Roberto Di Pietro#
| Membership Number: | 6637 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SAUDI ARABIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kaust.edu.sa |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1909-0336 |
| Twitter: | @Roberto_Di_P |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023/06 - present Professor at KAUST-CEMSE, RC3 (Cyber Security), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- 2017/08 - 2023/05 Professor at HBKU-CSE (Cyber Security), Doha, Qatar
- 2010/01 - present Research Associate at CNR-IIT (National Research Council, Institute for Informatics and Telematics), Pisa, Italy
- 2013/12 - 2017/07 Global Head Security Research, Nokia Bell Labs, Paris-France
- 2015/02 - 2017/11 Associate Professor (with tenure) in Computer Science at the University of Padua, Maths Dept., Padua, Italy (1 Feb. 2015 - 30 Nov. 2017)
- 2011/09 - 2015/05 Co-founder of the Swiss start-up Bay31 Ltd. (developing and commercializing re-search results achieved in Role Mining)
- 2009/01 - 2010/01 Seconded National Expert to the Data Protection Office of the EU Agency EUROJUST, The Hague, The Netherlands
- 2011/02 - 2011/08 Chair of Excellence from University Carlos III- Madrid, Spain
- 2004-02 - 2004/05 Consultant to the United Nations HQ, Office of Internal Oversight Service (OIOS), on the establishment of an Information Security Management System, NYC, USA
- 2006/06 - 2015/01 Assistant Professor (tenured position) in Computer Science at the University of Roma Tre, Maths and Physics Dept., Rome, Italy
- 2001/02 - 2001/07 Visiting Scholar at George Mason University, Center for Secure Information Systems, Farifax - USA
- 1995/11 - 2006/05 Ministry of Defence: Senior Technical Officer - Rank: Major (Arma dei Carabinieri, HQ, Rome, Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- On-line social networks security & privacy
- Cyberphysical systems resiliency
- AI for cybersecurity
- Data science
- Intrusion detection system
- Blockchain technology
- Wireless network security
- Virtualization and cloud security
- Resiliency, security, and privacy of distributed systems
- Applied cryptography
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Fellow IEEE: for Contributions to the Security of Distributed Systems
- 2022 Individual Inventor Excellence Award: assigned, for the first time, by the Hamad Bin Khalifa University. As per the mention: “This category honors top inventors at HBKU and recognizes their outstanding contributions to intellectual property creation and technological advancements.”
- 2022 Inclusion in the Stanford’s list recognizing the world 2% top scientist (2022 and 3rd release)
- 2021 Inclusion in the Stanford’s list recognizing the world 2% top scientist (2021 and 2nd release)
- 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award: for having significantly influenced the theory and practice of Dependable Computing
- 2020 Inclusion in the Stanford’s list recognizing the world 2% top scientist (2020 and 1st release)
- 2019 ACM Distinguished Scientist: for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing
- 2011 Chair of Excellence from University Carlos III, Madrid-Spain: for his world-class security research results
