Claudio A. Ardagna is Full Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include information security and privacy in cloud and IoT, security assurance and compliance, and Big Data analytics. Within these areas, he has published 130+ contributions in international journals, conference/workshop proceedings, and chapters in international books. He is a co-author of the book “Open Source Systems Security Certification” published by Springer. He has been visiting researcher at Khalifa University and George Mason University.

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He is IEEE senior member, received IFIP Silver Core Award, and won the ERCIM STM WG 2009 award for the best PhD thesis on security and trust management in a European University.

He is a co-founder of Moon-Cloud, a spin-off of the Università degli Studi di Milano providing a platform distributed as a service for security compliance and governance.

He is a member of SESAR Lab.

He has participated/participates in several national and international projects including EU FP6, FP7, and H2020 projects PRIME, PrimeLife, ASSERT4SOA, CUMULUS, CONCORDIA, IMPETUS, and PALM.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (February 2008)
• PhD Student Computer Science (XX cycle), Università degli Studi di Milano (November 2004 - November 2008)
• Laurea in computer science, with full marks and honors, Università degli Studi di Milano (October 2003)

Professional Experience

• Full Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, (Dipartimento di Informatica) (September 2020 - Present)
• Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, (Dipartimento di Informatica) (March 2015 - September 2020)
• Assistant Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, (Dipartimento di Informatica) (December 2008 - February 2015)
• Research fellow, Università degli Studi di Milano, (Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione) (October 2004 - October 2008)
• Research collaborator, Università degli Studi di Milano, (Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione) (2004)

Visit in international research centers and participation in international schools

• Visiting professor, Etisalat BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (January-February 2014). The research activity, in collaboration with Prof. Rasool Asal, focused on security and privacy in the cloud.
• Visiting position, Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) Department, George Mason University, VA (USA) (August 2010, August 2009, June-August 2008). The research activity, in collaboration with prof. Sushil Jajodia focused on security and privacy in mobile and distributed systems.
• Participation at the International School On Foundations Of Security Analysis And Design, Bertinoro, Italy (September 2006, September 2004)

Awards

• Winner of the ERCIM STM WG 2009 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management
• He is a co-inventor of the European Patent titled “Method, System, Network and Computer Program Product for Positioning in a Mobile Communications Network” (with M. Anisetti, V. Bellandi, E. Damiani, S. Reale). European Patent No. EP1765031, Published in date 21 March 2007.

Invited Talks

• Verification, validation, and certification of non-functional properties in distributed systems, ETISALAT BT Innovation Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, February 10, 2014.
• 2nd International Workshop on Policies for the Future Internet (PoFI 2011), Pisa, Italy, June 9, 2011.
• 5th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2009), Saint Malo, France,September 25, 2009.

Research Projects

• PRIN 2010-2011
  Genomic Data Management (GenData 2020)
  February 2013 - January 2016
  Activities: Design of novel and advanced technological solutions for supporting the next-generation healthcare systems.
• 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) (ICT - Trustworthy ICT)
  Certification infrastrUcture for MUlti-Layer cloUd Services (CUMULUS)
  October 2012 - September 2015
  Activities: Definition and implementation of novel test-based solutions for security certification of Cloud services.
• Telecom Italia: End-to-end projects
  Study and experimental evaluation of horizontal scalability scenarios in the delivery of advanced cloud services in the context of PaaS
  May 2013 - December 2013
  Activities: Definition and implementation of novel solutions supporting horizontal scalability in a cloud environment and allowing the distribution and consumption of advanced cloud services in a PaaS scenario.
• 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) (ICT - Trustworthy ICT)
  Advanced Security Service cERTificate for SOA (ASSERT4SOA)
  October 2010 - September 2013
  Activities: Definition and implementation of innovative solutions for test-based certification of services.
• Telecom Italia: End-to-end projects
  Study and experimental evaluation of advanced cloud services in the context of PaaS
  July 2011 - December 2011
  Activities: Definition and implementation of novel cloud-based PaaS solutions supporting the release of SOA-based functionalities in the cloud.
• 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) (ICT - Information and Communication Technologies)
  Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life (PrimeLife)
  March 2008 - June 2011
  Activities: Definition and implementation of innovative solutions for protecting and controlling access to personal data of users.
• 6th FWP (Sixth Framework Programme) (IST - Information Society Technologies)
  Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME) project
  March 2004 - 2008
  Activities: Definition of access control policies and languages, and authorization techniques in the context of distributed systems supporting privacy and digital identities
• PITAGORA project
  January 2004 - December 2004
  Activities: Research and development in the context of mobile networks. The activities focus on mobile networks and their remote management, mobile network security and privacy, mobile phone geolocation and, finally, knowledge abstraction and management.