Cristiano Giuffrida is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests span across most aspects of systems security and reliability, including software security, side channels, and binary and malware analysis. He received a PhD cum laude from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2014. He was awarded the Roger Needham Award at EuroSys and the Dennis M. Ritchie Award at SOSP for the best PhD dissertation in Computer Systems in 2015 (Europe and worldwide).