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Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at University College Cork. I hold a PhD in Cryptography from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and I have previously been a Visiting Researcher at the Università di Bologna (Italy), a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), and a Lecturer at Bournemouth University and Cranfield University (UK).

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Research Interests

Most of my research work in cyber security focuses on cryptography and privacy, but I also enjoy working on broader interdisciplinary topics such as smart cities.

My research interests space from cryptographic protocols to privacy and anonymity, and include privacy enhancing technologies, secure computation, location privacy, and the security of smart cities and the Internet of Things.

I am always looking for motivated students interested in contributing to the research of our group.

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Publications

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Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	'Security in an Approximated World: New Threats and Opportunities in the Approximate Computing Paradigm' Paolo Palmieri, Ilia Polian, Francesco Regazzoni (2022) 'Security in an Approximated World: New Threats and Opportunities in the Approximate Computing Paradigm' In: Alberto Bosio, Daniel Ménard, Olivier Sentieys (eds). Approximate Computing Techniques. Cham, Switzerland: Spriger.   [DOI] [Details]

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Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	Special Issue on Privacy and Security for Location-based Services and Devices. Journal of Information Security and Applications Luca Calderoni, Paolo Palmieri, Constantinos Patsakis (Ed.). (2021) Special Issue on Privacy and Security for Location-based Services and Devices. Journal of Information Security and Applications Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Agent-based blockchain model for robust authentication and authorization in IoT-based healthcare systems' Hind Idrissi, Paolo Palmieri (2023) 'Agent-based blockchain model for robust authentication and authorization in IoT-based healthcare systems'. The Journal of Supercomputing,   [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Bloom filter variants for multiple sets: a comparative assessment' Calderoni, L; Maio, D; Palmieri, P (2022) 'Bloom filter variants for multiple sets: a comparative assessment'. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 28 (2):120-140   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2021)	'Protecting artificial intelligence IPs: a survey of watermarking and fingerprinting for machine learning' Francesco Regazzoni, Paolo Palmieri, Fethulah Smailbegovic, Rosario Cammarota, Ilia Polian (2021) 'Protecting artificial intelligence IPs: a survey of watermarking and fingerprinting for machine learning'. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 6 (2):180-191 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2018)	'Probabilistic Properties of the Spatial Bloom Filters and Their Relevance to Cryptographic Protocols' Luca Calderoni and Paolo Palmieri and Dario Maio (2018) 'Probabilistic Properties of the Spatial Bloom Filters and Their Relevance to Cryptographic Protocols'. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 13 (7):1710-1721 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2017)	'An Anonymous Inter-Network Routing Protocol for the Internet of Things' Palmieri, Paolo; Calderoni, Luca; Maio, Dario (2017) 'An Anonymous Inter-Network Routing Protocol for the Internet of Things'. Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, 6 (2):127-146   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2015)	'Location privacy without mutual trust: The spatial Bloom filter' Luca Calderoni, Paolo Palmieri, Dario Maio (2015) 'Location privacy without mutual trust: The spatial Bloom filter'. Computer Communications, 68 :4-16   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2014)	'From Sensing to Action: Quick and Reliable Access to Information in Cities Vulnerable to Heavy Rain' Santiago Gaitan, Luca Calderoni, Paolo Palmieri, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis, Dario Maio, M. Birna van Riemsdijk (2014) 'From Sensing to Action: Quick and Reliable Access to Information in Cities Vulnerable to Heavy Rain'. IEEE Sensors Journal, 14 (12):4175-4184   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2014)	'Passengers information in public transport and privacy: Can anonymous tickets prevent tracking?' Gildas Avoine, Luca Calderoni, Jonathan Delvaux, Dario Maio, Paolo Palmieri (2014) 'Passengers information in public transport and privacy: Can anonymous tickets prevent tracking?'. International Journal of Information Management, 34 (5):682-688   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2012)	'Location-aware Mobile Services for a Smart City: Design, Implementation and Deployment' Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio, Paolo Palmieri (2012) 'Location-aware Mobile Services for a Smart City: Design, Implementation and Deployment'. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 7 (3):74-87   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

