Former People

Former Heads of Unit

  • Alessandro Armando (Founder and Head of Unit from 2010 to 2016, now Full Professor at DIBRIS, University of Genoa)
  • Silvio Ranise (Head of Unit from 2017 to 2020, now Director of Center at Center for Cybersecurity, Fondazione Bruno Kessler; Full Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Trento)

Former Members

  • Alberto Siena (Researcher until 2020)
  • Alessandro Tomasi (Researcher until 2023)
  • Annibale Panichella (Post-doc Researcher in 2014)
  • Biniam Fisseha Demissie (Researcher from 2019 to 2022)
  • Clara Bertolissi (Visiting Researcher from 2011 to 2013)
  • Elham Arshad (Researcher from 2023 to 2025)
  • Emanuele Viglianisi (Technologist until 2019)
  • Giacomo Zanolli (Junior Researcher from 2022 to 2023)
  • Giovanni Maria Abbiati (Consultant until 2020)
  • Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Junior Researcher from 2022 to 2023)
  • Laura Piva (Visiting PhD Student in 2024)
  • Mariano Ceccato (Researcher until 2019)
  • Matteo Leonelli (Junior Researcher from 2019 to 2020)
  • Matteo Bitussi (Research Assistant from 2022 to 2024)
  • Riccardo Traverso (Post-doc Researcher from 2014 to 2016)
  • Riccardo Lussana (Research Assistant from 2023 to 2024)
  • Salimeh Dashti (Researcher from 2021 to 2022)
  • Sergii Kushch (Researcher until 2019)

Former PhD Students

  • Alessio Coletta (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Specification-based Predictive Continuous Monitoring for Cyber Physical Systems with Unobservables (link)
    Supervisor: Alessandro Armando
  • Amir Sharif (Cycle XXXIII, University of Genoa, 2021)
    Thesis: Analysis of Best Current Practices to Assist Native App Developers with Secure OAuth/OIDC Implementations (link)
    Supervisor: Roberto Carbone | Co-supervisors: Silvio Ranise, Giada Sciarretta
  • Andrea Bisegna (Cycle XXXV, University of Genoa, 2023)
    Thesis: Automated Security Testing for Identity Management of Large-scale Digital Infrastructures (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
  • Avinash Sudhodanan (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2017)
    Thesis: Black-Box Security Testing of Browser-Based Security Protocols (link)
    Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Luca Compagna
  • Biniam Fisseha Demissie (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Security Testing of Permission Re-delegation Vulnerabilities in Android Applications (link)
    Supervisor: Mariano Ceccato
  • Daniel Ricardo dos Santos (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2017)
    Thesis: Automatic Techniques for the Synthesis and Assisted Deployment of Security Policies in Workflow-based Applications (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Luca Compagna, Serena Elisa Ponta
  • Federico Sinigaglia (Cycle XXXI, University of Genoa, 2020)
    Thesis: Security Analysis of Multi-Factor Authentication Security Protocols (link)
    Supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Gabriele Costa
  • Giada Sciarretta (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: A Methodology for the Design and Security Assessment of Mobile Identity Management: Applications to real-world scenarios (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Alessandro Armando, Roberto Carbone
  • Hari Siswantoro (Cycle XXIX, 2018)
    Thesis: Automated Analysis and Synthesis for the Compliance of Privacy and Other Legal Provisions (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Armando
  • Majid Mollaeefar (Cycle XXXIV, University of Genoa, 2022)
    Thesis: Automating the Quantification and Mitigation of Risks for Multiple Stakeholders (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise
  • Marco Pernpruner (Cycle XXXVI, University of Genoa, 2024)
    Thesis: Integrating Security by Design and Automated Security Analysis for Digital Identity Management (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Nadia Metoui (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Privacy-Aware Risk-Based Access Control Systems (link)
    Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisor: Michele Bezzi
  • Salimeh Dashti (Cycle XXXIII, University of Genoa, 2021)
    Thesis: An Assisted Methodology to Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessment (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise
  • Salvatore Manfredi (Cycle XXXV, University of Genoa, 2023)
    Thesis: Automated Assistance for Actionable Security: Security and Compliance of TLS Configurations (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Stefano Berlato (Cycle XXXVI, University of Genoa, 2024)
    Thesis: A Security Service for Performance-Aware End-to-End Protection of Sensitive Data in Cloud Native Applications (link)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
  • Tahir Ahmad (Cycle XXXII, University of Genoa, 2020)
    Thesis: Access Control for IoT: Problems and Solutions in the Smart Home (link)
    Supervisors: Alessandro Armando, Silvio Ranise
  • Tuan Anh Truong (Cycle XXVII, University of Trento, 2015)
    Thesis: Efficient Automated Security Analysis of Complex Authorization Policies (link)
    Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisor: Silvio Ranise

