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Alessandro Zanasi is professor at the University of Modena,
senior researcher at CRIS and member of the Scientific Boead,
entrepreneur with his own security research advising company,
co-founder of Temis SA (intelligence software development company).
Graduated in Nuclear Engineering (Bologna University). Specialized in
Financial Engineering (Paris VI), he was a Carabinieri officer assigned
to the Carabinieri Scientific Investigations Center in Rome. He spent
16 years in IBM in Scientific Centers in Paris, France, and Almaden,
California, and in the commercial sector in Italy. Author of about 50
publications on intelligence and security technologies (e.g., the book:
"Text Mining and its Applications to Intelligence, CRM and Knowledge
Management", 2007-WIT Press) and chairman of several international
scientific conferences (e.g., "Data Mining, Protection, Detection and
other Security Technologies" conference which will be held in June 2008
in Cadiz). Appointed in 2005 by the European Commission as a member of
ESRAB (European Security Research Advisory Board) and in 2007 as a
member of ESRIF (European Security Research and Innovation Forum).
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Prof. András Pataricza graduated in Electrical Engineering,
holds a Ph.D. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a
Dr-habil. from BUTE. Since 1994 he leads the Fault-Tolerant Systems
Research Group of the University. He served twice as visiting professor
at the University of Erlangen in Germany and received multiple
recognition awards from different scientific and industrial
organizations. Since 2006 he is a visiting professor at the IBM
Budapest CAS. He is founding member and president of OptXware. He has
acted as technical leader and/or advisor to many international
scientific projects and EU scientific research programs.
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Atle Dingsor - Graduate from the Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration in 1980. 6 years with IBM as a systems
analyst. 10 years with a major Norwegian Bank, 5 years as IT Auditor
and 5 years as IT Security Manager. The last 8 years independent
consultant doing Internet programming. Now an employee of the Financial
Supervisory Authority of Norway.
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Dr. Barry P. Mulcahy received his Ph.D. in Distributed Security Systems from University College Cork. He also has a BSc in Computer Science from University College Cork. Barry has lectured security to an MSc level and continues to supervise MSc projects in the area of security. Barry is currently working at the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). He regularly serves on the technical program commities or as a reviewer for international conferences and
journals of his research areas.
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Eliezer Dekel is a University Ambassador to the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. Since joining the Haifa Research Lab in 1992,
he has been involved in research in the areas of distributed and
fault-tolerant computing, service-oriented technology, and software
engineering. He is currently working on technologies for providing
Quality of Service, with a focus on dependability, in very large scale
multi-tier environment. Eliezer has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer
science from the University of Minnesota, and a B.Sc. in mathematics
from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Prior to joining the IBM Haifa
Research Lab, Eliezer served on the faculty of the University of Texas
at Dallas computer science department for over ten years. He is also a
subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed
Computing.
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Enrico Angori received his master in Electronic Engineering from
University “La Sapienza” of Rome in 1987. In the same year he started
working at Datamat. He has worked in a number of projects, including
military CMS and Message Handling systems, security systems for main
Italian Administrations, AAA systems and Data Warehouses for Telco
operators. He has worked in some ICT projects as both project
coordinator and WP leader. He has coordinated an FP6 IP named WEIRD
(034622) that is a 24 month integrated project aiming at implementing
research test-beds using the WiMAX technology in order to allow
isolated or impervious areas to get connection to the GEANT2 research
network.
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Francesco Castano, graduated cum laude in Economy and Commerce,
“Alma Mater Studiorum” University of Bologna. After significant
consulting experience as Senior Consultant in the area of “strategic
planning” with Deloitte Consulting s.p.a., he was hired in 2003 by the
Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, State Department of General
Accounting as Advisor to the Directorate of the General State
Accountant.Member of the Cabinet of Experts from 2006, he is currently
Director of IT Departmental Co-ordination of the Treasury for the
definition of IT strategies, management, optimization and
re-engineering of processes and procedures of the entire organizational
structure.
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Frank Robert Berg - Head of IT-Supervision, The Financial
Supervisory Authority of Norway. He has joined the FSAN since 2001.
Before then he has worked internationally in the banking IT
development, was Division director in Provida ASA (a banking software
company today integrated into TietoEnator) from 1994 to 2000, and
IT-director for the Christiania Bank (today a part of Nordea Nordic)
from 1979 to 1994. Educated from the Norwegian Banking Academy,
Management School (Solstrand, as part of the University of Bergen) and
(IT) at the London Business School.
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Dr. Giorgia Lodi is a Post-doc researcher at
University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She received the Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from the University of Bologna (Italy). From 2001 to
2002 she was a research associate of Computer Science at the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne (U.K.). From 2002 to 2005 she partecipated to
the EU project TAPAS (Trusted and QoS-aware Provision of Application
Services). In the recent past she published peer-reviewed papers in
various computer-science fields including application server middleware
technologies, SLA management systems, and wireless and mobile networks.
She regularly serves as a reviewer of international conferences and
journals of her research areas.
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Giuseppe Martufi received his master in Electronic Engineering
from University “La Sapienza” of Rome in 1997. He has worked for two
years at CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) on multimedia
standards and advanced multimedia applications. Later on he has started
working for Datamat and he had managed project focused on control
protocols (SIP) and on IP-based standards.
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Gregory Chockler is a research staff member in the Distributed
Middleware group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. He received the
B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem in 1993, 1997, and 2003 respectively. During
his last year as a graduate student (2002-2003), he also worked part
time in the storage group of IBM Research, and was an adjunct lecturer
at the Hebrew University. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral
associate in the theory of distributed systems group at the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab of MIT. He joined IBM Research
in 2005.
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Dr. György Csertán holds an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS
in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Since 1995
he is with Technical University of Budapest. In 2000-2004 he was
associate professor at the University of Veszprém where later he
coordinated the work of the Research and Technology Center of the
Faculty of Information Science. He is founding member and CEO of
OptXware. He has many years of experience in leading research and
development projects in the field of information technology and its
application. His professional interest includes dependable systems,
e-business systems, and dependability in embedded systems.
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Hamza Ghani received his Licence des sciences économiques from the University of Fez in 2002 and his MS in Computer Science with Business Administration from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2009 and thereon he joined the Dependable, Embedded Systems & Software (DEEDS) group
of Prof. Suri as PhD assistant. His research interests are security metrics and security in financial critical infrastructures.
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Hisain Elshaafi is a researcher and software engineer at the TSSG. He holds a Masters Degree in communications software from Waterford Institute of Technology and a Bachelor Honours Degree in computer science from Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked on national and EU projects in areas involving systems' security and trust management, SOA, and software engineering and development.
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James Clarke is a Programme Manager at Waterford Institute of
Technology and has been involved for the last 14 years in the technical
and managerial work involved in advanced Pan European research,
development and coordination projects. Starting in 2008, Mr. Clarke
will be Project Manager of a newly accepted Call 1 FP7 project entitled
INCO-TRUST, which stands for International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures. The main purpose of the
INCO-TRUST Coordination Action, specifically targeting international
cooperation in the area of Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT
infrastructures, is to promote collaboration and partnerships between
researchers from the developed countries with the goal of coordinating
the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of ICT Trust,
Security and Dependability (TSD). There will be numerous linkages between CoMiFin and this project to enable collaboration with peers in
these developed countries.
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Jimmy McGibney is a lecturer in security at the Dept. of
Computing, Mathematics & Physics at WIT. He is currently joint
chair of the programme board of the MSc in Communications Software at
WIT. His main research interests are in trust models and distributed
intrusion detection. His IST project experience has included the
OPAALS, SEINIT and SUSIE projects while at WIT as well as the CANCAN
and DESSERT projects while previously working at Dublin City
University. He is also currently Principal Investigator on Enterprise
Ireland Commercialisation project STRUST (trust-based system for spam
filtering). He has also worked as a software developer in the telecoms
industry. He obtained a BE from University college Dublin in 1992 and
an MEng from Dublin City University in 1994.
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László Gönczy received his M.Sc. in Software Engineering from
Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2003 and his MS in
Engineer-economics from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2006. His
professional interest includes model-driven development of
Service-Oriented Architectures and dependability analysis based on high
level system models. He was involved in several research and industrial
R+D projects and published articles in these fields. He is a founding
member of OptXware and responsible for Services&Education of the
company.
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Dr. Leonardo Querzoni is Assistant Professor at
University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He received a Dr. Ing degree in
computer engineering with a work on efficient data dissemination though
the publish/subscribe communication paradigm. In the recent past he
published peer-reviewed papers in various computer-science fields
including overlay networks, publish/subscribe systems, wireless
networks. He has been invited to chair the student forum for the 7th
European Dependable Computing Conference, and he regularly serves as a
reviewer of international conferences and journals of his research
areas. Being part of the MIDLAB research group, he is currently
involved in several national and international EU-funded projects.
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Luca Nicoletti, who has a degree in Physics from La Sapienza
University, Roma, has worked with Consip as an IT architect in the
System Solution Area (in the Infrastructure department), since 2000.
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Michele Colajanni is a Full Professor of computer engineering at
the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena
and Reggio Emilia. He is the Director of the Inter-department Research
Center on Security (CRIS) from its foundation and the Director of the
Master on Information System Security from 2003. He has held research
appointments with the National Research Council, visiting scientist
appointments with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, NY. His research interests include infrastructures for
Internet-based services, security, distributed systems, performance
analysis. In these fields he has published more than 130 papers in
international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He
has lectured in several national and international seminars and
conferences. Michele Colajanni serves as a permanent reviewer of
scientific journals and international research projects. In the last
years, he has served as a member of 50 organizing or program committees
of the most important conferences on his research topics. He was the
scientific responsible of national and European projects on high
performance Web-based systems, security and performance evaluation.
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Michele Messori is a PhD Student at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In October 2008 he received the Master degree "cum laude" in Computer Engineering from the same university with a thesis on peer-to-peer architectures for malware detection and prevention, supervisor prof. Michele Colajanni. His main research topic is "Security in geographically distributed systems".
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Mirco Marchetti is a research assistant at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In February 2009, Mirco Marchetti pursued his PhD in Information and Communication Technologies with the thesis "Distributed architectures and algorithms for network security", advisor Prof. Michele Colajanni. From November 2007 to July 2008 he has been a visiting research scholar at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Alvisi.
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Prof. Neeraj Suri received his Ph.D. from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. He currently holds the TU Darmstadt Chair
Professorship in "Dependable Embedded Systems and Software" at TU
Darmstadt, Germany. His earlier academic appointments include the Saab
Endowed Professorship and faculty at Boston University. His research
interests focus on design, analysis and assessment of networked and
trusted (secure + dependable) embedded systems/SW. His current research
is emphasizing composite issues of dependability and security, covering
topics of (a) robustness hardening ("autonomic dependability &
security") of software/OS's, (b) verification/validation of protocols,
embedded SW/OS, and (c) "trusted/secure SW/systems by design". His
group's research activities have garnered support from both the
European Commission, US (NSF, DARPA, ONR, AFOSR) and multiple EU
industry partners. He is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER award.
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Prof. Roberto Baldoni is a full professor at
University of Rome “La Sapienza” and currently leads MIDLAB. He
published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers (from theory to practice)
and developed several innovative prototypes in the fields of
distributed, pervasive and P2P computing, middleware platforms and
information systems infrastructure. He is the founder of the MIDdleware
LABoratory (MIDLAB) and he has been PI of many national and european
research projects. He regularly serves as an expert for the EU
commission in the evaluation of EU projects in the
security&dependability, embedded systems, and e-gov areas. He
belongs to the Executive Board of the RESIST NoE and he is the
coordinator person for the EU project SM4ALL on networked embedded
systems. He regularly chairs committees of premiership international
conferences and workshops. In 2007, he has been the PC-CoChair of the
27th Symposium of Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS07) and of
Autonomics Conference. Always in 2007, he was invited to deliver a
motivating talk at the Information Day on Networked Embedded Systed
(May 2007) and a keynote to the 4th International Workshop on
Dependable Embedded Systems (WDES 2007). In 2008, he has been the
General Chair of the International Conference on Distributed Event
Based Systems (DEBS08). In 2009 he will be the PC chair of the track
"Reliable and Dependable Systems" of ICDCS 2009. Roberto Baldoni has
been involved in a series of EU-US meetings for defining common Agendas
on Security in the Future Internet. Finally he belongs to the
Scientific Committee of SAPIENZA Innovazione the technology incubator
of the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, where he is the Director of
the Security program. In this role he works in the Security program of
ARTEMISIA.
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