
Ph.D. in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni , 37th cycle (2021-2024)
Ph.D. obtained in 2025
Dissertation:
Unleashing the Power of AI to Automate Cybersecurity (Abstract)
Tutors:
Marco Mellia Idilio DragoTeaching
Teachings
Master of Science
- Machine learning for networking. A.A. 2022/23, COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2024/25, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
Publications
Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara (2025)
CoDÆN: Benchmarks and Comparison of Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Networks. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB. ISSN 1559-114X
Contributo su Rivista - Gioacchini, Luca (2025)
Unleashing the Power of AI to Automate Cybersecurity. relatore: MELLIA, MARCO; DRAGO, IDILIO; , 37. XXXVII Ciclo, P.: 194
Doctoral Thesis - Cavallo, Andrea; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
Detecting Edge and Node Anomalies with Temporal GNNs. In: 3rd GNNet Workshop - Graph Neural Networking Workshop, Los Angeles, California (USA), December 9, 2024, pp. 7-13. ISBN: 979-8-4007-1254-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
Dynamic Cluster Analysis to Detect and Track Novelty in Network Telescopes. In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Vienna (AUT), 08-12 July 2024, pp. 287-296. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6729-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Delsanto, Alexander; Siracusano, ... (2024)
AutoPenBench: Benchmarking Generative Agents for Penetration Testing.
Altro - Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
Incremental Federated Host Embeddings for Network Telescopes Traffic Analysis. In: IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, NJ (USA), 23-23 July 2024, pp. 41-46. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5471-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Milan, Giulia; Houidi, ... (2024)
Cross-network Embeddings Transfer for Traffic Analysis. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 21, pp. 2686-2699. ISSN 1932-4537
Contributo su Rivista - Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara M. (2024)
Benchmarking Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms in Dynamic Networks. In: 4th Workshop on Graphs and more Complex structures for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) at AAAI 2024, Vancouver (CDN), 2024
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Santos, Welton; Lopes, Barbara; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Almeida ... (2024)
Explainable Stacking Models based on Complementary Traffic Embeddings. In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Vienna (AUT), 08-12 July 2024, pp. 261-272. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6729-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Siracusano, Giuseppe; Sanvito, Davide; Gashteovski, Kiril; Friede, ... (2024)
AgentQuest: A Modular Benchmark Framework to Measure Progress and Improve LLM Agents. In: 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Mexico City (Mexico), June 16-21, 2024, pp. 185-193
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Ben Houidi, Zied; Rossi, ... (2023)
i-DarkVec: Incremental Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, vol. 23, pp. 1-28. ISSN 1533-5399
Contributo su Rivista - Gioacchini, Luca; Cavallo, Andrea; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2023)
Exploring Temporal GNN Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis. In: 2nd GNNet Workshop - Graph Neural Networking Workshop, Paris, France, 8 December, 2023, pp. 31-36. ISBN: 9798400704482
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Poli, Angelica; Cecchi, Stefania; Spinsante, Susanna (2021)
Sensors Characterization for a Calibration-Free Connected Smart Insole for Healthy Ageing. In: International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, December 3, 2020, pp. 35-54. ISBN: 978-3-030-69963-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, ... (2021)
DarkVec: automatic analysis of darknet traffic with word embeddings. In: CoNEXT '21: 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Virtual Event Germany, December 7 - 10, 2021, pp. 76-89. ISBN: 9781450390989
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)