• 01.12.2021 – today: Full professor affiliation split as follows:
  • 50% at the Dip. di Automatica e Informatica (CE Dept) of Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy)
  • 50% at the IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca (Italy)
• 01.11.1990 – 01.12.2021: Full professor of Computer Engineering at the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica of the Politecnico di Torino (Settore Concorsuale 09/H1 - Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni, SSD ING-INF/05)
• 14.10.1987 – 31.10.1990: Full professor of Computer Science at the Dip. di Storia (History Dept) of the Università di Udine, Udine (Italy) (gruppo concorsuale 311: prima disciplina "Automi e Linguaggi Formali" - Corso di Laurea in "Conservazione dei beni culturali" della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia)
• 2004-2020: Adjoin Professor of the University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (USA).
• 2018-today: Director of the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab.
• 2013-2018: Elected President (2006-2013 Elected Vice-President, 1994-2005: Member of the Board of Governors) of CINI: Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica a consortium of 44 Italian universities that do research in Computer Engineering & Computer Science, deliver BS/MS/PhD degrees, and are public funded).
• 2020-today: Appointed as Italian Representative within the Civil Security for Society Sub-group of the EU Shadow Strategic Programme Committee of Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
• 2012: Honored of the title "Doctor Honoris Causa" of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
• 2010-2014: Appointed Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) (the French National Research Council), a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research.
• 2016-today: Member of the "Collegio Docenti" of the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI): an international PhD school and a center for advanced studies in physics, mathematics, computer science and social sciences, in L'Aquila.
• 2013-2018 Vice-Chair (and 2004-2012 Italian Representative) of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee TC 10 - Computer Systems Technology aimed at "promoting the State-of-the-Art and the coordination of information exchange on concepts, methodologies, and tools in the stages in the life cycle of computer systems".
• 2000-2003 Elected chair (and 1998-1999: Elected vice-chair) of the IEEE - Computer Society TTTC: Test Technology Technical Council.
• 1996: Honored as Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.
• 2006-2010: Member of the Scientific & Technical Committee of CSI Piemonte, one of the largest Italian ICT operators in the public sector.
• 2007-2008: Appointed by the Minister Prof. Luigi Nicolais, member of the "Commissione interministeriale permanente per l'impiego delle tecnologie ICT per le categorie deboli e svantaggiate"
• 2001-2005: Elected chair of the Italian Gruppo di Ingegneria Informatica (G.I.I.)
• 1998-2002: Appointed by the Italian Minister for Industries, member of the Board of Governors of the Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris in Torino (Italy).

• Research activities mainly focused on:
  • Hardware Security
  • Digital Systems Design & Test
  • System Dependability

• Member of the Editorial Boards of several international journals and magazines and of the Steering Committees of several international conferences.
• Author and/or co-author of several scientific publications: a list of the most significant international ones can be found at
  • http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KK2B5igAAAAJ
  • http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7005222576

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