Security of AI systems
Prompt injection, data poisoning, red teaming, guardrails that fail, the EU AI Act in practice.
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Bio, photo, logos and the topics we can comment on. For interviews, quotes or data, write to info@domikalabs.com: we answer the same day.
Founder
Francesco Curia, PhD
Short bio
Francesco Curia, PhD, is the founder of DOMIKA Labs, a Rome-based lab that builds research intelligence tools on open data. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches AI Data-Driven Security, and has spent almost ten years leading AI work in consulting and in the cyber and defense sector.
Long bio
Francesco Curia, PhD, is an AI manager, researcher and founder based in Rome. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Sapienza University of Rome, with research on interpretable AI, optimisation and decision support.
Over almost ten years he has led AI work in consulting and in the cyber and defense sector: analytics for electronic warfare systems, building a Data & AI department from scratch, leading an AI team across defence, healthcare, finance and energy, and today designing agentic AI and large language model platforms for large organisations and public administration.
He teaches AI Data-Driven Security in the second-level master's programme in Data Intelligence e Strategie Decisionali at Sapienza, covering prompt injection, data poisoning, adversarial attacks and AI red teaming. He has spoken at the Italian Centre for Higher Defence Studies (CASD), the Italian Naval War College and Italian Navy and Army conferences.
He founded DOMIKA Labs, where he builds DOMIKA, NuKleo and Molekto, and writes the weekly AI Security Research Brief on LinkedIn.
Biografia breve (italiano)
Francesco Curia, PhD, è il fondatore di DOMIKA Labs, laboratorio romano che sviluppa strumenti di intelligence per la ricerca basati su dati aperti. Ha un dottorato in Ricerca Operativa alla Sapienza Università di Roma, dove insegna AI Data-Driven Security, e da quasi dieci anni guida progetti di intelligenza artificiale nella consulenza e nel settore cyber e difesa.
Company
DOMIKA Labs
DOMIKA Labs builds tools for people who read science for a living: researchers, analysts and decision-makers. Its products turn papers, registries and public records into answers that can be traced back to the source. The lab is based in Rome.
- DOMIKA Search, compare and verify scientific papers in one place. One search across multiple scholarly sources, AI answers with citations, side-by-side comparison, and science news checked against the original study. app.domikalabs.com
- NuKleo An observatory on the security of AI systems: research, incidents and the frameworks that regulate them. nukleo.domikalabs.com
- Molekto Pharma intelligence on clinical trials and drug pipelines. In development.
- AI Security Research Brief A weekly newsletter on LinkedIn with the research on AI security that matters. Subscribe
Topics
What Francesco can comment on
AI agents and LLMs at work
What agentic AI really does in companies and public administration, costs, risks and where it breaks.
Science news and misinformation
How headlines stretch studies, and how to check a claim against the original paper.
Technology and geopolitics
Undersea cables, chips, space and the race between countries for research and patents.
AI in defence and intelligence
OSINT automation, cognitive warfare and decision support, from an expert who has taught in defence institutions.
Building an AI product alone
How a researcher designs, builds and launches AI products end to end.
Photos and logos
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