Alessandro Sorniotti, PhD

Post-doctoral researcher IBM Research - Zurich Säumerstrasse 4 CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Short Bio

Alessandro is a post-doctoral researcher in the Storage Systems group of IBM Research. Prior to joining IBM, he was a member of the Security&Trust research program of SAP Research. He has been engaged in several EU projects including WASP (wireless sensor networks), and Avantssar (formal validation of security properties in service-oriented infrastructures). He has also been a member of the SAP Product Security Team, acting as an internal security consultant for SAP business units. His current research interests revolve around the study of security and reliability aspects of storage systems.

Alessandro holds a PhD in applied cryptography from Telecom ParisTech (former Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris) and a double MSc degree from Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) in Computer Science and from EURECOM in Networking.

Professional activities

• Co-chair of the Security Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in 2010, 2011 and 2012
• PC member of the Security Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in 2013
• PC member of the Fifth ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec '12)
• PC member of the International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Supply Chain Management in 2011 and 2012
• PC member of the 7th International DPM Workshop on Data Privacy Management, co-located with ESORICS 2012
• TPC member of the Cloud Computing and Networking Symposium, co-located with ICNC 2013

Publications

Full list of publications: [DBLP] [Google Scholar]

Selected Publications

• Basescu, Cristina; Cachin, Christian; Eyal, Ittay; Haas, Robert; Sorniotti, Alessandro; Vukolic, Marko; Zachevsky, Ido
  Robust data sharing with key-value stores
  In Proc. Intl. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2012, Boston, US. (To appear).
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• Di Pietro, Roberto; Sorniotti, Alessandro
  Boosting Efficiency and Security in Proof of Ownership for Deduplication
  7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2012), May 2012, Seoul, Korea. (To appear).
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• Armando, Alessandro; Carbone, Roberto; Compagna, Luca; Cuellar, Jorge; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Sorniotti, Alessandro
  From Multiple Credentials to Browser-based Single Sign-On: Are We More Secure?
  26th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference (SEC 2011), June 7-9, 2011, Luzern, Switzerland.
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• Kerschbaum, Florian; Sorniotti, Alessandro
  Searchable Encryption for Outsourced Data Analytics
  Public Key Infrastructures, Services and Applications - 7th European Workshop, EuroPKI 2010, Athens, Greece, September 23-24, 2010.
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• Sorniotti, Alessandro; Molva, Refik
  Federated Secret Handshakes with Support for Revocation
  Information and Communications Security - 12th International Conference, ICICS 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010.
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• Sorniotti, Alessandro; Molva, Refik
  A provably secure secret handshake with dynamic controlled matching
  Computers & Security, December 2009.
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• Sorniotti, Alessandro; Molva, Refik
  Secret handshakes with revocation support
  ICISC 2009, 12th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, December 2-4, 2009, Seoul, Korea
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• Sorniotti, Alessandro; Molva, Refik
  A provably secure secret handshake with dynamic controlled matching
  IFIP SEC 2009, 24th International Information Security Conference, May 18-20, 2009, Pafos, Cyprus , pp 330-341
  Best Student Paper Award
  
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• Kerschbaum, Florian; Sorniotti, Alessandro
  RFID-based supply chain partner authentification and key agreement
  WISEC 2009, 2nd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, March 16-18, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland , pp 41-50
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