Leonardo Querzoni

Leonardo Querzoni is a Professor at the Department of Computer, Automatic and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti within Sapienza University of Rome. He currently serves as Deputy Rector for Digital Technologies and Cybersecurity (2024-2026) and President of the CYBER 4.0 Competence Center since 2022. His academic career spans over two decades with 120+ publications.

• PhD in Computer Engineering (2007) with thesis "Techniques for Efficient Event Routing"
• Coordinates Italy's first joint PhD program in Cybersecurity (Sapienza-Luiss)
• Co-author of Italy's National Cybersecurity Framework

Research spans Cybersecurity, Stream Processing, Dependable Distributed Systems, and Big Data Scalability. Particular focus areas include:

• Malware analysis and incident forensics
• Secure distributed systems
• Binary code analysis using neural networks
• Security for cyber-physical systems
• IoT attack triage
• Stream processing optimization

Key awards:

• 2023 DEBS 10 Years Time Award
• 2021 ASPLOS Distinguished Paper
• 2019 DIMVA Best Paper Runner-Up
• 2017 DEBS 10 Years Time Award

Active in European projects EU-GUARDIAN, ATENA, and national initiatives like PRIN TENACE. Industry collaborations include:

• Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
• Leonardo-Finmeccanica
• CISCO Research
• Banca MPS