Paolo FALCARIN
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 8457
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paolo.falcarin@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Information Processing Systems [IINF-05/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/paolo.falcarin(personal record)
- Office
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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)
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
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
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Inglese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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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
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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
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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
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- Description:
- Software Testing
- Keywords:
- Software engineering, Computer science, Software technology
- ATECO code:
- [62.02] - consulenza nel settore delle tecnologie dell’informatica
- Ingegneria del Software
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- SSD:
- ING-INF/05
- Run-time security with Falco
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- SSD:
- ING-INF/05
- Software Compliance with the AI Act
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- SSD:
- INF/01
- Other members of the research group:
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Teresa SCANTAMBURLO
Alberto VENERI
- Software Protection for Android
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- SSD:
- ING-INF/05
- ASPIRE (Advanced Software Protection: Integration Research Exploitation)
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- 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
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- 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:
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Claudio LUCCHESE
- SERICS - Supply Chain Attack Avoidance (SCAI)
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- 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:
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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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