Personal profile
My former education was in Classical Studies. I then received a BSc in Mechatronics and Computer Engineering from University of Pavia (2013). In 2014 I received an MSc in Machine Learning by Royal Holloway University of London, “Best Finalist award in memory of Alexey Chervonenkis”.
From 2014, I joined the CDT at Royal Holloway University of London as a PhD student.
Research interests
My general interests:
Confident methods in Machine Learning (e.g., Conformal Prediction)
Theory of Statistical Learning
Privacy/anonymity-preserving protocols.
The goal of my current research is to develop practical methods based on the theory of Statistical Learning that provide security/privacy guarantees to anonymity protocols. My efforts are focused on a major class of traffic analysis attacks: Website Fingerprinting attacks.
I have also been interested in improving privacy/anonymity attacks that make use of Machine Learning (e.g., Website Fingerprinting and Membership Inference attacks), and on creating new defences to prevent them.
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