Elena Ferrari

Elena Ferrari is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the STRICT Social Lab at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. Ferrari was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013[1] for contributions to security and privacy for data and applications. She has been named one of the “50 Most Influential Italian Women in Tech” in 2018.[2][3] She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems".[4]

Education

Ferrari received her MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Milano (Italy) in 1992, and PhD in Computer Science in 1998.[3]

Career

Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. She was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milano (Italy) from 1998 until January 2001.[citation needed]

She has served on the editorial board of ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS),[5] IEEE Internet Computing,[6] and the Transactions on Data Privacy.[7] She is an associate editor of Springer Journal in Data Science And Engineering.

Research

Ferrari's main research interests are in cybersecurity, privacy, and trust, and she publishes mainly in the areas of security and privacy for big data and Internet of Things (IoT); access control; machine learning for cybersecurity; risk analysis; blockchain; and secure social media.[8]

Fundamentally, Ferrari's research investigated means for users to protect their privacy online, and solutions for users to practice better ownership of their data.[9] Examples of her work include temporal role-based access control,[10] enforcing access control in web-based social networks,[11] web content filtering[12] and rule-based access control for social networks.[13]

Awards

She has received several awards for her work:

  • ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) Research Award (2019)[14]
  • ACM SACMAT 10-Year Test-of-Time Award (2019) for her work "A semantic web based framework for social network access control" (2009) [15][16]
  • IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2009) “for pioneering contributions to Secure Data Management.”[17]
  • IEEE Fellow (2012)
  • ACM Fellow (2019) [4]

References

  1. ^ "2013 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2012.
  2. ^ "Elena Ferrari tra le 50 donne "tecnologiche" più influenti al mondo". VareseNews (in Italian). 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  3. ^ a b "Italy 2018". Inspiring Fifty: Italy. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  4. ^ a b 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  5. ^ "TDS Editorial Board". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  6. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  7. ^ "Transactions on Data Privacy". www.tdp.cat. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  8. ^ "People of ACM: Elena Ferrari". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  9. ^ "Protezione dei dati personali in Facebook Premio Usa ad una italiana-Il Sole 24 ORE". st.ilsole24ore.com. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  10. ^ BertinoElisa; Andrea, BonattiPiero; FerrariElena (2001-08-01). "TRBAC". ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. 4 (3): 191–233. doi:10.1145/501978.501979.
  11. ^ CarminatiBarbara; FerrariElena; PeregoAndrea (2009-11-06). "Enforcing access control in Web-based social networks". ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. 13: 1–38. doi:10.1145/1609956.1609962. S2CID 626082.
  12. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  13. ^ Carminati, Barbara; Ferrari, Elena; Perego, Andrea (2006). "Rule-Based Access Control for Social Networks". In Meersman, Robert; Tari, Zahir; Herrero, Pilar (eds.). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4278. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1734–1744. doi:10.1007/11915072_80. ISBN 978-3-540-48276-5.
  14. ^ "ACM CODASPY 2019". www.codaspy.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  15. ^ A semantic web based framework for social network access control | Proceedings of the 14th ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies. 3 June 2009. pp. 177–186. doi:10.1145/1542207.1542237. ISBN 9781605585376. S2CID 18632399. Retrieved 2020-08-05. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  16. ^ "Symposium on Access control Models and Technologies". www.sacmat.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  17. ^ "Elena Ferrari | IEEE Computer Society". Retrieved 2020-08-05.