Former Bachelor's and Master's Students

  • Adrien Beaugendre (Master's Student, University of Rennes 1 and University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: A Flexible Risk Analysis on MuFASA Tool
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
  • Agnieszka Kowalska (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023-2024)
    Internship topic: Automatic Security Testing Tool for Identity Management Protocols
  • Alessandro Pegoraro (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Payment Services Directive 2 in the Wild - A comparison between Open Banking UK and NextGenPSD2
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Salvatore Manfredi
  • Alessandro Colombo (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Attribute Based Encryption for Advanced Data Protection in IoT with MQTT
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Stefano Berlato, Roberto Carbone
  • Alessandro Biasi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Syntax and Semantics of a Declarative Language for Security Testing of Browser-based Security Protocols
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Alessandro Fontana (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Rilevamento Automatico di Vulnerabilità TLS su iOS e Android
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
  • Alessio Valenza (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
    Thesis: Autenticazione bancaria post-PSD2: siamo al sicuro? Analisi automatica del rischio di protocolli di autenticazione
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
  • Carlotta Tagliaro (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Security and Performance tradeoffs in the Internet of Things
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
    Awards: 4th place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2020", sponsored by CLUSIT
  • Chaudhry Muhammad Suleman (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Cyber-security Risk Assessment for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility Application to Cooperative Lane Merging
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
  • Claudio Grisenti (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
    Thesis: A pentesting tool for OAuth and OIDC deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Damiano Sartori (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Attribute Based Access Control over a Hyperledger Fabric Network: An application for Electronic Health Records
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
  • Daniele Del Sale (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Procedure di autenticazione multi-fattore basate su push notification: Analisi dello stato dell'arte e specifica delle best-practice per un'implementazione sicura
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Davide Piva (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Assisting Developers in Securing OAuth 2.0 Deployment: Demystifying Threats and Protection Techniques for Bearer Credentials
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Eleonora Marchesini (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Cybersecurity Chatbot for Identity Management Protocols: the SAML and Slack Use Case
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Enrico Donatoni (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Blockchain in Finance: a comparison of Ripple, Quorum and Corda
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
  • Enrico Marconi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Combining Blockchain-as-a-Service and Cryptographic Access Control for Secure Data Sharing Across Multiple Organizations
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
  • Erica Elia (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: A Key Recovery Protocol based on Threshold Secret Sharing for Cryptographic Access Control in the Cloud: The CryptoAC use case
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
  • Federico Cucino (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Miglioramento delle capacità di analisi di TLSAssistant - Automatizzazione delle mitigazioni per NGINX
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Giada Sciarretta
  • Federico Graziola (Master's Student, University of Verona, 2024)
    Thesis: Potenzialità e sfide nell'analisi formale di protocolli per l'identità digitale con Tamarin
    Supervisor: Mariano Ceccato | Co-supervisors: Marco Pernpruner, Giada Sciarretta
  • Filippo De Grandi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: BAS Tools - Implementation of an Attack Pattern to Mimic a Threat Actor
    Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisors: Matteo Rizzi, Salvatore Manfredi, Pietro De Matteis
  • Francesco Defilippo (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Attack Patterns for Pentesting SAML 2.0 Web Browser Single Sign-On deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Giacomo Zanolli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication: From the basics to an implementation in the context of an authorization system
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
  • Gianluca Sassetti (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Privacy Guidelines and Compliance Analysis for OpenID Connect Deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone
  • Giovanni Ferronato (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Multi-factor Authentication Through Push Notification and NFC-enabled Identity Card: A solution for secure authentication in unsecure contexts
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
    Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2019", sponsored by CLUSIT
  • Giulio Pellizzari (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Design and implementation of a tool to detect Login Cross-Site Request Forgery in SAML SSO: G Suite case study
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Giulio Pellizzari (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
    Thesis: Micro-Id-Gym: A Tool to Support Sandboxing and Automated Pentesting of Identity Management Protocols
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Giuseppe Lamorgese (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Autenticazione password-less con FIDO2: Descrizione del flusso e considerazioni sulla sicurezza
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: A Comprehensive Analysis of the OAuth 2.0 Threat Model to Develop a Chatbot Providing Actionable Security Suggestions
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Andrea Bisegna
  • Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
