Biography

Ciao, I am Daniele, an Assistant Professor at EURECOM with the software and system security (S3) group. I am doing research and teaching in applied system security and privacy with an emphasis on wireless communication, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, embedded systems, such as cars and fitness trackers, mobile systems such as smartphones, and cyber-physical systems such as industrial control systems.

I spent one year and a half as a Postdoc with Mathias Payer’s HexHive group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). During my postdoc, among others, I’ve participated in the design, implementation and evaluation of DP3T/GAEN, a privacy-preserving contact-tracing technology now used by Android and iOS for proximity tracing.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). My PhD thesis is titled “Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Secure Cyber-Physical and Wireless Systems”. During my PhD I spent six months at the Computer Science Department of the University of Oxford as a visiting researcher advised by Kasper Rasmussen, and ten months as a visiting researcher at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) advised by Nils Ole Tippenhauer.

I hold a BS and MS in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna (UniBO). I spent three months at the University of Massachusetts (UMass Amherst) as a research assistant to prepare my master thesis titled Design and Testing of Random Number Generators (RNG) advised by Wayne Burleson and Riccardo Rovatti.

Interests
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Mobile Systems Security
  • Wireless Systems Security
  • Embedded Systems Security
  • Industrial Control System Security
  • Applied Cryptography
  • SoCurity
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2019

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

  • MS in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 2013

    University of Bologna (UniBO)

  • BS in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 2010

    University of Bologna (UniBO)

Publications

Talks

Reviews

Summary

  • 216 submissions reviewed since 2016 (last update 2024-02-22)
  • Associate Editor (AE) for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
  • Distinguished reviewer award at NDSS'24, WOOT'21
  • 2024: WiSec, SEC, NDSS, DIMVA, CPSS, AsiaCCS, CPSS, RAID
  • 2023: WOOT, WiSec, SEC, NDSS, CPSS, AsiaCCS, CPSS
  • 2022: WOOT, S&P, SEC, CPSS, AsiaCCS, CPSS
  • 2021: WOOT, SEC, AsiaCCS, NSS

Conferences

  • USENIX Security Symposium (SEC)
  • ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)
  • International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS)
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
  • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
  • ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)
  • Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
  • ACM Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)

Journals

  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Network
  • Computer Networks (ComNet)
  • Journal of Systems Research (JSys)
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
  • IEEE Computer (COM)

Workshops

  • USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)
  • IEEE Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec)
  • ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS)

Grants

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)

Publishers

  • Manning Publications

Students

PhD

  • Marco Casagrande
  • Soumaya Boussaha
  • Tommaso Sacchetti

Master (selected)

  • Riccardo Cestaro (UniPD, Mille E Una Lode Award, 2nd prize CLUSIT Award'22)
  • Alex Ferragni (EPFL, CSEM lab)
  • Emiljano Gjiriti (EPFL, CSEM lab)

Courses

Currently as Asst. Prof

  • Spring 2022: A Bluetooth Course (ABC) MSc.
    • Bluetooth, wireless, and network security
  • Fall 2021: Mobile System Security (MOBISEC) MSc.
    • Android and iOS security

TA as a PhD (2015-2018)

  • 2018: Security Principles (SPR) MSc, University of Oxford UK, Prof K.B. Rasmussen
    • CIA, Authentication, Cryptography, RSA, Protocols
    • Exercises and presentation of Scyther
  • 2017: Networks BSc, SUTD Singapore, Prof N.O. Tippenhauer
    • TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, SDN, HTTP, REST, TLS, tunnels, NAT
    • Lab session, grading, office hours
  • 2017: Security BSc, SUTD Singapore, Prof N.O. Tippenhauer
    • CIA, Cryptography, Exploitation, TLS, CTF, Network Security
    • Lab session, grading, office hours

For fun and micro profit (2013-2015)

  • External Prof for High School Final Exams in Informatics (Italy) LAMP, SQL, PHP, JS, relational DB, MVC, HTTP(S)
  • Grad/undergrad private lessons: linear algebra, calculus, programming (C, Pascal)
  • High school private lessons: math, physics, programming (C++)

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