Roberto Perdisci
Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor in Computer Science
Director, Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy
School of Computing, University of Georgia

perdisci [at] uga.edu
415 Boyd GSRC
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
I am a Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia, where I hold the Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professorship in Computer Science and direct the UGA Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and a faculty member of the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before joining UGA I was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, working under the supervision of Prof. Wenke Lee. Before that, I was Research Scholar at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari, Italy with the Pattern Recognition and Applications Group.
My research focuses on securing networked systems. I am particularly interested in web security, automating the analysis of security incidents, and defending networks from malware. I often combine systems research with machine learning and large-scale data mining techniques to solve challenging computer and network security problems. I am also interested in broader aspects of networked systems, including Internet-scale measurements, analysis and optimization of systems performance, and the design of networking protocols. In 2012, I received an NSF CAREER award on a project titled “Automatic Learning of Adaptive Network-Centric Malware Detection Models.”
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- ACM Internet Measurements Conference, IMC 2025
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2024) - Conference Chair
- 2024 CAE-R CoP Research Symposium - Program Chair
- IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2024
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024
- The Web Conference, WWW 2024 – Security Track Area Chair
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2023) - Program Chair
- Usenix Security Symposyum, 2023
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023)
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022) - Program Co-Chair
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022) - Best Reviewer Award
- MADWeb@NDSS 2022 - Program Chair
- Usenix Security Symposyum, 2022
selected publications
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SPC-Frame: Characterizing and measuring in-the-wild CAPTCHA attacksIn IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2024 2024
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SPPractical Attacks Against DNS Reputation SystemsIn IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2024 2024
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USENIXSecWEBRR: A Forensic System for Replaying and Investigating Web-Based Attacks in The Modern WebIn 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024 2024
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WWWDiscovering and Measuring CDNs Prone to Domain FrontingIn Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024 2024
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EuroSPUnderstanding, Measuring, and Detecting Modern Technical Support Scams (to appear)In 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2023 2023
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USENIXSecTRIDENT: Towards Detecting and Mitigating Web-based Social Engineering Attacks (to appear)In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 23, ANAHEIM, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023 2023
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USENIXSecCombating Robocalls with Phone Virtual Assistant Mediated Interaction (to appear)In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 23, ANAHEIM, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023 2023
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IMCPhishInPatterns: Measuring Elicited User Interactions at Scale on Phishing Websites (to appear)In IMC ’22: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022
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NDSSC\^2SR: Cybercrime Scene Reconstruction for Post-mortem Forensic AnalysisIn 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2021, virtually, February 21-25, 2021 2021
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ACSACTowards a Practical Differentially Private Collaborative Phone Blacklisting SystemIn ACSAC ’20: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual Event / Austin, TX, USA, 7-11 December, 2020 2020
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CCSMnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation SystemIn CCS ’20: 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual Event, USA, November 9-13, 2020 2020
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EuroSPIoTFinder: Efficient Large-Scale Identification of IoT Devices via Passive DNS Traffic AnalysisIn IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2020, Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2020 2020
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IMCWhen Push Comes to Ads: Measuring the Rise of (Malicious) Push AdvertisingIn IMC ’20: ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual Event, USA, October 27-29, 2020 2020