Roberto Di Pietro - Biography#
Prof. Dr. Roberto Di Pietro is currently Full Professor of Computer Science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), with the CEMSE Division, affiliated to the RC3 Center and a Research Associate of the National Research Council (CNR, Italy, since 2010). Previously, he served: as Full Professor of Cybersecurity at HBKU-CSE, Doha-Qatar; as Global Head of Cybersecurity Research for Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia); as Professor at University of Padova (with tenure); and, Faculty at University of Roma Tre (with tenure). He started his Computer Scientist professional career back to 1995, serving for a few years as a military senior technical officer within the Italian MoD. In his Academic career, he has secured ≈9.6M USD in funding (either as LPI or PI).
With 25+ years of professional experience in systems, Dr. Di Pietro has been leading both technology-oriented and research-focused teams in the private sector, government, and academia. He has also enjoyed high-level long-period professional consulting appointments at International Organizations (United Nations—New York City—,EUROJUST—The Hague—, IAEA—Vienna—, WIPO—Geneva). Among his several long term research appointments abroad (e.g. Vrije University, Amsterdam-The Netherlands, George Mason University (Center for Secure Information Systems) Fairfax-USA, EURECOM, Nice-France, BDigital Barcelona-Catalunya).
Dr. Di Pietro has been publishing 270+ scientific publications, co-authored three books, edited one book on Intrusion Detection Systems contributed with chapters to several books, and has co-authored 16 patents—all of these contributions in distributed systems security & privacy. His scientific work has totaled 12,800+ citations, with h-index=51 and i-index=174 according to Google.
His education accounts for two MS: one in Computer Science and one in Informatics—both from University of Pisa; a post-graduate Specialization Diploma in Operations Research and Strategic Decisions; and, a PhD in Computer Science—both from University of Roma “La Sapienza”.
