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I am assistant professor at University of Twente’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science with expertise in DNS security and hygiene, DDoS prevention, Internet resilience, and centralization. My research focuses on developing and evaluating practical and effective security solutions for improving the security and resilience of the Internet infrastructure.
When I'm not busy with work, my greatest passion is traveling. I enjoy exploring and discovering new cultures and places, trying new foods, and meeting new people.

For more info, visit my website at https://academia.r4ffy.info/

Expertise

Computer Science
- Domain Name
- Network Infrastructure
- Malicious Activity
- Network Operator
- cloud provider
- Testbed
- Malicious Actor
- Phishing Attack

Organisations

Publications

2026

Load-Balancing Versus Anycast: A First Look at Operational Challenges (2026)IEEE transactions on network and service management, 23, 814-823. Hendriks, R., Jonker, M., van Rijswijk-Deij, R. & Sommese, R.https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2025.3636785Through a Smaller Lens: Revisiting Opportunistic Analysis Using Network Telescopes (2026)In Passive and Active Measurement: 27th International Conference, PAM 2026, Virtual Event, March 23-25, 2026, Proceedings (pp. 294-318) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16477 LNCS). Springer. Degen, B., Kempen, N., Claffy, K. C., Mok, R. K. P., Holz, R., van Rijswijk-Deij, R., Sommese, R. & Jonker, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-18268-5_14

2025

90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield (2025)In 2025 21th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE. Sommese, R., Sperotto, A., Prado, A., van der Ham, J. & Affinito, A.https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297497Double-Edged Sword: An Empirical Study on the Contribution of Cloud Providers in Malicious Infrastructure (2025)In 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE. Tarahomi Yousofi Sherbaf, S., Sommese, R., Linssen, J. M., Holz, R. & Sperotto, A.https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297506HideMe: Hiding VMs from Co-Residency Attacks Using Network-Level Traffic Redirection (2025)In Proceedings of the 2025 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management: AI and Sustainability in the Future of Network and Service Management, CNSM 2025. IEEE. Stanculete, B. N. & Sommese, R.https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297446LACeS: An Open, Fast, Responsible and Efficient Longitudinal Anycast Census System (2025)In IMC '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 445-461). Association for Computing Machinery. Hendriks, R., Luckie, M., Jonker, M., Sommese, R. & van Rijswijk-Deij, R.https://doi.org/10.1145/3730567.3764484Locating and Enumerating Anycast: a Comparison of Two Approaches (2025)In ANRW 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop (pp. 99-105). Association for Computing Machinery. Hendriks, R., Betzer, T., Du, B., Sommese, R., Jonker, M. & Van Rijswijk-Deij, R.https://doi.org/10.1145/3744200.3744783From Scarcity to Opportunity: Examining Abuse of the IPv4 Leasing Market (2025)In Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2025 (TMA'2025). IEEE. Degen, B., Du, B., Mok, R., Sommese, R., Jonker, M., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M. & Claffy, k.https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA66427.2025.11097001LACeS: An Open, Fast, Responsible, and Efficient Longitudinal Anycast Census System (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Hendriks, R., Luckie, M., Jonker, M., Sommese, R. & van Rijswijk-Deij, R.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.20554Load-Balancing versus Anycast: A First Look at Operational Challenges (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Hendriks, R., Jonker, M., van Rijswijk-Deij, R. & Sommese, R.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.14351

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Courses academic year 2026/2027

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University of Twente

Zilverling (building no. 11)
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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