Andrea Continella
Associate Professor
Netherlands
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Top SchoolAndrea Continella is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente who leads the cybersecurity team within the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group and contributes to the International Secure Systems Lab. With a PhD cum laude from Politecnico di Milano and a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, his decade-long research centers on systems security—malware analysis, privacy-leak detection in Android apps, and vulnerability discovery and patching in embedded firmware. He combines deep program-analysis expertise with practical tooling work, including notable contributions to the popular angr binary-analysis platform where he extended Java VM support and improved handling of symbolic objects. Andrea is committed to open, reproducible science and frequently bridges academia and hands-on security practice through CTF competitions, co-organizing PoliCTF and iCTF and competing with Shellphish. His background spans international research stints in the US and Australia, reflecting a collaborative, globally connected approach to security research. Beyond publications, he focuses on building analyzers and defenses that directly mitigate real-world threats such as ransomware and obfuscated privacy leaks.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude at Politecnico di MilanoLiceo Scientifico "Ettore Majorana"Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Catania
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
soot10
binarydiff10
python10
angr10
java10
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
angr/angr
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
A powerful and user-friendly binary analysis platform!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea contributed extensively to the `angr/angr` repository, a binary analysis platform, with a focus on the Soot (Simple Object Oriented Tool) engine. Their commits primarily involve implementing features and addressing bugs related to the Soot engine, including handling symbolic objects and addressing issues with switch statements and phi expressions. The user's work also encompasses extending the functionality of Java VM procedures, integrating and testing the functionalities of multi-arrays, and integrating newly implemented simprocs for increased functionality.
pythonbinary-analysisanalysisuser-friendlyangr
ucsb-seclab/agrigento
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Agrigento is a tool to identify privacy leaks in Android apps by performing black-box differential analysis on the network traffic.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
android-appandroid-appsnetwork-traffic
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