TNG Group @ Politecnico di Torino
Telecommunication Networks Group @ Politecnico di Torino
TNG Group @ Politecnico di Torino

Idilio Drago

  • Email: idilio.drago@polito.it
  • Phone: +39 - 011090 - 4127

I was born in Marilândia-ES Brazil, on March 30th, 1980. I have received both my Master degree in Computer Science and my Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in 2013. I am currently an Assistant Professor with a temporary contract (RTDa) at the Telecommunication Networks Group in the Politecnico di Torino, in Italy.

See my Curriculum Vitae and my list of publications.

Short Bio:

Dr. Idilio Drago is an Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. His current research interests include Internet measurements, quality of experience and network security. He is particularly interested on how big data and data science techniques can help to extract knowledge from traffic data and help securing the network and automating network management tasks. Drago has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil. He was awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize in 2013 by the IETF/IRTF for his work on cloud storage traffic analysis. He is now a member of the SmartData@PoliTO Center in the Politecnico di Torino, a research center in which more than 30 students, professors, and researchers are working on big data and data science applications.

  1. Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Milan, Giulia; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, Dario, Cross-network Embeddings Transfer for Traffic Analysis, 2024
  2. Boffa, Matteo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Valentim, Rodolfo; Houidi, Zied Ben, LogPrécis: Unleashing language models for automated malicious log analysis, 2024
  3. Gioacchini, Luca; Santos, Welton; Lopes, Barbara; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Almeida Jussara, M.; Gonçalves Marcos, André, Explainable Stacking Models based on Complementary Traffic Embeddings, 2024
  4. VIEIRA VALENTIM, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Cerutti, Federico, X-squatter: AI Multilingual Generation of Cross-Language Sound-squatting, 2024
  5. Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Delsanto, Alexander; Siracusano, Giuseppe; Bifulco, Roberto, AutoPenBench: Benchmarking Generative Agents for Penetration Testing, 2024
  6. Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Cerutti, Federico, Lost in Translation: AI-based Generator of Cross-Language Sound-Squatting, 2023
  7. Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco, URLGEN – Towards Automatic URL Generation Using GANs, 2023
  8. Trevisan, Martino; Soro, Francesca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Morla, Ricardo, Attacking DoH and ECH: Does Server Name Encryption Protect Users’ Privacy?, 2023
  9. Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Ben Houidi, Zied; Rossi, Dario, i-DarkVec: Incremental Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis, 2023
  10. Boffa, M.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M.; Drago, I.; Milan, G.; Houidi, Z. B.; Rossi, D., On using pretext tasks to learn representations from network logs, 2022
  11. Favale, Thomas; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, What Scanners do at L7? Exploring Horizontal Honeypots for Security Monitoring, 2022
  12. Vieira Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Cerutti, Federico; Mellia, Marco, AI-based Sound-Squatting Attack Made Possible, 2022
  13. Boffa, Matteo; Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, Zied, Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs, 2022
  14. Perna, Gianluca; Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio, A first look at HTTP/3 adoption and performance, 2022
  15. Soro, Francesca; Favale, Thomas; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Ben Houidi, Zied; Drago, Idilio, The New Abnormal: Network Anomalies in the AI Era, 2021
  16. GOMES FERREIRA, CARLOS HENRIQUE; Murai, Fabricio; Silva, Ana Paula Couto.; Almeida, Jussara M.; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio, On the dynamics of political discussions on Instagram: A network perspective, 2021
  17. Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning to Interact with IoT Devices, 2021
  18. Favale, Thomas; Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, α-MON: Traffic Anonymizer for Passive Monitoring, 2021
  19. Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, Dario, DarkVec: automatic analysis of darknet traffic with word embeddings, 2021
  20. Rescio, Tommaso; Favale, Thomas; Soro, Francesca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio, DPI Solutions in Practice: Benchmark and Comparison, 2021
