He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has been a Visiting Researcher at GMU (2008), UCLA (2010), UCI (2012, 2013, and 2014), and TU Darmstadt (2013). He has been awarded with the Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). He served as program committee member of several conferences. He was a panelist at ACM CODASPY 2011 and General Chair for SecureComm 2012 and ACM SACMAT 2013. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. RESEARCH INTERESTS: