Professor and Group Leader of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) at IDSIA USI-SUPSI, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Short Bio:
Francesco Flammini graduated cum laude (M.D., 2003) and got a research doctorate (PhD, 2006), both in Computer Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He worked for 15 years in private and public companies, including Ansaldo STS (now Hitachi Rail) and IPZS (Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute), on large international projects addressing intelligent transportation, critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity, as a technical leader and unit head. Since 2020, he has been a Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Cyber-Physical Systems at Mälardalen University (Sweden), and the Technical Manager of the RAILS EU funded research project about Artificial Intelligence for smart-railways. He is currently a Professor of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), where he is affiliated with Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), and leads the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) research group. He has also been the Program Director of the new Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at SUPSI, within the Department of Innovative Technologies (DTI). Previously, he has been a Senior Lecturer and the chair of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) environment at Linnaeus University (Sweden).
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society Board-of-Governors, as the Associate Vice-President for Members and Student Activities (MSA), as well as the Chair of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security. He is a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Distinguished Lecturer of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a member of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) network of excellence.
He has (co)authored 200+ technical publications, and he has served as a chair, invited speaker, steering/program committee member, and editor for 50+ international conferences, books, and journals. He has been the principal investigator, technical manager, and WP/Task leader in 10+ research projects, mostly funded by the European Union, where he also serves as an expert evaluator for several agencies.
Main distinctions and awards:
- July 2024: Winner (1st place), Dalle Molle Award for the Quality of Life Label
- March 2024: Winner (1st place), Transport Research Arena (TRA) Senior Researcher Competition (Railways)
- Oct 2023: Included in Stanford’s list “World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists” for both single year and career
- 2023 Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak Award – International Cooperation, “Balancing Privacy and Accuracy in Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition” (S. Mohammadi, M. Mohammadi, S. Sinaei, A. Balador, E. Nowroozi, F. Flammini, M. Conti), 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS’23)
- 2023 Best Innovation Paper Award, “Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches for Cyber and Physical Anomalies in SCADA Systems” (L. Faramondi, F. Flammini, S. Guarino, R. Setola), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR 2023)
- 2022 IEEE SMC Most Active Technical Committee Award. Awarded to F. Flammini as the Chair of Technical Committee of Homeland Security (TCHS)
- 2017 ForumPA Challenge Award (Italian Public Administration prize), project: “Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Cyber-Physical Security Center”
- 2014 Ansaldo STS Innovation Award, 1st place: “GAP DETECTOR” (F. Flammini, A. Orazzo, L. Biondi, E. Di Martino)
- 2009 Ansaldo STS Innovation Award, 1st place: “PIEZORAIL: under-rail piezoelectric power generator” (F. Flammini, B. Bowie, F. Ottello, C. Pragliola, A. Tedesco)
- 2008 Business Plan Competition Start Cup Federico II, 3rd place (project ‘N-Enterprise’, web portal for Virtual Collaborative Enterprises)
- 2007 Ansaldo STS Innovation Award, Special Mention “Green Apple”: “PROtection of METro railways by enHanced survEillance of tUnnelS” (F. Flammini, G. Gotelli, G. Musella, C. Pragliola)
- 2006 Best Student Paper Award, Dependability of Computer Systems (DepCoS’06), Szklarska Poręba, Poland, May 25-27, 2006
- 2006 Awarded Research Grant by I.P.E. (Istituto per ricerche e attività educative)
- 2006 ANSALDO SIGNAL SignAward, 3rd place and special mention “Most valuable innovation likely to impact at group level”: “An ATC based on ERTMS Level 3” (G. Barone, B. Conti, F. Flammini, L. Prini)
- 1997-2003 Awarded yearly scholarships as deserving student
Main journal editorial activities:
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Associate Editor, since 2022
- International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, Associate Editor, since 2022
- Discover Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Associate Editor, since 2021
- Frontiers in Big Data, Review Editor, Cybersecurity & Privacy, since 2022
- MDPI Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Topic Editor, since 2021
- MDPI Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Editor, since 2020
- International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems, founding Editor-in-Chief
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