Alessandro Barenghi obtained his M.Sc. Degree in 2007 and his Ph.D. in 2011 from Politecnico di Milano. The main area of interest for his researches is computer, embedded and network security. In particular, the activity carried out during his doctoral program focused on applied aspects of cryptography. In addition to his interests in computer security, he is also working in the field of formal languages and compilers: his current interest regards techniques for parallel parsing, employing operator precedence grammars.