Paolo Palmieri, Ph.D.
Research
Most of my research work focuses on three main areas: cryptography, privacy and smart cities. These areas are closely related, and I enjoy writing papers that encompass two or all three of these subjects. For instance, in the past I have designed cryptographic protocols for privacy-enhancing technologies, and I have worked on the privacy implications of smart cards in public transport.
A research topic that mixes all these aspects is location privacy. Keeping our position private will become a more and more important problem in the future, as smartphones and other location-aware devices become of common use.
Cryptography:
- protocols and primitives for secure multi-party computation; [C1] [C2] [C3]
- information theoretic security in real-world settings; [C4] [C6]
- privacy-preserving protocols; [C5] [C8] [J4]
- applications of (somewhat) homomorphic encryption; [C5] [C8] [J4]
- cryptographic applications of Bloom filters. [C8] [J4]
Privacy:
- location privacy; [C8] [J2] [J4]
- onion routing and anonymity protocols; [C7] [C9] [C10] [C12]
- privacy in IoT, p2p and heterogeneous information networks. [C7] [C10] [C11]
Smart City: