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.

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Education

• PhD Student (XXXVI cycle), Università degli Studi di Milano (since November 2020)
• 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)

Visiting at International Research Centers

• 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 of machine learning against poisoning attacks.
• 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.

Conference and Review Activities

Program chair of the following international conferences:

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

Member of the program committee of the following international conferences:

• 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, June-July 2024, Osaka, Japan.
• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2024), July 2024, Shenzhen, China.
• 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), June–July 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
• 2024 5th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2024), May 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2024 International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (ICCIDT 2024), May 2024, Wuhan, China.
• 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024), May 2024, Angers, France.
• Fifteenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2024), April 2024, Venice, Italy.
• 21th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2023), December 2023, Wuhan, China.
• 14th IEEE International Conference On Cloud Computing Technology And Science (CloudCom 2023), December 2023, Naples, Italy.
• 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023), November 2023, Exeter, UK.
• 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2023), July - August 2023, Venice, Italy.
• IEEE Cloud Summit 2023, July 2023, Baltimora, MD, Italy.
• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2023), July 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• 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, June 2023, Nashville, TN, USA.
• International Workshop on AI-driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing (AidTSP 2023), May 2023, New York, USA.
• 4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2023), May 2023, Xiamen, China.
• 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2023), April 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2022), December 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TRUSTCOM 2022), October 2022, Wuhan, China.
• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2022), July 2022, Virtual.
• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2022), July 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
• 6th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing (IEEE BITS 2022), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2022, June 2022, Espoo, Finland.
• 3rd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2022), May 2022, Qingdao, China.
• 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2022), April 2022, Virtual.
• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2021), September 2021, Chicago, IL, USA
• 5th International Workshop on Big Data And IoT Security in Smart Computing (IEEE BITS 2021), workshop part of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021, August 2021, Irvine, CA, USA.
• 2nd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2021), May 2021, Beijing. China.
• 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN 2020), November 2020, Paris, France.

External reviewer of the following international conferences:

• 39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2024), June 2024, Edinburgh, UK.
• 18th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2022), December 2022, Tirupati, India.
• 37th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2022), June 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2022), April 2022, Brno, Czech Republic
• 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 2021, Leicester, UK.
• 6th International Conference on Systems, Control and Communications (ICSCC 2021), October 2021, Chongqing, China. ˆ- 36th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2021), June 2021, Oslo, Norway.
• 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020), December 2020-January 2021, Guangzhou, China.
• 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), October 2020, Beijing, China. ˆ- 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2019), December 2019, Sidney, Australia.

Publication chair of the following conferences:

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

Publicity chair of the following international conferences:

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

Editorial Activities

Reviewer of papers submitted at the following international journals:

• 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

Awards

• Winner of the prize Best Student Paper within the conference SECRYPT 2020 (part of 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE)). Paper entitled: Stay Thrifty, Stay Secure: A VPN-based Assurance Framework for Hybrid Systems. Coauthors: M. Anisetti, C.A. Ardagna, E. Damiani.

Teaching Activities

Teaching of the following lectures within postgraduate courses at Università degli Studi di Milano:

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Tutoring Activities

Tutor for the following courses within the BSc in Computer Systems and Network Security, , Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

• 2019-2020: Progettazione di software sicuro (Secure software design – in Italian)
• 2019-2020: Progettazione model-driven del software (Model-driven software design – in Italian)
• 2019-2020: Reti di calcolatori (laboratorio) (Computer networks (lab) – in Italian)
• 2021-2022: Reti di calcolatori (laboratorio) (Computer networks (lab) – in Italian)

Tutor for the following courses within the BSc in Computer Systems and Network Security (online version), Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

• 2019-2020: Reti di calcolatori (Computer networks – in Italian)
• 2020-2021: Reti di calcolatori (Computer networks – in Italian)
• 2021-2022: Reti di calcolatori (Computer networks – in Italian)
• 2022-2023: Reti di calcolatori (Computer networks – in Italian)