Matteo Leonelli
PHD Candidate
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolMatteo Leonelli is a PhD candidate in System Security at CISPA with nine years of hands-on experience in dynamic analysis, fuzzing, and application security across both hardware and software domains. He has driven research collaborations with industry (including Intel) and applied fuzz testing to large-scale systems such as S3 during an AWS internship, blending academic rigor with practical impact. Matteo’s background spans full-stack web and mobile development, secure authentication systems, and IoT risk assessments, giving him a rare combination of low-level security research and real-world engineering. Based in Saarbrücken, he teaches and mentors in security courses, reflecting strong communication skills alongside technical depth. Notably, his master’s and thesis work focused on hardware differential fuzzing—an emerging area that bridges chip-level behavior and software vulnerability discovery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea L in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche Scienze informatiche, Laurea L in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche Scienze informatiche at Università di TrentoIstituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Guglielmo Marconi"Doctor of Philosophy - PhD System Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD System Security at Universität des Saarlandes
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Github Skills (14)
android-sdk8
sarif5
sdk5
openid-connect5
android-client5
authentication5
trust4
oauth4
source-code-analysis4
openid4
android4
raii3
security3
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Leonelli/Unitn
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:113 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
Leonelli/leonelli.github.io
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
My personal web site
Contributions:80 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 7 months
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