I’m a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).
I work in the Distributed Systems and Security & Privacy groups, where I am co-advised by Peter Druschel and Deepak Garg. So it probably goes without saying, but I’m broadly interested in distributed systems, mobile systems, and security and privacy. In particular, I enjoy designing, building, and analyzing secure and privacy-preserving distributed systems.
Recently, I have been working on a secure selective analytics (SSA) platform with applications in the interest of the public good. This platform is secure under a strong threat model that leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to place trust on a set of independent Trusted Execution Environments. This platform is selective as it allows data sources to a priori restrict the use of their sensitive data to a pre-defined set of queries, run by specific analysts, and for a limited period. Currently, I am working on extending its use cases to support practical MPC-based ML training over very large sensitive datasets under the same threat model.
At the beginning of my PhD, I explored different areas such as network side channels and secure mobile systems: I collaborated on Pacer, a project aimed to ensure data privacy in Cloud services against network side-channel leaks, and enClosure, a project on secure and private communication enabled by chains of mobile encounters. To continue the latter, I’m also working on a project that employs secure mobile encounters in a location-proof service, in order to mitigate the issue of fake online reviews.
Besides research, I’m quite enthusiastic about a bunch of things: traveling, cinema, books, comics, food, complaining, and complaining about food – especially if claimed to be Italian. I also enjoy learning new things: right now I’m trying (and failing) to learn Deutsch!
MSc in Computer Engineering
Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
BSc in Computer Engineering
Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
MPI-SWS and UdS
MPI-SWS and UdS
Member of the Organizing Committee
Co-host and co-organizer with Vaastav Anand and Jonathan Mace
Co-host and co-organizer with Vaastav Anand and Jonathan Mace