Samy Bettaieb

Samy Bettaieb

Cybersecurity PhD Student @ UCLouvain

Hello there!

I'm a PhD student in Computer Security at UCLouvain (ICTEAM), supervised by Pr. Etienne Rivière. I work on machine learning-based malware detection, with a focus on feature representations, evaluation methodology, and adversarial robustness. My work covers Windows PE malware and smart contract security.

Education & Professional Experience

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Ph.D. in Computer Science

2023 — Present | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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Cyber Security Intern - Red Team

2022 | Approach Cyber Belgium

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M.Sc. in Computer Science

2021 - 2023 | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Publications

* Equal contribution

2025

Evaluating Behavior Graph Reduction Strategies for Machine Learning-Based Malware Detection

Samy Bettaieb*, Serena Lucca*, Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel, Axel Legay, Etienne Rivière
24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Guiyang, China

Simplicity Performs, But Should It? Examining Malware Detection Benchmark Datasets

Samy Bettaieb, Laurens D'hooge, Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel, Axel Legay, Etienne Rivière, Miel Verkerken, Bruno Volckaert
Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (SECAI), co-located with ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France

A Unified Comparison of Tabular and Graph-Based Feature Representations in Machine Learning for Malware Detection

Samy Bettaieb*, Serena Lucca*, Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel, Axel Legay, Etienne Rivière
4th Workshop on Rethinking Malware Analysis (WoRMA), co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2025, Venice, Italy Best Paper Award

2024

Automated Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts using Control Flow Graphs and Machine Learning

Charles Lohest, Samy Bettaieb, Axel Legay
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops (ACSAC Workshops), 2024

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