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2017: Busy Beaver Award for "Cybersecurity I"

Short Bio

Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino is a tenured faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Before that he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University and research group leader at CISPA as part of the CISPA-Stanford Center for Cybersecurity. He got his PhD at Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis (France) under the supervision of Davide Balzarotti. Until August 2013, Giancarlo was a researcher associate in the Security and Trust group at the SAP research labs.

CV: Last stations

Since 2017
Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Since 2017
Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University
2017 - 2018
Visiting Scholar at Stanford University
2015 - 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at Saarland University

Publications by Giancarlo Pellegrino

Year 2026

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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) You Get What You Sample: Evaluating Sampling Strategies for Web Security Measurements

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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) A Large-scale Measurement of In-Page Prompt Injections Against LLM Web Agents

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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Omniscience for the Masses: New Threats in the Metaverse's Democratized World Creation

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GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) From Signup to Takedown: An Analysis of Malicious File Distribution in Free Hosting Providers

Year 2025

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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications

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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) In the DOM We Trust: Exploring the Hidden Dangers of Reading from the DOM on the Web

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ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) Exploration of the Dynamics of Buy and Sale of Social Media Accounts

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55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) Less is More: Boosting Coverage of Web Crawling through Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit

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IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) CHARON: Polyglot Code Analysis for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Scripting Languages Native Extensions

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IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) Exploring the Design Space for Security Warnings in Immersive Environments