Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also affiliated with TU Delft
and University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome,
Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor the University of Padua, where he
became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting
Researcher at GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt, UF, and FIU. He has been awarded with a Marie
Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German
DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His
main research interest is in the area of Security and Privacy. In this area, he published more than

400 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Area Editor-
in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and has been Associate Editor for several

journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Dependable
and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE
Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015,
ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, ACNS 2020, CANS 2021, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012,
SACMAT 2013, NSS 2021 and ACNS 2022. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. He is a
member of the Blockchain Expert Panel of the Italian Government. He is Fellow of the Young
Academy of Europe. From 2020, he is Head of Studies of the Master Degree in Cybersecurity at
University of Padua.