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Laura
Ricci Department of Computer
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Highlights
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 blockchainsResponsible for the University of Pisa unit for the H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework"Award Commette Member for Minerva Informatics Equality Award, for encouraging and supporting the careers of women in Informatics reserach and education.Conferences and Special Issues
- Workshop co-chair of the Seventh Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2019, in conjunction with Euro-Par 2019, Gottingen, Germany, August 2019
- Guest editor of the Special Issue on Distributed Large Scale Applications and Environments of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, submission deadline 30 April 2019.
- Guest editor of the Special Issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, submission deadline 6 Deceber 2018.
- Co-chair
of DAIS 2019 - 19th
IFIP Int. Conf. on Distributed Applications and Interoperable
Systems, part of DISCOTEC 2019,
Lingby, June 2019.
- Program Commettee member of
- Cryblock 2019, 2nd Int. Work. on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems, held in conjunction with INFOCOM, April 2019, Paris, France.
- IWBOSE 2019, 2nd Int. Work. on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, Hangzhou, Cina, 24 February 2019.
- 2nd Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop (DLT 2019), co-located with Third Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITA-SEC 2019), Pisa February 12th, 2019.
- Blockchain 2019, IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain, July 2019, Atlanta, USA.
- IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 15-17 May 2019, Seoul, South Korea.
- MMVE 2019, 11 th Int. Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment System, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Amherst, Massachussets, 18-21 June 2019.
- Program Commette Member track Networking Solutions for Games, Social Goods, and P2P applications of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2019, January 2019, Las Vegas, USA.
Recently Accepted papers
- A blockchain based approach for the definition of auditable access control systems, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, accepted for pubblication, Computers and Security, Elsevier
- VoteChain: Community based and Scalable Internet Voting Framework, Ricardo Almeida, Lusi M. Camarinha-Matos, Laura Ricci, 10-th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, Caparica, Portugal, May 2019.
- The Graph Structure
of Bitcoin, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa,
Andrea Marino, Laura Ricci, Complex Networks 2018, 7th Int. Conference on Complex
Networks and their Applications, 11-13 Decembre 2018,
Cambridge, UK.
- ComeHere: exploiting Ethereum for secure sharing of health-care data, M. Franceschi, D. Morelli, D.Plans, A. Brown, J. Collomosse, L. Coutts, L. Ricci, LSDVE 2018, 6th Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environment workshop, Torino, August 2018
- Managing Social Contents in Decentralized Online Social Networks: a survey, B. Guidi, M. Conti, A. Passarella, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication, Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier.
- Blockchain Based Access Control Services, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci, IEEE Symposium on Recent Advances on Blockchain and its Applications, Halifax, Canada, August 2018
- BITKER: a P2P kernel client for Bitcoin
- Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments through Opportunistic Computing, M. Conti, D. Mascitti, A. Passarella, L. Ricci, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, accepted for pubblication
- A survey on privacy in decentralized online social networks, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci, Computer Science Review, 27, Elsevier.
- 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 accepted for pubblication in IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing,
- NG-Dbscan: Scalable Density-Based Clustering for Arbitrary Data, with M.Dell'Amico, A.Lulli, P.Michiardi, VLDB 2017, PVLDB, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 10, Munich, August 2017.
- Connected Components in Large Graphs by Vertex Pruning with Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Alessandro Lulli, Claudio Lucchese, Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Rating ANVUR A)
Teaching
- 2018-19-Reti di Elaboratori 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica
- 2018-19-Laboratorio di Programmazione di Reti - A 6 CFU Primo semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica
- 2018-2019 Peer to Peer Systems and Blockchains, 6 CFU, Master Degree Computer Science, Computer Science and Networking
- The course introduces blockchain technology which has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016, see the Report of the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. .
PhD
Students
- Andrea Michienzi PhD Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli studi di Pisa, 2017-2020.
- Mohsin Ur Rahman, Phd Student at Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, 2017-2020.
- Adrian Spataru, West University of Timisoara, cotutela.
- Luca Genovali, PhD IMT.
- Emanuele Carlini, PhD, IMT, researcher, ISTI, CNR, Pisa
- Barbara Guidi - post doc at Deprtment of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
- Andrea De Salve - Researcher at Dipartimento di Informatica e Matematica, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
- Alessandro Lulli - Ansaldo STS, Genova,
- Davide Mascitti, - Biobeats
- Damiano di Francesco Maesa, post doc at Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Thesis Proposals
- Blockchain technology: Bitcoin transactions analysis, application of blockchain in non conventional areas
- Social Networks: privacy and availability in Distributed Online Social Networks, Social Data Analysis
- Big Data Analysis: Distributed Algorithms for Big Data on Apache SPARK
Projects
- H2020, 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.