About Me

I am a Cyber Resilience Engineer at Sygnum, Switzerland. I obtained my PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of Zürich (UZH) in 2025.

In my current role, I work on the first line of defense in Security Operations (SecOps), covering continuous monitoring, detection improvement, and threat and vulnerability management.

My technical background is in network and cloud security. Before moving into industry, I researched the security of network slices in 6G and nextG Telco-Cloud networks, applying Moving Target Defense (MTD) techniques optimized with Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep-RL) to build more resilient and adaptive security architectures.

Previously, I contributed to the EU H2020 ‘NATWORK’ project.

Experience

Sygnum

Cyber Resilience Engineer Aug 2026 - Present

• Working in the first line of defense within Security Operations (SecOps).
• Running continuous monitoring and driving detection improvement across the environment.
• Handling threat and vulnerability management to reduce exposure and strengthen resilience.

ZHAW - Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Research Associate in Network Security Sep 2025 - Aug 2026

• Focused on the security of network slices in future 6G and nextG Telco-Cloud networks.
• Applied Moving Target Defense (MTD) techniques to make security architectures more resilient and adaptive.
• Contributor to the EU H2020 ‘NATWORK’ project.

Research Assistant in Network Security Sep 2020 - Aug 2025

• Worked on the EU H2020 INSPIRE-5Gplus project (ended Oct 2022).
• Developed security solutions for next-generation mobile networks.

LIG - Laboratory for Informatics at Grenoble

Research Intern (Master’s Thesis) Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

• Designed and implemented RealPhish, a Real-Time Detector of Phishing Websites.
• Supervisor: Dr. Maciej Korczynski. (Drakkar group).

Research Intern May 2019 - Jul 2019

• Research on “Feasibility of Large-scale vulnerability notifications after the GDPR”.
• Published in 2020 IEEE EuroS&PW.

LIRMM Laboratory

Research Intern in Embedded Systems Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

• Implemented a secure VoIP video intercom using Raspberry Pi.
• Technologies: IoT, Raspbian, Linphone, FreePBX, Asterisk, SIP, TLS.

Education

PhD in Cybersecurity from University of Zürich (UZH), 2021 - 2025

• Institute of Informatics (IfI), Communication Systems Group (CSG).
• Grade: Magna Cum Laude.
• Supervisors: Dr. Gürkan Gür and Prof. Burkhard Stiller.

Master in Cybersecurity & Computer Science from UGA & INP Ensimag, 2018 - 2020

Bachelor in Computer Science from Montpellier University, 2015 - 2018

Technical Knowledge

• Security Operations: First-line defense, continuous monitoring, detection engineering, threat & vulnerability management, SIEM, incident triage.
• Offensive Security: Network/Software security, Penetration Testing (Pursuing OSCP).
• Cloud & Network: Security-by-design, TEEs (SEV-SNP), Monitoring, Anomaly Detection, SIEM, OpenStack, Kubernetes.
• Architecture: PKIs, Kerberos, Blockchain, Cryptography.
• AI & ML: Federated Learning, Supervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning for security automation.
• Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL.

Soft Skills

• Leadership: Led technical task packages in EU Horizon projects; collaborated with multinational partners.
• Communication: Authored winning project proposals and scientific articles (ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Network, IEEE ICC).
• Languages: Italian (Native), Arabic (Native), English (C1), French (C1), German (A2).