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Edoardo Gennaretti

MS Computer Science @ UIC & PoliMi · Security research

Chicago, USA

I’m a Computer Science master’s student in the UIC–Politecnico di Milano double degree, working on systems and AI security.

I fuzz EV-charging protocols at the Systems and Internet Security Lab, study how malicious skills can hijack AI agents for my thesis, and spend the rest of my time playing, building and organizing CTFs.

research

Master’s Thesis — Security of AI Agents

In progress

UIC & Politecnico di Milano

  • Python
  • MCP
  • OpenClaw
  • Investigating security risks in AI agent frameworks, focusing on OpenClaw and MCP skills.
  • Analyzing how malicious skills can exploit and manipulate AI agents, and developing access controls to mitigate these risks.

Discovery Partners Institute (DPI)

Nov 2025 – Present

Graduate Student Researcher · Systems and Internet Security Lab · Chicago, USA

  • Python
  • Fuzzing
  • OCPP
  • Contributing to OCPPStorm, a security testing framework developed at SISL.
  • Extending its fuzzing support to additional EV-charging protocols.

experience

UIC Capture the Flame

Oct 2025 – Apr 2026

Organizer & Challenge Author · Chicago, USA

  • Co-organized a city-wide CTF at UIC with 100+ participants and helped run its infrastructure.
  • Designed and tested reverse engineering and cryptography challenges.

CyberChallenge.IT

Jan 2025 – Jul 2025

CTF National Finalist · Milan, Italy

  • Selected from 250+ candidates as one of the top 6 students to represent PoliMi at the national final.
  • 12-week training program in cryptography, web, software and network security, and malware analysis.
  • Competed in the national Attack/Defense final, focusing on binary exploitation and reverse engineering.

Atmosia (start-up)

Oct 2021 – Nov 2023

Co-founder & Software Developer · Milan, Italy

  • Co-founded a ClimateTech start-up building a network of IoT sensors for air-pollution monitoring in Milan.
  • Won a €35,000 grant and a one-year incubation in a competition run by Enhance, an alliance of European technical universities.
  • Developed the C software for real-time data acquisition from multiple types of environmental sensors.

projects

Capture the Flame — CTF Challenges

Five challenges I wrote for UIC’s intercollegiate CTF: two C crackmes (a product-key checker with checksum and XOR constraints, and a flag check split across functions), an XOR-obfuscated “firewall” password, a Python payload hidden behind Fernet encryption, and a SHA-256 password-cracking task.

  • C
  • Python
  • Reverse engineering
  • Crypto

Artificial Neural Networks & Deep Learning

A blood-cell image classifier reaching 0.86 accuracy after iterating over 10+ architectures (ConvNeXtBase, Inception modules) with RandAug augmentation, plus a from-scratch transformer UNet for grayscale image segmentation at 0.70 mIoU.

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras

My Shelfie

A multiplayer Java version of the board game, built in a team of four: client and server over both RMI and sockets, CLI and GUI, save/load persistence and disconnection resilience on an MVC design.

  • Java
  • RMI
  • Sockets
  • JUnit

Wordle in C

Wordle in C11, tuned to meet strict memory and speed benchmarks. A custom BST + linked-list structure filters thousands of admissible words in real time as constraints evolve; debugged with Valgrind, AddressSanitizer and GDB.

  • C11
  • Data structures
  • Valgrind

MasterZ Solana

TypeScript scripts from the MasterZ Solana course that walk through the token lifecycle on devnet: generating a keypair, requesting an airdrop, creating an SPL token mint, minting to an associated token account and transferring tokens to a new wallet.

  • TypeScript
  • Solana
  • web3.js
  • SPL Token

Digital Logic — VHDL Hardware Module

A hardware component, designed in a pair, that reads a memory address and an output channel from a 1-bit serial input and routes the word stored there to one of four 8-bit outputs. Verified with testbenches for corner cases, mid-run resets and stress runs; graded 30 / 30.

  • VHDL
  • Vivado
  • FSM

built-with-ai

Small apps I use every day, built with LLMs and AI coding agents. I come up with the idea and the requirements, then work with the agents to design, write, test and ship the code. Both are installable web apps that work offline and keep all data on the device — no accounts, no backend.

Daily Facts

A food diary that installs on the iPhone home screen. Scan a barcode or search Open Food Facts to log calories and macros, save custom foods and recipes, and track daily goals, with backup export and restore.

  • PWA
  • JavaScript
  • Barcode scanning
  • Open Food Facts

Gym Log

A workout logger: build a program split into days, log sets, reps and weight with a rest timer that beeps or vibrates, track cardio distance and pace, and import or export the history as CSV.

  • PWA
  • JavaScript
  • Offline

education

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Feb 2025 – Exp. Sept 2027

M.S. in Computer Science · Chicago, USA

  • Double degree program with Politecnico di Milano.
  • Courses: Network Security, Computer Systems Security, Cryptography, Neural Networks, Intro to AI, Intro to ML.

Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi)

Mar 2024 – Exp. Sept 2027

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering · Milan, Italy

  • Focus on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. GPA 28.14 / 30.
  • Courses: Computer Security, Offensive and Defensive Security, Digital Forensics, Advanced Algorithms and Parallel Programming.
  • Merit-based scholarship as one of the top freshmen, plus annual tuition waivers for high academic standing.

Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi)

Sep 2020 – Mar 2024

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering · Milan, Italy

  • Final grade 106 / 110, top 15% of the class.
  • Athens program: a week-long intensive course on extreme value statistics at MINES ParisTech.

skills

Security
Reverse engineering · Penetration testing · Vulnerability analysis · Fuzzing
Programming
C · C++ · Python · Java · Assembly
Tools
Ghidra · IDA Pro · pwntools · GDB · Burp Suite · Wireshark · Docker · Git · Linux
Languages
Italian (native) · English (C1)