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.

If you are really bored, you can download my CV.

Misc Interests & Hobbies:

* Sports (I am a nationally certified Gym Trainer and Sport Nutritionist) (What I learned from it: "Mens sana in corpore sano" [= latin quote for: "Healthy mind in healthy body"]

* Linux: Since 2005, I have had the priviledge of being part of the staff team of Opensuse Linux Forums. (user: G0NZ0) (What I learned from it: "Live - [screw your Linux computer] - and learn.")

* Watching the world from upside down. (What I learned from it: always consider other points of view!)

* Ford Mustangs. I have a wonderful 3 year old "baby" that is truly my love - except when I have to keep filling her up with gas... She's huge gas-eater!! Pics here.

- As you can see yourself, creating web pages is not in my interests, hobbies nor skills! (What I learned from it: Someone gotta be bad at that, or no comparisons would be possible to say that someone else is "good"! [what i did not learn from it is a lot more than what i learned, though :D ])

Contact Information:

Office: office: building EBU3B, room 2232

Facebook page

Email:

1) Serious stuff: rmotta (AT) cs (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 2008, March 2008) (PDF)

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

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

Misc of pics from various places of this round, funny Planet (navigate recursively each directory/subdirectory with the links in the top-left corner).

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