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Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	30th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2023), Fredericton, NB, Canada, August 14-18, 2023, Revised Selected Papers Amirhossein Ebrahimi Moghaddam, David Gerault, Paolo Palmieri (2023) Deep Learning-Based Rotational-XOR Distinguishers for AND-RX Block Ciphers: Evaluations on Simeck and Simon 30th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2023), Fredericton, NB, Canada, August 14-18, 2023, Revised Selected Papers [Details]
	(2023)	7th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP 2023), Tianjin, China, April 21-23, 2023 Buvana Ganesh, Paolo Palmieri (2023) Secure Search on Multi-key Homomorphically Encrypted Data 7th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP 2023), Tianjin, China, April 21-23, 2023 [Details]
	(2023)	9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI 2023), Monopoli, Italy, June 8-9, 2023 Francesco Regazzoni, Paolo Palmieri, Apostolos P. Fournaris (2023) Treating a different kind of patient: curing security weaknesses in digital health systems of the future 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI 2023), Monopoli, Italy, June 8-9, 2023 , pp.99-102   [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2022), Ottawa, Canada, December 12–14, 2022, Proceedings Amirhossein Ebrahimi, Francesco Regazzoni, Paolo Palmieri (2022) Reducing the Cost of Machine Learning Differential Attacks Using Bit Selection and a Partial ML-Distinguisher 15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2022), Ottawa, Canada, December 12–14, 2022, Proceedings , pp.123-141   [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2022), Genoa, Italy, June 6-10, 2022, co-located Workshop Proceedings Samuel N. Eshun, Paolo Palmieri (2022) Two de-anonymization attacks on real-world location data based on a hidden Markov model 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2022), Genoa, Italy, June 6-10, 2022, co-located Workshop Proceedings , pp.1-9   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2020)	2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020), Paris, France, September 28-30, 2020, Proceedings Claudio Bareato, Paolo Palmieri, Francesco Regazzoni, Oreste Venier (2020) A secure, distributed and scalable infrastructure for remote generation and use of cryptographic keys 2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020), Paris, France, September 28-30, 2020, Proceedings , pp.102-106   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2020)	13th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2020), Montreal, Canada, December 1-3, 2020, Proceedings Buvana Ganesh, Paolo Palmieri (2020) A Survey of Advanced Encryption for Database Security: Primitives, Schemes, and Attacks 13th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2020), Montreal, Canada, December 1-3, 2020, Proceedings , pp.100-120   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2019)	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'19), Alghero, Italy, April 30 - May 2, 2019, Proceedings Samuel N. Eshun, Paolo Palmieri (2019) A privacy-preserving protocol for indoor Wi-Fi localization ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'19), Alghero, Italy, April 30 - May 2, 2019, Proceedings , pp.380-385   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2018)	Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems, CryBlock'18, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany, June 15, Proceedings Antonio Magnani, Luca Calderoni, Paolo Palmieri (2018) Feather forking as a positive force: incentivising green energy production in a blockchain-based smart grid Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems, CryBlock'18, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany, June 15, Proceedings , pp.99-104   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2018)	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'18, Ischia, Italy, May 8-10, 2018, Proceedings Paolo Palmieri (2018) Hash-based signatures for the internet of things ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'18, Ischia, Italy, May 8-10, 2018, Proceedings , pp.332-335   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2017)	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'17, Siena, Italy, May 15-17, 2017, Proceedings Paolo Palmieri, Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio (2017) Private inter-network routing for Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'17, Siena, Italy, May 15-17, 2017, Proceedings , pp.396-401   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2016)	8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon 2016, Tallinn, Estonia, May 31 - June 3, 2016 Paolo Palmieri (2016) Anonymity networks and access to information during conflicts: Towards a distributed network organisation 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon 2016, Tallinn, Estonia, May 31 - June 3, 2016 , pp.263-275   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2016)	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'16, Como, Italy, May 16-19, 2016, Proceedings Carlos Alberca, Sergio Pastrana, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Paolo Palmieri (2016) Security analysis and exploitation of arduino devices in the internet of things ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'16, Como, Italy, May 16-19, 2016, Proceedings , pp.437-442   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2015)	Information and Communications Security - 17th International Conference, ICICS 2015, Beijing, China, December 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers Paolo Palmieri (2015) Preserving Context Privacy in Distributed Hash Table Wireless Sensor Networks Information and Communications Security - 17th International Conference, ICICS 2015, Beijing, China, December 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , pp.436-444   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2015)	Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 26-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers Paolo Palmieri, Johan A. Pouwelse (2015) Paying the Guard: An Entry-Guard-Based Payment System for Tor Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 26-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , pp.437-444   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2014)	Information Security and Cryptology - 10th International Conference, Inscrypt 2014, Beijing, China, December 13-15, 2014, Revised Selected Papers Paolo Palmieri, Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio (2014) Spatial Bloom Filters: Enabling Privacy in Location-Aware Applications Information Security and Cryptology - 10th International Conference, Inscrypt 2014, Beijing, China, December 13-15, 2014, Revised Selected Papers , pp.16-36   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2014)	Advances in Information and Computer Security - 9th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2014, Hirosaki, Japan, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings Paolo Palmieri, Johan A. Pouwelse (2014) Key Management for Onion Routing in a True Peer to Peer Setting Advances in Information and Computer Security - 9th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2014, Hirosaki, Japan, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings , pp.62-71   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2013)	2013 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2013, Guangzhou, China, November 18-21, 2013 Niels Zeilemaker, Zekeriya Erkin, Paolo Palmieri, Johan A. Pouwelse (2013) Building a privacy-preserving semantic overlay for Peer-to-Peer networks 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2013, Guangzhou, China, November 18-21, 2013 , pp.79-84   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2013)	Advances in Information and Computer Security - 8th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, November 18-20, 2013, Proceedings Paolo Palmieri, Olivier Pereira (2013) Unconditionally Secure Oblivious Transfer from Real Network Behavior Advances in Information and Computer Security - 8th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, November 18-20, 2013, Proceedings , pp.168-182   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2011)	Provable Security - 5th International Conference, ProvSec 2011, Xi'an, China, October 16-18, 2011. Proceedings Paolo Palmieri, Olivier Pereira (2011) Secure Two-Party Computation over a Z-Channel Provable Security - 5th International Conference, ProvSec 2011, Xi'an, China, October 16-18, 2011. Proceedings , pp.3-15   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2011)	Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2011 - 14th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 30 - December 2, 2011. Revised Selected Papers Paolo Palmieri, Olivier Pereira (2011) Implementing Information-Theoretically Secure Oblivious Transfer from Packet Reordering Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2011 - 14th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 30 - December 2, 2011. Revised Selected Papers , pp.332-345   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
	(2010)	Information Security and Cryptology - 6th International Conference, Inscrypt 2010, Shanghai, China, October 20-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers Paolo Palmieri, Olivier Pereira (2010) Building Oblivious Transfer on Channel Delays Information Security and Cryptology - 6th International Conference, Inscrypt 2010, Shanghai, China, October 20-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers , pp.125-138   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

