Gianluca Stringhini, PhD Associate Professor (ECE)
Education PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2014Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
In the News
March 26, 2025
College and University Shower Awards on ECE Faculty [ More ]
October 31, 2024
Three ECE faculty members were among the first recipients of Google’s inaugural Academic Research Awards (GARA) this fall, recognizing their groundbreaking work in AI and machine learning. [ More ]
Areas of Interest Data-driven methods to better understand and mitigate malicious activity online (cybercrime, online harassment, trolling, disinformation)
System security with an application to mobile systems and malware mitigation
Web security, Online social network security
Publications
Honors and Awards Early Career Excellence in Research Award, BU College on Engineering (2022)
Honorable mention at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (2021)
Impact recognition at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (2021)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
Honorable mention at the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (2020)
Junior Faculty Fellow at the BU Hariri Institute for Computing (2019)
Best Paper Award at the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (2019)
Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (2018)
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