About

I am a Postdoc at Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. My research interest are in the area of distributed systems and machine learning security. In particular, I work in the field of security assurance, focusing on certification techniques for new generation distributed systems, at the crossroad of cloud, edge, IoT and ML.

I am a member of SESAR Lab.

I participate in the projects MUSA and PALM.

CV: Italian English

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (January 2024)
PhD Student (XXXVI cycle), Università degli Studi di Milano (November 2020 – November 2023)
MSc in Cybersecurity, with full marks and honors, Università degli Studi di Milano (October 2018 – April 2020)
BSc in Computer Systems and Network Security, with full marks and honors, Università degli Studi di Milano (October 2015 – October 2018)

Employment

June 2020 – today: postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano.
January 2022 – today: Secretary of the National Lab on Data Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI).
May 2022 – today: subject expert (*cultore della materia) in Computer Networks.
February – May 2019 and October 2019 – January 2020: external collaborator, Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano.
October 2018 – today: collaborator and member of the SEcure Service-oriented Architectures Research Lab (SESAR Lab), Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano.

Contracts and Research Fellowships

June 2023 - May 2025: research fellow (postdoc) at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, in the context of the PNRR project Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action (MUSA), Spoke 2 Big Data-Open Data in Life Sciences.
June 2020 – May 2023: research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, in the context of the project EU Horizon 2020 Cyber security cOmpeteNce fOr Research anD Innovation (CONCORDIA).
February 2019 – May 2019: external collaboration assignment at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, in the context of the project EU Horizon 2020 Cyber security cOmpeteNce fOr Research anD Innovation (CONCORDIA).
October 2019 – January 2020: external collaboration assignment at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, in the context of the project EU Horizon 2020 Cyber security cOmpeteNce fOr Research anD Innovation (CONCORDIA).
February 2019 – May 2019: external collaboration assignment at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano.

Teaching Activities

University Teaching Activities

I have held the following seminars as part of undergraduate/master’s degree courses at Italian and foreign universities (course name translated from Italian).

Anonymity on the Internet: From Cookies to Tor. Lecture part of the course Computer Networks, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope,” Naples, Italy, December 2023.
Moon Cloud: a Distributed System for Security Assurance. Lecture part of the course Cloud Computing Technologies, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, June 2023.
Assurance-based Security Governance for ICT systems Lecture part of the course Cybersecurity Seminars Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, April 2023 (with M. Anisetti).

University Tutoring Activities

I have served as a tutor for the following courses in the Bachelor’s degree in Security of Systems and Computer Networks, Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (course name translated from Italian).

A.Y. 2024–25: Computer Networks (lab).
A.Y. 2023–24: Computer Networks (lab).
A.Y. 2021–22: Computer Networks (lab) (Support for hybrid teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic).
A.Y. 2020–21: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2019–20: Computer Networks and Computer Networks (lab) (Modules delivered synchronously online during the COVID-19 pandemic).
A.Y. 2019–20: Model-driven Software Design.
A.Y. 2019–20: Secure Software Design (lab).

Activities include preparation of support materials for students (exercises, handouts, supplementary materials); lectures together with the course instructor; participation to the commissions of exams.

I have served/serve as a teaching tutor for the following courses in the Bachelor’s degree in Security of Systems and Computer Networks (online edition), Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (course name translated from Italian).

A.Y. 2024–25: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2023–24: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2022–23: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2021–22: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2020–21: Computer Networks.
A.Y. 2019–20: Computer Networks.

Activities include: lessons with individual students on specific topics in synchronous mode; correction of exercises and self-assessment exercises for students; answering student questions asynchronously; participation in exam committees.