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Thesis/Dissertation

	Year	Publication
	(2013)	Unconditional secure cooperation on real-world networks : the case of oblivious transfer. Paolo Palmieri (2013) Unconditional secure cooperation on real-world networks : the case of oblivious transfer. Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium: Thesis/Dissertation   [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Member	/
	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	Member	/
	Higher Education Academy, UK	Fellow	/

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Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	University College Cork, Ireland	Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security	01-APR-24 /
	University College Cork, Ireland	Lecturer (above the bar) in Cyber Security	01-SEP-17 / 31-MAR-24
	Cranfield University, United Kingdom	Lecturer in Cyber Security	01-DEC-16 / 30-SEP-17
	Bournemouth University, United Kingdom	Lecturer in Computing	01-JUL-15 / 20-NOV-16
	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	Post-doctoral researcher	15-APR-13 / 15-APR-15

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Education

	Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	2013	Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium	PhD	Cryptography
	2004	Università di Bologna, Italy	BSc	Computer Science
	2008	Università di Bologna, Italy	MSc	Computer Science
	2016	Bournemouth University, United Kingdom	PGCert	Education Practice

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Teaching Activities

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Current Postgraduate Students

	Student	Degree Type
	Ganesh Buvana	Doctoral Degree
	- Alia	Doctoral Degree
	Eshun Samuel Nana	Doctoral Degree
	Ebrahimi Moghaddam Amirhossein	Doctoral Degree