Email:
[email protected]Marco Alecci
Research Associate @ University of Luxembourg
About Me
I am a Research Associate (PostDoc) at the University of Luxembourg , conducting research at the intersection of software engineering, cybersecurity, and AI. I am a member of the Trustworthy Software Engineering (TruX) Research Group at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) . My work mainly focuses on combining traditional software analysis techniques, such as static analysis, with newer AI methods, including LLMs, to make Android app analysis more practical, contextual, and useful for security tasks.
I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein and Prof. Dr. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé .
Recent publications
- ReadConference ISSTA 2026
Secrets Unlocked: Evaluating LLMs for Secrets Detection in Android Apps
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis [ISSTA] - Main Track
Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein
Oakland - ReadPreprint arXiv 2026
Old Tricks, New Models: How Simple Image Transformations Break Modern AI-based Content Moderation
arXiv [arXiv]
Marco Alecci, Francesco Marchiori, Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein
- ReadConference MobiSys 2026
GeoTwins: Uncovering Hidden Geographic Disparities in Android Apps
Proceedings of the 24th edition of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services [MobiSys] - Main Track
Marco Alecci, Pedro J. R. Jimenez, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein
Cambridge - ReadPreprint arXiv 2026
Evaluating LLMs for Obfuscation Detection and Classification in Android Apps
arXiv [arXiv]
Luca Ferrari, Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Mariano Ceccato, Luca Verderame
- Journal TOSEM 2026
TaskFlow: LLMs for Android Taint Specification
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [TOSEM]
Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Marc Miltenberger, Steven Arzt, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein