luke farchione_
phd student · security researcher · bug bounty hunter
i'm a cybersecurity PhD student at UCCS in the Xu Lab, specializing in large language models in cybersecurity. when i'm not training models, i'm breaking things.
latest
research
- CASSANDRA — new state-of-the-art model for CTI NLP and automated TTP extraction. submitted to ACM CCS 2026
- Aegis — cybersecurity visualization tool with an 18-attribute competency framework. submitted to IEEE VIS 2026
- CVE-LLM — real-time vulnerability querying using NIST NVD, MITRE, and Exploit-DB with vector retrieval
- Bili — open-source framework for evaluating LLMs across cybersecurity domains. NSF funded