Elena Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy, where she leads the STRICT SociaLab and is scientific director of the K&SM Research Center. Her research interests are related to various aspects of data management and analysis, including social networks and the social web, access control, privacy, trust, and cloud computing. She received the IEEE Computer Society's prestigious 2009 Technical Achievement Award for outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management. In 2011, she received a Google research award for her research on social network privacy. Prof. Ferrari is on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Transactions on Data Privacy, and International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT). She is an IEEE Fellow and a distinguished member of the ACM.