Teaching activities in postgraduate specialization schools

January 2025: he evolution of supervision: AI at the workplace – certified AI, in Corso di Perfezionamento online in Data Protection e Data Governance: Il controllo del lavoratore e la tutela dei dati personali, with C. A. Ardagna, V. Bellandi (Postgradute advanced course in Data Protection and Data Governance: Employee supervision and personal data protection – in Italian)
November 2024: Attacks to data: the new frontier of cybercrime in the era of big data and artificial intelligence, in Corso di Perfezionamento in Criminalità Informatica e Investigazioni Digitali: Il fattore umano, with C. A. Ardagna (Postgradute advanced course in Cybercrime and Digital Investigations: The human factor – in Italian)
November 2023: AI: Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures, in Corso di Perfezionamento in Criminalità Informatica e Investigazioni Digitali: Intelligenza Artificiale, attacchi, crimini informatici, investigazioni e aspetti etico-sociali, with C. A. Ardagna (Postgraduate advanced course in Cybercrime and Digital Investigations: Artificial Intelligence, attacks, cybercrimes, investigations, and socio-ethical aspects – in Italian)
June 2022: Il metaverso da un punto di vista tecnico e informatico, in Corso di perfezionamento in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence e Piattaforme – Aspetti tecnici e giuridici connessi all’utilizzo dei dati e alla loro tutela, with C. A. Ardagna (Metaverse from a technical and computer science point of view, in Postgraduate advanced course in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Platforms – Technical and legal aspects related to the use of data and its protection – in Italian)
December 2021: L’idea di anonimato e il presentarsi in rete anonimi, in Corso di Perfezionamento online in Criminalità Informatica e Investigazioni Digitali: Le procedure di investigazione e di rimozione dei contenuti digitali. Pornografia, proprietà intellettuale, odio e terrorismo, oblio, tutela della reputazione, with C. A. Ardagna (Anonymity and the idea of being anonymous in the network, in Postgraduate advanced course in Cybercrime and Digital Investigations: Procedures of investigation and removal of digital contents. Pornography, intellectual property, hate an terrorism, oblivion, reputation protection – in Italian)
October 2020: I filtri e l’utilizzo di strumenti quali VPN e Tor, in Corso di Perfezionamento online in Criminalità Informatica e Investigazioni Digitali: La digital forensics sulle infedeltà del partner, del dipendente, del professionista e sulle frodi nelle piattaforme digitali, with C. A. Ardagna (Filters and the usage of tools such as VPN and Tor in *Postgraduate advanced course in Cybercrime and Digital Investigations: Digital forensics in infidelity of partner, employer, practitioner and in frauds in digital platforms – in Italian)

Non-University Teaching Activities

I have held the following online courses:

Cybersecurity Consultant: A security assessment scenario. CONCORDIA Certified Cybersecurity Consultant (Virtual), November 2022 (with M. Anisetti, A. Polimeno).
Cybersecurity Consultant: A security assessment scenario. CONCORDIA Certified Cybersecurity Consultant (Virtual), May 2022 (with M. Anisetti, A. Polimeno).
Cybersecurity Consultant: A security assessment scenario. CONCORDIA Certified Cybersecurity Consultant (Virtual), November 2021 (with M. Anisetti, A. Polimeno).
Cybersecurity Consultant: A security assessment scenario. CONCORDIA Certified Cybersecurity Consultant (Virtual), June 2021 (with M. Anisetti, A. Polimeno).

Supervisor/Co-supervisor of Master’s and Bachelor’s theses

I have co-supervised 34 Bachelor’s theses and 9 Master’s theses.

I have co-supervised and have supported the activities of the following PhD students (visiting students) at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, on various topics related to assurance, certification, cloud, and artificial intelligence.

Kathrin Brecker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). The research activity was focused on defining next-generation certification schemes for AI-based applications.

I have co-supervised the following graduate students (visiting students) at the Università degli Studi di Milano on various topics related to security, cloud, and microservices.

Nicolas Tourette (Université de Bourgogne). Design and develop probes for host or network scan against malwares or viruses.

