Lorenzo Cavallaro grew up on pizza, spaghetti and Phrack, and soon developed a passion for underground and academic research. He is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where he leads the Systems Security Research Lab. Lorenzo’s research vision is to enhance the effectiveness of machine learning for systems security in adversarial settings. He works with his team to investigate the role program semantics of increasing expressiveness play in creating Trustworthy AI for Systems Security. Lorenzo publishes at and sits on the Program Committees of leading conferences in computer security and ML, received the Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2022, and an ICML 2024 Spotlight Paper. He is also Associate Editor of ACM TOPS and IEEE TDSC. In addition to his love for food, Lorenzo finds his flow in science, music and family.
