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).

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.

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. [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]

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. [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Agent-based blockchain model for robust authentication and authorization in IoT-based healthcare systems'
Hind Idrissi, Paolo Palmieri (2024) 'Agent-based blockchain model for robust authentication and authorization in IoT-based healthcare systems'. The Journal of Supercomputing, 80 (5):6622-6660 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'A Cryptographic Protocol for Efficient Mutual Location Privacy Through Outsourcing in Indoor Wi-Fi Localization'
Samuel N. Eshun, Paolo Palmieri (2024) 'A Cryptographic Protocol for Efficient Mutual Location Privacy Through Outsourcing in Indoor Wi-Fi Localization'. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19 :4086-4099 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'De-anonymisation of real-world location traces: two attacks based on the hidden Markov model'
Samuel N. Eshun, Paolo Palmieri (2024) 'De-anonymisation of real-world location traces: two attacks based on the hidden Markov model'. Journal of Location Based Services, 18 (3):272-301 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'A Novel Approach to E-Voting With Group Identity-Based Identification and Homomorphic Encryption Scheme'
Apurva K. Vangujar, Buvana Ganesh, Alia Umrani, Paolo Palmieri (2024) 'A Novel Approach to E-Voting With Group Identity-Based Identification and Homomorphic Encryption Scheme'. IEEE Access, 12 :162825-162843 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Bloom filter variants for multiple sets: a comparative assessment'
Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio, Paolo Palmieri (2022) 'Bloom filter variants for multiple sets: a comparative assessment'. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 28 (2):120-140 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2024) Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE 2024), Valencia, Spain, March 25-27, 2024
Francesco Regazzoni, Gergely Acs, Albert Zoltan Aszalos, Christos Avgerinos, Nikolaos Bakalos, Josep Ll Berral, Joppe W. Bos, Marco Brohet, Andrés G. Castillo Sanz, Gareth T. Davies, Stefanos Florescu, Pierre-Elisée Flory, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Evangelos Haleplidis, Alice Héliou, Sotirios Ioannidis, Alexander Islam El-Kady, Katarzyna Kapusta, Konstantina Karagianni, Pieter Kruizinga, Kyrian Maat, Zoltán Ádám Mann, Kalliopi Mastoraki, SeoJeong Moon, Maja Nisevic, Balázs Pejó, Kostas Papagiannopoulos, Vassilis Paliuras, Paolo Palmieri, Francesca Palumbo, Juan Carlos Perez Baun, Peter Pollner, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Luca Pulina, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Daniela Spajic, Christos Strydis, Georgios Tasopoulos, Vincent Thouvenot, Christos Tselios, Apostolos P. Fournaris (2024) SECURED for Health: Scaling up privacy to enable the integration of the European health data space Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE 2024), Valencia, Spain, March 25-27, 2024 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2024), Rome, Italy, February 26-28, 2024
Alia Umrani, Apurva K. Vangujar, Paolo Palmieri (2024) Anonymous Multi-Receiver Certificateless Hybrid Signcryption for Broadcast Communication 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2024), Rome, Italy, February 26-28, 2024 , pp.733-744 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2024), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 26-29, 2024
Apurva K. Vangujar, Alia Umrani, Ji-Jian Chin, Paolo Palmieri (2024) Secure E-Auctions: A Blockchain-Based Cluster Consensus Identity-Based Identification Scheme 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2024), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 26-29, 2024 , pp.189-197 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 8th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP 2024), Osaka, Japan, April 20-22, 2024
Alia Umrani, Apurva K. Vangujar, Paolo Palmieri (2024) A Multi-receiver Certificateless Signcryption (MCLS) Scheme 8th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP 2024), Osaka, Japan, April 20-22, 2024 , pp.46-52 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 5–8, 2024, Proceedings
Apurva K. Vangujar, Alia Umrani, Paolo Palmieri (2024) Identity-Based Cluster Authentication and Key Exchange (ID-CAKE) Message Broadcasting and Batch Verification in VANETs Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 5–8, 2024, Proceedings , pp.162-179 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2024) Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 5–8, 2024, Proceedings
Amirhossein Ebrahimi Moghaddam, Buvana Ganesh, Paolo Palmieri (2024) Privacy-Preserving Sentiment Analysis Using Homomorphic Encryption and Attention Mechanisms Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 5–8, 2024, Proceedings , pp.84-100 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

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 [ Publisher's Version] [Details]

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 /

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

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

Current Postgraduate Students

  Student Degree Type
Ganesh Buvana Doctoral Degree
- Alia Doctoral Degree
Ebrahimi Moghaddam Amirhossein Doctoral Degree