Before joining UGA he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Principal Scientist at Damballa, Inc., a network security company based in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Perdisci is a recipient of the 2012 NSF CAREER Award. His research interests are in Computer and Network Security, and in Machine Learning/Data Mining techniques for efficient analysis and modeling of large datasets. In particular, he has been focusing on modeling and detecting Botnets based on their network behavior.