Scientific Boards

Member of the scientific board for the PhD Program in Cognitive and Cultural Systems@ IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca

Recent Projects

  • TOFFEe : TOols for Fighting FakEs: Integrated Activities Project, IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca -- From April 2019 (36 months)
  • H2020 SPARTA: Special projects for advanced research and technology in Europe -- Task 6.5 `Privacy by Design'
  • Work Package leader in Confidential and Compliant Clouds Coco Cloud FP7 Project -- From November 2013 (36 months)
  • Principal investigator of Reviewland, a project funded by FCRL -- From August 2016 (18 months)
  • Principal investigator of My Information Bubble -- MIB, a project funded by Registro.it -- From June 2014 (24 months)

Some Recent Seminars

  • M. Petrocchi. Significant information spreading and the role of automated accounts on Twitter: a case study@HBKU, Doha, Qatar, November 20, 2019.
  • M. Petrocchi. Fake reviews @CyberSecurity Day 2019, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 11, 2019.
  • M. Petrocchi. Detection of Hate Speech @CyberSecurity Day 2018, Officine Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy, October 12, 2018.
  • M. Petrocchi. Social Spambots: What they are and how to find them @Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, October 24, 2017.
  • M. Petrocchi. Downsides of Big Data - Uncertainty in Social Media Sensing & Bots. SoBigData@European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy. October 11, 2017.
  • M. Petrocchi. Protection of (personal) data: Technical and legal perspectives @DTU Compute, Copenaghen, Denmark. October 12, 2016.
  • M. Petrocchi. Protection of (personal) data: Technical and legal perspectives @Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy. May 13, 2015.
  • M. Petrocchi. The Wheat and the Chaff in the Universe of Twitter accounts @IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Lucca, Italy, February 26, 2014.

Organization Committes

  • Ph.D. Symposium Chair @Intl. Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020), Dubai, 9-12 November 2020. Ph.D. Symposium Web Page
  • Co-organizer of the International TOFFEe Workshop n.1, IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Italy, October 24-25, 2019. TOFFEe 2019
  • Chair of the Special Session on `Advanced and Trusted Models and Techniques for Fighting Fakes', co-located with IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing 2019, Leicester, UK, August 19-23, 2019. ATC 2019
  • General co-chair of 4th Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity TELERISE'18@ADBIS, Budapest, Hungary, September 2, 2018.
  • General co-chair of 3rd Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity TELERISE'17@SafeComp, Trento, Italy, September 12, 2017.
  • Program Chair of Privacy Track @ 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage SpaCCS Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017.
  • Co-director of 1st Ph.D. School on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Social Networks SNSPT16 Padua, Italy, 4-9 Sept. 2016.
  • General co-chair of 2nd Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity TELERISE'16@ICWE, Lugano June 9, 2016.
  • Track chair @ 9th IEEE EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications Mobimedia, Xian, China, June 18-20, 2016.
  • General co-chair of 1st Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity TELERISE'15@ICSE, Florence May 18, 2015.
  • Chair of privacy track @ 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications IEEE TrustCom-15 , Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 August, 2015
  • General chair of 8th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management STM'12 , Pisa, Italy, 13-14 September, 2012

Programme Committees

  • PC member of 9th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology, Porto, Portugal, October 7, 2019. OpenCert 2019
  • PC member of 15th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet-based Systems, Sorrento, Italy, 26-29 November 2019. IEEE SITIS 2019
  • PC member of 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy. Stockholm, June 17-19, 2019. IEEE Euro S&P 2019
  • PC member of 4th Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing CLAW 2018
  • PC member of 14th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management STM 2018
  • PC member of 3rd International Workshop on Bio-inspired Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience BioStar 2018
  • PC member of 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing ATC 2018
  • PC member of Fourth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics HUSO 2018
  • PC member of 13th Security and Trust Management STM 2017
  • PC member of Data Science in Societal Debates @DSAA DSSD 2017
  • PC member of 14th IEEE Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing ATC 2017
  • PC member of 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods SEFM 2017
  • PC member of 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology IEEE-CIT 2017
  • PC member of 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things CLAW 2017
  • PC member of International Workshop on Bio-inspired Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience BIOSTAR 2017
  • PC member of 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust STAST16
  • PC member of 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods SEFM16
  • PC member of 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications IEEE TrustCom-16
  • PC member of Bio-Inspired Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience Workshop BIOStar16
  • PC member of 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing ATC16
  • PC member of 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology CIT15
  • PC member of Security and Trust Management 2015 STM15
  • PC member of 13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference CCNC 2016
  • PC member of ReSA4CI15
  • PC member of Workshop on Bio-inspired Cyber Security & Networking BCSN15

Editorial Activities