Recent Publications

More Publications

. Bent functions in the partial spread class generated by linear recurring sequences. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2022.

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. Evolutionary Construction of Perfectly Balanced Boolean Functions. CEC, 2022.

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Teaching

I have been actively involved in teaching since 2015. Below is a list of recent courses that I have given. Se here for a complete list of courses where I taught.

AI and Cryptography (PhD Course, June 2023)

PhD Course that I gave at the University of Trieste in June 2023, focusing on the intersection of AI and Cryptography.

Committees

I have been or am a member of the following committees:

Program Committees

  • EvoApps 2024 – 27th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (part of Evostar 2024, 3-5 April 2024, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
  • NDSS 2024 – The 31st Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 26 February - 1 March 2024, San Diego, California USA
  • INDOCRYPT 2023 – The 24th International Conference on Cryptology in India, 10-13 December 2023, Goa, India
  • AIHWS 2023 – 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (co-located with ACNS 2023), 19 June 2023, Kyoto, Japan
  • EvoApps 2023 – 26th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (part of Evostar 2023, 12-14 April 2023, Brno, Czech Republic
  • APDCM 2023 – 25th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (co-located with IPDPS 2023), 15-19 May 2023, St. Petersburg, Florida USA
  • SPACE 2022 – 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering, 8-11 December 2022, Jaipur, India
  • AUTOMATA 2022 – 28th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, 10-12 October 2022, Kharagpur, India
  • ACRI 2022 – 15th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, 12-16 September 2022, Geneva, Switzerland
  • CIBCB 2022 – IEEE CIBCB 2022 – Special Session on Candidate Solution Representation and Fitness Landscape Manipulation
  • AIHWS 2022 – 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (co-located with ACNS 2022), 20-23 June 2022, Rome, Italy
  • APDCM 2022 – 24th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (co-located with IPDPS 2022), 30 May - 3 June 2022, Lyon, France
  • SPACE 2021 – 11th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering, 10-13 December 2021, Kolkata, India (held online)
  • AIHWS 2021 – 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (co-located with ACNS 2021), 21-24 June 2021, Kamakura, Japan (held online)
  • SPACE 2020 – 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering, 17-21 December 2020, Kolkata, India (held online)
  • WEPO 2020 – 1st Workshop on Evolutionary and Population-based Optimization (co-located with AIxIA 2020), 25-27 November 2020, Torino, Italy (held online)
  • AIHWS 2020 – 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (co-located with ACNS 2020), 19-22 October 2020, Rome, Italy (held online)
  • ACRI 2020 – 14th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, 2-4 December 2020, Łódź, Poland (held online)
  • CAAA 2019 – 5th Workshop on Cellular Automata Algorithms and Architectures, 15-19 July 2019, Dublin, Ireland
  • ACRI 2018 – 13th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, 17-21 September 2018, Como, Italy

Organizing Committees

  • CSF 2024 – 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, 8-12 July 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands (general chair)
  • AICrypt 2024 – 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography (co-located with EuroCrypt 2024, 26 May 2024, Zurich, Switzerland (chair)
  • CANS 2023 – The 22nd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, 31 October - 2 November 2023, Augusta, Georgia, USA (publicity chair)
  • AUTOMATA 2023 – The 29th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, 30 August - 1 September 2023, Trieste, Italy (chair)
  • Euro S&P 2023 – 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 3-7 July 2023, Delfth, The Netherlands (poster chair)
  • AICrypt 2023 – 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography (co-located with EuroCrypt 2023, 22 April 2023, Lyon, France (chair)
  • WEPO 2021 – 2nd Workshop on Evolutionary and Population-based Optimization (co-located with AIxIA 2021), 30 November 2021, Milano, Italy (held online) (chair)
  • ACRI 2018 – 13th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, 17-21 September 2018, Como, Italy (local organizer)
  • AUTOMATA 2017 – 23rd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, 7-9 June 2017, Milano, Italy (local organizer)

Steering Committees

  • CSF – The IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (mandate 2022-2027)

Other Administrative Positions

  • Management Committee Member for the Netherlands in the COST Action CA22137 ROAR-NET (2023-2027)
  • Secretary of the IFIP WG 1.5 on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (mandate 2022-2024)