Dr. Alberto Dainotti

Biography

Alberto Dainotti is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on the intersection of Internet measurement, data science, and cybersecurity. He is interested in understanding Internet infrastructure failures and proposing remedies. To this end, he develops methods to build near-real-time streaming data analytics systems such as IODA, BGPStream, and GRIP, which combine diverse data to monitor and improve Internet infrastructure security and reliability. Additionally, he studies the political motivations and implications of Internet cybersecurity events and phenomena, leading to the initiation of a series of workshops on Internet Measurement and Political Science since 2014. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at CAIDA, the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering Systems from the University of Napoli 'Federico II', Italy, in 2008.

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