Antonio Pecchia

I am Associate Professor at the University of Sannio, Italy, where I teach Operating Systems (BS), Data Science (MS) and Deep Learning (Doctoral program). I co-founded the Critiware company in 2011.

Until 2019 I was at the Federico II University of Naples, Italy, where I got my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (2011). I joined the University of Sannio as Assistant Professor with Tenure track (2019-2022). I was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2010-2011).
Over the years, I spent some industrial periods at Critical Software (Portugal), Deiser (Spain) and Assioma (Italy) and had the chance to collaborate with top-tier companies, such as Leonardo (Italy) and Infosys (India), in the context of European projects are other public-private initiatives.

Research topics: experimental testbeds, attacks and network datasets; analysis of metrics and system logs; machine, transfer and federated learning; anomaly and intrusion detection; adversarial attacks to IDS; reproducible deep learning experiments; performance of services and Cloud systems.

I regularly contribute to the international scientific community. Some recent service: Publicity co-chair (DSN 2024), Track chair (SAC 2024), Workshop co-chair (DCDS 2023), TPC Member (DSN 2024 Industry track, EDCC 2024 Student forum, ISSRE 2023 Industry track, ICTSS 2023, CLOUDCOM 2023).
I have been Guest editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Disponibilità di tesi e tirocini

If you are motivated to work on any of the topics above and their applications to security, performance and resilience of computer networks, IoT and Cloud systems (or just curious to learn more) feel free to send me an email at antonio.pecchia@unisannio.it to schedule a meeting.

New funded project (PRIN 2022 PNRR)

The Federico II University of Naples, the University of Sannio and the University of Campania will conduct the two-year project Threat-driven security testing and proactive defense identification for edge-cloud systems under the PRIN 2022 PNRR program. The project started mid Dec 2023.

S2RAI at ACM SAC 2024

I am co-organizing the Safe, Secure and Robust Artificial Intelligence (S2RAI) Track at The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2024) Conference, April 8-12, 2024 Avila, Spain with the University of Trento, the University of Cagliari and the University of Toulouse.

Featured research paper (Open access)

CPS-GUARD: Intrusion detection for cyber-physical systems and IoT devices using outlier-aware deep autoencoders. M Catillo, A Pecchia, U Villano, Computers & Security, 129, art. no. 103210 (2023).