Short Bio

Mauro Conti

received his MSc and his PhD in Computer Science (advisor Prof. Luigi V. Mancini) from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. In 2008, he was Visiting Researcher (supervised by Prof. Sushil Jajodia) at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

. In 2009 he was selected for the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship (currently a EU Marie Curie COFUND action)

. From 2009 to 2011 he was Postdoctoral Researcher (supervised by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Prof. Bruno Crispo) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

. In November 2010, he was visiting researcher at UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

(working with Prof. Mario Gerla). In 2011, he joined University of Padua, Italy

, (among the best italian universities) as Assistant Professor (tenured faculty). In the summer of 2012, 2013, and 2014 he was visiting Assistant Professor at UCI - University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

(working with Prof. Gene Tsudik). From 2012, he is a EU Marie Curie Fellow

. In October-November 2013 he was a DAAD Fellow at the Center for Advance Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), TU Darmstadt, Germany

(working with Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi). In 2014, he was elevated to the IEEE Senior Member grade. In 2015 he became Associate Professor, and Full Professor in 2018.

His research interests are mainly in the area of security and privacy. In this area, he published more than 170 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, ACM TWEB, ACM/IEEE TON, IEEE TSC, IEEE COMST, ACM CCS, Usenix Security, ACM AsiaCCS, ACM WiSec, ACM SACMAT, ACM MobiHoc, ACNS, IEEE ICDCS, and ESORICS. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and he served as Program Committee member of several conferences, including ACM AsiaCCS, ACM WiSec, ACM CODASPY, ACM SACMAT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE PASSAT, IEEE MASS, and ACNS. He was panelist at ACM CODASPY 2011, and panel chair at ICISS '16. He was General Chair for SecureComm 2012 and ACM SACMAT 2013, and Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS '16, and WiSec '17.

Awards

ACNS 2015 - Best Student Paper Award, 2015.
DAAD Fellowship, 2013.
EU Marie Curie Fellowship, 2012-2016.
Selected for the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Program 2009-2010, June 15, 2009. This fellowship is currently a EU Marie Curie COFUND Program.
Best PhD Student paper award '08 - Department of Computer Science - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, April 2, 2008.
Certified Professional Engineer - University of Venice "Ca' Foscari", Venice, Italy, February, 2006.
PhD Scholarship - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, October, 2005.

Visiting Periods

SPROUT - UCI- University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, August 2014.
CASED - TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, October-November 2013.
SPROUT - UCI- University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, June-July 2013.
SPROUT - UCI- University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, May-June 2012.
NRL - UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 2010.
CS Department - University of Trento, Trento, IT, August 2010.
CSIS - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, February 2009.
CSIS - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, October 2008.
Short Term Researcher at CSIS - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, January-July 2008.

Hosted Visitors

November '13: Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Full Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
September '13: Guillermo Suarez de Tangil (PhD Student, Universidad Carlos III, Spain).
July/August '13: Agusti Solanas (Assistant Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).
July/August '13: Pablo A. Perez-Martinez (PhD Student, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).
July '13: Dr. Yogachandran Rahulamathavan (PostDoc, City University London, UK)
June '13: Prof. Gene Tsudik (Full Professor, University of California, Irvine, US). [Lectures Info Here]
May '13: Dr. Mario Frank (PostDoc, University of California, Berkeley, US) is visiting our group. [Seminars Info Here]
November '12: Agusti Solanas (Assistant Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain). [Talks Info Here]
November '12: Pablo A. Perez-Martinez (PhD Student, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain). [Talks Info Here]
November '12: Daniele Diodati (PhD Student, University of Perugia, Italy). [Talks Info Here]
October '12: Dr. Nils Ole Tippenauer (Researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) [Talks Info Here]
October '12: Gabriele Oligeri (Researcher, University of Trento, Italy) [Talks Info Here]
July '12: Dr. N. Asokan (Researcher, Nokia Research Center, Finland). [Lectures Info Here]
April/May '12: Prof. Radha Poovendran (Full Professor, University of Washington, US).

PhD Schools

SWING '11, Bertinoro, FC, Italy, October 30 - November 4, 2011.
Lecturers: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT, Germany), Moti Yung (Google, USA).
SWING '09, Bertinoro, FC, Italy, July 05 - July 10, 2009.
Lecturers: Prof. Radha Poovendran (University of Washington at Seattle, USA), Prof. Dawn Song (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
SWING '08, Bertinoro, FC, Italy, July 28 - August 1, 2008.
Lecturers: Prof. Srdjan Capkun (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Prof. Michael Reiter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
SWING '07, Bertinoro, FC, Italy, August 26 - August 31, 2007.
Lecturers: Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Prof. Levente Buttyán (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
SWING '06, Bertinoro, FC, Italy, September 04 - September 09, 2006.
Lecturers: Prof. Gene Tsudik (University of California Irvine, California, USA), Prof. Jean Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland)
Main Trends in Wireless and mobile architectures., Milano, Italy, January 30 - February 03, 2006.
Lecturers: Prof. Luigi Fratta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Prof. Anthony Acampora (University of California San Diego, California, USA), Prof. Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Conference and Workshop Participation

STM '13, Egham, UK, September 11-12, 2013.
CPSCom '13, Beijing, China, August 20-23, 2013.
ICCCN '13, Nassau, Bahamas, July 30 - August 2, 2013.
SACMAT '13, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2013.
SecureComm '12, Padua, Italy, September 3-5, 2012.
ACM SIGSAC SACMAT '12, Newark, New Jersey, USA, June 20-22, 2012.
IWSP '12, Cambridge, UK, April 11-12, 2012.
IEEE WoWMoM '11, Lucca, Italy, June 20-23, 2011.
ACM SIGSAC SACMAT '11, Innsbruck, Austria, June 20-23, 2011.
ACM SIGSAC ASIACCS '11, Hong Kong, March 22-24, 2011.
ACM SIGSAC CODASPY '11, San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 21-23, 2011.
ICICS '10, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010.
ACM MobiWac '10, Bodrum, Turkey, October 17-18, 2010.
IEEE TSP '10, Bradford, UK, June 20 - July 1, 2010.
IEEE Symposium on Embedded Security , Leuven, Belgium, June 24, 2010.
IWSP '10, Cambridge, UK, March 24-26, 2010.
STW Annual Congress, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, October 8, 2009.
Workshop on Reliability and Security in Wireless Networks (in conjunction with DISC '09), Elche, Spain, September 22, 2009.
SecureComm '09, Athens, Greece, September 14-18, 2009.
SecureComm '08, Istanbul, Turkey, September 22-25, 2008.
ACM SIGSAC WiSec '08, Alexandria, VA, USA, March 31 - April 2, 2008.
ACM MobiHoc '07, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, September 9-14, 2007.
IEEE PerComW '07, New York, NY, USA, March 19, 2007.
ACM MobiHoc '06, Firenze, Italy, May 22-25, 2006.
IEEE SMC '06, Taipei, Taiwan, October 8-11, 2006.
IEEE PerComW '06, Pisa, Italy, March 13-17, 2006.

Membership

IEEE, Senior Member
ACM, Member
ALSI, Member, 2006-2008 National Directive Council Member
Master on Information and Network Security, Executive Committee Member