Researcher

Levente Csikor is a Senior Scientist at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), researching network security and privacy to strengthen future communication networks. He explores how AI and agentic systems can enhance network hygiene, enable automated threat detection and improve threat intelligence extraction from the dark web. Levente earned his PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Before joining A*STAR, he held research positions at the University of Glasgow (UK), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), UNICAMP (Brazil) and the National University of Singapore, working on projects spanning Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), programmable networks, network security, privacy, and applied machine learning. He also brings industry experience from Ericsson, Singtel and NCS. His research achievements include discovering multiple zero-day attacks affecting widely deployed software-defined network components and automotive systems, with results presented at major venues such as Black Hat USA.