Short Biografy

Sabrina Sicari is Full Professor. She received her laurea degree in Electronical Engineering,110/110 cum laude, from University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 2002. In March 2006 she got her Ph.D. in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the same university, under the guidance of Prof. Aurelio La Corte. From September 2004 to March 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy under the guidance of Prof. Carlo Ghezzi. Since May 2006 she works at Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria in software engineering group (head Prof. Alberto Coen-Porisini). Prof. Sicari is a Senior IEEE member.

Recent publications

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Towards rapid modelling and prototyping of indoor and outdoor monitoring applications. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Elsevier): in press (2024) Download PDF

Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things: Best Practices, Lessons Learnt, and Open Challenges. Computer Networks (Elsevier): in press (2023)

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Insights into security and privacy towards fog computing evolution. Computers & Security (Elsevier): 120 (2022)

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Analysis on functionalities and security features of Internet of Things related protocols. Wireless Networks (Springer): 28 (2022) Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Daniele Miorandi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Securing the access control policies to the Internet of Things resources through permissioned blockchain. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley): 34 (15) (2022) Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Security&privacy issues and challenges in NoSQL databases. Computer Networks (Elsevier): 206 (2022) Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Home Quarantine Patient Monitoring in the Era of COVID-19 Disease. Smart Health Journal (Elsevier): 23 (2022) Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Gianluca Dini, Pericle Perazzo, Michele La Manna, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Attribute-Based Encryption and Sticky Policies for Data Access Control in a Smart Home Scenario: a Comparison on Networked Smart Object Middleware. International Journal of Information Security: 20 (2020) Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Testing and evaluating a secure-aware pub&sub protocol in a fog-driven IoT environment. 19th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now 2020), Bari (Italy) 19-21 October 2020 Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Increasing the pervasiveness of the IoT: fog computing coupled with pub&sub and security. IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT 2020), Beijing (China) 14-16 August 2020 Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: 5G in the Internet of Things era: an overview on security and privacy challenges. Computer Networks (Elsevier): 179 (2020) Download PDF

Daniele Miorandi, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Sticky Policies: A Survey, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: 32(12) 2481-2499 (2020) Download PDF