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Riccardo Paccagnella

Dr. Riccardo Paccagnella

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems

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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Riccardo Paccagnella is an assistant professor of computer science in Carnegie Mellon’s Software and Societal Systems department. He is a core faculty member of CyLab’s Security and Privacy Institute, with a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023. His research interests are in system and hardware security. Recently, his work has been focusing on uncovering and mitigating new classes of microarchitectural vulnerabilities and their impact on secure software. In the past, he also worked on improving the security of operating system audit frameworks.