Rossana Motta

Born in Italy

Bachelor's & Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2003 and 2005 respectively

Nov. 2005 - July 2006: Researcher at the University of Essex. Field: Cryptography and Digital Rights Management in Peer-To-Peer Systems (Colchester, U.K.)

In cooperation with (and funded by):

Vodafone U.K.

Advisor:

Dr. Antonio Liotta

August 2006 - August 2008: PhD Student Computer Science at Florida State University; Teaching and Research Assistant for SAIT Lab (Tallahassee, Florida)

Advisors:

Dr. Mike Burmester

Dr. Breno De Medeiros

August 2008 - Present: PhD Student Computer Science at University of California in San Diego, (La Jolla, CA)

Advisor:

Dr. Joe Pasquale

Main research topic: Distributed and Peer-To-Peer Systems.

Resume (PDF format).

Contact Information:

Office: building EBU3B, room 2232

Email:

1) Serious stuff: rmotta (AT) eng (DOT) ucsd (DOT) edu

2) Jokes, Spam, and - yeah! - your favorite Viruses and Trojans (only the newest releases please): rossana.hell.no.127.0.0.1 (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Published papers:

A. Liotta, R. Motta, L. Lin: A File Protection Method for Peer-to-Peer Systems, Journal of Research in Computing Science, NPI Press (ISSN 1870-4069), Vol. 23, pp. 151-160, November 2006 (PDF)

M. Burmester, B. de Medeiros and R. Motta: Provably secure grouping-proofs for RFID tags (CARDIS2008, London, September 2008. Published in Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 5189/2008, Pages 176-190) (PDF)

M. Burmester, B. de Medeiros and R. Motta: Robust, Anonymous RFID Authentication with Constant Key-Lookup (Conference and Journal Paper, ASICCS, March 2008) (PDF)

R. Motta, W. Nienaber and J. Jenkins: Gnutella: integrating performance and security in fully decentralized P2P models (Conference Paper, ACMSE, March 2008) (PDF)

M. Burmester, B. de Medeiros and R. Motta: Anonymous RFID authentication with constant key-lookup (IJAC, International Journal of Applied Cryptography, V1 N2 2008) (PDF)

R. Motta and J. Pasquale: Wireless P2P: Problem or Opportunity? (Conference Paper, AP2PS, October 2010) (PDF)

Misc Interests & Hobbies:

* Sports (I am a certified Gym Trainer, Sport Nutritionist and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher) (Lesson learned: "Mens sana in corpore sano")

* Linux: From 2005 to 2010, I was part of the staff team of Opensuse Linux Forums. (Lesson learned: "Live - [screw your Linux computer] - and learn.")

* Watching the world upside down. (Lesson learned: always consider different points of view!)

* Ford Mustangs. (Lesson learned: they freaking suck in gas mileage!)

- As you can see, creating web pages is not in my interests / hobbies / skills! (Lesson learned: Well.. someone gotta be bad at that. But I am very proud that when I was a student at FSU, and I had a similar webpage, the department sysadmin sent me an email to let me know that mine was the worst webpage he had ever seen at FSU. That made my day and I nearly fell from my chair laughing.)

A few Linux applications that I developed in those moments that you are so bored that you come up with the most useless things:

Here is a part of a book I read that I find really wise especially these days when many people with advanced degrees cannot find a job:

"Some Masters and Ph.D. scientists have reported that they were turned away from jobs because they were "over-qualified". Some have suggested that, in some cases, you should remove Ph.D. from your resume altogether and pretend that you never went to graduate school. [...] A Ph.D. or Masters is a liability only if you were unable to show a prospective employer the valuable transferrable skills you have acquired along the way. If an employer cannot recognize the value of an advanced degree, they lack any imagination or business sense and would probably be miserable to work for anyway." [From: "Put Your Science To Work" by P. Fiske]

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