Massimiliano Albanese

Dr. Massimiliano Albanese is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. He serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) and as the Associate Chair for Research of the Department of Information Sciences and Technology. Dr. Albanese received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2005 from the University of Naples Federico II, and joined George Mason in 2011 after serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in the area of Information and Network Security, with particular emphasis on Modeling and Detection of Cyber Attacks, Cyber Situational Awareness, Network Hardening, Moving Target Defense, Configuration Security, and Vulnerability Metrics. Dr. Albanese has participated in sponsored projects totaling $13M, with a personal share of $3.5M. He holds four U.S. patents and has co-authored 2 books and over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Albanese is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Mason Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator Award, one of the most prestigious honors at George Mason. He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences, and he is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Springer International Journal of Information Security, and Elsevier Computer and Security.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2675-5810

Research

2024 – 2025: Establishing a Partnership for Increasing Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation of Low-Income Information Technology Students in the National Capital Region

2022 – 2025: Automated and Robust Multi-source Metadata Traffic Analysis for Cyber Threats Detection and Mitigation

2021 – 2024: VA-CNIP: A Coalition for the Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program

2018 – 2022: SCIBORG: Secure Configurations for the IoT Based on Optimization and Reasoning on Graphs

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Naples Federico II
• MS, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Naples Federico II