16 December 2021
16:00 – 17:30 CET

Link to online seminars: Zoom

Today's society relies on an ever-growing explosion of data collection, sharing, and collaborative processing, as well as on an ever-increasing need to efficiently perform extensive data analysis tasks over data produced and controlled by different parties. Such data, however, could be sensitive, company-confidential, or simply subject to access restrictions and therefore their use and dissemination must be properly controlled. In this talk, I will address such problems and illustrate possible solutions for enabling collaborative and distributed query execution with the controlled involvement of cloud providers that might be not fully trusted to access the data content.

Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are on information security, databases, and information systems. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of data protection. On these topics, she has published more than 210 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been an international fellow in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA), and she has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, VA (USA). She is member of the Steering Committees of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is co-recipient of the ACM-PODS'99 Best Newcomer Paper Award. She has served as General Chair, Program Chair, and program committee member of several international conferences. She is IEEE senior member (2012). http://www.di.unimi.it/decapita

Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are on data and applications security and privacy, especially in emerging scenarios. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of information protection. On these topics, she has published more than 280 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been Computer Scientist at SRI, CA (USA) and visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA (USA), and at George Mason University, VA (USA). She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group (STM), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is ACM Distinguished Scientist (named 2009) and IEEE Fellow (named 2012). She has received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2018), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016), the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2012), and the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award (2008). http://www.di.unimi.it/samarati