegram10
menu10
modsecurity10
bluetooth10
iis10
elf10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pralab/secml_malware
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 releases, 170 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 8 months
adversarial-attackspythonwindows-machine-learningwindowsadversarial-machine-learning
zangobot/teaching_material
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 38 pushes in 2 months
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