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Alessandra Rizzardi
Associate Professor
Research focus on Software Engineering and Cyber-Security. Author of more than 40 scientific papers.
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SERENA-IIoT
Project PRIN 2022
Uninsubria collaborates with Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
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Paper's Award
COMputer NETworks Journal
Timeless Impact Paper Award, achieved in 2021
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13th Wireless Days Conference - CFP
01-03 December 2025
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Short Biography

Prof. Alessandra Rizzardi received her BS and MS degree in Computer Science 110/110 cum laude at the University of Insubria in Varese (Italy), in October 2011 and July 2013, respectively. In December 2016 she got her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at DiSTA (Department of Theoretical and Applied Science). Her research activity, conducted in the group of Prof. Alberto Coen-Porisini and Prof. Sabrina Sicari, is focused on cyber-security. Now she is an Associate Professor in Software Engineering at the University of Insubria. She has been the author of more than 40 scientific papers which have been published in international journals and conference proceedings. She is an IEEE Member.
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Recent publications

Alessandra Rizzardi, Raffaele Della Corte, Jesus F. Cevallos M., Vittorio Orbinato, Simona De Vivo, Sabrina Sicari, Domenico Cotroneo, Alberto Coen-Porisini: SereWay: Toward SEcurity and REliability Benchmarking forthe RailWAY IIoT. Journal of Network and Systems Management (Springer): 34: 52 (2026) Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Raffaele Della Corte, Jesus F. Cevallos M., Vittorio Orbinato, Simona De Vivo, Sabrina Sicari, Domenico Cotroneo, Alberto Coen-Porisini: RailRED: a Node-RED-based framework for modeling Train Control Management Systems. 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2024) Download PDF

Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: HERO: From High-dimensional network traffic to zERO-Day attack detection. Computer Networks (Elsevier): 265: 111264 (2025) Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Raffaele Della Corte, Jesus F. Cevallos M., Vittorio Orbinato, Simona De Vivo, Sabrina Sicari, Domenico Cotroneo, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Open-FARI: An Open-source testbed for Federated Anomaly detection in the Railway Industrial Internet of Things. 21st International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Abu Dhabi, 12-16 May 2025 Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Attribute-based policies through microservices in a smart home scenario. Computer Communications (Elsevier): 31: 108039 (2025) Download PDF

Sabrina Sicari, Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alessandra Rizzardi, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Open-Ethical AI: Advancements in Open-Source Human-Centric Neural Language Models. ACM Computing Surveys: 57 (4): 83 (2024) Download PDF

Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: ASAP: Automatic Synthesis of Attack Prototypes, an online-learning, end-to-end approach. Computer Networks (Elsevier): 110828 (2024) Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alberto Coen-Porisini: IoT-driven Blockchain to manage the Healthcare Supply Chain and protect Medical Records. Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier): 161: 415-431 (2024) Download PDF

Jesus Fernando Cevallos Moreno, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: NERO: NEural algorithmic reasoning for zeRO-day attack detection in the IoT: A hybrid approach. Computers&Security (Elsevier): 142: 103898 (2024) Download PDF

Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari, Alberto Coen-Porisini: Towards rapid modelling and prototyping of indoor and outdoor monitoring applications. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Elsevier): 41: 100951 (2024) Download PDF

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