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Riccardo Spolaor

Assistant Professor of Computer Networks Security

School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University

Biography

Riccardo Spolaor is a Assistant Professor at the Shandong University, RPC. He previously worked at as a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in Brain, Mind, and Computer Science at the University of Padua, Italy, in 2018. He obtained his Master's Degree in Computer Science in 2014 from the same university, with a thesis about smartphone privacy attack inferring user actions via traffic analysis. In November 2014, he started his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Conti.

His main research interests are privacy and security issues on mobile devices. In particular, he investigates possible applications of machine learning techniques to infer information via side-channel analysis. Most of the research that he carried out up to now is about the application of machine learning classifiers to network traffic and energy consumption traces of mobile devices.

Interests

  • Security and Privacy
  • Side-channels Analysis
  • Applied Machine Learning

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao campus

Nov 2019 – Present Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong, R. P. China
Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Scientific Research
 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford

Jul 2018 – Aug 2019 Oxford, UK

Teaching

Teaching activities

Mobile Systems Security (MSS)

Teaching Assistant - Academic Years: 2017/18 and 2018/19

Databases (BSc degree in Computer Science)

Teaching Assistant - Academic Years 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18

Recent Posts

Projects

Recent & Upcoming Talks

No Free Charge Theorem 2.0: How to Steal Private Information from a Mobile Device Using a Powerbank

Thanks to their omnipresence and multi-purposeness, users rely on smartphones to execute in few touches a wide range of privacy-related …

Visiting

 
 
 
 
 

Shandong University, Qingdao campus, School of Computer Science and Technology

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong, R. P. China
Host: Prof. Xiuzhen Cheng
 
 
 
 
 

University of Jinan, School of Information Science and Technology

Aug 2018 – Sep 2018 Jinan, Shandong, R. P. China
Host: Prof. Zhenxiang Chen
 
 
 
 
 

University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science

Apr 2018 – Aug 2018 Oxford, UK
Host: Prof. Ivan Martinovic
 
 
 
 
 

University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 Oxford, UK
Host: Prof. Ivan Martinovic
 
 
 
 
 

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Information Security group

Aug 2016 – Aug 2016 Bochum, Germany
Host: Prof. Christina Popper
 
 
 
 
 

University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science

Jun 2016 – Jun 2016 Oxford, UK
Host: Prof. Ivan Martinovic
 
 
 
 
 

Radboud University, Digital Security group

Dec 2015 – Dec 2015 Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Host: Prof. Lejla Batina

Contact

  • Shandong University, Qingdao campus, Binhai rd 72, Jimo qu, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
  • Enter Building N3 and take the stairs to Office 302 on Floor 3
  • Skype Me