Keynote Speakers
Prof. Francesco Flammini
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (CH)
Department of Innovative Technologies
Talk title
To be announced
Biography
Francesco Flammini graduated cum laude (M.D., 2003) and got a research doctorate (PhD, 2006), both in Computer Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Since 2003, he has been a chartered engineer, and has worked for 15+ years in industry, including Ansaldo STS (now Hitachi Rail) and IPZS (Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute), on large international projects addressing safe and intelligent transportation, critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity, as a technical leader and unit head. Since 2017, he has been a Senior Lecturer and the chair of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) environment at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology of Linnaeus University (Sweden). Since 2020, he has been a Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Cyber-Physical Systems at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering of Mälardalen University (Sweden). He is now a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Ulisse Dini of the University of Florence (Italy), where he is a member of the Resilient Computing Lab (RCL). He is also a Professor of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, where he is affiliated with Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), and leads the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) research group. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an IEEE Distinguished Visitor, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a Member of the IEEE SMC Society Board of Governors as Associate Vice President for Members and Student Activities (MSA). He is also the chair of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security. He has (co)authored 150+ scientific publications, and he has served as a chair, invited speaker, steering/program committee member, and editor for several international conferences and journals, including International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier) and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. He has been the principal investigator and technical manager of several national and international projects, mainly funded by the European Commission, where he also serves as an expert evaluator and project reviewer. He has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Dalle Molle Award for the Quality of Life Label (2024), and the TRA Visions Senior Researcher Award (2024).
Prof. Konstantinos Markantonakis
Royal Holloway University of London (UK)
Department of Information Security
Talk title
To be announced
Biography
Konstantinos Markantonakis B.Sc. M.Sc., MBA, Ph.D., received his BSc in Computer Science from Lancaster University, his MSc in Information Security, his PhD and his MBA in International Management from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is currently a Professor of Information Security in the Information Security Department in Royal Holloway University of London. He is also the Director of the Information Security Group Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (SCC) and the Director of the Transformative Digital Technologies, Security and Society Catalyst. His main research interests include smart card and mobile device security and applications, IoT, embedded system security, distributed ledger and smart contracts, trusted execution environments, payment systems, automotive and avionics system security. He has published more than 220 papers in international conferences and journals. He has served as invited speaker, chair, steering and program committee member, and editor for several international conferences and journals. His research has attracted funding from competitive UK/EU funding sources but also from the industry, and he has led into completion several funded projects. He is a co-inventor in two patent applications and has successfully commercialised a project idea with a couple more in the pipeline. He has received a few awards including the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Service Award, and also best paper awards. He is the chair of IFIP WG 11.2 Pervasive Systems Security. He has experience in commercialisation of cyber security ideas and products, and he has acted as experienced consultant for several key technology companies.
Prof. Constantinos Patsakis
University of Piraeus (GR)
Department of Informatics
Talk title
To be announced
Biography
Constantinos Patsakis is a professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus and an adjunct researcher at the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) of Athena Research and Innovation Centre. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, and an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained a PhD in Security from the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus. His main areas of research include cryptography, security, privacy and cybercrime. In the past, he has worked as a researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy at the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.