Michele Carminati was born in Calcinate in 1988. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering  (2010) and his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2013, cum laude) both from Politecnico di Milano. He discussed his M.Sc. thesis about fraud and anomaly detection in the Online banking scenario entitled "BANKSEALER: A TRANSACTION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR INTERNET BANKING FRAUD DETECTION" supervised by prof. Stefano Zanero and prof. Federico Maggi.

Since November 2013 he is a PhD student in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are mainly focused on computer security and in particular on financial malware analysis and Internet banking fraud detection.