I'm _ocean aka Davide Quarta, an AI/Cybersecurity Researcher at Alias Robotics.

I find vulnerabilities where bits meet atoms — from industrial robots (5 CVEs in ABB/Universal Robots) to IoT protocols (Eclipse Mosquitto).

My past experiences include Chip Security Architect at Fortaegis, and Product Security Engineer at Qualcomm. As a Marie-Skłodowska Curie alumni with a PhD from Politecnico di Milano, I've collaborated with top security labs including UC Santa Barbara's SecLab. I've co-advised 10+ master students and taught malware analysis and reverse engineering internationally.

I developed several open source projects spanning different areas from AI/ML, security tools, and developer utilities. I've contributed to major projects like AFLplusplus, angr, Celery, and pwntools.

I play(ed) CTFs with TowerOfHanoi, Shellphish, and Mhackeroni, co-organized PoliCTF 2015, and developed challenges for iCTF.

• Embedded & IoT Security: From ROM hacking on Game Boy to securing industrial control systems
• Binary Analysis & Fuzzing: Novel techniques for vulnerability discovery
• Reverse Engineering: Mobile/Windows malware, anti-malware evasion (CrAVe project)
• AI/ML Security: Exploring LLM assistant personas "transfer protocols", and neural network approaches for image generation, and security research (with ML techniques, and for ML!).

I believe science should be reproducible and accessible, which drives my commitment to open source and education.

📫 Feel free to reach out for collaborations, security research, or just to chat about reverse engineering!