Lorenzo Guerra

Lorenzo Guerra

PhD Researcher in Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Paris, France

I'm a PhD candidate at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), working with Renault Group as part of the CIFRE programme. My research focuses on machine learning for intrusion detection across network, host, and in-vehicle data, including self-supervised methods and graph neural networks. I also study how intrusion detection systems are evaluated.

I'm also a retired CTF player and represented the University of Bologna at the CyberChallenge.IT national finals.

Publications

How Benchmarks and Evaluation Protocols Shape Conclusions in Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection

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

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2027

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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 Researcher (CIFRE)
Télécom Paris (IP Paris) & Renault Group Mar 2024 - Present
Researching machine-learning methods for intrusion detection across network, host, and in-vehicle data, including graph-based approaches, alongside work on benchmark design and evaluation protocols.
Research Intern
Télécom Paris (IP Paris) June 2023 - Dec 2023
Master's thesis on using machine learning for intrusion detection in automotive CAN networks. Reproduced and evaluated methods across public datasets, focusing on dataset realism and experimental design. This work contributed to a paper published at the CSCS workshop at ACM CCS 2024.
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