  21. Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino; Cerutti, Federico; Mellia, Marco, Augmenting phishing squatting detection with GANs, 2021
  22. Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio; Khatouni, Ali Safari, Measuring HTTP/3: Adoption and Performance, 2021
  23. Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique; Murai, Fabricio; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula; de Almeida, Jussara Marques; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Unveiling Community Dynamics on Instagram Political Network, 2020
  24. Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio; Munafo, Maurizio Matteo; Mellia, Marco, Five Years at the Edge: Watching Internet From the ISP Network, 2020
  25. Favale, Thomas; Soro, Francesca; Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Campus Traffic and e-Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
  26. Favale, Thomas; Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, α-MON: Anonymized Passive Traffic Monitoring, 2020
  27. Trevisan, Martino; Soro, Francesca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Morla, Ricardo, Does domain name encryption increase users' privacy?, 2020
  28. Soro, Francesca; Allegretta, Mauro; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Bertholdo, Leandro M., Sensing the Noise: Uncovering Communities in Darknet Traffic, 2020
  29. Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; D’Alconzo, Alessandro, Big Data in Computer Network Monitoring, 2020
  30. Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; D’Alconzo, Alessandro, Big Data in Computer Network Monitoring, 2020
  31. Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; MURAI FERREIRA, Fabricio; DINIZ DE FIGUEIREDO, FLAVIO VINICIUS; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula; Almeida, Jussara M., Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram, 2019
  32. Soro, Francesca; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco; Ceron, Joao; J. Santanna, Jose, Are Darknets All The Same? On Darknet Visibility for Security Monitoring, 2019
  33. Favale, Thomas; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino, Privacy-preserving network monitoring at high-speed, 2019
  34. Dralconzo, Alessandro; Drago, Idilio; Morichetta, Andrea; Mellia, Marco; Casas, Pedro, A Survey on Big Data for Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, 2019
  35. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, PAIN: A Passive Web Performance Indicator for ISPs, 2019
  36. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio, Robust URL Classification With Generative Adversarial Networks, 2019
  37. Manzoor, J.; Cerda-Alabern, L.; Sadre, R.; Drago, I., Improving Performance of QUIC in WiFi, 2019
  38. Rooke, Felipe; Aquiles, Victor; Vieira Borges, Alex; M Almeida, Jussara; Drago, Idilio, Characterizing Usage Patterns and Service Demand of a Two-Way Car-Sharing System, 2019
  39. Aldinucci, Marco; Rabellino, Sergio; Pironti, Marco; Spiga, Filippo; Viviani, Paolo; Drocco, Maurizio; Guerzoni, Marco; Boella, Guido; Mellia, Marco; Margara, Paolo; Drago, Idilio; Marturano, Roberto; Marchetto, Guido; Piccolo, Elio; Bagnasco, Stefano; Lusso, Stefano; Vallero, Sara; Attardi, Giuseppe; Barchiesi, Alex; Colla, Alberto; Galeazzi, Fulvio, HPC4AI, an AI-on-demand federated platform endeavour, 2018
  40. Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Munafo, Maurizio, Five Years at the Edge: Watching Internet from the ISP Network, 2018
  41. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Song, Han Hee; Baldi, Mario, AWESoME: Big Data for Automatic Web Service Management in SDN, 2018
  42. Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, Zied; Lamali, Mohamed Lamine, You, the Web, and Your Device: Longitudinal Characterization of Browsing Habits, 2018
  43. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Measuring Web Speed From Passive Traces, 2018
  44. Manzoor, Jawad; Sadre, Ramin; Drago, Idilio; Cerda-Alabern, Llorenc, Is There a Case for Parallel Connections with Modern Web Protocols?, 2018
  45. Baldi, Mario; Hee Song, Han; Nucci, Antonio; Mellia, Marco; Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio, Automatic rule generation for flow management in software defined networking networks, 2017
  46. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Munafo, Maurizio M., Automatic detection of DNS manipulations, 2017
  47. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, PAIN: A Passive Web Speed Indicator for ISPs, 2017
  48. Bocchi, Enrico; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Personal Cloud Storage Benchmarks and Comparison, 2017
