Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
USA

Giovanni Vigna is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His current research interests include network and computer security, intrusion detection, security of mobile code systems, penetration testing, and distributed systems. In particular, in the last years he worked on STAT, a framework for the modular development of intrusion detection systems. He also published a book on Security and Mobile Agents and he is the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003). Giovanni Vigna received his M.S. with honors and Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively.