Alberto Dainotti

Alberto Dainotti is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and Director of the Internet Intelligence Lab. His research focuses on Internet measurement, data science, and cybersecurity, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure reliability and socio-political implications of cyber events. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2014, he served as an Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at CAIDA (Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis) at UC San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Systems from the University of Napoli 'Federico II', Italy (2008).

He teaches courses such as Internet Data Science (CS 8803), Computer Networking I (CS 3251), and Computer Networks/Networking II (CS 6250/4251). Current students include Feng Zhu, Iliana Xygkou, Olivier Bemba, Weili Wu, Zahra Yazdani, and Zhiyi Chen. Former advisees have transitioned to roles at Amazon AWS Research, Northeastern University, UC Davis, Microsoft Azure, and VMware, among others.

Research Interests:

• Internet Connectivity Outages & Mitigation
• BGP Routing Security & Monitoring
• Cybersecurity in Political Contexts
• Address Space Utilization
• DDoS/Botnet Analysis
• Network Measurement Tools

Scientific Contributions:

• Developed systems like IODA, BGPStream, and GRIP for real-time Internet monitoring
• Recipient of the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2012, 2017)
• Awarded Best Dataset (PAM 2022) and Best Community Artifact (PAM 2023)
• Authored over 50 publications in top venues including SIGCOMM, IMC, and NSDI

Grants & Funding:

• National Science Foundation (NSF) grants CNS-1705024 / 2202288 and CNS-1703592
• US Department of Homeland Security
• Cisco Systems, Comcast, ISOC, Google, and Open Technology Fund

Labs & Collaborations:

• Internet Intelligence Lab (Georgia Tech)
• CAIDA collaboration (UC San Diego)
• MAPKIT project with University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Contributor to OECD and BITAG reports on routing security