Brendan
Saltaformaggio

General Information

Email:
bds3@gatech.edu
Phone:
4048948362
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
S0923
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2016
Institution
Purdue University
Location
West Lafayette, IN
Degree Type
M.S.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2014
Institution
Purdue University
Location
West Lafayette, IN
Degree Type
B.S.
Subject
Computer Science (with Honors)
Year
2012
Institution
University of New Orleans
Location
New Orleans, LA
Statement of Research Interests:

Professor Saltaformaggio’s research interests include computer systems security and cyber forensics, with a focus on malware analysis, vetting untrusted software, and the investigation of cyberattacks targeting AI deployments. His research develops principled cyber forensics methods by combining memory forensics, binary analysis and instrumentation, and AI vulnerability discovery.

Statement of Teaching Interests:

Professor Saltaformaggio’s teaching interests include advanced malware analysis, cyber forensics, and systems security, with an emphasis on static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, and the investigation of cyberattacks. His courses integrate theory with hands-on laboratory assignments that teach students to analyze, understand, and remediate complex modern malware.

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

VillainNet: Targeted Poisoning Attacks Against SuperNets Along the Accuracy-Latency Pareto Frontier.
D. Oygenblik, A. Vemulapalli, A. Agrawal, D. Sanyal, A. Tumanov, and B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025.

Hitchhiking Vaccine: Enhancing Botnet Remediation With Remote Code Deployment Reuse.
R. Zhang, M. Yao, H. Xu, O. Alrawi, J. Park, and B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 2025 Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, 2025.

Pulling Off The Mask: Forensic Analysis of the Deceptive Creator Wallets Behind Smart Contract Fraud.
M. Yao, R. Zhang, H. Xu, R. Chou, V. C. Paturi, A. K. Sikder, and B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), San Francisco, CA, 2024.