Elena Ferrari
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Elena Ferrari is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the STRICT Social Lab at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. Ferrari was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013[1] for contributions to security and privacy for data and applications. She has been named one of the “50 Most Influential Italian Women in Tech” in 2018.[2][3] She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems".[4]
Ferrari received her MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Milano (Italy) in 1992, and PhD in Computer Science in 1998.[3]
Career
Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. She was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milano (Italy) from 1998 until January 2001.[citation needed]
She has served on the editorial board of ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS),[5] IEEE Internet Computing,[6] and the Transactions on Data Privacy.[7] She is an associate editor of Springer Journal in Data Science And Engineering.