Giorgio Giacinto is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and a Guest Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He is the co-director of the Cybersecurity research area within the sAIfer Lab, a joint initiative between the University of Genoa and the University of Cagliari. In 1995, he joined the Pattern Recognition and Applications Lab at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy; in 2000, he was appointed a permanent faculty position as an Assistant Professor from 2000 to 2004 and Associate Professor from 2005 to 2017. He got a Ph.D. in information engineering in 1999 from the University of Salerno, Italy. 

His main area of expertise is machine learning approaches to malware analysis and detection. He is the scientific coordinator of the Spoke 3 within the SERICS (SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace)project. He is also the coordinator or principal investigator of research and internationalization projects. 

Prof. Giacinto is the coordinator of the MSc course in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence and teaches courses on Databases, Operating Systems, and Cybersecurity in the BSc course in Electronic, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering,  and in the MSc courses in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Engineering and Internet Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy. 

Prof. Giacinto is the author of more than 200 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. The complete list can be found on the IRIS portal or Google Scholar

He is a vice director of the Cybersecurity National Lab within the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI), and a member of the managing committee of the CINI Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Systems Lab. On behalf of the CINI consortium, he also participates in the activities of the European Cybersecurity Organisation (ECSO).

He has been a member of the PhD program in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Cagliari since 2001, and in 2022, he joined the National PhD Program in Cybersecurity, established at IMT Lucca.

He is the Editor in Chief of the "Security Engineering & Applications" section of the Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy. He is a program committee member of conferences in the field of cybrsecurity and regularly acts as a reviewer. He is the general chair of the international conference DIMVA 2022.

Prof. Giacinto has been a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM since 2010 and received the Fellow Award from IAPR in 2021.

He is one of the six founders of the company Pluribus One, a spin-off of the University of Cagliari.

March 2025