Dario Fiore

Dario received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania, Italy in 2010. Prior to joining the IMDEA Software Institute in November 2013, Dario held postdoctoral positions at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Germany), New York University (USA), and Ecole Normale Superieure (France). During his PhD, he was also a visiting student at the IBM T.J. Watson research center and the New York University (USA).

Dario’s research interests are in Cryptography and its applications to Security and Privacy. His research especially focuses on advancing the efficiency of cryptographic protocols. Some of the topics he works on include: secure delegation of data and computation, computation on encrypted data, commitment schemes, zero-knowledge proof systems, homomorphic authentication, and foundations of cryptography.