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Laura
Emilia Maria Ricci Department of Computer Science, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Question
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Pisa
DLT Laboratory
I lead the Pisa Distributed Ledger Laboratory, including 5 permanent members, 2 permanent members working at CNR, 3 PhD students and several collaborators. Take a look at our Pisa DLT web page!
Highlights




Associate editor of the ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, ACM DLT, the new ACM journal on Distributed Ledger Technology. Submissions are accepted starting from October 2021.
Founding Member of the IEEE TEMS Technical Committe (TC) on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Member of the group of experts of the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development (MISE) for the definition of the national strategy for distributed ledgers and blockchains. The draft of the strategy is here
Section Editor of Springer Nature, SN Computer Science, Section V, Innovations in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Member of the Editorial Board of the new Elsevier Journal "Blockchain: Research and Applications"
Member of the Italian Distributed Ledger Technology Group, also CINI group on blockchain
The Italian National Research Program (PNR 2021-2027) has been published. I have worked, as an expert, on the topic "System security"
Our paper A blockchain based approach for the definition of auditable control systems, authors Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, is among the most cited articles on Elsevier Computer & Security, Scimago rank A journal.
Conferences
TPC Membership
5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (IEEE Blockchain 2022), Espoo, Finland, August 22-25, 2022.
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1-3 May 2023.
Special Track on Blockchain Decentralized Technologies for Social Good (BANDIT), 7-9 September 2022, Limassol, Cyprus
27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September 2022
14th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, ICUMT 2022, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 October 2022
International Workshop on Decentralized Edge-to-Cloud Apps managed by Blockchain, Bangkok, Thailand, 16 December 2022.
- Complex Networks 2022, 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Palermo, Italy, 8-10 November, 2022, program Commette member and Poster chair.
- IEEE Int. Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, (IEEE COINS 2022), Barcelona, Spain, Track: Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain, August 1-3 2022, Barcelona, Spain
Recently
Accepted Papers
B. Guidi, A. Michienzi and L. Ricci, “Managing Communities in Decentralised Social Environments” accepted for publication in Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
"An analysis of Bitcoin dust through authenticated queries", Matteo Loporchio, Anna Bernasconi, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Laura Ricci, 11-th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2022, 8-10 November 2022, Palermo, Italy..
"Selective Disclosure in Self-Sovereign Identity Based on Hashed Values", Andrea De Salve, Andrea Lisi, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rhodes Island, Greece, 30 June -3rd July 2022.
"Fork-based user migration in Blockchain Online Social Media", Cheick Tidiane Ba, Andrea Michienzi, Barbara Guidi, Matteo Zignani, Laura Ricci, Sabrina Gaito, 14th ACM Web Science Conference, 26-29 June 2022.
- "A Conceptual Model for Blockchain-Based Agriculture Food Supply Chain System", Ibtisam Ehsan, Muhammad Irfan Khalid, Laura Ricci, Jawaid Iqbal, Amerah Alabrah, Syed Sajid Ullah, Taha M. Alfakih, Scientific Programming, Hindawi, 2022.
- "Il potere della tecnica e la funzione del diritto: un'analisi interdisciplinare di blockchain", A.Vallini, E.Navarretta, L.Ricci, Giappichelli editore, 2022
- "Authenticating spatial queries on blockchain systems", Matteo Loporchio, Anna Bernasconi, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Laura Ricci, IEEE Access, accepted for pubblication, December 2021
Selected
Papers
- "Predicting Inflential Users in Online Social Networks Groups", Barbara Guidi, Andrea De Salve, Roberto Di Pietro, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
- "A Logical Key Hierarchy based approach to preserve content privacy in Decentralized Online Social Networks" , A. De Salve, R. Di Pietro, P. Mori, L. Ricci , IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing
- "A blockchain based approach for the definition of auditable access control systems", Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, Computers and Security, Elsevier
- "Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments through Opportunistic Computing", M. Conti, D. Mascitti, A. Passarella, L. Ricci, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- "Connected Components in Large Graphs by Vertex Pruning", E. Carlini, P. Dazzi, A. Lulli, C. Lucchese, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
- "NG-DBScan: Scalable Density-Based Clustering for Arbitrary Data", M. Dell'Amico, A. Lulli, P.Michiardi, Proceeding VLDB Endowment
Teaching
- 2021-22 - Laboratorio di Programmazione di Reti - A - 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
- 2021-22 - Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchains - 6 CFU, Secondo semestre, Laurea Magistrale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
- 2021-22 -Blockchain e Intelligenza Artificiale, Modulo Blockchain - 6 CFU, Secondo semestre, Laura Magistrale Diritto dell'Innovazione
per l'impresa e le Istituzioni, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza,.
PhD
Students
- Andrea Lisi, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2019-2022
- Matteo Loporchio. PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2020-2023
- Domenico Tortola, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa 2021-2024
- Luca Genovali, PhD IMT, Lucca, 2009.
- Barbara Guidi - PhD University of Pisa, 2015, senior researcher (RTD-B) at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
- Damiano di Francesco Maesa, PhD University of Pisa, 2018, junior researcher (RTD-A) at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.,
- Andrea Michienzi PhD University of Pisa, 2021, junior researcher (RTD-A) at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
- Andrea De Salve - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, permanent Researcher at Sede di Lecce, ISASI-CNR,
- Emanuele Carlini, PhD, IMT, Lucca, 2012, permanent researcher, HPCLab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa,
- Alessandro Lulli - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, Software Engineer, Domotz, Information Technology & Services,
- Davide Mascitti, - PhD University of Pisa, Biobeats, Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Adrian Spataru- co-tutela West University of Timisoara and Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2021, post-doc, Facultatea de Matematica si Informatica, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara
- Moshin Ur Rahman, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2021
Thesis
Proposals
- Blockchain technology
- Smart Contracts
- Self Sovereign Identity
- Applied cryptography for blockchains: set accumultators, zero-knowledge
- Blockchain integration with the metaverse
- Social Networks
- Social Data Analysis
- Blockchain based social networks
- Fungible and Non-fungible Token Analysis
Projects
- Ethereum Foundation Grant, "Cross chain authenticated queries", July 2022.
- Local Responible for the University of Pisa of the H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework", 2019-2021
- PRA 2018-20, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo, Emerging Trends in Data Science, starting date July 2018.
- PRA 2016, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo, Big Data, Social Mining and Risk Management.
- PRIN Security Horizons [2/2013 - 1/2016]
- [2010-2013] Contrail, Open Computing Infrastructure for Elastic Services, Integrated Project by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) sponsorship program.
- Ricerca Spontanea a Tema Libero, Resource Discovery on Large Collaborative Networks, 2008-2010.
- [2006-2010] XtreemOS, Enabling LINUX for the Grid, Integrated Project by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sponsorship program.
- [2004-2008] CoreGrid, Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies, Network of Excellence by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sponsorship program.