DrAnna Maria Mandalari

Anna Maria Mandalari is Associate Professor in the Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College London, where she is the Director of the SafeNetIoT laboratory and she also serves as the Director of the MSc Programme in Internet Engineering and Telecommunications. She is Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London and visiting Professor at the Yokohama National University. She has been elected Secretary of ETSI TC CYBER EUSR to help coordinate standardization efforts on cybersecurity and emerging technologies. She is Chair of the Internet of Things Working Group at RIPE. She is Executive Steering Board Member of the IoT Security Foundation. She has been nominated Member of the Italian Technical Secretariat of the Committee for strategies on the use of AI. She obtained her PhD within the framework of the METRICS project, which is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action, intended for excellent researchers, affiliated with the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her research interests are Internet of Things (IoT), privacy, security, networking and Internet measurement techniques. She studies privacy implications and information exposure from IoT devices.
In addition to her research, Anna gives invited talks all around the world to promote research and create awareness on security and privacy standards. Most of her research experiences have also significantly contributed to several EU-funded research projects and have had a significant influence on media and policymaking.
Anna Maria Mandalari is also committed to promoting the interest of young women in STEM subjects. She is an active member of organizations that encourage diversity and aims to promote connections between women in the computer science and networking field.

NEWS
Our team went through Phase 2 of the InnovateUK CyberASAP programme. We got funds for developing a PoC ready to present at a Demo Day in February.

Our team has recently won one of the TOP 5 spots in the Telekom Challenge Development Stream, receiving a generous gift to develop a prototype for the blocking system, IoTrim.

Our Paper Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach won the community contribution award at IMC'19 because “the dataset was timely, has high potential for impact, and was challenging to obtain.” Check out our data and code here:

publications
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Rapid IoT Device Identification at the EdgeOliver Thompson, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed HaddadiProceedings on the 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning, co-located with CoNEXT 2021.

Revisiting IoT Device IdentificationRoman Kolcun, Diana Andreea Popescu, Vadim Safronov, Poonam Yadav, Anna Maria Mandalari, Richard Mortier, Hamed HaddadiProceedings on TMA 2021.

Blocking without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT TrafficAnna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Hamed HaddadiProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021.

Measuring Roaming in Europe: Infrastructure and Implications on Users QoE Andra Lutu, Martino Trevisan, Ali Safari Khatouni, Anna Maria Mandalari, Ana Custura, Marco Mellia, Ozgu Alay, Marcelo Bagnulo, Vaibhav Bajpai, Anna Brunstrom, Joerg Ott, Gorry FairhurstIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2021.

A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild Said Jawad Saidi, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann Proc. of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2020.

When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart SpeakersDaniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Anna Maria Mandalari, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Hamed HaddadiProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2020.

Towards Automatic Identification and Blocking of Non-Critical IoT Traffic DestinationsAnna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David ChoffnesIEEE S&P Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’20).

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach [Community Contribution Award!] Jingjing Ren, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed HaddadiProc. of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2019.

Experience: Implication of Roaming in EuropeAnna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu,Ana Custura, Ali Safari Khatouni, Ozgu Alay, Marcelo Bagnulo, Vaibhav Bajpai, Anna Brunstrom, Joerg Ott, Marco Mellia, Gorry FairhurstProceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct 2018, New Delhi, India.

Measuring ECN : Good News for , Bad News for ECN over MobileAnna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu, Bob Briscoe, Marcelo Bagnulo, Ozgu AlayIEEE Communications Magazine, March 2018.

Tracking the Big NAT across Europe and the U.S Anna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu, Amogh Dhamdhere, Marcelo Bagnulo, KC Claffy Apr 2017.

NATwatcher: Profiling NATs in the Wild Anna Maria Mandalari, Miguel Angel Diaz Bautista, Francisco Valera, Marcelo BagnuloIEEE Communications Magazine, March 2017.

TCP Fast Open initial measurements Anna Maria Mandalari, Marcelo Bagnulo, Andra LutuACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, Dec 2015, Heidelberg, Germany.

Informing Protocol Design Through Crowdsourcing: the Case of Pervasive Encryption [Best paper award at C2B(I)D 2015!] Anna Maria Mandalari, Marcelo Bagnulo, Andra LutuACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data (C2B(I)D), Aug 2015, London, UK.

Duty-Cycle Optimization for Machine-to-Machine Area Networks Based on Frame Slotted-ALOHA with Energy Harvesting Capabilities Orazio Briante, Anna Maria Mandalari, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Ruggeri, Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Francisco Vazquez-GallegoEuropean Wireless 2014, Barcelona, Spain.

Performance Evaluation of Reservation Frame Slotted-ALOHA for Data Collection M2M Networks Francisco Vazquez-Gallego, Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Anna Maria Mandalari, Orazio Briante, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe RuggeriEuropean Wireless 2014, Barcelona, Spain.