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Laura
Ricci Habilitation as Full Professor Department of Computer Science, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Question
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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 Co-chair of the 3rd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2022, held in conjunction with IEEE international Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom, Pisa, Italy 25 March 2022.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
Local Coordinator of the University of Pisa research unit of the H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework", 2019-2021
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"
The post "Blockchain and the governance of pandemics" A. Favenza, E. Ferro, Overtheblock Innovation Observatory, and L. Ricci, is available on Medium.
"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.
Conferences
TPC Membership
- ACM Int. Conference on Information Technology for Social Goods (GoodIT 2021), 9-11 September 2021, Rome , Italy
- IEEE COINS 2021, International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, August 23 - August 25 2021
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ICUMT 2021 13-th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, online, 25-27 October, 2021
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Complex Networks 2021, November 30 - December 2, 2021, Madrid, Spain,
- ICBTA 2021, 4t-th Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Xi'an, China, 17-19 December 2021
- IEEE Blockchain-2021, 4-th International Conference on Blockchain, Melbourne, Australia 6-8 December 2021
Recently
Accepted Papers
- HELIOS CJ App: the decentralization of the Citizen Journalism, Barbara Guidi, Laura Ricci, Rolf Nyffenegger, Robin Ribback, ACM Int. Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021), 9-11 September, Rome, Italy
- 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
- Steem
Blockchain: mining the
inner structure of the graph, Barbara Guidi, Andrea
Michienzi, Laura Ricci, IEEE
Access, accepted for pubblication, October 2020.
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
- 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
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
- Luca Genovali, PhD IMT, Lucca, 2009.
- Barbara Guidi - PhD University of Pisa, 2015, junior researcher (RTD-A) 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 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
- Andrea Michienzi PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2021, post-doc, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
- Moshin Ur Rahman, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2021
Thesis
Proposals
- 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
Projects
- 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.