Research Activities at International Research Centers

February – April 2025: visiting at Center for Cyber physical Security, Khalifa University (visiting scholar), Abu Dhabi, UAE. The research activity, in collaboration with Prof. Chan Yeob Yeun, focused on the robustness evaluation of machine learning models against poisoning attacks.
February – April 2023: visiting at Center for Cyber physical Security, Khalifa University (visiting scholar), Abu Dhabi, UAE. The research activity, in collaboration with Prof. Chan Yeob Yeun, aimed to design new methodologies to increase the robustness
June – August 2023: visiting at LIRIS Lab, INSA Lyon (visiting scholar), Lyon, France. The research activity, in collaboration with Prof. Chirine Ghedira-Guegan, Prof. Nadia Bennani, and Dr. Genoveva Vargas-Solar, aimed to define new methodologies for trust management in modern distributed systems.

Participation to National and International Research Groups

I participate in the activities of the following research groups:

Critical Information Infrastructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information (LIRIS), CNRS, INSA Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (C2PS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
SEcure Service-oriented Architectures Research Lab (SESAR), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.

I participate as member in the activities of the following consortiums:

National Lab on Data Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI)
National Lab on Cybersecurity of the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI)

Presentations at Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars

I have participated in the following panels at international conferences and workshops:

Navigating Time and Space: Diverse Perspective on Building Scientific Careers, at the conference ACS/IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (ACS/IEEE AICCSA 2024), Sousse, Tunisia, October 2024.

I have presented, as speaker, the following works at international conferences and workshops:

N. Bena, M. Pedrinazzi, M. Anisetti, O. Hasan, L. Brunie, A Transparent Certification Scheme Based on Blockchain for Service-Based Systems, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2024), Shenzhen, China, July 2024.
M. Anisetti, C. A. Ardagna, N. Bena, V. Giandomenico, G. Gianini, Lightweight Behavior-Based Malware Detection, in 15th International Conference on Management of Digital Systems (MEDES 2023), Heraklion, Greece, May 2023.
M. Anisetti, C. A. Ardagna, N. Bena, Certification Meets Modern Service-Based Systems: Connecting Service and Certificate Life Cycle, in Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC 2023), Bari, Italy, May 2023.
M. Anisetti, C. A. Ardagna, N. Bena, A Multi-Dimensional Certification Scheme for Modern Services, in First Conference on System and Service Quality (QualITA 2022), Milan, Italy, November 2022.
C. A. Ardagna, N. Bena, R. M. de Pozuelo, Bridging the Gap Between Certification and Software Development, in 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), Vienna, Austria, August 2022.
N. Bena, R. Bondaruc, A. Polimeno, Security Assurance in Modern IoT Systems, in 4th Workshop on Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications (C3IA), part of 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC 2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, June 2022.
M. Anisetti, C.A. Ardagna, N. Bena, R. Bondaruc, Towards an Assurance Framework for Edge and IoT Systems, in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (IEEE EDGE 2021), Guangzhou, China, December 2021.
M. Anisetti, C.A. Ardagna, N. Bena, A. Foppiani, An Assurance-Based Risk Management Framework for Distributed Systems, in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2021), Chicago, IL, USA, September 2021.
M. Anisetti, C.A. Ardagna, N. Bena, E. Damiani, Stay Thrifty, Stay Secure: A VPN-Based Assurance Framework for Hybrid Systems, in 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2020), Paris, France, July 2020 (winner of the Best Student Paper Award).

I have held the following invited seminars at international research centers/universities:

Trustworthy AI: Assurance, Certification, and Security, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2025.
Assurance in Modern ICT Systems: From Theory to Practice. Shandong University of Technology, China, August 2023 (with M. Anisetti).
Distributed Systems Certification: From Services to Machine Learning. INSA Lyon, Lyon, France, June 2023.
Distributed Systems Certification: From Services to Machine Learning. Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2023.

I have held the following seminars/presentations:

Trustworthy Machine Learning-Based Applications: A Certification-Based Approach. Poster session at Third General Meeting MUSA, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, May 2024.
A digital platform for data analytics pipeline management in the cloud-edge continuum. Second General Meeting MUSA, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, November 2023.
Security and Privacy of the Data Lake Architecture. PhD Day Hub, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, October 2022.
Bridging the Gap Between Certification and Software Development. CONCORDIA WP1 Meeting, Munich, Germany, June 2022.
An Assurance-Based Risk Management Framework for Distributed Systems. CONCORDIA T1.1 Meeting, July 2021.
Moon Cloud: a Platform for Cybersecurity. Open Day, Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, February 2020 (with M. Anisetti, A. Polimeno).
Moon Cloud: Security Governance and Compliance Verification. Open Day, Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, February 2019 (with P. Ceravolo).

