The Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation welcomes Professor Ernesto Damiani to the RMIT Cyber Series.

This talk will discuss how the large scale adoption of Machine Learning-based systems is changing the security and assurance landscape. For security, the discussion will focus on the applicability of existing security methodologies for threat analysis and security control selection for ML-based systems.

For assurance, the discussion will focus on the notion of monitoring and (statistically) testing ML models' behavior to verify and dynamically certify their non-functional properties.

Keynote Speaker - Professor Ernesto Damiani

Ernesto Damiani is Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano, Senior Director of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute and Director of Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within the Khalifa University, leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center, and President of the Consortium of Italian Computer Science Universities (CINI). He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, where he serves as Rapporteur.

According to DBLP (May 2021), Ernesto Damiani has authored 143 journal papers, 340 refereed articles in proceedings of international conferences, and published 57 books and chapters as an author or editor. According to Google Scholar, Ernesto’s work has been cited more than 18,700 times and his h-index is 57; 301 of his papers have at least 10 citations. On Scopus he has 626 documents and more than 7,300 total citations by more than 5,800 documents. His Scopus h-index is 36. With 553 publications listed on DBLP, he is considered among the most prolific European computer scientists.

His areas of interest include cyber-physical systems, Big Data Analytics, Edge/Cloud security and performance, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Ernesto Damiani has pioneered model-driven data analytics. Ernesto has been a recipient of the Stephen Yau Award from the Service Society, of the Outstanding contributions Award from IFIP TC2, of the Chester-Sall Award from IEEE IES, and of a doctorate honoris causa from INSA – Lyon (France) for his contribution to Big Data teaching and research.

Recorded Thursday 27th May 2021