Barbara Carminati is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy. She has visited several foreign universities as a visiting researcher, including: National University of Singapore, University of Texas at Dallas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Tsinghua University, Beijng. Her main research interests are related to security and privacy for innovative applications, like semantic web, data outsourcing, web services, data streams, and online social networks. On these topics Barbara has published more than 60 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, and has been involved in several research projects. She is currently the principal investigator of a project funded by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD). Barbara is the Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Standards & Interfaces journal from Elsevier Press, and has been involved in the organization of several international conferences as a program committee member, as well as program and general chair.
