Speaker: Ivan Visconti (Univ. Salerno)
In this talk, I'll discuss significant challenges in data protection due to current and future threats. I'll present recent research results that, leveraging advanced cryptographic tools, provide new defenses in several domains. In particular, I'll describe efficient zero-knowledge proofs and their applications to:
a) detecting deep fakes/disinformation through novel image authentication mechanisms;
b) long-term data protection via post-quantum security;
c) data sanitization in tough scenarios (blockchains/AI).
(online: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/84550558864?pwd=UTdtNElrWHdWVytKckxBbkJZN25uUT09)
10/5/2022 14:30, Aula B203, DIAG, Via Ariosto 25, Roma (online: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/84550558864?pwd=UTdtNElrWHdWVytKckxBbkJZN25uUT09)
Short bio: Prof. Ivan Visconti earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2003. He then spent a year as a post-doc researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and subsequently served as a university researcher for the SSD INF/01 at the University of Salerno from 2005 to 2014. At the same university, he became an associate professor in 2014 and a full professor in 2019. Over the years, he has established intensive collaboration with the computer security group at UCLA led by Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky. He served as a senior area editor for IEEE-TIFS, receiving in 2020 the Certificate of Merit "for outstanding editorial board service for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security." He has been a member of the program committees for prestigious conferences (including CRYPTO/EUROCRYPT/FOCS) and was the program chair of SCN 2012. In 2022, he received the best paper award for his publication at the CANS conference. He was the head of the local unit for the European H2020 project PRIVILEDGE focused on the security aspects of blockchain technology and is currently responsible for the local unit of the PRIN 2020 project PARTHENON. He has published 39 times at the most prestigious IACR conferences focused on cryptography, and has published at some of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science (STOC/FOCS).