2026 Elena Ferrari: 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	57	3794	3689	76	74	370	14723

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems
2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to security and privacy for data and applications
2011 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Elena Ferrari is affiliated with the University of Insubria in Italy. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work addresses major topics such as Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance.

Elena Ferrari has a significant publication record with contributions in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Computer Networks
IEEE Internet Computing
arXiv (Cornell University)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Elena Ferrari are:

"A deep learning model for Twitter spam detection" (2020) published in Online Social Networks and Media
"LifeSnaps, a 4-month multi-modal dataset capturing unobtrusive snapshots of our lives in the wild" (2022) published in Scientific Data
"Blockchain-Based Privacy Enforcement in the IoT Domain" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
"A Risk Estimation Mechanism for Android Apps based on Hybrid Analysis" (2022) published in Data Science and Engineering
"Regulating data sharing across MQTT environments" (2020) published in Journal of Network and Computer Applications

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including:

Barbara Carminati
Šarūnas Girdzijauskas
Ahmed Lekssays
Sofia Yfantidou
Christina Karagianni

Elena Ferrari has received several recognitions for contributions related to security and privacy, including:

ACM Fellow in 2019, for contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems
IEEE Fellow in 2013, for contributions to security and privacy for data and applications
ACM Distinguished Member in 2011

Best Publications

TRBAC: a temporal role-based access control model

Elisa Bertino;Piero Andrea Bonatti;Elena Ferrari

1307
Citations
TRBAC: A temporal role-based access control model

Elisa Bertino;Piero Andrea Bonatti;Elena Ferrari

1296
Citations
The specification and enforcement of authorization constraints in workflow management systems

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari;Vijay Atluri

829
Citations
Secure and selective dissemination of XML documents

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari

472
Citations
Enforcing access control in Web-based social networks

Barbara Carminati;Elena Ferrari;Andrea Perego

408
Citations
Why Eco-labels can be Effective Marketing Tools: Evidence from a Study on Italian Consumers

F. Testa;F. Iraldo;F. Iraldo;A Vaccari;E. Ferrari

401
Citations
A logical framework for reasoning about access control models

Elisa Bertino;Barbara Catania;Elena Ferrari;Paolo Perlasca

367
Citations
Rule-Based access control for social networks

Barbara Carminati;Elena Ferrari;Andrea Perego

360
Citations
An access control model supporting periodicity constraints and temporal reasoning

Elisa Bertino;Claudio Bettini;Elena Ferrari;Pierangela Samarati

345
Citations
Trust-/spl Xscr/;: a peer-to-peer framework for trust establishment

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

333
Citations
Securing XML documents with Author-X

E. Bertino;S. Castano;E. Ferrari

315
Citations
Specifying and enforcing access control policies for XML document sources

Elisa Bertino;Silvana Castano;Elena Ferrari;Marco Mesiti

306
Citations
A semantic web based framework for social network access control

Barbara Carminati;Elena Ferrari;Raymond Heatherly;Murat Kantarcioglu

235
Citations
A content-based authorization model for digital libraries

N.R. Adam;V. Atluri;E. Bertino;E. Ferrari

191
Citations
Big Data Security and Privacy.

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari

190
Citations
Selective and authentic third-party distribution of XML documents

E. Bertino;B. Carminati;E. Ferrari;B. Thuraisingham

188
Citations
A temporal access control mechanism for database systems

E. Bertino;C. Bettini;E. Ferrari;P. Samarati

185
Citations
On specifying security policies for web documents with an XML-based language

Elisa Bertino;Silvana Castano;Elena Ferrari

180
Citations
CASTLE: Continuously Anonymizing Data Streams

Jianneng Cao;B Carminati;E Ferrari;Kian-Lee Tan

178
Citations
A flexible model supporting the specification and enforcement of role-based authorization in workflow management systems

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari;Vijayalakshmi Atluri

166
Citations
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017

Jana Diesner;Elena Ferrari;Guandong Xu

152
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Carminati University of Insubria

Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini Pennsylvania State University

Francesco Bonchi Institute for Scientific Interchange

Silvana Castano University of Milan

Pierangela Samarati University of Milan

Bradley A. Malin Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Patrick C. K. Hung University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Massimo Tiepolo University of Milan

External Links

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