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Laura
Emilia Maria Ricci Full Professor Department of Computer
Science email: laura.ricci(AT)unipi.it Linkedin: Linkedin Scholar Profile: Google Scholar Question time: Wednesday, 15.00-18.00 PM |
Pisa
DLT Laboratory
I am leading the Pisa Distributed Ledger Laboratory, we design and implement layer-2 solutions for distributed ledgers, we study solutions for Self Sovereign Identity, we propose analysis for blockchain transactions. The laboratory includes 3 permanent members, 2 post-doc, 2 permanent members working at CNR, 6 PhD students, and several collaborators. Take a look at our Pisa Distributed Ledger Lab web page!
The laboratory organizes the 7th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN'26 in conjunction with PerCom 2026, Pisa, 16-20 March 2026
Laura Ricci is co-chair of
- TPC chair ICBTA, BlockchainTechnology, Kanazawa, Japan, 12-14th December 2025
- COMPSAC 2026 Blockchain: Emerging Systems & Theory (BEST), which will be held in conjunction with IEEE COMPSAC 2026, Madrid, Spain, July 7-10, 2026
- Goodtechs 2026, 12th Int. Conf. on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, April 16th-17th, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- BCRA, Int. Conf. on Blockchain Research and Applications, Palermo, Italy, July 2026,
Highlights
- Coordinator of the Curriculum "Social systems and smart societies" of the National PhD program in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technolgies
- 2023-2026 Principal Investigator - PRIN Research project "AWESOME: Analysis framework for WEb3 SOcial MEdia", 2023-2025, University of Pisa, University of Milan, University of Calabria.
- 2024-2025 Coordinator of the Pisa Research Unit, Project Advanced and Quantum-safe Solutions for Digital Identity and Digital Tracing”(AQuSDIT), Open Call partenariato SERICS, Spoke 5-Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security,
- Member of the Italian Distributed Ledger Technology Group,
- Spring 2023 - Member of the evaluation commette for the applications to Call for Proposal 2022 of Milano Hub, Bankitalia, topic: Distributed Ledgers Technologies
- Spring 2020 - Selected Expert for the topic "System security" of the The Italian National Research Program (PNR 2021-2027), published here
- 2018-2019 - 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
Editorship
- Associate editor of the ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, ACM DLT, the new ACM journal on Distributed Ledger Technology.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal Blockchain: Research and Applications
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal Applied Network Science
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal Peer to Peer Networking and Applications
- Section Editor of Springer Nature, SN Computer Science, Section V, Innovations in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Latest News
- Recently accepted papers (you can find all the papers here )
- G. Arajio, Rogerio Aquino, A. R. Pinto, L. Ricci,, Comparative Analysis of Unspervised Anomaly Detection Algorithms for Bitcoin Transaction Fraud Detection: A Large Scale Empirical Study, accepted for pubblication, IEEE Access, December 2025
- M.Cascino, A.De Salve, A. Lisi, P. Mori, L. Ricci,, Selective disclosure approaches in Self-Sovereign Identity: an experimental comparison, accepted for pubblication, IEEE Access, December 2025
- M.Loporchio, A. Bernasconi, D. Di Francesco Maesa, L. Ricci, ERC-1155 Under the Lens: a Graph-based Analysis of the Ethereum Multi-Token Standard, accepted for pubblication Applied Network Science, December 2025
- C. Turco, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci, , From
Solo Issuing to an Orchestra and Seamless Augmentation of
Self-Sovereign Identity for Multi-Signature Verifible Credentials,
accepted as a poster, ACM SAC'26, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23-27th, 2026
- F Donini, D. Di Francesco Maesa, L. Ricci, "A Tool for the Simulation of Smart Contract Lifectcles Based on Usage Patterns", 8th Int. Conf. on Blockchain Technology and Applications, ICBTA 2025, Kazanawa, Japan, December, 2025
- R. Almeida, F.Baiardi, D. Di Francesco Maesa, C. Dragan, L. Ricci, N. Sastry, "Towards a Resource Based Blockchain Electronic Voting System", 9th Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Workshop, CBT '25, in conjunction with ESORICS 2025, Tolosa, 25th September 2025
- A.Giuliani, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci, "VeriCert:SSL/TSL Certificate Verification based on Self-Sovereign Identity and Blockchain, 4th EAI Int. Conf. on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications, Venice, 18-19 September, 2025.
- C.Turco,
A. De Salve, D. Di Francesco Maesa,, P. Mori, L. Ricci, "An Aid to
Mitigate
Online Misinformation with Self-Sovereign Identity and Artificial
Intelligence", 7th Int.
Conf. on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2025),
Dubrovnick, Croatia, 14-17 October 2025
- A. Breglia, A. De Salve, P. Mori, L. Ricci, "Assessing the Anonimity of DIDs in Self-Sovereign Identity", 7th Distributed Ledger Technologies Workshop, Pizzo Calabro 9-14 June, 2025
- R. Almeida, D. Di Francesco Maesa, F. Baiardi, L. Ricci, "Let the NFT flow: a comparison between NFT architectures on Ethereum and the Flow Blockchain", IEEE NextGenDLT'25, in conjunction with ICBC'25, Pisa, June 6th, 2025.