Awards, Recognitions, and Certifications

Awards and Recognitions

Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the international conference 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2020). Title of the article: Stay Thrifty, Stay Secure: A VPN-based Assurance Framework for Hybrid Systems. Co-authors: M. Anisetti, C.A. Ardagna, E. Damiani.

Certifications

In June 2015 I obtained the certification EUCIP IT Administrator – module Information Security

Professional and Service Activity

Participation to Editorial Boards of International Journals

Review editor of the following international journals:

Frontiers in Big Data

Co-editor (guest editor) of the following special issues in international journals:

Special Issue on “Towards the Next Frontier in Data Management: Data Spaces and Data Governance”, Data Science and Engineering (with C. Diamantini, S. Distefano, L. Romano, A. Tzouganatou)

Editorial Activities

Reviewer for the following journals:

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
PLOS ONE
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
ACM Computing Surveys
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Computers in Biology and Medicine
SN Computer Science
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
Computers and Electrical Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Computers & Security
IEEE Access
Mobile Information Systems
Annals of Telecommunications

Organization of International Conferences

Program chair for the following conferences:

4th Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2025), September 2025, Turin, Italy.
3rd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2024), September 2024, Pisa, Italy.
ICWS Workshop on Services Regulation & Governance (SRG 2024), workshop part of IEEE ICWS 2024, July 2024, Shenzhen, China.
2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2023), September 2023, Naples, Italy.

Chair of special sessions for the following conferences:

Data Science: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to Tame the Data Revolution, special session at The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy, June – July 2025.

Member of the organizing committee of the following conferences:

2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Digital Applications (MIDA 2025), Ningbo, China, April 2025.

Member of the program committee of the following conferences:

2026 8th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2026), Bali, Indonesia, February 2026.
IEEE 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Communication Technology (IEEE ICCSCT 2025), Wuhan, China, August 2025.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2025), Chania, Greece, August 2025.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2025), Helsinki, Finland, July 2025.
International Workshop on Trustworthiness and Reliability in Neurosymbolic AI (TRNS-AI 2025), workshop part of IJCNN 2025, Rome, Italy, June–July 2025.
2nd International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (CIDT 2025), Singapore, June 2025.
15th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2025), Porto, Portugal, April 2025.
The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025), Catania, Italy, March – April 2025.
2025 7th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2025), Macau, China, February 2025.
2025 7th International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Science (CSECS 2025), Taicang, China, January 2025.
21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (IEEE UIC 2024), Denarau Island, Fiji, December 2024.
22nd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE EUC 2024), Sanya, China, December 2024.
27th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE CSE 2024), Sanya, China, December 2024.
23rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2024 (IEEE TrustCom 2024), Sanya, China, December 2024.
2024 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (IEEE HPCC 2024), Wuhan, China, December 2024.
25th International Web Information Systems Engineering conference (WISE 2024), Doha, Qatar, December 2024.
7th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN’2024), Reims, France, November 2024.
2024 6th International Conference on Advanced Information Science and System (AISS 2024), Sanya, China, November 2024.
12th Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns (NFMCP 2024), workshop part of ECML-PKDD 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2024.
2024 IEEE CSR Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation (SDG 2024) workshop part of IEEE CSR 2024, London, UK, September 2024.
6th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec 2024), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024.
8th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data And IoT Security in Smart Computing (BITS2024) During SMARTCOMP 2024 (BITS 2024), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2024, Osaka, Japan, June-July 2024.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2024), Shenzhen, China, July 2024.
A Human-Centric Perspective of Explainability, Interpretability and Resilience in Computer Vision, special session in IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE IJCNN 2024), Yokohama, Japan, June–July 2024.
2024 5th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2024), Tokyo, Japan, May 2024.
2024 International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (ICCIDT 2024), Wuhan, China, May 2024.
14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024), Angers, France, May 2024.
Fifteenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2024), Venice, Italy, April 2024.
21th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2023), Wuhan, China, December 2023.
14th IEEE International Conference On Cloud Computing Technology And Science (CloudCom 2023), Naples, Italy, December 2023.
22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2023), Exeter, UK, November 2023.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2023), Venice, Italy, July – August 2023.
IEEE Cloud Summit 2023, July 2023, Baltimora, MD, USA.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2023), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 2023.
7th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data And IoT Security in Smart Computing (BITS2023) During SMARTCOMP 2023 (IEEE BITS 2023), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023, Nashville, TN, USA, June 2023.
International Workshop on AI-driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing (AidTSP 2023), New York, USA, May 2023.
4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2023), Xiamen, China, May 2023.
13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, April 2023.
IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2022), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2022.
5th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN’2022), Paris, France, November 2022.
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TRUSTCOM 2022), Wuhan, China, October 2022.
2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2022), Virtual, July 2022.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2022), Barcelona, Spain, July 2022.
6th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing (IEEE BITS 2022), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2022, Espoo, Finland, June 2022.
3rd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2022), Qingdao, China, May 2022.
12th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2022), Virtual, April 2022.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2021), Chicago, IL, USA, September 2021.
5th International Workshop on Big Data And IoT Security in Smart Computing (IEEE BITS 2021), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021, Irvine, CA, USA, August 2021.
2nd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2021), Beijing. China May 2021.
3rd International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN’2020), Paris, France, November 2020.

