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Leonardo Proietti

MASTER STUDENT

Leonardo Proietti
Short Biography
Leonardo Proietti is a Master's student in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering
at the University of Siena, where he is currently working on his Master's thesis under the
supervision of Prof. Mauro Barni and the VIPP (Visual Information Processing and
Protection) group.

He graduated from Liceo Scientifico "Renato Donatelli" in Terni, before earning his
Bachelor's degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering from the University of Perugia in
2024. His Bachelor's thesis, titled "Analysis and Mitigation Strategies for Ransomware Cyber
Threats", was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Gianluca Reali. 
Thesis
He is currently writing a Master’s thesis on the robustness of Deep Learning models against
adversarial attacks. In particular, he is investigating the relationship between adversarial
examples and semantic features, analyzing the effectiveness of Adversarial Training in
defending image classification deep neural networks. 

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