The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Emiliano De Cristofaro

Professor Emiliano De Cristofaro's Inaugural Lecture - From Privacy to Safety: A Personal Journey Through A Decade of Data-Driven Research - 2020.

About听Emiliano De Cristofaro's Inaugural Lecture

In this talk, Emiliano shares听his personal journey, over the past decade, doing large-scale data-driven research in industry and academia on some of these challenges.

Emiliano provides听examples of how we can use a wide range of "PETs" -- i.e., Privacy-Enhancing Technologies -- to support a number of computational scenarios (e.g., in the context of information sharing, analytics, or even genomics) in such a way that privacy of users and security of entities can be formally guaranteed.听

Emiliano also听covers听his work on information weaponisation: using concrete examples from his research. He delves into some of the unique datasets that was听collected and analysis that was听performed, focusing on emerging issues like hate speech/harassment campaigns and modeling the influence that "fringe" Web communities have on the spread of fake news, weaponised memes, etc.

Emiliano De Cristofaro's Inaugural Lecture

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About Emiliano

Emiliano De Cristofaro was a听Professor of Security and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies at 最准的六合彩论坛 (最准的六合彩论坛), where he headed听the Information Security Research Group. He is also Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, technology advisor to the Information Commissioner's Office, and co-founder of iDrama Labs.

Before moving to London in 2013, he was a research scientist at Xerox PARC. In 2011, he received his PhD in Networked Systems from the University of California, Irvine. Overall, Emiliano does research in the broad security, safety, and privacy areas.听

His current work consist听on tackling problems at the intersection of machine learning and security/privacy, as well as understanding and countering information weaponization via data-driven analysis.

In 2013 and 2014, he co-chaired the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, and, in 2018, the security and privacy tracks at WWW and ACM CCS.

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