Role
Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria in Varese; Director of the STRICT SociaLab
Bio
After graduating in Computer Science from the University of Milan in 1992, she earned her PhD from the same university in 1998. During her studies, she conducted research at George Mason University and Rutgers University. In 1998, she returned to Italy as an assistant professor at the University of Milan and later became a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria.
His research focuses on data management systems, web and network security, access control, and privacy . He has worked on projects such as ISocial, dedicated to privacy protection in social networks, and the European project Euforbia, on document filtering on the Internet using semantic content-based approaches.
His current work focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, and trust, with applications to social networks, NoSQL systems, cloud computing, emergency management, and IoT ecosystems. He also works on big data , knowledge graphs, malware detection, artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity , blockchain, and zero-trust architectures.
For his research, he has received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, the Google Research Award for Privacy in Social Networks, and the IBM Faculty Award for Big Data. He has also received the ACM CODASPY Research Award, the SACMAT Test of Time Award, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award, the IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, and appointments as a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.