Giuseppe Ateniese
Eminent Scholar/Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Cyber Security Engineering
George Mason University
Office: Research Hall 339
Phone: +1 (703) 993-6758
Email: ateniese@gmu.edu
Short Bio
Giuseppe Ateniese is a Professor, Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University. He was Farber Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Department Chair at Stevens Institute of Technology. In addition, he was with Sapienza-University of Rome (Italy), Assistant/Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), and one of the JHU Information Security Institute founders. He was a researcher at IBM Zurich Research lab (Switzerland) and scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USA). He also briefly worked as visiting professor at Microsoft in Redmond (USA). He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research in privacy and security, and the Google Faculty Research Award, the IBM Faculty Award, and the IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award for his research on cloud security. He has contributed to areas such as proxy re-cryptography, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession. He is currently working on privacy-preserving machine learning and decentralized secure computing based on the blockchain technology.
Mason welcomes new Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity
AMiner's A-10 "Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars"
Farber Endowed Chair, Investiture ceremony
Education
PhD in Computer Science, University of Genoa (Italy), 2000
Laurea (M.Sc.) in Computer Science, University of Salerno (Italy), 1995
Master of Engineering (Honoris Causa), Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), 2020
I'm blessed to have had Gene Tsudik as my PhD advisor and Alfredo De Santis as my M.Sc. advisor.
Teaching
CS499: Blockchains and Cryptofinance
CYSE/ECE 476: Cryptography Fundamentals
CS695: Blockchains and Cryptofinance (Graduate)
CS487/587: Introduction to Cryptography
Research
Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography.
Papers:
Some recent news about my research:
---BLOCKCHAIN
Blockchain Just Got Much More Powerful (Stevens)
Accenture Launches A Way To Edit Blockchains (Forbes)
A blockchain you can edit? (Banking Exchange)
Accenture to unveil blockchain editing technique (Finantial Times)
Accenture breaks blockchain taboo with editing system (Reuters)
Inside the latest blockchain battle (VIDEO)
German, French (Le Monde), Italian
Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected (NYT)
Is an Editable Blockchain the Future of Finance? (MIT Tech Review)
Accenture announces creation of an editable blockchain, but Bitcoin users need not worry (TechRepublic)
Accenture Debuts Prototype of ‘Editable’ Blockchain for Enterprise and Permissioned Systems (Accenture)
New blockchain services expected to entice CIOs to test waters (https://searchcio.techtarget.com/feature/New-blockchain-services-expected-to-entice-CIOs-to-test-waters)
---AI AND SECURITY
The Wall Street Journal: AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-could-make-cyberattacks-more-dangerous-harder-to-detect-1542128667?mod=article_inline)
ACM: Machine Learning vs. Machine Learning (https://cacm.acm.org/news/240891-machine-learning-vs-machine-learning/fulltext)
Stevens: Why You Should Worry About This New AI-Powered Cyberattack (https://www.stevens.edu/news/why-you-should-worry-about-new-ai-powered-cyberattack)
ScienceMag: Artificial intelligence just made guessing your password a whole lot easier (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/artificial-intelligence-just-made-guessing-your-password-whole-lot-easier)
Stevens: Powerful Password Crackers May Be Closer Than You Think, Say Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers (https://www.stevens.edu/news/powerful-password-crackers-may-be-closer-you-think-say-stevens-institute-technology-researchers)
The Register: AI slurps, learns millions of passwords to work out which ones you may use next (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/20/researchers_train_ai_bots_to_crack_passwords/)
MIT Technology Review: A Pair of AIs Have Become Very Good at Guessing Your Passwords (https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608897/a-pair-of-ais-have-become-very-good-at-guessing-your-passwords/)
Threatpost: DEEP-LEARNING PASSGAN TOOL IMPROVES PASSWORD GUESSING (https://threatpost.com/deep-learning-passgan-tool-improves-password-guessing/128039/)
SecurityIntelligence - IBM: Generative Adversarial Networks and Cybersecurity: Part 2 PassGAN: Cracking Passwords With Generative Adversarial Networks (https://securityintelligence.com/generative-adversarial-networks-and-cybersecurity-part-2/)
DarkReading: PassGAN: Password Cracking Using Machine Learning (https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/passgan-password-cracking-using-machine-learning/d/d-id/1329964?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple)
Inverse: Researchers Show How A.I. Is the End of Passwords as We Know Them (https://www.inverse.com/article/36604-ai-cracking-passwords)
Sensormag: Artificial Intelligence, Slayer Of Passwords (https://www.sensorsmag.com/embedded/artificial-intelligence-slayer-passwords)
TechTarget: How machine learning-powered password guessing impacts security (https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/How-machine-learning-powered-password-guessing-impacts-security)
Selected as the "Coolest Hack of 2017" by DarkReading: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/the-coolest-hacks-of-2017/d/d-id/1330699
---CLOUD SECURITY
Top 10 Ways to Secure Big Data (https://www.meritalk.com/articles/top-10-ways-to-secure-big-data/)
The Cloud and Mobile Revolution: What’s Next? (https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/the-cloud-and-mobile-revolution-whats-next)