Clusit Thesis Award First Prize
Clusit, Italian Association for Information Security
Best Italian cybersecurity thesis of 2025 (21st edition), for my Bachelor's thesis on P.I.L.L.A.R., an LLM-based privacy threat modeling tool.
About me
My name is Andrea Bissoli and I am a 23 year old student of the joint Cyber Security MSc at EPFL and ETH Zürich.
I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer, Communication and Electronic Engineering at the University of Trento, being part of Collegio Clesio and completing an Erasmus exchange at TUM.
I'm driven by curiosity about how systems work, and how they break: it's what got me into cybersecurity, from CTFs to research on privacy threat modeling. Below you can find some of the awards I earned in my career and the projects I have been working on.
Education
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Sep 2026 – Feb 2027
MSc in Cyber Security, semester at ETH
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Semester at ETH Zürich as part of the joint EPFL–ETH master's degree.
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Sep 2025 – Sep 2028
MSc in Cyber Security
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Joint master's degree of EPFL and ETH Zürich.
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Oct 2024 – Mar 2025
Erasmus Exchange
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Exchange semester during my Bachelor's degree.
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Sep 2022 – Jul 2025
BSc in Computer, Communication and Electronic Engineering
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Member of Collegio Clesio, the University of Trento's residential college for top students.
Awards
SUI blockchain Hackathon Honorable Mention
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hackathon by the EPFL Blockchain Student Association on building solutions on the SUI blockchain. See our project, BrightFutures.
SWERC 2024 Participation
Department of Informatics, Pisa, Italy
Competed for the University of Trento in one of Europe's most important competitive programming contests.
Olicyber Bronze Medal
ONU International Training Centre, Turin, Italy
Italian high-school cybersecurity final: a 7-hour CTF among 100 students on web, crypto, networks and reversing.
Cyberchallenge National Finalist
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Ranked 2nd in the University of Verona selection, the only high-school student on the team. Competed in the Attack/Defence national final among 33 universities.
Italian Olympiad in Informatics Bronze Medal
Online
National final of the Italian high-school algorithmic problem-solving competition, held online due to COVID-19.
Contact me
You can send me an email at andrea@bisso.li, reach out on social media, or fill in this form with your contact information.