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







Coordinator of the Curriculum "Social systems and smart societies" of the National PhD program in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technolgies
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.
- ACM BlockSys 2023, 5th ACM INt. Work. on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems, Istanbul, 6th November 2023.
- 10th IEE/ACM Int. Conference on Big Data Computingm Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2023), Taormina, 4-7 December 2023.
- 12th Int. Conf, on Complex Networks and their Applications, Complex Networks 2023, Menton Riviera, France, 28-30 November, 2023
- 14th IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Napoli. 4-6 December 2023.
- 6th IEEE Int. Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2023), Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China, December 17-21, 2023
- 4th Int. Artificial Intelligence and BLockchain Conference (AIBC 2023), University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 27-29, 2023.
- 15th Int. Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Sytems, ICUMT 2023, Ghent, Belgium, October 2023
- 14th IEEE Int. Conf. on CLoud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2023, Napoli, 4-6 December 2023
- 5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop (DLT 2023), Bologna, Italy, 25-26 May, 2023
- IEEE Int. Conf. on omni-layer intelligent Systems, COINS 2023, Berlin, 13-15th of July, 2023
- ESORICS 2023, The Augue, The Netherlands, September 25-29, 2023
- ITASEC 2023, Italian Conf. on Ccybersecurity, May2th-5th, 2023, Bari
- French Regional Conference on Complex Systems, FRCCS 2023, Le Havre, France, May 31-June 02, 2023.
- 6th Int. Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, IWBOSE 2023, Macao, China, March 21th-24th, 2023
R. Lopes Almeida, D. Di Francesco Maesa, F. Baiardi, L. Ricci," Impact of Decentralization on Electronic Voting Systems: A Systematic Literature Survey", IEEE Access, accepted for pubblications, November 2023.
N.Desai, D. Di Francesco Maesa, N. Sastry, S. Schneider, L. Ricci, "Preserving Privacy of Vulnerable Users across Heterogeneous Sensitive Sensor Data Streams" Fifth ACM International Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 23), in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2023, 13-15 November 2023, Instanbul, Turkey.
M. Loporchio, D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Bernasconi, L. Ricci, "Analysis and Characterization of ERC-20 Token Network Topologies", 12-th Inter. Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2023, 28-30 November 2023, Menton, France.
A. De Salve, D. Di Francesco Maesa, P. Mori, A Puccia, L. Ricci, "A multi-layer trust framework for Self Sovereign Identity on blockchain", Online Social Networks and Media, accepted for pubblication, July 2023.
- M. Loporchio, A. Bernasconi, D. Di Francesco Maesa, L. Ricci, "Is Bitcoin gathering dust? An analysis of low-amount Bitcoin transactions", Applied Network Science, accepted for pubblication. May 2023.
- M. Loporchio, A. Bernasconi, D. Di Francesco Maesa, L. Ricci, "A survey of Set Accumulators for Blockchain Systems", accepted for pubblication, Elsevier, Computer Science Review, accepted for pubblication, May 2023.
- A. De Salve, D. Di Francesco Maesa, F. Federico, P.Mori, L. Ricci, "AlgoID: a blockchain reliant Self-Sovereign Identity framework on Algorand", accepted for pubblication, 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2023), 9-12 July 2023, Tunis Tunisia.
- B. Guidi, A. Michienzi, L. Ricci, F. Baiardi, L. Gomez-Zaragoza, L. A. Carrasco-Ribellas, J. Marin-Morales, "SentiTrust: a new Trust Model for Decentralized Online Social Media", acc epted for pubblication IEEE Access.
- A. Lisi, N. Lopardo, D. Tortola, P.Mori, L. Ricci, F. Severino "A cross-chain rating system: bridging EVM based blockchains with Chainbridge", IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, IEEE COINS 2023, Berlin, 23-25 July 2023.
- K.
Ahmad, L. Ricci, F. Baiardi, S. Arsheen, Hyperledger Fabric Enabled
Vaccine Intelligent Network to Implement Immunization Program, 12th IEEE Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies, CSNT 2023, Bhopal, April 2023.
- A. De Salve, R. Di Pietro, P. Mori, L. Ricci, "Content Privacy Enforcement Models in Decentralized Online Social Networks: State of Play, Solutions, Limitations, and Future Directions", accepted for pubblication in Computer Communications.
- D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Lisi, P. Mori, L. Ricci, S.Schiavone, "Non Fungible Mutable Tokens: dynamic assets traceability for the Metaverse", IEEE Int. Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023), June 26-28
- D. Di Francesco Maesa, A. Lisi. P. Mori, L. Ricci, G. Boschi "Self Sovereign and Blockchain-based Access Control: Supporting Attribute Privacy with Zero-Knowledge" accepted for pubblication in JNCA, Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
- "L2DART: a trust management system integrating blockchain and off-chain computation" A. De Salve, L. Franceschi, A. Lisi, P. Mori, L. Ricci, ACM TOIT, ACM Transaction on Internet Technology
- "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
- 2023-24 - Laboratorio di Programmazione di Rete - 3 CFU, Primo semestre, Laura Triennale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
- 2023-24 - Laboratorio di web scraping - 6 CFU, Secondo Semestre, Laurea Triennale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
- 2003-24- Peer to Peer
and Blockchains - 6 CFU - Secondi Semestre, Laurea Magistrale In
Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
- 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
- Francesco Donini, PhD student, PhD in BLockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, coordinated by University of Camerino 2022-2025
- Ricardo Lopes Almeida, PhD student, PhD in BLockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, coordinated by University of Camerino 2022-2025
- Andrea Pelosi, PhD student, PhD in BLockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, coordinated by University of Camerino 2022-2025
- Luca Genovali, PhD IMT, Lucca, 2009.
- Emanuele Carlini, PhD, IMT, Lucca, 2012, permanent researcher, HPCLab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa.
- Barbara Guidi - PhD University of Pisa, 2015, senior researcher (RTD-B) at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
- Andrea De Salve - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, permanent Researcher at Sede di Lecce, ISASI-CNR.
- Alessandro Lulli - PhD University of Pisa, 2017, Software Engineer, Domotz, Information Technology & Services,
- 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.
- Adrian Spataru- co-tutela West University of Timisoara and Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2021, now 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
- Andrea Lisi, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2023
- Blockchain technology
- Applied cryptography for blockchains: set accumultators, zero-knowledge
- Self Sovereign Identity
- Oracles
- Inter-chain and side-chain solutions
- Blockchain data nalytics
- Blockchain based social networks
- Fungible and Non-fungible Token Analysis
- NFT and Metaverse
- PRIN "Awesome AWESOME: Analysis framework for WEb3 SOcial MEdia" [10/2023 - 9/2025]
- 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.