Ph.D. in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni , 37th cycle (2021-2024)
Ph.D. obtained in 2025
Dissertation:
Language Models and Cybersecurity - Applications and Current Limits (Abstract)
Tutors:
Michela Meo Marco Mellia Danilo GiordanoProfile
Research interests
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente invitato
Teachings
Master of Science
- AI and Cybersecurity. A.A. 2024/25, CYBERSECURITY. Collaboratore del corso
- Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Basi di dati. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Publications
Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Zhao, Yuqi; Dettori, Giovanni; Boffa, Matteo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco (2025)
The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Debunking Representation Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification. In: SIGCOMM '25: ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference, Coimbra (PT), September 8 - 11, 2025, pp. 296-310. ISBN: 979-8-4007-1524-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boffa, Matteo (2025)
Language Models and Cybersecurity - Applications and Current Limits. relatore: MEO, Michela; MELLIA, MARCO; , 37. XXXVII Ciclo, P.: 200
Doctoral Thesis - Bui, Minh-Thanh; Boffa, Matteo; Valentim, Rodolfo Vieira; Navarro, Jose Manuel; Chen, ... (2024)
A Systematic Comparison of Large Language Models Performance for Intrusion Detection. In: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON NETWORKING, vol. 2, pp. 1-23. ISSN 2834-5509
Contributo su Rivista - Boffa, Matteo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Valentim, ... (2024)
LogPrécis: Unleashing language models for automated malicious log analysis. In: COMPUTERS & SECURITY, vol. 141. ISSN 0167-4048
Contributo su Rivista - Baldo, Alessandro; Boffa, Matteo; Cascioli, Lorenzo; Fadda, Edoardo; Lanza, Chiara; ... (2023)
The polynomial robust knapsack problem. In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, vol. 305, pp. 1424-1434. ISSN 0377-2217
Contributo su Rivista - Chiesa, G.; Boffa, M.; Lanza, C.; Baldoni, V.; Fabiani, F.; Ravera, A. (2023)
Automatic identification of urban functions via social mining. In: CITIES, vol. 137. ISSN 0264-2751
Contributo su Rivista - Boffa, M.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M.; Drago, I.; Milan, G.; Houidi, Z. B.; Rossi, D. (2022)
On using pretext tasks to learn representations from network logs. In: NativeNi '22: 1st International Workshop on Native Network Intelligence, Roma, Italy, 9 December 2022, pp. 21-26. ISBN: 9781450398879
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boffa, Matteo; Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, ... (2022)
Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs. In: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 06-10 June 2022, pp. 314-321. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9560-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)