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Trustworthy and Secure Information Networks and Society - ISIN

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Trustworthy and Secure Information Networks and Society

Ensuring data privacy, trust in algorithms, truth in social media, security and performance in communication networks represent a timely challenge and a definite priority. The research area on Trustworthy computer and social networks identifies such issues and addresses them through theoretical and applied research. Examples of the activities of the research area are the development of privacy-preserving data sharing and processing solutions, security assessments in computer systems, and the detection of misinformation and manipulation on social media.
 
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Data privacy and trust in algorithms enable an effective and ethical collaboration between humans and digital technologies. Data owners must have the guarantee that no sensitive information is leaked. Moreover, practitioners must be able to understand why an algorithm makes a certain decision. The privacy and trust scientific sector focuses on identifying, studying and tackling the privacy- and trust-related problems in ICT. This sector builds on consolidated strategies, such as secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption and differential privacy, to enable an effective yet privacy-preserving sharing and processing of data.

Expertise: development of privacy-preserving solutions, secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption and differential privacy, application of eXplainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning, communication networks and network optimization.

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Computational social science 

Contact person: Silvia Giordano
By relying on data and network science methodologies, the Computational Social Science scientific sector creates computational solutions for analysing complex systems and large-scale datasets. This sector leverages know-how from various research fields, ranging from data science and machine learning to network and social sciences. The core objective is to provide socio-technical systems with trust and fairness, efficient and effective communication, as well as behavioural analysis of complex social systems.

Expertise: extraction of actionable insights and behavioural patterns, social media simulation and analysis, recommendation algorithms in social media.

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ICT security and cybercrime

Contact person: Omran Ayoub (ad interim) 
The scientific sector in ICT Security and Cybercrime focuses on safety and security of systems and networks, including critical infrastructures and IoT; the ICT Security and Cybercrime team also has a discrete experience in the analysis of cyberattacks, in cyber threat intelligence, ethical hacking and social engineering 2.0.

Expertise: security and safety of systems, networks and infrastructures, analysis of cyberattacks, cyber threat intelligence, ethical hacking and social engineering 2.0.

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