Dr. Riccardo Paccagnella

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems

Bio

Riccardo Paccagnella is an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a core faculty member in S3D and CyLab and has a courtesy appointment in ECE. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2023) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was advised by Chris Fletcher.

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.