Yanick Fratantonio is a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, where he works with Giovanni Vigna and Christopher Kruegel. His research interests lie in the security of the mobile platform, with a particular focus on static and dynamic analysis of Android applications, and it spans different research areas, such as malware detection, vulnerability analysis, and novel protection systems. He is also passionate in building systems and making them available to the security community. For example, he is involved in the development and maintenance of Andrubis, a publicly available service to analyze Android applications. In his free time, he enjoys playing and organizing Capture The Flag competitions with the Shellphish hacking team.