  49. Goncalves, Glauber; Vieira, Alex Borges; Drago, Idilio; Da Silva, Ana Paula Couto; Almeida, Jussara M., Cost-Benefit Tradeoffs of Content Sharing in Personal Cloud Storage, 2017
  50. Guarnieri, Thiago; Drago, Idilio; Vieira, Alex B.; Cunha, Italo; Almeida, Jussara, Characterizing QoE in Large-Scale Live Streaming, 2017
  51. Manzoor, Jawad; Drago, Idilio; Sadre, Ramin, How HTTP/2 is changing web traffic and how to detect it, 2017
  52. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Munafo', MAURIZIO MATTEO, Towards web service classification using addresses and DNS, 2016
  53. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; H. H., Song; Baldi, Mario, WHAT: A Big Data Approach for Accounting of Modern Web Services, 2016
  54. Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Detecting user actions from HTTP traces: Toward an automatic approach, 2016
  55. Gonçalves, Glauber D; Drago, Idilio; Vieira, Alex B.; COUTO DA SILVA, ANA PAULA; Almeida, Jussara M.; Mellia, Marco, Workload models and performance evaluation of cloud storage services, 2016
  56. Trevisan, Martino; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Impact of Access Line Capacity on Adaptive Video Streaming Quality - A Passive Perspective, 2016
  57. Bocchi, Enrico; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Experiences of Cloud Storage Service Monitoring: Performance Assessment and Comparison, 2016
  58. Goncalves, Glauber; Drago, Idilio; Da Silva, Ana Paula Couto; Vieira, Alex Borges; Almeida, Jussara M., The Impact of Content Sharing on Cloud Storage Bandwidth Consumption, 2016
  59. Manzoor, Jawad; Drago, Idilio; Sadre, Ramin, The curious case of parallel connections in HTTP/2, 2016
  60. Gonçalves, Glauber Dias; Drago, Idilio; Borges, Alex Vieira; Couto, Ana Paula; de Almeida, Jussara Marques, Analysing Costs and Benefits of Content Sharing in Cloud Storage, 2016
  61. Drago, Idilio; Ricciato, Fabio; Sadre, Ramin, Report from the 6th PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), 2016
  62. Bocchi, Enrico; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Personal cloud storage: Usage, performance and impact of terminals, 2015
  63. Drago, Idilio; Hofstede, Rick; Sadre, Ramin; Sperotto, Anna; Pras, Aiko, Measuring Cloud Service Health Using NetFlow/IPFIX: The WikiLeaks Case, 2015
  64. Gonçalves, Glauber; Drago, Idilio; Da Silva, Ana Paula Couto; Vieira, Alex Borges; Almeida, Jussara M., Analyzing the Impact of Dropbox Content Sharing on an Academic Network, 2015
  65. Goncalves, Glauber; Drago, Idilio; Da Silva, Ana Paula Couto; Vieira, Alex Borges; Almeida, Jussara M., Modeling the Dropbox client behavior, 2014
  66. Goncalves, Glauber; Drago, Idilio; Silva, Ana Paula Couto da; Almeida, Jussara M.; Vieira, Alex Borges, Characterizing and Modeling the Dropbox Workload, 2014
  67. Hofstede, Rick; Čeleda, Pavel; Trammell, Brian; Drago, Idilio; Sadre, Ramin; Sperotto, Anna; Pras, Aiko, Flow monitoring explained: From packet capture to data analysis with NetFlow and IPFIX, 2014
  68. Drago, Idilio; Bocchi, Enrico; Mellia, Marco; Herman, Slatman; Aiko, Pras, Benchmarking personal cloud storage, 2013
  69. Drago, Idilio; Ricardo, de O. Schmidt; Hofstede, Rick; Sperotto, Anna; Karimzadeh, Morteza; Haverkort, Boudewijn R.; Pras, Aiko, Networking for the Cloud: Challenges and Trends, 2013
  70. Hofstede, Rick; Drago, Idilio; Sperotto, Anna; Sadre, Ramin; Pras, Aiko, Measurement Artifacts in NetFlow Data, 2013
  71. Drago, Idilio, Understanding and Monitoring Cloud Services, 2013
  72. Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Munafo', MAURIZIO MATTEO; Anna, Sperotto; Ramin, Sadre; Aiko, Pras, Inside Dropbox: Understanding Personal Cloud Storage Services, 2012
  73. Drago, Idilio; Sadre, Ramin; Pras, Aiko, Report of the third workshop on the usage of NetFlow/IPFIX in network management, 2011
  74. Hofstede, Rick; Drago, Idilio; Moura, Giovane C. M.; Pras, Aiko, Carrier ethernet OAM: An overview and comparison to IP OAM, 2011
  75. Hofstede, Rick; Drago, Idilio; Sperotto, Anna; Pras, Aiko, Flow monitoring experiences at the ethernet-layer, 2011
  76. Drago, Idilio; Barbosa, Rafael R. R.; Sadre, Ramin; Pras, Aiko; Schönwälder, Jürgen, Report of the second workshop on the usage of NetFlow/IPFIX in network management, 2011
  77. Drago, Idilio; Pras, Aiko, Scalable service performance monitoring, 2010
  78. Fabris, Fábio; Drago, Idilio; Varejão, Flávio M., A multi-measure nearest neighbor algorithm for time series classification, 2008
  79. Mendel, E; Mariano, L. Z.; Drago, Idilio; Loureiro, S.; Rauber, T. W.; Varejão, F. M.; Batista, R. J., Automatic bearing fault pattern recognition using vibration signal analysis, 2008