Cecilia
Testart
General Information
Email:
ctestart@gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-5592
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
S1017
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Website URL
Details
Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2021
Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location
Cambridge, MA
Degree Type
S. M.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2016
Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location
Cambridge, MA
Degree Type
S. M.
Subject
Technology and Policy
Year
2016
Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location
Cambridge, MA
Degree Type
M.Eng
Subject
Engineering
Year
2010
Institution
Ecole Centrale Paris
Location
France
Degree Type
B. S.
Subject
Industrial Engineering
Year
2010
Institution
Universidad de Chile
Location
Chile
Statement of Research Interests:
Professor Testart's research lies at the intersection of Internet measurements, security and policy, with the goal of making the Internet secure and beneficial to society. Her work uses data-driven and qualitative approaches to consider technical and non-technical challenges to improve Internet security and reliability.
Statement of Teaching Interests:
Professor Testart teaches hands-on classes on computer networks and network security for senior undergraduate and graduate students, using a student-centered approach to lectures. She also advises graduate and undergraduate students for independent studies, projects and thesis.
Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:
[1]
D. Gouda, R. Fontugne, and C. Testart, “ru-RPKI-ready: the Road Left to Full ROA Adoption,” in Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Madison WI USA: ACM, Oct. 2025, pp. 415–429. doi: 10.1145/3730567.3764452.
[2]
D. Gouda, A. Dainotti, and C. Testart, “Prefix2Org: Mapping BGP Prefixes to Organizations,” in Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, in IMC ’25. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Nov. 2025, pp. 397–414. doi: 10.1145/3730567.3764485.
[3]
W. Wu, Z. S. Bischof, C. Testart, and A. Dainotti, “Replication: A Two Decade Review of Policy Atoms - Tracing the Evolution of AS Path Sharing Prefixes,” in Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Madison WI USA: ACM, Oct. 2025, pp. 777–792. doi: 10.1145/3730567.3764432.
[4]
C. Testart and J. Wolff, “The Role of RIRs in RPKI Adoption,” presented at the TPRC 2025: The 53rd Research Conference on Communication, Information & Internet Policy, Washington, DC: Social Science Research Network, Sep. 2025. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5443714.
[5]
D. Clark, C. Testart, M. Luckie, and K. C. Claffy, “A path forward: Improving Internet routing security by enabling zones of trust,” Dec. 06, 2023, arXiv: arXiv:2312.03305. Accessed: Apr. 15, 2024. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03305
[6]
B. Du, R. Fontugne, C. Testart, A. C. Snoeren, and kc claffy, “Sublet Your Subnet: Inferring IP Leasing in the Wild,” in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, in IMC ’24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Nov. 2024, pp. 328–336. doi: 10.1145/3646547.3689010.
[7]
C. Testart, J. Wolff, D. Gouda, and R. Fontugne, “Identifying Current Barriers in RPKI Adoption,” presented at the TPRC 2024: The 52rd Research Conference on Communication, Information & Internet Policy, Washington, DC, Sep. 2024. Accessed: Sep. 13, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4948317
[8]
C. Testart, V. Stocker, D. D. Clark, and W. Lehr, “(Reimagining) Resilience Goals for the Internet,” Washington, DC, Aug. 2024. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4942003.
[9]
Z. Chen, Z. S. Bischof, C. Testart, and A. Dainotti, “Improving the Inference of Sibling Autonomous Systems,” in Passive and Active Measurement, A. Brunstrom, M. Flores, and M. Fiore, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp. 345–372. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_15.
[10]
B. Du, C. Testart, R. Fontugne, G. Akiwate, and A. C. Snoeren, “Mind Your MANRS: Measuring the MANRS Ecosystem,” in Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference on - IMC ’22, Nice, France, Oct. 2022, p. 14. doi: 10.1145/3517745.3561419.
[11]
B. Du et al., “IRRegularities in the Internet Routing Registry,” in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, in IMC ’23. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Oct. 2023, pp. 104–110. doi: 10.1145/3618257.3624843.
[12]
E. N. Nemmi, F. Sassi, M. La Morgia, C. Testart, A. Mei, and A. Dainotti, “The parallel lives of Autonomous Systems: ASN allocations vs. BGP,” in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, in IMC ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Nov. 2021, pp. 593–611. doi: 10.1145/3487552.3487838.
[13]
B. Du et al., “IRR Hygiene in the RPKI Era,” in Passive and Active Measurement, vol. 13210, O. Hohlfeld, G. Moura, and C. Pelsser, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13210. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 321–337. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-98785-5_14.
[14]
C. Testart, P. Richter, A. King, A. Dainotti, and D. Clark, “To Filter or Not to Filter: Measuring the Benefits of Registering in the RPKI Today,” in Passive and Active Measurement, A. Sperotto, A. Dainotti, and B. Stiller, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 71–87. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44081-7_5.
[15]
C. Testart, P. Richter, A. King, A. Dainotti, and D. Clark, “Profiling BGP Serial Hijackers: Capturing Persistent Misbehavior in the Global Routing Table,” in Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference on - IMC ’19, Amsterdam, Netherlands: ACM Press, 2019, pp. 420–434. doi: 10.1145/3355369.3355581.