    Thesis: An LLM Based Approach to the Automated Generation and Validation of Security Tests for National Digital Identity Solutions: The Case of SPID and CIE
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Andrea Bisegna
  • Ion Andy Ditu (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Leveraging Trusted Execution Environment for Efficient Revocation and Security in Cryptographic Access Control
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
  • Ivan Martini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: An automated security testing framework for SAML SSO deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Ivan Valentini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Estensione delle capacità di analisi di TLSAssistant - Rilevazione e mitigazione di ALPACA, POODLE e Raccoon
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Giada Sciarretta
  • Kaleem Ullah Kaleem Ullah (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Countering Rebroadcast Attacks Against Remote Identity Proofing
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Cecilia Pasquini
  • Leonardo Xompero (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: A Survey of Risk-Based Authentication: How features and security actions can be used to mitigate attackers
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
  • Lorenzo Tait (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: A Customized Threat Modeling for Secure Deployment And Pentesting of SAML SSO Solutions
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Lorenzo Bellesso (Postgraduate Student, University of Genoa, 2021)
    Thesis: Implementazione di una soluzione di generazione e rilascio credenziali in ambito IoT fondata sull'uso della Carta d'Identità Elettronica (CIE)
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
  • Luca Morgese (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Designing and Implementing a DLT Based Access Control Mechanism for Healthcare Data - A Proof of Concept
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
  • Luca Bazzanella (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Analysis of the State of the Art of DevSecOps: The Gitlab case study
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Luigi Dell'Eva (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Chatting is Healthy: How Better Cybersecurity Hygiene can be Obtained by Integrating Chatbots with Pentesting Tools
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Eleonora Marchesini
  • Marco Pernpruner (Master's Student, University of Verona, 2019)
    Thesis: A passwordless out-of-band authentication protocol based on eID cards and push notifications: Design and formal security analysis
    Supervisor: Massimo Merro | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone
  • Marco Frassoni (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: European Digital Identity Wallet and ePrescriptions: finding the right balance between security, privacy and legal aspects
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Mario Scuro (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: A Performance Analysis of the BBS Protocol
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
  • Marta Toniolli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Developing an Android client for user enrollment with CIE 3.0 and distributed ledger interaction: An application to electronic health record access control
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
  • Marta Arisi (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Internship topic: Blockchain and e-health: seeking compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation
  • Martina Vecellio Reane (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Automated Security and Risk Analysis of Remote Identity Proofing Procedures
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Marco Pernpruner, Giada Sciarretta
  • Matteo Rizzi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: TLS Analyzers for Android Apps: State-of-the-art Analysis and Integration in TLSAssistant
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Salvatore Manfredi
    Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2021", sponsored by CLUSIT
  • Matteo Longato (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Verifiable credentials applied to self reporting applications
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Alessandro Tomasi
  • Matteo Leonelli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Open and Cross-platform Ecosystem for Enterprise Services: Secure and Authenticated Access with the use of Italian Identity Cards and FIDO
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
  • Matteo Bitussi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Declarative Specification of Pentesting Strategies for Browser-based Security Protocols: the Case Studies of SAML and OAuth/OIDC
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Matteo Bregola (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Comprehensive Analysis of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools - A Theoretical and Framework-Driven Assessment of Their Capabilities, Advantages, and Limitations
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Matteo Rizzi, Salvatore Manfredi, Pietro De Matteis
  • Mattia Bressan (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Towards Risk Assessment of Adversarial Machine Learning
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Majid Mollaeefar
  • Mattia Maramotti (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
    Thesis: Testing as a Service for the Security and Compliance of Identity Management Solutions: Enhancing MIG A Scalable Abstract Architecture for Conformance Verification of Network Protocol Implementations
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
  • Michele Zucchelli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Pimp My Micro-Id-Gym: Enhancing the Automation and Usability of a Security Testing Tool for Digital Identity Protocol
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Mirco Bisoffi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Lo Smishing e la Threat Intelligence Platform
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Biniam Fisseha Demissie
  • Mirko Schicchi (Bachelor's Student, 2018)
    Thesis: IOTA and the Internet of Things: A possible solution for autonomous driving vehicles
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
  • Niccolò Lechthaler (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
    Thesis: Towards the Parametrization of Security Testing Tools for IdM Implementations: The MIG-T Case Study
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
