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  1. Member of the Advisory Committee of Institute of Informatics and Telematics, CNR, Pisa, Italy

  2. Member of the Scientific Board for the National PhD Program in Cybersecurity, coordinated by IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca

  3. Former member of the scientific board for PhD Program in Cognitive and Cultural Systems @ IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca  

Latest Projects

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EMERALD | Evidence Management for Continuous Certification as a Service in the Cloud
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European Project, Horizon Europe, Starting date November 1, 2023. Duration 36 months.

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Happy to be the CNR lead for this project! 

TOFFEe | Tools for Fighting Fakes
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Integrated Activity Project funded by IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Lucca, Italy

Duration: April 2019 -- April 2023

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MEDINA | Security framework to achieve a continuous audit-based certification in compliance with the EU-wide cloud security certification scheme
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Grant agreement ID: 952633. Funded by H2020-EU.2.1.1

Duration: November 2020-- October 2023

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I am pleased to be the leader of WP2, on Certification Metrics and Specification Languages
 

(Recent) Organizing Committees​​
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  1. Co-chair of 3rd Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval ROMCIR 2023. ​

  2. Programme Committee Member of ESORICS 2023

  3. Programme Committe Member of SIGIR 2023, Resource Papers Track

  4. Programme Committee member of WebConf 2023, Web4Good

  5. Topic Editor of the Special Issue `Resilience of Machine Learning Techniques against Adversarial Attacks in Bot and Fake News Detection', Frontiers in Big Data. 

  6. Programme committee member of ITASEC 2023

  7. Organizing Committee member of DiScoTec 2022

  8. Programme Committee member of SIGIR22 Resource Paper track

  9. Programme Committee member of CIKM22 Short Paper track

  10. Programme Committee member of CySoc 2022

  11. Co-chair of ROMCIR 2022: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, co-located with ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway.

  12. Workshop chair at ICSOC 2021

  13. Programme Committee Member of SIGIR 2021 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

  14. Happy to serve as the Publicity Chair of ACM SACMAT 2021. 3rd CfP sent, more to come! :) Submission deadline: February 15, 2021!

  15. Glad to serve as the Publicity Chair of ROMCIR 2021, co-located with ECIR 2021. 1st Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation 
    through Credible Information Retrieval, March 28, 2021, Online Event. Submissions: December 22, 2020 (abstracts); January 4, 2021 (papers)

  16. I am the Local Organization Chair of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval! (ECIR 2021), Lucca, Italy, March 28-April1, 2021.

  17. I am happy to serve in the Programme Committee of CIKM 2020, Call for Resource Papers. 

  18. Workshop Chair at 17th IEEE Intl. Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2020)

  19. Programme Co-chair of 16the Intl. Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2020), fully virtual event!

  20. Ph.D. Symposium Chair @Intl. Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020), Dubai, 14-17 November 2020 (fully virtual event).

  21. Co-organizer of the International TOFFEe Workshop n.1, IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Italy, October 24-25, 2019.​

  22. Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda within Online Social Networks and Media at Elsevier OSNEM.

  23. Chair of the Special Session on `Advanced and Trusted Models and Techniques for Fighting Fakes', co-located with IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing 2019 (ATC 2019), Leicester, UK, August 19-23, 2019. 

  24. General co-chair of 4th Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity (TELERISE 2018), Budapest, Hungary, September 2, 2018.

  25. General co-chair of 3rd Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity (TELERISE 2017), Trento, Italy, September 12, 2017. 

  26. Program Chair of Privacy Track @ 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017

  27.  Co-director of 1st Ph.D. School on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Social Networks (SNSPT 2016), Padua, Italy, 4-9 Sept. 2016.

Keynotes and Lectures​

Glad to give lectures on disinformation at:

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  • Keynote speaker at the 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME II), satellite event of NETSCI 2020

  • Panelist at the 5th International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks  (MAISON 2020), special edition on Dis/Misinformation Mining from Social Media, October 19-20, 2020. Satellite event of CIKM 2020. 

(Recent) Sem/Webinars
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  1. Basic net paradigms and fake news @La rete Internet del nuovo millennio, tra tecnica e diritti, Webinar, March 4, 2021.

  2. Online Disinformation in Covid 19 times @CyberSecurity Day 2020, Virtual Event, October 9, 2020.

  3. Data science against online disinformation: findings on Italian Immigration and COVID-19 pandemics @SoBigData Master, Midterm Event, July 17, 2020.

  4. Significant information spreading and the role of automated accounts on Twitter: a case study@HBKU, Doha, Qatar, November 20, 2019.

  5. Fake reviews @CyberSecurity Day 2019, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 11, 2019.

  6. Detection of Hate Speech @CyberSecurity Day 2018, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 12, 2018. 

  7. Social Spambots: What they are and how to find them @Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, October 24, 2017.  

  8. Downsides of Big Data - Uncertainty in Social Media Sensing & Bots. SoBigData@European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy. October 11, 2017.  

  9. Protection of (personal) data: Technical and legal perspectives @DTU Compute, Copenaghen, Denmark. October 12, 2016.

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