Brendan D. Saltaformaggio

Welcome to Brendan Saltaformaggio's home page. I am an Associate Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I also hold a courtesy appointment in the School of Computer Science. For more information about me please see the links on this page.

Research Interests

Computer Systems Security and Cyber Forensics, with a focus on AI/ML security and forensics, automated malware remediation, software supply chain security, and cryptocurrency fraud investigation.

Selected Recent Publications

Achieving Zen: Combining Mathematical and Programmatic Deep Learning Model Representations for Attribution and Reuse.
D. Oygenblik, D. Dermendzhiev, F. Sofias, M. Yao, H. Xu, R. Zhang, J. Park, A. K. Sikder, and B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 2026 Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, 2026.

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.