Professors
Elena Ferrari
Elena Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy where she leads the STRICT SociaLab. Her research interests cover many areas in the fields of cybersecurity, privacy, and trust management. On these topics, she has published more than 280 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
She has received several awards, including the 2024 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award for pioneering and sustained contributions to the security and privacy of online social networks, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award (2021), for her outstanding research contributions and leadership in data security and privacy, the 2009 IEEE Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to Secure Data Management, the ACM CODASPY Research Award for lasting and innovative research contributions to the cybersecurity and privacy fields (2019), the ACM SACMAT 10 Year Test of Time Award (2019), an IBM Faculty Award (2014), and a Google Research Award (2010). She was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012 for her research contribution to security and privacy for data and applications. In 2019, she has been named ACM fellow for contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems.
Prof. Ferrari’s has led several research projects in the last years. She is the chair or member of multiple steering committees (e.g., ACM SACMAT) and the PC chair of several prestigious conferences (e.g., ACM SACMAT, IEEE ICDE, ICWS, SCC, ACM/IEEE ASONAM).
Prof. Ferrari currently serves as editor in chief of Data Science and Engineering, Springer and as associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. She was AEIC of IEEE Internet Computing, 2026-2023. She is associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, ACM Transactions on AI and Big Data, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Big Data. She was AE of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Data Science and Engineering, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems and the VLDB Journal. She has delivered several invited keynotes talks on data security and privacy and has given invited tutorials on many Ph.D. schools.
Barbara Carminati
Barbara Carminati is an associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy. She visited several foreign universities as visiting researcher, among which: National University of Singapore, University of Texas at Dallas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Tsinghua University, Beijng.
Her main research interests are related to security and privacy for innovative applications, like XML data sources, semantic web, data outsourcing, web service, data streams and online social networks. On these topics Barbara has published more than 60 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
Barbara Carminati has been involved in several research projects. She is currently PI project funded by European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD).
Barbara Carminati is the editor in chief of the Computer Standards & Interfaces journal, Elsevier press. She has been involved in the organization of several international conferences as program committee members as well as program and general chair.
Pietro Colombo
Pietro Colombo is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria (Italy), where he works within the STRICT SociaLab of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences. Dr. Colombo holds a BS, MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Insubria, and a 2nd Level Master in Information Technology from CEFRIEL-Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
Dr. Colombo’s most recent research activities are in the field of access control within NoSQL datastores, privacy-aware data management, and data protection within the Internet of Things ecosystems, however, he has also worked in the field of service availability and model-driven engineering. On all these topics he has been the author of more than 40 scientific papers which have been published in international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Colombo is also co-inventor of 2 US patents.
Current Members
PhD Students
- Amine Alane
- Do Minh Quang
- Nguyen Khanh Son
- Nguyen Thanh Quan
- Shahid Muhammad Azhar
Post-doc
- Nguyen Tran Thanh Lam
Past Collaborators & Students
- Ahmed Lekssays
- Andrea Perego
- Anh-Tu Hoang
- Bikash Chandra Singh
- Christian Rondanini
- Cüneyt Gurcan Akçora
- Davide Albertini
- Engin Deniz Tumer
- Federico Daidone
- Giorgia Sirigu
- Gökhan Sağırlar
- Ha Xuan Son
- Leila Bahri
- Marco Viviani
- Michele Guglielmi
- Naeimeh Laleh
- Ngoc Hong Tran
- Thanh-Loan Nguyen
- Zulfikar Alom