About

Hi! My name is Eleonora and I am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Padua. My career started in bioengineering, but one internship at EPFL got me hooked on Android security. So I packed my things, moved to Padua, and started shaping my own research direction, meanwhile building a research team (PadOverflow), excited about software security like me! We are into anything that breaks (or secures) software, with a soft focus for Android but not exclusively. If you want to know more about the PadOverflow’s research directions, check this page out. If you want to know more about me, you can listen to this interview!

Latest News

24 November 2025
Our paper “Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human–LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering” has been accepted at NDSS 2026!

16 October 2025
I received an honourable mention for my research activties under the Young Researchers Award 2025!

28 July 2025
The MOOC “Cybersecurity for Citizens and Professionals”, which I have been responsible for, is finally online! You can chek it out here: MOOC link

26 July 2025
Our paper “Virtualpatch: Distributing Android Security Patches Through Android Virtualization” has been accepted at Computers & Security journal!

26 June 2025
Our paper “Matrioska: A User-Centric Defense Against Virtualization-Based Repackaging Malware on Android” will be presented at DEFCON33 as a talk within the Mobile Hacking Community!

30 May 2025
Our paper “Hercules Droidot and the murder on the JNI Express” has been accepted at Usenix Security ‘25!

7 May 2025
Our project “E-Trojans: Ransomware, Tracking, DoS, and Data Leaks on Battery-powered Embedded Systems” has been accepted at Black Hat USA ‘25!

30 April 2025
Our paper “SPECK: From Google Textual Guidelines to Automatic Detection of Android Apps Vulnerabilities” will be presented as a poster at DIMVA ‘25!

28 February 2025
Our paper “A Dataset for Evaluating LLMs Vulnerability Repair Performance in Android Applications” has been accepted at CODASPY ‘25! This is the outcome of Elisa Braconaro thesis. —