Boards
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Member of the Scientific Board for the National PhD Program in Cybersecurity, coordinated by IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca
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President of the Technical and Scientific Committee for the evaluation of national projects PRIN 2022 PNRR (ERC sectors PE01-PE06)
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Member of the Organizing Committee of the Aperitalks@IMT: each month a seminar on Social Networks. Have a look to the Programme and stay tuned!
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Former member of the scientific board for PhD Program in Cognitive and Cultural Systems @ IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca
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Former member of the Advisory Committee of Institute of Informatics and Telematics, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Latest Projects

SERICS | SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace
NRRP Project, Starting date January 1, 2023. Duration 36 months.
I am CNR lead in Spoke 2 sub-project HUMANE: Holistic sUpports against inforMAtioN disordEr (HUMANE), PI Uniroma1

EMERALD | Evidence Management for Continuous Certification as a Service in the Cloud
European Project, Horizon Europe, Starting date November 1, 2023. Duration 36 months.
Happy to be the CNR lead for this project!

TOFFEe | Tools for Fighting Fakes
Integrated Activity Project funded by IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Lucca, Italy
Duration: April 2019 -- April 2023

MEDINA | Security framework to achieve a continuous audit-based certification in compliance with the EU-wide cloud security certification scheme
Grant agreement ID: 952633. Funded by H2020-EU.2.1.1
Duration: November 2020-- October 2023
I am pleased to be the leader of WP2, on Certification Metrics and Specification Languages
(Recent) Organizing Committees
- Doctoral Consortium Chair @ECIR 2025
- General Co-chair @ROMCIR 2025: the 5th Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation via Credible Information Retrieval
- Workshop Chair @ITASEC2025
- PC Member @SIGIR 2025
- PC Member @The Web Conference 2025,
- PC Member @ECIR 2025
- Co-Chair of 4th Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible
Information Retrieval ROMCIR 2024, co-located with ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024 - Programme Committee Member of ECIR 2024, Glasgow, March 24-28, 2024
- Programme Committee Member of The Web Conf 2024, Web4Good Track, Singapore, May 13-17 2024
- Programme Committee Member of TrueHealth 2023: 1st Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing @ ICWSM
2023, Cyprus, June 5-8, 2023. - Co-chair of 3rd Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval ROMCIR 2023.
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Programme Committee Member of ESORICS 2023
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Programme Committe Member of SIGIR 2023, Resource Papers Track
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Programme Committee member of WebConf 2023, Web4Good
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Topic Editor of the Special Issue `Resilience of Machine Learning Techniques against Adversarial Attacks in Bot and Fake News Detection', Frontiers in Big Data.
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Programme committee member of ITASEC 2023
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Organizing Committee member of DiScoTec 2022
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Programme Committee member of SIGIR22 Resource Paper track
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Programme Committee member of CIKM22 Short Paper track
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Programme Committee member of CySoc 2022
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Co-chair of ROMCIR 2022: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, co-located with ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway.
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Workshop chair at ICSOC 2021
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Programme Committee Member of SIGIR 2021 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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Happy to serve as the Publicity Chair of ACM SACMAT 2021. 3rd CfP sent, more to come! :) Submission deadline: February 15, 2021!
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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) -
I am the Local Organization Chair of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval! (ECIR 2021), Lucca, Italy, March 28-April1, 2021.
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I am happy to serve in the Programme Committee of CIKM 2020, Call for Resource Papers.
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Workshop Chair at 17th IEEE Intl. Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2020)
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Programme Co-chair of 16the Intl. Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2020), fully virtual event!
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Ph.D. Symposium Chair @Intl. Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020), Dubai, 14-17 November 2020 (fully virtual event).
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Co-organizer of the International TOFFEe Workshop n.1, IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Italy, October 24-25, 2019.
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Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda within Online Social Networks and Media at Elsevier OSNEM.
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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.
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General co-chair of 4th Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity (TELERISE 2018), Budapest, Hungary, September 2, 2018.
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General co-chair of 3rd Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity (TELERISE 2017), Trento, Italy, September 12, 2017.
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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
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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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FOSAD 2020: XX International School on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design
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Seasonal School 2021-2022 @Scuola Superiore Sant'anna: Cybersecurity - A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Winter School 2022 @Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale: Disinformazione e rischi per la sicurezza, February 25-26, 2022
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Keynote speaker at the 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME II), satellite event of NETSCI 2020
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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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Vero o falso? La disinformazione in rete. Seminary cycle "Area aperta", CNR, Pisa, April 16, 2024 (Audience: High school students)
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Fake news e altre facezie @IIT-CNR, Pisa, April 26, 2023 (Audience: High school students)
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Privacy e Reputazione ai tempi di internet @#nuovegenerazioniweb: come
crescere bene dentro la rete, CESVOT, Pisa. November 8, 2022. -
Basic net paradigms and fake news @La rete Internet del nuovo millennio, tra tecnica e diritti, Webinar, March 4, 2021.
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Online Disinformation in Covid 19 times @CyberSecurity Day 2020, Virtual Event, October 9, 2020.
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Data science against online disinformation: findings on Italian Immigration and COVID-19 pandemics @SoBigData Master, Midterm Event, July 17, 2020.
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Significant information spreading and the role of automated accounts on Twitter: a case study@HBKU, Doha, Qatar, November 20, 2019.
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Fake reviews @CyberSecurity Day 2019, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 11, 2019.
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Detection of Hate Speech @CyberSecurity Day 2018, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 12, 2018.
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Social Spambots: What they are and how to find them @Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, October 24, 2017.
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Downsides of Big Data - Uncertainty in Social Media Sensing & Bots. SoBigData@European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy. October 11, 2017.
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Protection of (personal) data: Technical and legal perspectives @DTU Compute, Copenaghen, Denmark. October 12, 2016.