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Giorgio Piccardo

Computer engineer University lecturer PhD candidate in Cybersecurity

Agentic AI, generative AI and cybersecurity: I build them, research them and teach them.

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01 About

I'm a computer engineer based in Rome, registered with the Italian Order of Engineers. I work on artificial intelligence, generative and above all agentic, and on cybersecurity: I design digital systems, from user experience down to infrastructure.

I'm a co-founder of LEAF and ChaingeWave. I teach at Luiss Guido Carli, in degree courses, master's programmes and training for public institutions, and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. At Sapienza I'm doing a PhD in Cybersecurity on the security of AI agents.

Outside work: swimming, digital minimalism and an around-the-clock passion for the world of agentic AI. 

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role     co-founder @ LEAF · ChaingeWave
teaches  Luiss · Tor Vergata · master's
phd      Cybersecurity @ Sapienza
focus    agentic AI · GenAI · cyber
member   Ordine degli Ingegneri
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02 Projects

The two companies I work on every day.

co-founder

LEAF

An Italian innovative SME in AI and emerging technologies: we close the gap between frontier research and business execution. Advisory, products and training on applied AI, machine learning, synthetic data and edge AI.

leafsrls.com
co-founder

ChaingeWave

We turn regulation into business opportunity: digital compliance, GDPR, the NIS2 directive and cyber risk management, with an approach built on design thinking and knowledge transfer.

chaingewave.com

03 Research

My PhD in Cybersecurity at Sapienza, in collaboration with Luiss, studies the security of LLM-based agents: how they can be attacked and manipulated, and how they behave when many of them interact.

agents · compromised · threshold click: insert an adversarial agent tap: insert an adversarial agent

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  • Security of LLM agents and cognitive threats
  • Attacks on generative and foundation models
  • Social dynamics in agent populations

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  1. 2026 The Agentic Kill Chain: A Cognitive Threat Framework for Autonomous Agent Ecosystems ITASEC/SERICS 2026 · with G.F. Italiano, A. Martino
  2. 2025 Security and Privacy in Large Language and Foundation Models: A Survey on GenAI Attacks ↗ ICDCIT 2025, Springer · invited paper · with G.F. Italiano, A. Martino

04 Teaching

I teach at university and in several professional master's programmes: artificial intelligence, generative AI, computer science, machine learning and cybersecurity.

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At Luiss Guido Carli I bring AI and cybersecurity to very different audiences: from degree courses to professional master's programmes, through to executive education and training for public institutions, including national security agencies.

  • Artificial intelligence & generative AI
  • Computer science and programming
  • Machine learning
  • Cybersecurity
Luiss Learn profile ↗

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Web fundamentals for language students in the LINFO degree programme: HTML, CSS and a taste of JavaScript.

05 Contact

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