RICCARDO LAZZERETTI

I got the MSc degree (Laurea) in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Siena in 2007 (Relator Prof. Mauro Barni). Then I continued my studies as a Ph.D. at the Information Engineering Department of the University of Siena (supervisor Prof. Mauro Barni), working on Signal Processing of Encrypted Signals. During Ph.D., from November 2009 to May 2010, I spent six months in Philips Lab at Eindhoven, The Netherland, under the supervision of Senior Scientist Jorge Guajardo. In 2012, I discussed the Ph.D. thesis. Until October 2015, I continued my research activities as a post-doc at the Information Engineering and Mathematics Department of the University of Siena in the VIPP (Visual Information Processing and Protection) group, led by Prof. Mauro Barni. In the group I supervised, together with Prof. Barni, the activities of master and PhD students involved in SPED (Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain, also named Secure Multi-Party Computation) topics and actively take part in other research elds addressed by the group, such as forensic, watermarking and adversarial signal processing. Together with Prof. Barni, University of Siena, I am continuing the research in privacy-preserving biometric authentication, extending it to multi-biometrics.

From November 2015 to January 2016, I've been part of the research team of Cynny s.p.a., an Italian start-up, where I was involved in machine learning problems, such as object recognition, face detection, a ective computing. I'm currently broadening my knowledge in the topic by approaching deep learning and implementing Convolutional Neural Networks with Google's TensorFlow.

From September 2016 to February 2017, I had a research grant at the University of Padua, Italy, supervised by Prof. Conti. I started several research activities together with Prof. Conti that are still ongoing: privacy-preserving consensus algorithm for decentralized information fusion in the Internet of Things (also with Scientist Braca of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), NATO); Blockchain-based architectures for smart health applications; hoaxes discrimination in social networks from the analysis of only structural properties of content propagation cascades, etc.

From March 2017, I'm working in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Antonio Ruberti of Sapienza University of Rome. From March 2017 to August 2019, I have been an Assistant Professor (RTD-A), where I have been principally involved in APT malware analysis. From September 2019 to August 2022, I have been an Assistant Professor (RTD-B). In 2018, I obtained the Italian National Habilitation as an Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering, and in 2019, I obtained the Italian National Habilitation as an Associate Professor in Computer Science. Since September 2022, I have been an Associate Professor, and I'm currently working on applied cryptography, IoT security, and privacy.

I participated in many projects, cooperating with both academic and industrial partners. The main projects where I was involved are the FP6 European project SPEED (www.speedproject.eu), the Italian project priv-WARE, funded by MIUR, the project ELT-950, sponsored by the Italian company ELT-Elettronica, and the project SERICS (PE00000014) funded by the EU - NGEU under the NRRP MUR program.