Laura Ricci Associate Professor  Habilitation as Full Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127, Pisa, Italy email: laura.ricci(AT)unipi.it skype: lauraemiliaricci  phone: +39 050 22127.68,  fax: +39 050 22127.26 Question time:  Thursday, 15.00-18.00 PM

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Online event: Blockchain Day, How is blockchain industry consolidation a Proof-of- Market, ESGI, Ecole Superieure de genie informatique, June 8th 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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2nd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2021, held in conjunction with ISCC 2021, 5 September 2021, paper submission 15 June 2021

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8th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2021, held in conjunction with EURO-PAR 2021, paper submission: 14 June 2021

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Founding Member of the IEEE TEMS Technical Committe (TC) on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

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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 

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Local Coordinator of the University of Pisa research unit of the H2020 European Project "HELIOS:  A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework", 2019-2021

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Section Editor of Springer Nature, SN Computer Science,  Section V,  Innovations in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers

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Member of the Editorial Board of the new Elsevier Journal "Blockchain: Research and Applications"

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The post "Blockchain and the governance of pandemics" A. Favenza, E. Ferro, Overtheblock Innovation Observatory, and  L. Ricci, is available on Medium.

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"Blockchain for COVID-19 contact tracing and vaccine support: a systematic review", Laura Ricci, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alfredo Favenza, Enrico Ferro, has been accepted for pubblication, IEEE Access, February 2021

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• ACM Int. Conference on Information Technology for Social Goods (GoodIT 2021), 9-11 September 2021, Rome , Italy
  

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• IEEE COINS 2021, International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, August 23 - August 25 2021

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• Complex Networks 2021, November 30 - December 2, 2021, Madrid, Spain,

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• ICBTA 2021, 4t-th Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Xi'an, China, 17-19 December 2021

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• TACL: Trust-based and Scalable Access Control for the Internet of Things using Blockchains", Mohsin Ur-Rahman, F. Baiardi, L. Ricci, Future Technologies Conference(FTC), 28-29 October 2021, Vancouver/virtual Conference.
• Dart: towards a role-based trust management system on blockchain, Luca Franceschi, Andrea De Salve, Andrea Lisi, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication, 30th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Colaborative Enterprise, WETICE 2021, Virtual Conference, October 27-29,  2021. 
• Lightning over rose bouquets: an analysis of the topology of the Bitcoin Lightning Network,  Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Andrea Lisi, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication 45th IEEE Computers, Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2021, Virtual Conference, July 12-16, 2021. 
• Blockchain for COVID-19 contact tracing and vaccine support: a systematic review, Laura Ricci, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alfredo Favenza, Enrico Ferro, accepted for pubblication IEEE Access, February 2021.
• Rewarding reviews with tokens: an Ethereum-based approach, Andrea Lisi, Andrea De Salve, Samuel Fabrizi, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication Future Generation Computing Systems, February 2021. 
• Incremental Communication Patterns in Online Social Groups, Andrea Michienzi, Barbara Guidi, Laura Ricci, Andrea De Salve, accepted fro pubblication, Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer, February 2021.
• Analysis of Witness in the Steem Blockchain, Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication, Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, February 2021.
•  Predicting Inflential Users in Online Social Networks Groups, Barbara Guidi, Andrea De Salve, Roberto Di Pietro, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data, accepted for pubblication, December 2020
• A graph-based socio-economic analysis of Steemit, Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Science, December 2020

• Practical Application and Evaluation of Atomic Swaps for Blockchain-based Recommender Systems, Andrea Lisi, Andrea De Salve, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, ICBTA 2020, 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 14-16 December 2020.
• Steem Blockchain: mining the inner structure of the graph, Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, IEEE Access, accepted for pubblication, October 2020.
  

• Data Persistence in Decentralized Social Applications: the IPFS approach, Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2021, Virtual Conference.
• Analysing Dunbar Circles in Facebook Groups, Vincenzo Ambriola, Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2021, Virtual Conference.
• AoI-based Multicast Routing over Voronoi Overlays with Minimal Overhead, Michele Albano, Matteo Mordacchini, Laura Ricci, IEEE Access, accepted for pubblication, September 2020
•  Leveraging the Users Graph and Trustful Transactions for the Analyis of Bitcoin Price, Jon Crowcroft, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alessandro Magrini, Andrea Marino, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication, July 2020,  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020
• The Contextual Ego Network P2P Overlay for the Next Generation Social Networks, Barbara Guidi, Kristina G. Kapanova, Kevin Koidl, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci, Mobile Networks and Applications,  Springer, 2020
• Blockchain Smart Contract for Scalable Data Sharing in IoT: A Case Study of Smart Agriculture, Fabrizio Baiardi, Mohsin Ur Rahman, Laura Ricci, IEEE GCAIoT, Global Conference on Artifial Intelligence and Internet of Things, Virtual Conference, December 2020

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• 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 

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• 2020-21 - Laboratorio di Programmazione di Reti - A - 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica

• 2020-21 - Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchains - 6 CFU, Secondo semestre, Laurea Magistrale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica
• 2020-21 - Blockchain e Intelligenza Artificiale, Modulo Blockchain, - 3 CFU, Secondo semestre, Laurea Magistrale, Diritto dell'innovazione per l'impresa e  le istituzioni, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

• February - March 2021 -  Basic Principles of Security and Blockchain - PhD Course, PhD Program in Computer Science

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Current  Students

• Andrea Michienzi PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2017 -2020
• Moshin Ur Rahman, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2017 -2020
• Andrea Lisi, PhD student,  Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2019-2020
• Matteo Loporchio, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2020-2023

Former  Students

• Luca Genovali, PhD IMT, Lucca, 2009
• Barbara Guidi - PhD University of Pisa, 2015, currently junior researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. 
• Damiano di Francesco Maesa, PhD University of Pisa, 2018, currently junior researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa., 
• Andrea De Salve - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, currently permanent Researcher at ISASI, CNR, Lecce., 
• Emanuele Carlini, PhD, IMT, Lucca, 2012, currently permanent researcher, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, 
• Alessandro Lulli - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, currently Software Engineer, Domotz, Information Technology & Services, 
• Davide Mascitti, - PhD University of Pisa, currently Biobeats, Health, Wellness & Fitness
• Adrian Spataru -co-tutela West University of Timisoara and Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa,  2020, currently post-doc University of Timisoara

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• Blockchain technology
• Bitcoin transactions graph analysis, 
• Blockchain based systems
• P2P network monitoring
• New crypto techniques for blockchains
  
• Social Networks
• Social Data Analysis
• Blockchain based social networks
  

For further information, send an e-mail to a laura.ricci(AT)unipi.it, or contact me during question time (on Thursday 15.00-18.00 PM).

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• 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.

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