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PARC (a Xerox Company)
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94034
Email: me (at) emilianodc (dot) com
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Short Academic Bio

I am a Research Scientist in the Security and Privacy group (I hope one day it can be called SPARTA: Security and Privacy Advanced Research TeAm) at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), formerly known as Xerox PARC. (If you'd like to know more about PARC's history, click here.)

My research interests include Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography. At PARC, I enjoy the inter-disciplinary environment and have fun connecting Security/Privacy to Genomics, Ethnography, Smart Grid, and Big Data Analytics. I also organize the PARC Privacy Lunch – please consider attending.

From 2007 to 2011, I was at the University of California, Irvine, where I got my PhD in Surfing and Computer Science, the latter, advised by Gene Tsudik.
My dissertation, titled "Sharing Sensitive Information with Privacy," is available for download here.

I was fortunate to be an intern and work with great folks at Nokia Research (2010), INRIA Rhone-Alpes (2009), and NEC Research Labs (2008).
I grew up in Italy and received a 5-year "laurea" degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science, from the University of Salerno.

Current Activities

• PETS 2013, Bloomington, Indiana, July 10-12, 2013, Program Co-Chair
• ICCCN 2014, Location/Dates TBD, PC Member
• CANS 2013, Paraty, Brazil, November 20-22, 2013, PC Member
• PRISMS 2013, Atlantic City, NJ, June 24-27, 2013, PC Member
• Click here for past activities

Random List of Recent Papers

• Emiliano De Cristofaro
  Users' Attitudes, Perception, and Concerns in the Era of Whole Genome Sequencing
  To be presented at the 1st PETS Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Tools (PETools 2013)
  

• Abdelberi Chaabane, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Dali Kaafar, Ersin Uzun
  Privacy in Content-Oriented Networking: Threats and Countermeasures
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2013.
  Also invited to be presented at SIGCOMM 2013 as one of the two "Best CCR Papers"
  

• Erman Ayday, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Gene Tsudik
  The Chills and Thrills of Whole Genome Sequencing
  Under Review
  

• G. Norcie, E. De Cristofaro, V. Bellotti
  Bootstrapping Trust in Online Dating: Social Verification of Online Dating Profiles
  7th Financial Cryptography and Data Security Workshop on Usable Security (USEC 2013)