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.

Since March 2017, I have been working in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Antonio Ruberti of Sapienza University of Rome. From March 2017 to August 2019, I was an Assistant Professor (RTD-A), where I was principally involved in APT malware analysis. From September 2019 to August 2022, I was 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. Currently, I'm involved in the project SERICS (PE00000014) funded by the EU - NGEU under the NRRP MUR program and the EDIH Dante.