About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Mobile Intelligence Lab and a member of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to academia, I work as a Machine Learning Engineer at Net AI. With a funding from Arm, I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr Paul Patras.

My research focuses on computational intelligence, including optimisation algorithms, knowledge representation, adversarial robustness, explainability of neural networks, and their applications to security and privacy in networked environments.

Prior to my PhD, I obtained a joint Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Degree from École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique (ESIEE Paris) and Mundiapolis University.

Latest News

Recent Publications

2. Cluster and Conquer: Malicious Traffic Classification at the Edge

To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management | 2023

by Alec F. Diallo, and Paul Patras

3. Amoeba: Circumventing ML-supported Network Censorship via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

To appear in: Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, CoNEXT | 2023

by Haoyu Liu, Alec F. Diallo, and Paul Patras

5. Deciphering Clusters with a Deterministic Measure of Clustering Tendency

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2023

by Alec F. Diallo and Paul Patras

6. Spider: Deep Learning-driven Sparse Mobile Traffic Measurement Collection and Reconstruction

Published in: IEEE Global Communications Conference | 2021

by Yini Fang, Alec F. Diallo, Chaoyun Zhang, and Paul Patras

7. Adaptive Clustering-based Malicious Traffic Classification at the Network Edge

Published in: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications | 2021

by Alec F. Diallo and Paul Patras

Scholarly Activities

  • Invited seminar talk at the University of Glasgow on AI design and optimization for cybersecurity.
  • Invited talk at Plexal on using AI to secure telecommunications networks.
  • Reviewer for Springer Nature and SECAI 2024.
  • Program Committee Member for the IEEE S&P 2024 Poster Session
  • Invited talk at the University of Cambridge on Adversarial Robustness.
  • Invited talk at Imperial College London on Adversarial Robustness.
  • Reviewer for AISTATS, Computer Communications, and Communication Letters.
  • Member of the EuroSys 2021 organisation committee.
  • Member of the 2021 SICSA Conference Advisory Board.
  • Association member of ESIEE *NIX and ESIEE Space.
  • Student volunteer for the organisation of the ACM ICPC 2015 World Finals.
  • Chair of the Mundiapolis ACM chapter 2014-2015.

Contact

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Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK