Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security
Congratulations to our own Professors Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi and Gerardo Pelosi!
Their journal article “A Code Morphing Methodology to Automate Power Analysis Countermeasures” has been selected among the 7 most influential contributions in Hardware and Embedded Security between 2012 and 2017.
This is a great achievement and we are all very happy that, thanks to their dedication, passion and work, such an influential work has been selected.
Giovanni Agosta
Associate Professor
Giovanni Agosta, Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, holds a Laurea in Computer Engineering (2000) and a PhD in Information Technology (2004). His research focuses on compiler-computer architecture interaction, emphasizing performance, energy-efficiency, and security. He has authored 100+ papers, won multiple awards, and participated in 17 EU-funded projects.
Alessandro Barenghi
Associate Professor
Alessandro Barenghi holds an M.Sc. (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) from Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on computer, embedded, and network security, particularly applied cryptography. He also works on formal languages and compilers, specifically techniques for parallel parsing using operator precedence grammars.
Gerardo Pelosi
Associate Professor
Gerardo Pelosi received the Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology in 2007 from Politecnico di Milano. His research fields cover (1) the area of information security and privacy including access control models, models for encrypted data management in relational databases, and secure data outsourcing; (2) the area of applied cryptography including side-channel cryptanalysis, system-level attacks, and efficient hardware and software design of cryptographic algorithms; other research interests are in designing security support into computer architectures and the logic synthesis of combinatorial circuits.