Roberto Di Pietro
Assistant Professor
email: dipietro
mat.uniroma3.it
mat.uniroma3.it
6th Bertinoro PhD School on Security of Wireless Networking, Oct 30th - Nov 4th 2011.
A software company that specializes in access governance technology, focusing on role mining and role engineering.
Research Interests
- Cloud: Security and Privacy.
- Virtualization: Security and Privacy.
- Privacy and Security of distributed systems.
- Wireless {ad hoc - Sensor} Network Security.
- Access Control (Role Mining).
- Security and privacy for RFID.
- Applied Cryptography.
- Reliable & Secure Multicast.
- Intrusion Detection System.
- Computer Forensics.
Grants
- June 2004 - March 2006. Post-doc grant provided by the National Research Council (CNR) to finance research on security and reliability of wireless communications.
- November 2005. Grant provided by the CNR to finance mobility of scientists (Programme Short-Term Mobility - Year 2005).
- December 2004. Post-doc grant provided by the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) to perform research on security and reliability of wireless communications. He postponed the grant to the end of the grant provided by the CNR; due to the incoming position of Assistant Professor at the Università di Roma Tre, he declined the grant.
- November 2000 - October 2003. Ph.D. grant from the Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
- March 1994 - March 1995. Grant of the National Research Council (CNR) finalized to finance research on massively parallel systems with distributed memory.
Funded Projects (Principal Investigator)
- June 2010 - May 2012. Regione Lazio and Maths Dept.: funding to hire a Post-doc to perform research within the project: "SPIC: Security and Privacy of the Communications in mobile Wireless sensor networks".
- April 2011 - June 2011. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- February 2011 - April 2011. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- December 2010 - February 2011. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- September 2010 - November 2010. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- May 2010 - July 2010. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- March 2009 - April 2010. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- March 2008 - November 2008. EngiWeb Security Ltd.: Grant finalized to perform research in the field of Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- September 2007 - December 2007. NATO: Security for wireless sensor networking.
- September 2006 - December 2007. Lazio Regional Council: a preliminary study on trust-based issues for social networks.
Participation in Research Projects
- June 2006 - November 2009. European Satellite Communications Network of Excellence (NoE - SatNEx II).
EU funded project (contract N. 27393); personal research focus on security of satellite communications. - March 2002 - November 2006. Wide-scalE, Broadband, Middleware for Network Distributed Services (WEB MINDS) (Italian Fund for Basics Investigations).
He Contributed to the formulation of the proposal (than accepted) as for the frame focused on the security of wireless system and distributed network. Within the project, he was responsible for the coordination of the working group on Intrusion detection. - June 2004 - March 2006. European Satellite Communications Network of Excellence (NoE - SatNEx).
EU funded project (contract n. 507052), personal research focus on security of satellite communications. - November 2003 - March 2005. Project of Relevant National Interest -PRIN- "WEB-based management and representation of spatial and geographic data".
- May 2002 - November 2005. EnergY Efficient Sensor Networks (EYES).
UE financed project, aimed at providing energy efficient wireless sensor network. My contribution is in devising energy efficient security protocol to secure communications within the WSN. - April 2002 - April 2004 Young researcher project.
Project founded by the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" aimed at investigating security issues in the mobile environment.
Visiting Periods
- 4 July - 7 August 2010. Visiting scientist at Eurécom (Sophia-Antipolis, France), invited by Prof. Refik Molva.
Research in the field of security and privacy of distributed systems. - 2 February - 31 January 2010. Seconded National Expert to EUROJUST - The Hague, The Netherlands -, Data Protection Office.
Activities in the field of privacy and security for data and communications. - 4 February - 31 August 2008. Visiting Professor at UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, invited by Prof. Joseph Domingo-Ferrer - Chair holder.
Research in the field of privacy and security for data and communications. - 26 January - 7 March 2007. Visiting scientist at Eurécom (Sophia-Antipolis, France), invited by Prof. Refik Molva.
Research in the field of security for Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID privacy. - 30 June - 11 August 2006. Visiting scientist at Eurécom (Sophia-Antipolis, France), invited by Prof. Refik Molva.
Research in the field of security for Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID privacy. - 22 August - 23 September 2005; 28 November - 22 December 2005. Visiting scientist at Eurécom, invited by Prof. Refik Molva.
Research in the field of security for Wireless Sensor Networks. - 10 May - 28 June; 02 August - 13 September 2002. Visiting Faculty at the Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA - USA, invited by Prof. Sushil Jajodia.
Research in the field of security for Wireless Sensor Networks. - 20 July - 11 August 2001. Visiting Faculty at the Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA - USA, invited by Prof. Sushil Jajodia.
Research in the field of security for Wireless Sensor Networks.
Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. theses advised
- Since 2003 he has been advising eleven M.Sc. and fifteen B.Sc. theses. In 2007 the M.Sc. Thesis (student: Paolo Cencioni) won the national contest "Innovate information security" run by Infosecurity. He has been PhD-jury member for the University of Malaga, Paris Telecom, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", and University of California Irvine.
He is currently the advisor of four Ph.D. students at the Università di Roma Tre, and one PhD student at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
