Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
- [Sept. 2022 → now] Assistant Professor at the Hilti Chair of Data and Application Security, Liechtenstein Business School
- [Jul. 2020 → Aug. 2022] PostDoc at the Hilti Chair of Data and Application Security, University of Liechtenstein
- [Mar. 2020 → Jun. 2020] PostDoc at WebLAB, Department of Engineering Enzo Ferrari, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Research Grants
- [2023] Principal Investigator of the SAMLAF FFF project (80’000 CHF)
Merits and Awards
- [2023] Distinguished Reviewer @ USENIX Security’23 (top 5% of 236 reviewers)
- [2023] Best Reviewer @ TheWebConf’23 (SPT track) (top 5% of ~120 reviewers)
- [2023] Outstanding Reviewer @ Elsevier FGCS (top 1% of 3300+ reviewers) [Certificate]
- [2022] Top Reviewer @ NeurIPS2022 (top 10% of 10000 reviewers)
- [2022] Outstanding Presentation Award @ IEEE EuroS&P22 (top2 of 42 presentations)
- [2022] Highlighted Reviewer @ ICLR2022 (top 8% of 5600 reviewers)
- [2021] Outstanding Reviewer @ SecureComm21
- [2020] Outstanding PhD Dissertation & Defense (selected as the best of the cycle)
- [2019] Grant for Best Student Presentation @ MLS2019 PhD School (top3 of 57 participants)
- [2019] Best Student Paper Award @ IEEE NCA19
- [2019] Distinguished International Research Award @ UniMoRe
- [2018] Best Student Paper Award @ IEEE NCA18
- [2017] Short-term Scientific Mission Grant (NESUS COST Action)
- [2016] Scholarship for the PhD Course in ICT @ UniMoRe
Participation in Research Projects
- [2020–2021] I am a founding member of the AICA International Working Group
- I contributed to the Agents’ Stealth and Resilience section
- [2017–2020] Contributed to the ASGARD project (EU H2020)
- This project won the Collaborative Innovative Technology Award (Oct. 2022)
Education and Qualifications
- [2020] Ph.D in Information and Communication Technologies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- [2019] Visiting Research Scholar at DSAIL, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
- [2017] License to practice the Engineer profession (Information section)
- [2016] M.Sc. (with honors) in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- [2013] B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy