Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University, Rome - Italy

Security and Privacy in Social and Urban Systems

Bio
Alessandro Mei is Full Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University. Before joining Sapienza, he did his studies and worked at the University of Pisa and the University of Trento, Italy, and at the University of Southern California, USA. His main research interests include distributed and networked systems, social networks, and computer system security and privacy. He was presented with several international awards for research achievements. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2005-2009), and the general chair of IEEE IPDPS 2009. During 2010-11, he was a Marie Curie Professor at the University of California at San Diego and, in 2013, he was presented with the Google Faculty Research Award.

Social and urban systems have brought security and privacy concerns to a whole new level. Information technology is making cities "smart" and we are living a life of new social opportunities and revolutionary ways to interact with other people and with the environment. In the world we are shaping, security and privacy expectations are even higher than ever. In these lectures, we will see some of the challenges of security and privacy in future smart cities, we will develop a common understanding of what privacy can be in the digital world, and we will describe the ideas that researchers are developing to build social and urban systems that people can trust.