Maria Konte
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rate Professor Maria Konte
Helps students see the bigger picture.
Helps students see the joy in learning.
Encourages students to think independently.
Inspires confidence and independent thinking.
Always approachable and easy to talk to.
Your dedication to your students’ success is inspiring. Thank you for going above and beyond to ensure we understood the material.
About Maria
Maria Konte is a Lecturer at the School of Computing Instruction in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She teaches graduate-level online courses in the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, including CS 8803 Modern Internet Research Methods and CS 6250 Computer Networks, and mentors graduate students on multi-semester research projects. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses both on campus and online, and leads research projects funded by industry and government agencies while submitting research proposals. Previously, Konte held a Research Scientist position at Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science and School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. Earlier, she was a Research Scientist in cybersecurity groups at Verisign Cybersecurity Labs and Damballa Cybersecurity Research Labs. Konte received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2015, advised by Dr. Nick Feamster, with dissertation titled "Understanding and Defending Against Internet Infrastructures Supporting Cybercrime Operations." Her work on Autonomous System reputation from the dissertation appeared at ACM SIGCOMM 2015 and NANOG62 Research Track. She holds an M.S. degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Diploma in Engineering from the Industrial Engineering and Management Department at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. During her Ph.D., she interned at Damballa and Verisign Labs.
Her research interests focus on data-driven network security, designing large-scale data collection systems that intersect empirical measurements and data mining techniques to identify early signs of Internet abuse. Example areas include network traffic analysis for multi-peering Internet infrastructures and leveraging public social media to track Internet abuse. Specific projects encompass detecting Distributed Denial of Service attacks over Internet Exchange Point interconnection infrastructures (funded by NSF SaTC and NSF Innovation Corps program), studying routing patterns of malicious infrastructures (funded internally by Georgia Tech), and studying cybercrime communities on social platforms (funded by a government agency). Key publications include "ASwatch: An AS Reputation System to Expose Bulletproof Hosting ASes" (Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, with Roberto Perdisci and Nick Feamster), "Detecting and Measuring In-The-Wild DRDoS Attacks at IXPs" (International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, 2021, with Karthika Subramani and Roberto Perdisci), "Dynamics of Online Scam Hosting Infrastructure" (International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, 2009, with Nick Feamster and Jaeyeon Jung), "Re-wiring Activity of Malicious Networks" (PAM 2012, with Nick Feamster), and recent papers such as "Decomposing the Student Journey: A Tensor-Based Approach to Identifying Gateway Courses" (Proceedings of Learning @ Scale 2025). Konte received the Passive and Active Measurement Conference Best Paper Award 2009.
Professional Email: mkonte@cc.gatech.edu