Dr. Donika Mirdita

Dr. Donika Mirdita is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Center for Applied Cyber­security (ATHENE) and the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Her research focuses on network security and critical internet infrastructure, specifically in analyzing protocols such as the BGP, RPKI and their interplay with DNS.

Dr. Mirdita’s work has identified many structural vulnerabilities in global routing. She co-authored several studies introducing novel attack vectors against the RPKI infrastructure and inconsistencies in protocol processing logic and software deployments. Her findings resulted in the assignment of multiple CVEs that led to patches of popular RPKI-enforcing software. This work has also shaped US government policy proposals by being cited in the FCC analysis on internet routing security in their 2024 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Dr. Mirdita's work has been presented at various top academic conferences such as USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, ACM SIGCOMM, and major industry venues such as BlackHat USA and BlackHat Asia. She contributes to the academic community in her work as Program Committee member for Codaspy (2024, 2025, 2026), Esorics (2025) and her role as Associate Editor for the journal ACM TOPS.