Dr. Antonio Lioy

Dr. Antonio Lioy holds a M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.

Currently he is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where he leads the TORSEC research group active in information systems security. This group has taken part to several international security projects (such as ICE-TEL, ICE-CAR, GUIDES, AIDA, TESI, NASTEC, SecurIST, Positif, Deserec, and Open-TC) and manages the EuroPKI public-key infrastructure.

His current research interests are in the fields of network security, PKI, and policy-based system protection.

Prof. Lioy often acts as a consultant and reviewer for public and private bodies (such as the European Commission and the Italian Department of Justice).  Since September 2002 Prof. Lioy is President of AssoSecurity, a no-profit organization to foster the security culture in several fields of the information technology. Since September 2007, Prof. Lioy is a member of the PSG (Permanent Stakeholders’ Group) of ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency of the EU).

Prof. Lioy is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.