- D. Di Francesco Maesa, F. Donini, P. Mori, L. Ricci, "A Simulation Engine for Evaluating Smart Contracts Based Applications Sustainability" IEEE TrustSense, 2nd Work. on Pervasive Computing Challenges in Trustable Crowdsensing Systems, in conjunction with IEEE Percom 2025, Washington, 21 March 2025
- Recent Program commette membership:
- 8th Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference, BIOTC 2026, Tokyo, 8-10 July 2026
- IWBOSE 2026, 9th Int. Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, 17-20 March 2026, Limassol, Cyprus
- TCP co-chair of ICBTA, Blockchain Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, 12-14 December 2025
- Complex Networs 2025, 14th Int. Conf. on Complex Networks and their applications, Binghamton, New York, 9-11 December 2025
- BRAINS 2026, 7th Int. Conf. on Blockchai Research and Applications, 18-21 November 2025, Zurich
- 3rd IEEE Int.Conf. on Metaverse Computing, Metacom 2025, Seoul, Korea, August 2025
- 4th EAI Int. Conf. on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications, BlockTEA '25, September 18-19th Venice, Italy
- DLT 2025, 7th
Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop, Pizzo Calabro, June
2025
- IEEE Global Blockchain Conference, 20-22 June 2025, Shangai, China
- 7th Conf. on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, BRAINs'25, November 18-21, 2025 Zurich, Switzerland
- IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (IEEE AIoT), 3-5 December 2025, Osaka, Japan
- Recent talks
- Il potere e l'utilizzo delle tecnologie, Marina di Carrara, 19 Dicembre 2025,
- Addressing the blockchain trilemma: scalability solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum, Invited talk, ICBTA'25, Kanazawa, Japan, December 14th, 2025
- Blockchain e Università: il Futuro della Formazione Digitale, Blockchain Week, Palazzo dei Congressi, Roma, 9-10 May 2025.
- Addressing the blockchain trilemma: scalability solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum "Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies, Pizzo Calabro, June 2025.
Selected
Papers
- "Skip index: supporting efficient inter-block queries and query authentication on the blockchain", M.Loporchio, A. Bernasconi, D. Di Fracesco Maesa, L. Ricci, accepted for pubblication, Elsevier Future Generation Computing Systems, accepted for pubblication, October 2024.
- "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", B. Guidi, A. De Salve, R. Di Pietro, P. Mori, L. 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, among the most cited papers on Elsevier Computer & Security, Scimago rank A journal.
- "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
- 2025-26 - Laboratorio di Programmazione di Rete - 3 CFU, Primo semestre, Laura Triennale in Informatica, Dipartimento di Informatica.
PhD
Students
- 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
- Giuseppe Galano, PhD in BLockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, coordinated by University of Camerino 2023-2026
- Yitbarek Yimame, PhD in BLockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, coordinated by University of Camerino 2023-2026
- Calogero Turco, PhD D epartment of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2024-2027
- Syed Muzakkir Reza, PhD Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2025-2028
- 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, associate professor at Department of Computer Science,.
- 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, tenure track researcher at Department of Computer Science,
- Andrea Michienzi - PhD University of Pisa, 2021, young researcher at Department of Computer Science,.
- Adrian Spataru- co-tutela West University of Timisoara and Department of Computer Science, 2021, now post-doc, Facultatea de Matematica si Informatica, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara
- Moshin Ur Rahman, PhD,University of Pisa, 2021 Department of Computer Science,
- Andrea Lisi, Department of Computer Science,, Software Engineer, 2023
- Matteo Loporchio, PhD University of Pisa, 2024, Young Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
- Domenico Tortola, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 2025. Postdoc IIT CNR, Pisa
Thesis
Proposals
- Blockchain technology
- Applied cryptography for blockchains: set accumultators, zero-knowledge
- Self Sovereign Identity
- Layer-2 Solutions for Blockchains
- Blockchain data anlytics
- Transaction abalysis
- Smart contract analysis
- Token analyisis
Projects of the Pisa DLT Group
- Strumenti di Sviluppo per Applicazioni su Blockchain Ibrida, Fondo per lo sviluppo di tecnologie e applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale, blockchain e internet of things, Ministero per lo Sviluppo economico (MISE), 2026-2028
- POESIA_4_DPP, Fondo per lo sviluppo di tecnologie e applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale, blockchain e internet of things, Ministero per lo Sviluppo economico (MISE), 2025-2027
- Advanced and Quantum-safe Solutions for Digital Identity and Digital Tracing”(AQuSDIT), Open Call partenariato SERICS, Spoke 5-Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security, 2024-2025
- Ethereum Foundation Grant , July 2024, principal investigator Matteo Loporchio
- Ethereum Foundation Grant , July 2024, principal investigator Damiano Di Francesco Maesa
- PRIN "Awesome AWESOME: Analysis framework for WEb3 SOcial MEdia" [10/2023 - 9/2025], principal investigator Laura Ricci
- PRIN "DLT-FRUIT:
A user centered framework for facilitating DLTs FRUITion"
[12/2023 - 12/2025], principal investigator
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa
- Ethereum Foundation Grant, "Cross chain authenticated queries", July 2022., principal investigator Damiano Di Francesco Maesa
- 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.