Gianluca Capozzi

Cybersecurity and AI Researcher • gianluca.capozzi@kit.edu

I am a Post-doctoral researcher working with Prof. Christian Wressnegger in the IntelliSEC group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). I earned my Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, working with the research group led by Prof. Leonardo Querzoni. I was a visiting researcher at the S2Lab with Prof. Lorenzo Cavallaro at University College London (UCL).

My research interests span Deep Learning and Computer Security, with a focus on adversarial machine learning, binary similarity systems, and secure ML model design. Currently, I'm investigating new methods to increase the resilience of NLP models for binary analysis against adversarial attacks.


Publications

On the Lack of Robustness of Binary Function Similarity Systems

G. Capozzi, T. Tang, J. Wan, Z. Yang, D.C. D'Elia, G. Di Luna, L. Cavallaro, L. Querzoni.
IEEE EuroS&P 2025

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BinSAFE: Extending Functions Embeddings to Entire Binaries

G. Capozzi, G. Laurenzi, M. Mormando, C. Gianni, G. Marcilli, L. Querzoni, G. Di Luna.
Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC & SERICS 2025)

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Adversarial Attacks against Binary Similarity Systems

G. Capozzi, D.C. D'Elia, G. Di Luna, L. Querzoni.
IEEE Access 2024

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Teaching

2023

  • Teaching Assistant for Sistemi di Calcolo course (Spring 2023), Sapienza University of Rome.

2022

  • Teaching Assistant for Sistemi di Calcolo course (Spring 2022), Sapienza University of Rome.

Service

2023

  • Web Chair for EuroSys'23 - 18th European Conference on Computer Systems

Experience

Post-doctoral Researcher

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
January 2026 - ongoing

Post-doctoral Researcher

Sapienza University of Rome
May 2025 - December 2025

Visiting Researcher

University College London
January 2024 - July 2024

Cybersecurity Research Fellow

Sapienza University of Rome
September 2021 - October 2021

Researcher

Consorzio Interuniversitario nazionale per l’informatica "CINI"
March 2021 - August 2021

Education

Sapienza University of Rome

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
November 2021 - May 2025

Sapienza University of Rome

Master Degree in Engineering in Computer Science
Mark: 110/110
December 2018 - January 2021

Sapienza University of Rome

Bachelor Degree in Computer and Control Engineering

Mark: 97/110

September 2015 - December 2018