2026 Anna Cinzia Squicciarini: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	42	8409	8172	3601	3465	257	7248

Overview

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within computer science and social sciences, with a focus on artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, communication, and information systems.

Their work covers several main topics including:

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Media and Politics
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

Some of the recent papers authored by them or with their involvement are:

"Location Privacy Protection in Vehicle-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing via Geo-Indistinguishability," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
"Privacy in Crisis: A study of self-disclosure during the Coronavirus pandemic," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"PrivacyAlert: A Dataset for Image Privacy Prediction," 2022, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Automated Detection of Doxing on Twitter," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"The Expertise Involved in Deciding which HITs are Worth Doing on Amazon Mechanical Turk," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Their frequent co-authors include Sarah Rajtmajer, Younes Karimi, Christopher Griffin, Prasanna Umar, and Chenye Zhao.

Best Publications

Trust-/spl Xscr/;: a peer-to-peer framework for trust establishment

E. Bertino;E. Ferrari;A.C. Squicciarini

333
Citations
Collective privacy management in social networks

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Mohamed Shehab;Federica Paci

299
Citations
Ensuring Distributed Accountability for Data Sharing in the Cloud

S. Sundareswaran;A. Squicciarini;Dan Lin

294
Citations
A Brokerage-Based Approach for Cloud Service Selection

Smitha Sundareswaran;Anna Squicciarini;Dan Lin

239
Citations
Sentiment analysis during Hurricane Sandy in emergency response

Venkata K. Neppalli;Cornelia Caragea;Anna Squicciarini;Andrea Tapia

238
Citations
MoZo: A Moving Zone Based Routing Protocol Using Pure V2V Communication in VANETs

Dan Lin;Jian Kang;Anna Squicciarini;Yingjie Wu

234
Citations
Privacy preserving multi-factor authentication with biometrics

Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel;Anna Squicciarini;Elisa Bertino

207
Citations
Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

Elisa Bertino;Lorenzo Martino;Federica Paci;Anna Squicciarini

207
Citations
Mapping moods: Geo-mapped sentiment analysis during hurricane sandy.

Cornelia Caragea;Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Sam Stehle;Kishore Neppalli

180
Citations
Backdoor Embedding in Convolutional Neural Network Models via Invisible Perturbation

Haoti Zhong;Cong Liao;Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Sencun Zhu

170
Citations
Content-driven detection of cyberbullying on the instagram social network

Haoti Zhong;Hao Li;Anna Squicciarini;Sarah Rajtmajer

167
Citations
Backdoor Embedding in Convolutional Neural Network Models via Invisible Perturbation

Cong Liao;Haoti Zhong;Anna Squicciarini;Sencun Zhu

148
Citations
Trust negotiations: concepts, systems, and languages

E. Bertino;E. Ferrari;A. Squicciarini

139
Citations
Privacy policies for shared content in social network sites

Anna C. Squicciarini;Mohamed Shehab;Joshua Wede

132
Citations
Privacy Policy Inference of User-Uploaded Images on Content Sharing Sites

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Dan Lin;Smitha Sundareswaran;Joshua Wede

130
Citations
CoPE: Enabling collaborative privacy management in online social networks

Anna C. Squicciarini;Heng Xu;Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang

120
Citations
Identification and characterization of cyberbullying dynamics in an online social network

A. Squicciarini;S. Rajtmajer;Y. Liu;C. Griffin

112
Citations
Preventing Information Leakage from Indexing in the Cloud

Anna Squicciarini;Smitha Sundareswaran;Dan Lin

110
Citations
A3P: adaptive policy prediction for shared images over popular content sharing sites

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Smitha Sundareswaran;Dan Lin;Josh Wede

110
Citations
Information-oriented trustworthiness evaluation in vehicular ad-hoc networks

Sashi Gurung;Dan Lin;Anna Cinzia Squicciarini;Elisa Bertino

105
Citations
Establishing and protecting digital identity in federation systems

Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel;Anna C. Squicciarini;Elisa Bertino

85
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

Dan Lin University of Missouri

Elena Ferrari University of Insubria

Cornelia Caragea University of Illinois at Chicago

James Caverlee Texas A&M University

Barbara Carminati University of Insubria

Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University

Nicola Zannone Eindhoven University of Technology

Indrakshi Ray Colorado State University

Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University

External Links

Personal website of Anna Cinzia Squicciarini Google Scholar page

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