Robust and Secure Distributed Computing

Former People

Former Heads of Unit

  • Domenico Siracusa (now Associate Professor at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento; Affiliated Fellow at Robust and Secure Distributed Computing, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 2024)

Former Members

  • Pietro De Matteis (Developer until 2023, now Developer at Deda Group; CLEANSE Lab Coordinator at Robust and Secure Distributed Computing, Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
  • Francesco De Pellegrini (Researcher until 2020)
  • Damu Ding (Researcher until 2021)
  • Francescomaria Faticanti (Researcher until 2021)
  • Raihana Ferdous (Researcher until 2020)
  • Andrea Fregonese (Junior Researcher until 2022)
  • Matteo Gerola (Developer until 2023)
  • Antonio Massaro (Researcher until 2020)
  • Federico Pederzolli (Researcher until 2021)
  • Daniele Pizzolli (Developer until 2022)
  • Kewin Rausch (Developer until 2021)
  • Marco Savi (Researcher until 2021)
  • Kinde Gutema Tefera (Developer until 2022)
  • Xiaohu Wu (Researcher until 2020)

Former PhD Students

  • Maged Abdelaty (Cycle XXXIV, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Robust Anomaly Detection in Critical Infrastructure (link)
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Roberto Doriguzzi Corin
  • Damu Ding (Cycle XXXIII, University of Bologna, 2021)
    Thesis: Design and Development of Network Monitoring Strategies in P4-Enabled Programmable Switches (link)
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisors: Alessandra Costanzo, Marco Savi, Federico Pederzolli
  • Roberto Doriguzzi Corin (Cycle XXXII, University of Bologna, 2020)
    Thesis: Methods and Techniques for Dynamic Deployability of Software-Defined Security Services (link)
    Supervisors: Franco Callegati, Domenico Siracusa
  • Francescomaria Faticanti (Cycle XXXIII, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Resource Allocation Strategies in Highly Distributed and Heterogeneous Computing Systems (link)
    Supervisor: Francesco De Pellegrini | Co-supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Simone Magnani (Cycle XXXVI, University of Genoa, 2024)
    Thesis: Reducing Intrusion Detection’s Impact through Adaptive and Knowledge-Preserving Strategies
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisors: Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Luca Oneto, Alessandro Armando
  • Antonio Marsico (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Enabling Novel Interactions between Applications and Software-Defined Networks
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Antonio Massaro (Cycle XXXI, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Optimisation, games and learning strategies in telecommunication systems subject to structural constraints
    Supervisor: Francesco De Pellegrini | Co-supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Federico Pederzolli (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Resource allocation and modeling in spectrally and spatially flexible optical transport networks
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Arslan Rafi (2024)
  • Giacomo Segala (Cycle XXXVI, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Data-Driven Energy-Efficiency and Comfort Optimisation in Indoor Environments
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Roberto Doriguzzi Corin

Former Bachelor's and Master's Students

  • Valentino Armani (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: A Cost-Effective Workload Allocation Strategy for Cloud-Native Edge Services
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Francescomaria Faticanti
  • Samuele Bouveret (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
  • Matteo Bregola (Bachelor's Student, 2024)
    Thesis: Comprehensive Analysis of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Pietro De Matteis, Matteo Rizzi, Salvatore Manfredi
  • Matteo Caliandro (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Energy-Aware Placement of Cloud-Native Workloads in a Robotic Environment
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Francescomaria Faticanti
  • Riccardo Capraro (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Service-Aware Autoscaling of Cloud-Native Workloads
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Stefano Di Santo (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Exploring the Feasibility of Honeypots in Information Gathering: A Case Study
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Marian Alexandru Diaconu (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: A Distributed Serverless Caching System for Small Objects Management
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Claudio Facchinetti (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: A Resource-Aware Decoy Allocation Strategy for Cyber Deception in the Cloud
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Marco Zambianco
  • Matteo Franzil (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Real-Time Monitoring of the QUIC Protocol
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Gianni Antichi
  • Andrea Fregonese (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Federated Learning of a Deep Neural Network for DDoS Detection Trained with Non-IID Data
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Roberto Doriguzzi Corin
  • Martina Lanzi (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Adversarial DDoS Attack Detection with Multimodal Deep Learning
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Roberto Doriguzzi Corin
  • Riccardo Micheletto (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: A Cost-Aware Optimization Algorithm for Time-Constrained Applications in Hybrid Clouds
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Francescomaria Faticanti
  • Stefano Setti (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Implementing a Federated Learning Technique for DDoS Detection
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa
  • Davide Tessarolo (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Dynamic Offloading of Robotic Workloads Under Latency Constraints
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa