Ph.D. students

I’m always looking for outstanding and motivated PhD students. Enrollment in the PhD program requires a master degree. Send me an email for more information on the application process and funding opportunities.

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I have  been named  2011 ACM Distinguished Scientist.  See the press release at the ACM Web Site.

Our paper: Secure Information Sharing on Support of Emergency Management received the best paper award at IEEE PASSAT 2011.

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recent publications

C. Akcora, B. Carminati, E. Ferrari. Privacy in Social Networks: How Risky is Your Social Graph? IEEE ICDE 2012.

B. Carminati, E. Ferrari, J. Girardi. Trust &Share: Trusted Information Sharing in Online Social Networks, IEEE ICDE 2012 (demo). 

M. Vanetti, E. Binaghi, E. Ferrari, B. Carminati, M. Carullo.  A System to Filter Unwanted Messages from OSN User Walls. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

B. Carminati, E. Ferrari, M. Guglielmi.  Secure Information Sharing on Support of Emergency Management. IEEE PASSAT 2011, Boston, MA, October 2011.

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Google award

I received a Google research award for my proposal “Privacy Preference Mining: combining social search technologies and data mining tools to protect the privacy of On-line social network users”.

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IEEE interview

Check my interview with the IEEE Computer Society.

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IEEE award

Elena Ferrari has been selected as the recipient of an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to Secure Data Management.

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