Paolo FALCARIN

Position
Associate Professor
Telephone
041 234 8457
E-mail
paolo.falcarin@unive.it
Academic discipline
Information Processing Systems [IINF-05/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/paolo.falcarin(personal record)
Office
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dais
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office 514 (Alfa building, 5th floor)
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Office hours

Office hours
Strongly suggested to book an appointment by email on Wednesday morning 11am-12pm in office or online via gmeet.

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY [CM90]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

INFORMATICA [CT3]
Laurea

DIGITAL MANAGEMENT [ET7]
Laurea

COMPUTER SCIENCE [CM9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

INFORMATICA [CT3]
Laurea

COMPUTER AND DATA SCIENCE [NS01]
Minor

INFORMATICA [R220]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni [IINF-05/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
INFORMATICA [INF/01]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale
Known languages
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Associate editor della rivista Computers & Security, Elsevier
Membro del Program-Committee della IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023)
Membro del Program-Committee della IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2023)
Membro dello Steering Committee del CheckMATE workshop.
General co-Chair of the IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy 2025 (EuroS&P-2025)
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Revisore progetti PRIN, MUR Italia, 2022
Revisione progetti per Christian Doppler Institute, Austria, 2023.
Revisore progetti per Dutch Research Council (NWO), Paesi Bassi, 2025

Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Diritto Linea: Diritto dell'Unione Europea (IUS 14)
Area: Informatica Linea: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Area: Informatica Linea: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Area: Informatica Linea: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Area: Informatica
Software Testing
Description:
Software Testing
Keywords:
Software engineering, Computer science, Software technology
ATECO code:
[62.02] - consulenza nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informatica
Ingegneria del Software
Description:
Software Engineering
Keywords:
Systems analysis and models development, Software technology, Software development
ATECO code:
[62.0] - produzione di software, consulenza informatica e attività connesse
Project Management
Description:
Project Management
Keywords:
Software engineering, Management studies, Groupware
ATECO code:
[62.02] - consulenza nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informatica
Sicurezza Software e Reverse Engineering
Description:
Software Security and Reverse Engineering
Keywords:
Security technology, Trust technology, Software technology
ATECO code:
[62.02] - consulenza nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informatica
Conformità del software con AI Act
Description:
Software compliance with AI Act
Keywords:
Computer science, Software engineering, Informatic law
ATECO code:
[62.02] - consulenza nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informatica
Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph
SSD:
ING-INF/05
Run-time security with Falco
SSD:
ING-INF/05
Software Compliance with the AI Act
SSD:
INF/01
Other members of the research group:
Teresa SCANTAMBURLO
Alberto VENERI
Software Protection for Android
SSD:
ING-INF/05
ASPIRE (Advanced Software Protection: Integration Research Exploitation)
Funding body:
European Union FP7
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://aspire-fp7.eu/
Starting date:
Year: 2013 Length in months: 36
Progettazione dell'architettura software della piattaforma Flexymob e studio di algoritmi di AI per la personalizzazione e ottimizzazione dei flussi di mobilità
Funding body:
Currant srl
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 20
Other members of the research group:
Claudio LUCCHESE
SERICS - Supply Chain Attack Avoidance (SCAI)
Funding body:
MIUR - PNRR
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://serics.eu/
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Stefano CALZAVARA
Riccardo FOCARDI
Flaminia LUCCIO

Publication highlights

Falcarin, Paolo; Dainese, Fabio Building a Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph with CyberGraph , EnCyCriS/SVM '24, ACM, vol. 11, pp. 29-36, Convegno: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) and 2024 IEEE/ACM Second International Workshop on Software Vulnerability, April 2024 (ISBN 9798400705656)
DOI 2024, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5071901


Scantamburlo, Teresa; Falcarin, Paolo; Veneri, Alberto; Fabris, Alessandro; Gallese, Chiara; Billa, Valentina; Rotolo, Francesca; Marcuzzi, Federico Software Systems Compliance with the AI Act: Lessons Learned from an International Challenge , Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Responsible AI Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 44-51, Convegno: 2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Responsible AI Engineering (RAIE), 24/04/2024 (ISBN 9798400705724)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5066021


Alwan, AA; Brimicombe, AJ; Ciupala, MA; Ghorashi, SA; Baravalle, A; Falcarin, P Time-series clustering for sensor fault detection in large-scale Cyber-Physical Systems in COMPUTER NETWORKS, vol. 218, pp. 109384 (ISSN 1389-1286)
DOI - URL correlato 2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5012209


Abrath B; Coppens B; Van Den Broeck J; Wyseur B; Cabutto A; FALCARIN P; De Sutter B Code renewability for native software protection in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY, vol. 23, pp. 1-31 (ISSN 2471-2566)
DOI 2020, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3743229


Ceccato, Mariano; Tonella, Paolo; Basile, Cataldo; Falcarin, Paolo; Torchiano, Marco; Coppens, Bart; De Sutter, Bjorn Understanding the behaviour of hackers while performing attack tasks in a professional setting and in a public challenge in EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, vol. 24, pp. 240-286 (ISSN 1382-3256)
DOI - URL correlato 2019, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3743230


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Paolo Falcarin is Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice since Septemebr 2021.

He was awarded his PhD in Software Engineering in 2004, and MEng in Computer Engineering in 2000 from Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), where he worked as a research associate before joining the University of East London in 2010 as Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Computer Science, where he led the Secure Software Engineering research group.

His research interests include Software Protection and Security, Software Engineering and Distributed Systems; he has been Principal Investigator for UEL in the European FP7 project ASPIRE (Advanced Software Protection: Integration Research and Exploitation) jointly with six companies and universities from across Europe, and work-package leader of the SCAI (Supply Chain Attack Avoidance) project within the SERICS spoke 6 project.

Paolo spent a sabbatical research leave in 2012 at the Computer Science department at UCL (University College London), and further research visits in the SOLAR research group at UCL in 2024 and 2025. He has been visiting lecturer at Tongji University of Shanghai in 2009 and Hangzhou Dianzi university in 2016, and visiting researcher at ETH Zurich in 2003.

Paolo is associate editor of the Computers & Security journal, and Steering Committee member of the CheckMATE workshop; he was General co-Chair of the IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy 2025, Program-Committee member of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023) and the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2023).   

Paolo is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a CSSLP certified security practitioner, an Oracle Certified Professional Java programmer, and a FIDE chess player.

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