Diego Kreutz

Diego Kreutz

Associate Professor · Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Brazil

Cybersecurity  ·  Software-Defined Networking  ·  Distributed Systems  ·  Blockchain  ·  Machine Learning  ·  Artificial Intelligence

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About

Diego Kreutz is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Brazil.

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Labs & Research Groups

Research labs and groups Diego is part of.

AI Horizon Labs

Artificial Intelligence research

Research lab on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and applied machine learning.

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LEA

UNIPAMPA

Laboratory of Advanced Studies at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA).

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ETSS

UFAM / IComp

Emerging Technologies and Systems Security group at UFAM, coordinated by Prof. Eduardo Feitosa.

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Selected Projects

Funded research and innovation projects.

CYBERGUARD

2025–2028

CNPq Universal · ITA / UNIPAMPA / UFU

Artificial intelligence for cyber threat detection and response.

R$ 150K

GT-IoTEdu

2025–2027

RNP / Softex / MCTI · UNIPAMPA / UFU / UFRGS

Security and advanced management of IoT devices.

R$ 600K Project site

GT-Malware DataLab

2024–2025

RNP / Softex / MCTI (Hackers do Bem) · UNIPAMPA / UFAM / UFRGS

Platform for teaching and experimentation with neural networks for malware data generation.

R$ 227K Project site

GT-LFI: Learn From Incidents

2025

RNP / Softex / MCTI · UFU / UNIPAMPA / UFRGS

Teaching-learning, gamification and classification of cybersecurity incidents.

R$ 227K Project site

GT-Smart AgroRAF

2025

RNP / Softex / MCTI (ILIADA) · UNIPAMPA / IFRS / PUCRS

Smart contracts for traceability in family agriculture.

R$ 112K Project site

FAPERGS PqG

2024–2027

FAPERGS (Pesquisador Gaúcho) · UNIPAMPA

Research grant supporting cybersecurity, distributed systems and artificial intelligence.

R$ 45K Project site

FAPERGS ARC

2024–2026

FAPERGS (Auxílio Recém-Contratado) · UNIPAMPA

Start-up research grant for newly hired faculty in cybersecurity and applied AI.

R$ 35K Project site

Malware Hunter

2021–2025

Motorola · UFAM / UNIPAMPA

Machine learning for large-scale Android malware detection.

R$ 3.5M Project site

Selected Publications

A selection of representative work.

  1. An Experience Report on Artifact Evaluation in Brazilian Conferences ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2026
  2. MH-1M: A 1.34 Million-Sample Multi-Feature Android Malware Dataset with Rich Metadata Scientific Data, 2025
  3. Auth4App: Streamlining authentication for integrated cyber-physical environments Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2024
  4. Android malware detection with MH-100K: An innovative dataset for advanced research Data in Brief, 2023
  5. Analyzing the performance of the inter-blockchain communication protocol IEEE/IFIP DSN, 2023
  6. Analysis of transaction flooding attacks against Monero IEEE ICBC, 2021
  7. ISM-AC: an immune security model based on alert correlation and software-defined networking International Journal of Information Security, 2021
  8. ANCHOR: Logically Centralized Security for Software-Defined Networks ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2019
  9. The KISS Principle in Software-Defined Networking: A Framework for Secure Communications IEEE Security & Privacy, 2018
  10. A cyber-resilient architecture for critical security services Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2016
  11. Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey Proceedings of the IEEE, 2015

Selected Awards

Selected from more than 50 awards and distinctions.

Tools & Software Artifacts

Open-source tools co-authored by Diego, presented at SBC Tool Halls (SBSeg, SBRC).

MalDataGen

2025

SBSeg 2025 · Best Tool

Modular framework for synthetic tabular data generation in malware detection.

Paper (SOL)

AnonShield

2026

SBRC 2026 · Best Artifact

Scalable on-premise pseudonymization of network vulnerability data for CSIRTs.

Paper (SOL)

VulnSyncAI

2025

SBRC 2025 · Featured Artifact & Best Tool

NLP and LLMs for continuously building and updating vulnerability datasets.

Paper (SOL)

Cloud AutoDroid

2025

SBRC 2025 · Featured Artifact

Scalable distributed backend for running generative-AI tools in the cloud.

Paper (SOL)

MH-AutoML

2024

SBSeg 2024 · Featured Artifact

Transparent, interpretable AutoML for Android malware detection.

Paper (SOL)

MalSynGen

2024

SBSeg 2024 · Featured Artifact

Artificial neural networks for synthetic tabular malware data generation.

Paper (SOL)

The five Featured Artifact awards at SBSeg 2024 all stem from tools co-authored by Diego. Full list of tools at AI Horizon Labs.

Artifact Evaluation in Brazil

A community effort to make research reproducible, driven by Diego Kreutz and Tiago Heinrich since 2022.

Artifact Technical Committee (CTA)

2022–

SBC · SBSeg & SBRC

An open, educational evaluation that awards four reproducibility badges to research artifacts.

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Community & Outreach

Extension and science-popularization initiatives for students, professionals and the public.

UniHacker.Club

2019–

Coordinator · 50+ undergraduate students

University program closing the knowledge gap in technology and information security, open to the community.

Pint of Science Alegrete

2020

Coordinator · Science popularization

Worldwide science festival bringing researchers to public venues to discuss science with a broad audience.

Festival site

Codefolio

2024–

Software engineering · Knowledge sharing

Students build public code portfolios and tutorials sharing software-engineering best practices.

PIX Security Risks

2024

Public awareness

Surveying flaws in PIX and financial transactions and sharing security guidance with the community.

Journal Peer Review

A selection of the leading journals Diego reviews for.