Anna Lisa Ferrara



   Dependable Systems & Software Engineering
   School of Electronics & Computer Science

   University of Southampton
   Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
   United Kingdom

   annalisa@ecs.soton.ac.edu







Current Position

I am a post-doc of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. I am a member of the Dependable Systems and Software Engineering research group.

Research Interests

My research interests are in applied cryptography and data security.
My research publications are available online. (Publications)

Research Experiences

From September 2004 to May 2005, I was visiting researcher at CACR (Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research)
in the School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

From November 2005 to January 2007, I held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Salerno, Italy.

From February 2007 to January 2008, I held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Computer Science,
within the School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

From February 2008 to April 2009, I was visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

From May 2009 to April 2011, I held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Salerno, Italy.

Teaching Experiences

Network Security. (Class Home Page)
March-April 2011 for the Master in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, Italy.

Advanced Topics in Network Security - Access Control: An Information Theoretic Approach and Provable Secure Solutions.
May 2009 at the ICT International Doctorate School, Trento, Italy.

Tutor Activity for the Cryptography class of the Master in System Security and Networks (Sicurezza dei Sistemi e delle Reti Informatiche),
online edition, Universita' degli Studi di Milano.

Program Committee Member

10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - EC-Web '09. (Website)
11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - EC-Web 2010. (Website)

Curriculum Vitae

English Version (PDF)
Italian Version (PDF)