Lorenzo Guerra

Lorenzo Guerra

PhD Student in ML for Security

Paris, France

I'm a PhD Candidate at Telecom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), conducting my research in partnership with Ampere (Renault Group) through a CIFRE fellowship. My work focuses on self-supervised and graph-based learning for intrusion detection in critical distributed real-time systems, including software-defined vehicles.

I am particularly interested in model design for robust, deployable intrusion detection systems, with evaluation and online adaptation after detection as complementary directions. I'm also a retired CTF player and took part in the national finals of CyberChallenge.IT.

Publications

Self-Supervised Learning of Graph Representations for Network Intrusion Detection

Lorenzo Guerra, Thomas Chapuis, Guillaume Duc, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Van-Tam Nguyen

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS), 2025

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AI-Driven Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) on the ROAD Dataset: A Comparative Analysis for Automotive Controller Area Network (CAN)

Lorenzo Guerra, Linhan Xu, Paolo Bellavista, Thomas Chapuis, Guillaume Duc, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Van-Tam Nguyen

1st Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS) at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024

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Experience & Education

PhD Student
Telecom Paris (IP Paris) & Ampere (Renault Group) Mar 2024 - Present
PhD on Computer Science, Data and Artificial Intelligence. Research focus: Intrusion detection for Software-Defined Vehicles using machine learning-based behavior modeling.
Research Intern
Telecom Paris (IP Paris) June 2023 - Dec 2023
Researching ML powered intrusion detection systems for automotive applications. Analysis of CAN security and applied state-of-the-art ML models on intrusion detection datasets.
National Finals Participant
CyberChallenge.IT Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Completed a six-month cybersecurity training program, placed 2nd locally, and represented the University of Bologna at the national finals.
M.Sc. Computer Engineering
University of Bologna 2021 - 2024
Cybersecurity & ML focus - Erasmus at Sorbonne Universite
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
University of Bologna 2018 - 2021