Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)
- Member Academic Senate
- Referente Artificial Intelligence Data Science and Computing - Progetto Referenti del Politecnico di Torino su attività a supporto dei rapporti con enti governativi territoriali, nazionali ed europei
- Member of Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory
- Permament guest Doctoral School Board
- Partnership Agreement Coordinator with HUAWEI
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- marco.mellia@polito.it
- Personal website
Profile
Research interests
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- BEST PAPER AWARD conferred by IEEE P2P 2012, United States (2012)
- ACM CoNEXT Best Short Paper Award conferred by ACM CoNEXT - International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, United States (2013)
- Applied Networking Research Prize conferred by Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), United States (2013)
- Best Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems conferred by IEEE, United States (2015)
Fellowships
- Fellow - IEEE, Stati Uniti (2020-2100)
IEEE Fellow
Editorial boards
- THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON NETWORKING (2023), Director
- COMPUTER NETWORKS (2019-2023), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING (2014-2018), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT (2014-2023), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW (2012-2018), Director
Management or scientific roles in Research Institutes
- Politecnico di TORINO - Politecnico di TORINO (2017-), Coordinatore del centro Interdipartimentale SmartData@PoliTO
Conferences
- Performance 2021, Participation to the organizing committee
- Performance 2020, Participation to the organizing committee
- ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML (NetAI 2020), Program committee
- ACM CoNEXT, Steering commitee
- ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2018), Program chair
- IEEE Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2017), Program chair
- ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2017), Program chair
- ACM CoNEXT (1/1/2017-15/12/2017), Program chair
- IEEE Infocom - Demo and Poster Chair, Program chair
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Researcher, presso Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) (15/6/2019-31/7/2019)
- Visiting Researcher, presso Narus, Inc. (14/6/2012-15/8/2014)
- Visiting Researcher, presso Narus, Inc. (7/7/2011-8/9/2011)
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
- Accordo attuativo dell'Accordo quadro di cooperazione strategica tra il Politecnico di Torino e la Fondazione Links "Piattaforma Digital Revolution", (2022-2024) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - Accordo Attuativo tra il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni DET e il Consortium GARR, (2021-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2015/2016 (31. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2014/2015 (30. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA, 2013/2014 (29. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
Teachings
PhD
- On the convergence of Social Computing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval (insegnamento su invito). A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI. Main teacher
Master of Science
- Hardware & Wireless Security (modulo di Wireless and device-to-device communication Security). A.A. 2024/25, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
- Internet Performance and Troubleshooting Lab. A.A. 2024/25, COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2023/24, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Hardware & Wireless Security (modulo di Wireless and device-to-device communication Security). A.A. 2023/24, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
- Internet Performance and Troubleshooting Lab. A.A. 2023/24, COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2023/24, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2022/23, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2021/22, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2021/22, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2020/21, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2020/21, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2019/20, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2019/20, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Titolare del corso
- Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Titolare del corso
- Laboratorio di Internet. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di Internet. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di Internet. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
- Laboratorio di Internet. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
Research
Research fields
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- AI4CTI - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE, (2025-2028) - Responsabile Scientifico
National Research - XInternet (eXplainable Internet), (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - MANAGE5.0 - MANAGE 5.0 - MANufacturing Automotive Green Evolution 5.0, (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
PNRR – Complementary Plan - Reading&Machine - Reading (&) Machine. La promozione della lettura verso il futuro, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - PIMCITY - ICT-13-2018-2019, (2019-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - ICT - HPC4AI - Centro di Competenza Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni e Intelligenza Artificiale Torino, (2018-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Regionally funded research - MONROE - ICT 11 – 2014, (2015-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - ICT - mPlane - MPLANE-AN INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENTE PLANE FOR FUTURE NETWORK AND APPLICATION MANAGMENT, (2012-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - COOPERATION - ICT - Caratterizzazione di traffico a livello trasporto: analisi e modelli di flussi dati e real time, (2006-2008) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- MAD - Digital Banking, (2025-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Accordo di collaborazione tra il Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN e Anti Financial Crime Digital Hub S.c.a.r.l. per l’analisi dei dati e dei risultati del progetto “MAD – Multicriteria Anomaly Detection” per la redazione e pubblicazione di articoli scientifici., (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - AISN – AI Secured Networks, (2024-2025) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
Commercial Research - Framework Agreement tra Polito e HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES , (2021-2031) - Personale interno di riferimento
Partnership Agreements - Contratto di ricerca tra il Politecnico – Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (DAUIN) e la società NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, per la realizzazione del Progetto di Ricerca “Cyberagent”, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Applicazione di algoritmi di machine learning per il monitoraggio della qualità del servizio della rete, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Enhancements of Analytics Models for Characterization of Quality of Expericence in Mobile Networks, (2023-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - ImEDA - Improving Efficiency in Detection Analysis, (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Contratto di ricerca tra il Politecnico (DAUIN) e ANTI FINANCIAL CRIME DIGITAL HUB S.c.a.r.l. per la realizzazione del Progetto di Ricerca “MAD- Multicriteria Anomaly Detection” , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Characterization of Quality of Experience in Mobile Networks, (2022-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Network Performance & Video, (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Attività di supporto all’implementazione del piano di Compagnia di San Paolo Sistema Torino scrl di aggiornamento delle infrastrutture IT, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - AI-Assisted Network Security, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progressing WP3 CARS Urban Mobility management and new concepts, (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Rinnovo Convenzione dipartimentale DET per la creazione della Monroe Alliance, (2019-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - MODELLI STATISTICI, DATA ANALYTICS E MACHINE LEARNING”, “FOG COMPUTING E OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKING” e “DESIGN E IMPLEMENTAZIONE DI FUNZIONALITÀ FIRMWARE AVANZATE”, (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Convenzione dipartimentale Politecnico di Torino DET per la creazione della Monroe Alliance , (2019-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - WP3 CARS Urban Mobility management and new concepts, (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - MODELLI STATISTICI, DATA ANALYTICS E MACHINE LEARNING - FOG COMPUTING E OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKING, (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progetto N. 4 - Recurrent Neural Networks Applied to network and service data, (2017-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Andrea Sordello. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Protect-IT – Distributed platform for cybersecurity data collection and analysis
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing - Alberto Verna. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Privacy on the Internet: measurements and novel approaches
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI - Yuqi Zhao. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Continuous Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI - Kai Huang. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: Automatic identification of cyberthreats via distributed darknets and honeypots
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI - Giordano Paoletti. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: Analyzing Online Social Networks: Implications for Cybersecurity and Misinformation
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI - Francesco De Santis. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (38th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: The decision-making process followed by machine learning models is often unobservable. For this reason, it is essential to develop methodologies that make this process more transparent.
