Domenico Cotroneo

Domenico Cotroneo is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His work centers on the security and dependability of software for critical infrastructures: industrial control systems, OT networks and cyber-physical environments, where a fault or an intrusion has physical consequences, and where a defensive action must itself be proven safe before it can touch a live process.

Building on that focus, his research combines software fault injection, failure and log analysis, and machine learning for dependability assessment, and extends to the trustworthiness of AI-generated code and the resiliency of cloud and HPC systems. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, he was a Professor at the University of Naples Federico II.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and an elected member of IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance, and has served as chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. He serves on the Steering Committees of DSN and ISSRE, the premier conferences in the field.

Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has mentored more than 17 PhD students and co-authored 200+ papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, including ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, DSN, ISSRE and EDCC.

Domenico Cotroneo’s research contributes to the fields of software engineering, and in particular to the following areas:

– Software Security for Critical Infrastructures
– Software Fault Injection and Failure Analysis
– Software Aging and Performance Degradation
– AI for Software Dependability
– Trustworthy AI Code Generation and Code Quality
– Resiliency of Cloud and HPC Systems

Personal site: https://dcotroneo.org