Gianluca Stringhini

Gianluca Stringhini is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University, holding affiliate appointments in the Computer Science Department and in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. In his research Gianluca applies a data-driven approach to better understand and mitigate malicious activity on the Internet. Through the collection and analysis of large-scale datasets, he develops novel and robust mitigation techniques to make the Internet a safer place. Over the years, Gianluca has worked on understanding and mitigating malicious activities like malware, online fraud, influence operations, and coordinated online harassment. He received multiple prizes including an NSF CAREER Award in 2020, and his research won multiple Best Paper Awards. Gianluca has published over 100 peer reviewed papers including several in top computer security conferences like IEEE Security and Privacy, CCS, NDSS, and USENIX Security, as well as top social computing conferences such as ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, and WWW.

Before joining BU in 2018, Gianluca was an Associate Professor at University College London, holding a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department and in the Crime Science Department. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara in 2014, and holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Genova.