2026 Catuscia Palamidessi: 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	53	4852	4717	96	95	330	10648

Overview

Catuscia Palamidessi is affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Computer Networks and Communications, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Cryptography and Data Security, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).

Palamidessi has contributed to numerous publications and has authored papers featured in journals and conference venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM SIGLOG News, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Some recent papers include:

On the Applicability of Machine Learning Fairness Notions (2021), ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Machine learning fairness notions: Bridging the gap with real-world applications (2021), Information Processing & Management
Survey on Causal-based Machine Learning Fairness Notions (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
Survey on fairness notions and related tensions (2023), EURO Journal on Decision Processes
On the Risks of Collecting Multidimensional Data Under Local Differential Privacy (2023), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Frequent collaborators include Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Annabelle McIver, Mário S. Alvim, Karima Makhlouf, and Carroll Morgan.

In addition to journal articles and conference papers, Palamidessi has published at least one book with Springer Nature titled The Science of Quantitative Information Flow (2020).

Best Publications

Geo-indistinguishability: differential privacy for location-based systems

Miguel E. Andrés;Nicolás E. Bordenabe;Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi

1343
Citations
Comparing the expressive power of the synchronous and asynchronous $pi$-calculi

Catuscia Palamidessi

399
Citations
Broadening the Scope of Differential Privacy Using Metrics

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Miguel E. Andrés;Nicolás Emilio Bordenabe;Catuscia Palamidessi

399
Citations
Declarative modeling of the operational behavior of logic languages

M. Falaschi;G. Levi;C. Palamidessi;M. Martelli

368
Citations
Optimal Geo-Indistinguishable Mechanisms for Location Privacy

Nicolás E. Bordenabe;Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi

313
Citations
Anonymity protocols as noisy channels

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi;Prakash Panangaden

294
Citations
Measuring Information Leakage Using Generalized Gain Functions

M. S. Alvim;K. Chatzikokolakis;C. Palamidessi;G. Smith

291
Citations
Computational Logic — CL 2000

John Lloyd;Veronica Dahl;Ulrich Furbach;Manfred Kerber

275
Citations
Comparing the expressive power of the synchronous and the asynchronous π-calculus

Catuscia Palamidessi

240
Citations
Comparing the expressive power of the Synchronous and the Asynchronous pi-calculus

Catuscia Palamidessi

230
Citations
Kernel-LEAF: a logic plus functional language

Elio Giovannetti;Giorgio Levi;Corrado Moiso;Catuscia Palamidessi

198
Citations
Quantitative Notions of Leakage for One-try Attacks

Christelle Braun;Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi

186
Citations
Differential privacy: on the trade-off between utility and information leakage

Mário S. Alvim;Miguel E. Andrés;Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Pierpaolo Degano

149
Citations
Temporal concurrent constraint programming: denotation, logic and applications

Mogens Nielsen;Catuscia Palamidessi;Frank D. Valencia

148
Citations
A model-theoretic reconstruction of the operational semantics of logic programs

Moreno Falaschi;Giorgio Levi;Maurizio Martelli;Catuscia Palamidessi

145
Citations
Probabilistic Asynchronous pi-Calculus

Oltea Mihaela Herescu;Catuscia Palamidessi

144
Citations
A fully abstract model for concurrent constraint programming

Frank S. de Boer;Catuscia Palamidessi

140
Citations
Algebraic properties of idempotent substitutions

Catuscia Palamidessi

135
Citations
A Predictive Differentially-Private Mechanism for Mobility Traces

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi;Marco Stronati

134
Citations
The Failure of Failures in a Paradigm for Asynchronous Communication

Frank S. de Boer;Joost N. Kok;Catuscia Palamidessi;Jan J. M. M. Rutten

127
Citations
Probabilistic anonymity

Mohit Bhargava;Catuscia Palamidessi

127
Citations
Differential Privacy: on the trade-o between Utility and Information Leakage

M S Alvim;M E Andres;K Chatzikokolakis;P Degano

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales

Annabelle McIver Macquarie University

Joost N. Kok University of Twente

Dale Miller French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Prakash Panangaden McGill University

Jan Rutten Radboud University

Mogens Nielsen Aarhus University

Giuseppe F. Italiano Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

Vladimiro Sassone University of Southampton

Elena Marchiori Radboud University

External Links

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