Data science, Computer vision and AI Data science, Computer vision and AI - Tailai Song. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Machine learning for real-time communication.
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Modeling, simulation and CAD Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Modeling, simulation and CAD - Matteo Boffa. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
Thesis: Language Models and Cybersecurity - Applications and Current Limits - Luca Gioacchini. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Unleashing the Power of AI to Automate Cybersecurity - Nikhil Jha. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Privacy on the Web: Algorithms, Tools and Measurements
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science - Rodolfo Vieira Valentim. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Generative Approaches to Sound-Squatting: AI Tools and Validation
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks - Thomas Favale. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Strengthening Privacy and Cybersecurity through Anonymization and Big Data
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks
Publications
Last years publications
PoliTO co-authors
Publications by type
Latest publications 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 - Verna, Alberto; Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco (2024)
A First View of Topics API Usage in the Wild. In: The 20th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Los Angeles (USA), December 9 - 12, 2024, pp. 48-54. ISBN: 9798400711084
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Leonardi, Emilio; Mellia, Marco (2024)
Re-Identification Attacks against the Topics API. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB, vol. 18, pp. 1-24. ISSN 1559-1131
Contributo su Rivista - Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Delsanto, Alexander; Siracusano, ... (2024)
AutoPenBench: Benchmarking Generative Agents for Penetration Testing.
Altro - 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) - Ciravegna, G.; Galante, F.; Giordano, D.; Cerquitelli, T.; Mellia, M. (2024)
Fault Prediction in Resistance Spot Welding: A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches. In: ELECTRONICS, vol. 13. ISSN 2079-9292
Contributo su Rivista - Liu, Qiong; Zhang, Tianzhu; Hemmatpour, Masoud; Qiu, Han; Zhang, Dong; Chen, Chung Shue; ... (2024)
Operationalizing AI/ML in Future Networks: A Bird's Eye View from the System Perspective. In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, pp. 1-7. ISSN 0163-6804
Contributo su Rivista - 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) - 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; 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) - Geißler, Stefan; Lutu, Andra; Wamser, Florian; Favale, Thomas; Vomhoff, Viktoria; ... (2024)
Untangling IoT Global Connectivity: The Importance of Mobile Signaling Traffic. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 21, pp. 4435-4449. ISSN 1932-4537
Contributo su Rivista - VIEIRA VALENTIM, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Cerutti, Federico (2024)
X-squatter: AI Multilingual Generation of Cross-Language Sound-squatting. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY, vol. 27, pp. 1-27. ISSN 2471-2566
Contributo su Rivista - Mellia, Marco; Steenkiste, Peter; Qiu, Lili; Bonaventure, Olivier (2024)
PACMNET, V2, CoNEXT1, March 2024 Editorial. In: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON NETWORKING, vol. 2, pp. 1-1. ISSN 2834-5509
Contributo su Rivista - Perna, Gianluca; Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Perdices, Daniel; Mellia, Marco (2024)
Monitoring Web QoE in Satellite Networks from Passive Measurements. In: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas (USA), 06-09 January 2024, pp. 669-676. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0457-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Mellia, Marco; Steenkiste, Peter; Qiu, Lili; Bonaventure, Olivier (2023)
PACMNET, V1, CoNEXT3, December 2023 Editorial. In: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON NETWORKING, vol. 1, pp. 1-2. ISSN 2834-5509
Contributo su Rivista
Society and Enterprise
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Honeypot Entity And Method Of Operating The Same. international Patent
Inventors: Idilio Drago Marco Mellia Luca Vassio - Sistema automatico per identificazione di URL generati algoritmicamente. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia - Method for unsupervised detection of web trackers. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia - Method for unsupervised detection of web trackers. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia - Method for unsupervised detection of web trackers. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia - Metodo e apparato per rilevare flusso dati vocale e flusso dati a pacchetto. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia Michela Meo - Metodo ed apparato per rilevare flussi dati in un flusso dati a pacchetti, applicazioni a identificazione di traffico vocale. national and international Patent
Inventors: Marco Mellia Michela Meo