  • Nicola Casagrande (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Dematerialized Documents: The Italian Driving License Use Case
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Tahir Ahmad
  • Pier Guido Seno (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: From Local to Remote: Enhancing MIG-T Pentesting Tool with SaaS for Securing Digital Identity
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano
  • Riccardo Germenia (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: A Module to Evaluate the Security Compliance of TLS Deployments: Design and Implementation of a Mechanized Methodology
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
  • Riccardo Ziglio (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Challenge-Based Liveness Detection vs Video Manipulation: Analysis of Face Swaps Attacks in Remote Identity Proofing Scenarios
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Cecilia Pasquini
  • Roberta Peracchio (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Exploring Digital Travel Credentials: A Comparative Study of Existing Solutions and Image Quality Assessment for Face Recognition
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Tahir Ahmad, Cecilia Pasquini
  • Roberto Savi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Integrating Pentesting Tools for Identity Management Protocols into DevSecOps: The MIG-T Use Case
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
  • Rupert Gobber (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Design and implementation of a verifiable credentials service for a data marketplace
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Alessandro Tomasi
  • Salvatore Manfredi (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: Assisting users in securing TLS configurations
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
  • Sara Sorrentino (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
    Thesis: Use of Gamification for Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Programs: Study and Design of a Novel Framework
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
  • Saverio Turetta (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Analysis of the State of the Art in Android Dynamic Analysis Tools
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Amir Sharif
  • Simone Avancini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: A First Appraisal of Threat Modeling for EU Digital Identity Wallets
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta
  • Sofia Puttin (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
    Internship topic: 5G-BSA-ID cryptoband - Analisi giuridica alla luce delle disposizioni in materia di trattamento dei dati e tutela della privacy
  • Sofia Zanrosso (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Enlarging the Pen-Test Coverage of SAML Single Sign-On Solutions with Cyber Threat Intelligence
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Sonia Eccher (2014)
    Internship topic: Risk Assessment Smart Campus
  • Stefano Berlato (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
    Thesis: A Pragmatic Approach to Handle "Honest But Curious" Cloud Service Providers: Cryptographic Enforcement of Dynamic Access Control Policies
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
    Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2020", sponsored by CLUSIT
  • Stefano Facchini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
    Thesis: Design and implementation of an automated tool for checking SAML SSO vulnerabilities and SPID compliance
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Stefano Da Roit (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
    Thesis: Automated Detection of DoS Attacks in MQTT 5.0 Brokers
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
  • Stefano Camposilvan (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
    Thesis: Estimating the Likelihood of Successful Adversarial Examples Transferability
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Majid Mollaeefar
  • Valentina Odorizzi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
    Thesis: Progettazione e sviluppo di uno strumento per l'analisi automatica di vulnerabilità "Missing XML Validation" in SAML SSO
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
  • Veronica Cristiano (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Key Management for Cryptographic Enforcement of Access Control Policies in the Cloud: The CryptoAC use case
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
  • Vincenzo Chiarini (University of Trento, 2017)
    Internship topic: Studio dell'usabilità di soluzioni di Single Sign-On e autenticazione forte per applicazioni mobile.
  • Wendy Barreto (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
    Thesis: Design and implementation of an attack pattern language for the automated pentesting of OAuth/OIDC deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone

Former FBK Junior Students

  • Alessandro Merlo (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Andrea Brandolini (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2022-2023)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Daniel Franchini (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2024)
    Internship topic: Virtualization of TLS vulnerabilities
  • Davide Modena (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
    Internship topic: Awareness - percezione del rischio
  • Emiliano Rizzonelli (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2024)
    Internship topic: Virtualization of TLS vulnerabilities
  • Federica Mascia (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
    Internship topic: Awareness - percezione del rischio
  • Filippo Benedetti (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Giovanni Marchi (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Leonardo Vicentini (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Matilde Salaorni (Liceo Steam International, Rovereto, 2023)
    Internship topic: OSINT e l'assessment del rischio nei social media
  • Matteo Paolo Furlan (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Mattia Conci (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
    Internship topic: OSINT e l'assessment del rischio nei social media
  • Mattia Andreolli (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2022-2023)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Nicolò Micheletti (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Rayhana Taoufik (Liceo "Antonio Rosmini", Rovereto, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
  • Yuri Tomasini (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
    Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101