Emiliano De Cristofaro PhD

Emiliano De Cristofaro is an Associate Professor in Security and Privacy Enhancing Technologies at University College London (UCL). He is affiliated with the Computer Science Department and currently heads the Information Security Research Group. Before joining UCL in 2013, he was a research scientist at Xerox PARC. He received a summa-cum-laude Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy (2005), then, in 2011, a Ph.D. in Networked Systems from the University of California, Irvine, advised by Gene Tsudik. During his Ph.D., he also spent a few months on research internships at NEC in Heidelberg (2008), INRIA in Grenoble (2009), and Nokia in Lausanne (2010).

Emiliano's research interests include security, privacy, and applied cryptography. In particular, he works on understanding and countering security/privacy issues via measurement studies and data-driven analysis, as well as tackling problems at the intersection of machine learning and security/privacy.