Sub-reviewer for the following conferences:

40th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2025), Maribor, Slovenia, May 2025.
The 7th International Conference on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things (ADIoT 2024), Hangzhou, China, December 2024.
20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2024), Jaipur, India, December 2024.
International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SecITC 2024), Bucharest, Romania, November 2024.
39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2024), Edinburgh, UK, June 2024.
18th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2022), Tirupati, India, December 2022.
37th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2022), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2022.
37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2022), Brno, Czech Republic, April 2022.
14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), Leicester, UK, December 2021.
6th International Conference on Systems, Control and Communications (ICSCC 2021), Chongqing, China, October 2021.
36th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2021), Oslo, Norway, June 2021.
19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020), Guangzhou, China, December 2020-January 2021.
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE 2020), October-November 2020, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2020) Beijing, China, October 2020.
11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2019), Sidney, Australia, December 2019.

Publication chair of the following conferences:

1st Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2022), Milan, Italy, September 2022.

Publicity chair of the following conferences:

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2024), Shenzhen, China, July 2024.
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2024), Shenzhen, China, July 2024.
1st Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2022), Milan, Italy, September 2022.
Big Data and Data Science for Next-Generation Distributed Systems (BDDS 2022), workshop part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) Padua, Italy, July 2022.
IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2022), Barcelona, Spain, July 2022.
IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2021), Chicago, IL, USA, July 2021.

Service Activity

September 2023 – today: chair of the organization of the seminar series Tales on Data Science and Big Data Science of the National Lab on Data Science of CINI (co-chair with G. Ruffo).
January 2022 – today: Secretary: of the National Lab on Data Science of Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI).

Other Activities

Third Mission

I have carried out the following activities for the third mission:

Practical lecture AI: Attacks and Defenses, and presentation of the degree courses offered by the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, at high school ITIS E. Majorana, Seriate (BG), Italy, March 21, 2024.
Multi-Dimensional Certification of Artificial Intelligence. Part of Building Bridges through Multidisciplinary Cooperation: Perspective Approaches for Inclusive Artificial Intelligence, Milan, May 2023.
Moon Cloud: Security Governance and Compliance Verification. Milan Digital Week, Milan, March 2019.

Technology Transfer

I contribute to the following technology transfer activities:

November 2018 – today: collaboration with Moon Cloud srl, an innovative startup and spin-off of the Università degli Studi di Milano, for the evaluation and monitoring of IT system security.

Nicola Bena