Marco Mellia

Marco Mellia is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN) of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a member of the Academic Senate. He serves as Coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO and Scientific Advisor for the Huawei partnership. His research focuses on Internet traffic analysis, cybersecurity, machine learning applications in network security, and data science.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Data
• Network Security
• Machine Learning

His recent publications investigate topics like Telegram group dynamics, federated learning for network telescopes, darknet anomaly detection, and AI-driven sound-squatting prevention. These works span applications in cybersecurity, social networks, and network management.

Marco Mellia has received numerous accolades including IEEE Fellow (2020), Applied Networking Research Prize (2013), and multiple best paper awards at IEEE ICDCS, ACM CoNEXT, and IEEE P2P. He advises PhD students in cybersecurity and data science, leads large-scale research projects (AI4CTI, XInternet, HPC4AI), and holds 13 patents.

He has held visiting researcher positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Sprint AT Labs, Narus, Cisco Systems, and Federal University of Minas Gerais. Marco is Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the ACM on Networking and has chaired major conferences including ACM CoNEXT and IEEE TMA.