Rate My Professor Maria Konte

Her research interests focus on data-driven network security, designing large-scale data collection systems that intersect empirical measurements and data mining techniques to identify early signs of Internet abuse. Example areas include network traffic analysis for multi-peering Internet infrastructures and leveraging public social media to track Internet abuse. Specific projects encompass detecting Distributed Denial of Service attacks over Internet Exchange Point interconnection infrastructures (funded by NSF SaTC and NSF Innovation Corps program), studying routing patterns of malicious infrastructures (funded internally by Georgia Tech), and studying cybercrime communities on social platforms (funded by a government agency). Key publications include "ASwatch: An AS Reputation System to Expose Bulletproof Hosting ASes" (Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, with Roberto Perdisci and Nick Feamster), "Detecting and Measuring In-The-Wild DRDoS Attacks at IXPs" (International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, 2021, with Karthika Subramani and Roberto Perdisci), "Dynamics of Online Scam Hosting Infrastructure" (International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, 2009, with Nick Feamster and Jaeyeon Jung), "Re-wiring Activity of Malicious Networks" (PAM 2012, with Nick Feamster), and recent papers such as "Decomposing the Student Journey: A Tensor-Based Approach to Identifying Gateway Courses" (Proceedings of Learning @ Scale 2025). Konte received the Passive and Active Measurement Conference Best Paper Award 2009.