Emanuele Iannone
Scholar

Emanuele Iannone

Google Scholar ID: tjOanfQAAAAJ
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Software EngineeringSecurity TestingMining Software RepositoriesSoftware Security
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
300
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
15
 
Co-authors
19
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Main research topics include Security Vulnerability Testing, Mining Software Repositories & Software Analytics (applied to vulnerability-related data), AI for Software Security Engineering, Automated Exploit Generation, Automatic Vulnerability Repair, Secure Code Generation (and Security of AI-generated Code), Vulnerability Data Synthesis, and Human (i.e., Developer) Aspects in Software Security.
Research Experience
  • Involved in the Horizon EU project Sec4AI4Sec, working on automated mining and generation of security unit tests and developing novel AI-driven vulnerability repair solutions. Focuses on Empirical Software Engineering, particularly in software security, security testing, automated exploit generation, mining vulnerability-related data from software repositories, and vulnerability assessment.
Education
  • Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in February 2024, supervised by Prof. Fabio Palomba; earned an M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in September 2020, advised by Prof. F. Palomba and Prof. A. De Lucia; earned a B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the same university in July 2018, advised by Prof. A. De Lucia.
Background
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at TUHH, dedicated to security testing. Research interests include security vulnerability testing, automated mining and generation of security unit tests, and AI-driven vulnerability repair.
Miscellany
  • Born and raised in Salerno, Italy, a proud millennial with a passion for video games, especially Japanese role-playing games. Particularly interested in Pokémon, also enjoys Final Fantasy, Attack on Titan, Steins;Gate, Dragon Ball, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures.