Andrea Continella is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) Politecnico di Milano in Italy, working at the NECST Laboratory. His research activity is mainly focused on computer security and in particular on threat analysis. Andrea has been working on analysis and defense mechanisms against advanced malware, including for example the current generation of trojan horses, or the infamous ransomware families. During his PhD, he spent six months at UC Santa Barbara working at the SecLab on detection of obfuscated privacy leaks in Android applications. He also loves Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions, which he usually plays with Tower of Hanoi and sometimes with Shellphish, the Politecnico di Milano and UCSB hacking teams.
