Giancarlo Pellegrino

Research Group

Team members

  • Giancarlo Pellegrino Group leader

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  • Aleksei (Alex) Stafeev PhD student

    Web application scannersCrawlers

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  • Andrea Mengascini PhD student

    Metaverse securityPrivacyWebXR

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  • Gianluca De Stefano PhD student

    Machine learningProgram analysis

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  • Jakub Pružinec Prep-phase Grad School PhD student

    Static analysis

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  • Prerak Mittal PhD student

    Autonomous offensive security

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Interns and Research Assistants/HiWis

  • Tiziano Albore 2026
  • Ryan Aurelio 2023-26

Students

  • Xuenan Zhang 2024/26: Prep-phase + MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • Marcel Kühn 2025/26: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • Nomaan Shaikh 2025/26: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)/SAP AG
  • Akshay Kashyap 2024/26: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • Luy Seiwert 2025/26: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)

Alumni

Former PhD students, postdocs, PhD interns, and visitors

  • 2025/26Asst. Prof. Yuqing Yang: Postdoc Now: Asst. Prof., Macau University of Science and Technology
  • 2019/25Dr. Giada Stivala: PhD student Now: Cloudflare
  • 2019/24Dr. Soheil Khodayari: PhD student Now: CrowdStrike
  • 2024/25Yigit Sever: PhD internship, METU, Turkey
  • 2023Anthony Gavazzi: PhD internship, Northeastern University (US)
  • 2023Lorenzo Cazzaro: Visiting PhD student, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
  • 2022Angelo Sotgiu: Visiting PhD student, University of Cagliari (IT)

Former students

BSc/MSc students and RAs/HiWis

  • 2022/26Tim Recktenwald: MSc thesis, HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2023/26Prerak Mittal: HiWi, MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022/25Sebastian Becking: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2025/26Davide Bombelli: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2021/24Sepehr Mirzaei: Prep-phase + MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2024Muhammad Sabeeh Rehman: Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022-24Luy Seiwert: Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022-24Raoul Scholtes: BSc thesis, MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2024Kiryl Khramiankou: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2023/24Jakob Graser: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2023John Uwe Theo Schmitt: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022/23Florian Romann: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022/23Ryan Aurelio: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022/23Tim Recktenwald: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022/23Kai Glauber: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2022Benno Krauß: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2021/22Raoul Scholtes: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2021Jannis Rautenstrauch: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2020/21Dominik Kempter: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2020/21Dominik Sautter: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2020/21Edoardo Vignani: MSc thesis, visiting student, University of Milan (IT)
  • 2020/21David Ahmed: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2020/21Nicolò Romandini: MSc thesis, Erasmus student, University of Bologna (IT)
  • 2020Xhelal Likaj: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2020Tobias Faber: BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2019/20Alexander Troeger: HiWi, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2017Sebastian Becking: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2016-18Simon Koch: HiWi, MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2016-19Pascal Duprè: HiWi, BSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)
  • 2017Andrey Chernov: MSc thesis, Saarland University (DE)